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Heading the Russian dispute resolution practice of the firm, Alexei offers clients the benefit of over 18 years' experience as an accomplished litigator and advisor. Alexei has built a strong portfolio of winning complex cases in both commercial and general courts in Russia and in international arbitrations. He is a recognized authority on Russian and international fraud and asset tracing litigation.

Andreas Bothe has 25 years experience as an IP litigator. As an authority in intellectual property law he puts a particular emphasis on trademark as well as unfair competition law, copyrights, designs and domain names. As leading litigator in adversarial proceedings, Andreas is a fighter. However, often his open and direct approach and his pleasant manners help him to win trademark trials. He is renowned for his outstanding negotiating skills. You will not find a reference book in which he is not highly recommended

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Andrew now heads up the firm's London real estate finance practice, which includes over twenty fee earners within its ranks. The dedicated, close-knit team, which includes fellow partners Andrew Flemming and Jo Solomon, has gone from strength to strength in recent years.Andrew hails from a banking and project finance practice background, and has experience of working on major international transactions involving the financing of gas pipelines, motorways, CCGT power stations and hospitals.Andrew now concentrates on domestic and cross-border real estate finance deals, representing banks, debt funds, borrowers and funds on a wide range of transactions.

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Acknowledged as a leader in his field, Anthony Pallett has more than 10 years of experience advising on banking and finance in the Middle East. His practice is wide-ranging. From real estate finance to hybrid corporate loans, structured finance to acquisition finance, as well as infrastructure finance and restructuring - Anthony supports clients throughout all of their conventional and Islamic financing needs.

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Partner at Hogan Lovells BSTL.

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Partner at Hogan Lovells BSTL, has excelled in the areas of environmental and natural resources, mining, standarization and entertainment (regulation on games and raffles).

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Partner at Hogan Lovells and has excelled in project financing, energy law, water, insurance, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

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An award-winning commercial litigator, Chris handles some of Hogan Lovells' most significant and complex litigation mandates. Chris has substantial experience of co-ordinating major, multi-centre and multi-discipline disputes, which has led to him being acknowledged as 'strategically remarkable.' Chris's work by its very nature is international and he has an unparalleled hands-on track record of managing the largest cross-border matters, often with a fraud-related element.

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Partner, Head of Investigations, White Collar and Fraud practice

Damon So is dual qualified in law and engineering, having started his professional life as a chartered civil and structural engineer. He subsequently qualified as a lawyer, and is now a partner in the Construction and Engineering practice of Hogan Lovells. Damon is a rare breed of lawyer who has done a large volume of both contentious and non-contentious work and understands the needs of both commercial and litigious clients. His contentious work includes litigation and arbitration, acting for statutory bodies, employers, contractors, consultants and insurers, in respect of building and civil projects, and in commercial disputes. His non-contentious work includes advising and drafting construction, consultancy, and other related contracts for employers, contractors, and consultants in respect of a number of building and civil projects using different forms of contract including the HKIA form, FIDIC, NEC3, IChemE, Australian Standard Form, Hong Kong Government forms, and standard forms of major statutory bodies in Hong Kong. He is the Honorary Legal Advisor to the American Society of Civil Engineers, Kwong Yuet Tong, the Hong Kong Institute of Construction Managers, the Professional Green Building Council, and the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design.

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Partner at Hogan Lovells BSTL. Along his career, he has excelled in the areas of Civil Law; Commercial and Corporate Law, Corporate Law; Project Financing and Acquisitions; Foreign Investments; Economic Competition; Insurance; Financial Entities; Taxation for Non-residents; Telecommunications; Foreign Trade; Arbitration and Mediation.

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Partner at Hogan Lovells BSTL, and has excelled in the areas of Corporate Law, Commercial Law, Infrastructure Projects, Health, Official Mexican Standards (NOM’s), Overland Transport, and consumer-related regulation.

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Georgy Kalashnikov is a Senior Partner with the Corporate & Finance group in London. Described as "business-oriented" and "tough negotiator" with "strong experience in the private equity sector" by Chambers and Legal 500, Georgy is a go-to trusted adviser to clients, including executives and their boards, on complex, high-value international matters across the deal spectrum, strategy, high-risk issues, and crisis response and management. Georgy has represented companies, major financial institutions, private equity, other asset management firms, and high-net-worth individuals on their most significant matters and difficult challenges.

As a partner in our Real Estate Group, Gill McGreevy is acknowledged as a leading individual, with extensive experience across the spectrum in her field. She is known as a straight talker with a no-nonsense approach. Her practice spans all aspects of commercial real estate, with particular knowledge of and skills in development and regeneration projects, retail and leisure asset management and strategy and property investment.

A true litigator with a passion for new and cutting-edge technology, Giovanni Ghirardi has been at the forefront of some of the most complex cases in the patent field. Most of these have resulted in decisions of seminal importance on issues such as FRAND, availability of injunctions in cases involving essential patents, infringement by equivalence, contributory infringement and others. He is particularly sought after for litigation and IP issues with cross-border implications, often involving complex pan-European issues.

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Imogen Fowler works with brand owners to proactively protect and enforce their trademarks and designs across Europe and globally, from brand inception and strategy through to searching, filing, enforcement, anti-counterfeiting, and commercialization. Based in Alicante, Spain, the home of the European Union Intellectual Property Office, Imogen advises clients in multiple European languages and has extensive experience in successfully navigating clients through the differences in intellectual property laws across the Europe region.

A partner in Hogan Lovells Finance practice, Imran Mufti has practiced in the Middle East for over 17 years focusing primarily on the areas of Islamic finance and capital markets. Prior to joining the firm, Imran worked for leading international law firms in Dubai and Saudi Arabia. Imran holds a LLB (Hons) degree from the University of London. He is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and as an attorney-at-law in New York.

Based in the Middle East for over 20 years, Imtiaz Shah has closed hundreds of deals across all the major countries of the Gulf and the wider Middle East. Widely recognised as one of the leading corporate lawyers in Dubai, Imtiaz heads the Hogan Lovells Corporate practice in the Middle East. Imtiaz's work is a mix of mergers and acquisitions, commercial, regulatory, and investment funds. A wealth of experience in the region allows Imtiaz to bring practical and often innovative solutions for clients undertaking corporate deals across the Middle East. He is a trusted adviser to many of the largest corporates, financial institutions, and family offices undertaking business in the region.

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Ivan Shiu is a Hogan Lovells partner who focuses his practice on general commercial litigation and the developing area of competition litigation in the UK. Although drawn from a wide range of industry sectors and regions, Ivan's clients tend to have two things in common. First, they are on one or other side of an actual or potential dispute. Ivan has extensive experience of helping clients to navigate what can be complex, trying and unfamiliar territory, always conscious that the best solution for a client might be out of Court. Secondly, they are usually international clients. Ivan speaks Spanish, French and Cantonese and regularly works with and for clients in those languages, either because a dispute is before the English Courts or because they are considering their rights in foreign jurisdictions. Ivan has experience of co-ordinating proceedings in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, the British Virgin Islands, Spain and Hong Kong.

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Jeffrey Greenbaum capitalizes on his international financial regulatory background to assist clients in operating effectively in the evolving European and Italian financial regulatory landscape. He interacts daily with financial regulators in developing and interpreting financial regulation. Recognized as a leader in European and Italian financial regulation, Jeffrey provides assistance across a broad financial spectrum including payment services, AML,  investment services, mutual funds, banking regulation, and insurance. With his experience in the area and his understanding of international financial regulatory developments, Jeff proactively guides his clients before new regulations enter into effect and effectively frames issues in dialogues with regulators.

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Jon Chertkow works with banks, lenders, payment innovators and retailers to keep on top of regulatory change affecting the banking and payments industry. Using industry and regulatory knowledge built up over more than 12 years working in this sector, Jon helps clients launch new products, establish new operations, carry out compliance audits of their existing business and engage with regulators and customers. Jon also brings his regulatory and industry knowledge to assist clients in entering into strategic outsourcing agreements and M&A activity, including loan portfolio acquisitions and disposals, Part VII banking transfers and card co-branding arrangements.

If you work in the pharma, medical devices or biotech sector, it is Jörg Schickert who will be solving all your most complicated regulatory, commercial and compliance issues – for both Germany and all of Europe. His long-standing experience in dealing with German and European pharmaceutical and devices law means that he can circumspectly navigate you through all your reimbursement or pricing and reimbursement challenges. He will also aid you in drafting commercial/licensing contracts. Furthermore, you may turn to him with any most delicate criminal and compliance cases which your company might face. Jörg is very practical and always offers business-oriented solutions. He takes his industry knowledge from 15 years' experience in working hand-in-hand with many major and reputed life sciences companies.

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Chair of the Greater China Practice

Jürgen Johannes Witte has the broad experience and sharp legal skills that are essential to resolve complex legal disputes, whether in or out of court, and delivering clear and feasible solutions to clients.In his more than 20 years of experience, Jürgen has built deep expertise in directors and officers liability cases, insurance disputes, banking litigation and construction and engineering disputes. He has also conducted numerous internal investigations and has guided clients through difficult disputes in various industries.

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Regional Managing Partner - Asia-Pacific

Louise Moore is a highly esteemed practitioner in regulatory matters as well as on transactional work. Louise Moore heads up the Hogan Lovells Environment (International) practice. In addition, she is widely recognized as a leading lawyer on environmental, social, and health and safety issues, both in the context of corporate, finance and real estate transactions and energy and infrastructure projects, as well as standalone regulatory and strategic contentious and non-contentious matters.

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Partner at Hogan Lovells BSTL, Labor Law, including issues regarding Mexican Social Security Institute and INFONAVIT

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Mark Parsons is a technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) partner who heads the firm's corporate practice in Hong Kong office. His practice spans the Asia-Pacific region, covering the full range of commercial and regulatory work in the TMT and other business sectors. His particular areas of focus on the commercial front include technology and business process outsourcing, electronic and mobile payments, fintech, media and data licensing, telecommunications service arrangements, supply chain and procurement, e-commerce and m-commerce, brand licensing and distribution arrangements, and the acquisition and exploitation of intellectual property and information technology assets. Mark is also one of the region's leading advisors on data protection and cyber security regulation.

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Pierre Reuter discovered his true calling in life as soon as he got immersed in the exciting world of investment funds at his first job at one of the top Luxembourg firms. Now, as head of the Luxembourg Investment Fund practice at Hogan Lovells, Pierre remains at the forefront of the asset management industry. He prides himself on his ability to anticipate potential new challenges for his clients as well as to identify future commercial opportunities for them. Pierre assists fund promoters in setting up and restructuring Luxembourg investment funds, UCITS and AIFs. Pierre has a strong focus on real estate funds but also feels at home in other areas such as for example infrastructure funds, debt funds and fund of hedge funds. In addition, Pierre is in charge of the Luxembourg regulatory work, mainly on the financial sector regulations , but also on the space mining law. Hogan Lovells Luxembourg supports the LuxUnplugged podcast series focused on the space sector "Dark Matter Uncovered" https://www.luxunplugged.com/dark-matter-uncovered/. Read here his publications and articles he co-authored: https://www.engage.hoganlovells.com/knowledgeservices/search#/q=reuter/dv=0, and  his press visibility here: https://paperjam.lu/recherche?query=pierre%20reuter%20hogan%20lovells. Since 2016, in his role as office managing partner, Pierre is holding high Hogan Lovells' flag of diverse, respectful and inclusive firm (leading our diversity and pro bono work groups). He is actively committed to Ligue HMC (for the mentally disabled inclusion), and consequently the Luxembourg office won the Charte de la Diversité award in the category Recruitment, Welcoming & Integration in 2019.

As the head of the banking and finance team of the Hogan Lovells Warsaw office, Piotr Zawislak combines advising on banking (including syndicated lending, acquisition, and property finance) with debt capital markets, specifically asset back securitisations, and mortgage covered bonds. He was a pioneer in securitisations in Poland and his experience in this field is second to none. With 20 years’ experience, Piotr is among the most recognised banking and debt capital markets lawyers in Poland.

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Sahira Khwaja works with her clients to protect some of their key assets - their brands and underlying IP rights. She helps her clients obtain, protect and commercialize these assets so that they are of the most benefit and use to her clients' businesses. Sahira leads our brands practice in London and is the co-head of the firm's Fashion & Luxury Brands group. Many of Sahira's clients are in the consumer and TMT sectors, and she has a keen knowledge and understanding of the underlying commercial drivers for those businesses. Her aim is to give her clients commercially pragmatic advice that fits the demands of the sectors and markets in which they operate. She has helped her clients to register new IP rights for new brands and products, has assisted them in stopping their competitors from misusing their IP and in licensing and franchising them to take advantage of new business opportunities.

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Timothy Hill is head of the Projects, Engineering, and Construction practice of Hogan Lovells in Asia. He is based in Hong Kong, where he has lived for over 30 years. Tim has vast experience in relation to advisory work in the construction industry and construction disputes. During the course of practice, Tim has considered most of the issues that commonly arise in the industry. He is currently engaged in advising a variety of clients across the Asia-Pacific region on civil engineering, process, and building projects. In resolving matters, Tim has undertaken a considerable amount of arbitration and litigation as well as a variety of forms of alternative dispute resolution. Tim is a practicing arbitrator and has written and spoken widely on topics relating to construction industry and dispute resolution.

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