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Adrian Walker wants to make a difference and help his clients do the same. He works with clients to make peoples' lives better. With a focus on global game-changing projects that have the greatest impact, he combines his love of developing physical infrastructure and improving public services, driving social enterprise, and combining both with good, profitable business. Adrian is the global head of our ESG practice, co-leads our Social Impact and Business Integrity Groups and is a former member of the World Economic Forum's Social Innovation Council. He is a founder of the firm's Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects (IERP) practice, which he led for 10 years, and also served also a member of the firm's global board. Adrian has considerable experience advising both the private and public sectors in the most complex projects across a broad range of sectors. His work includes advising on risk structuring, bid submission, and negotiation, together with risk management on on-going projects and dispute resolution. Adrian has substantial experience in Africa and in the mining, road, rail, and ports sectors.

Alastair is a partner in the firm’s corporate practice in London. He has a particular focus on advising international and UK clients in the energy and natural resources sector. Alastair has extensive experience advising clients on UK North Sea, international and cross-border energy sector transactions, including upstream and midstream oil and gas M&A, joint ventures, long-term and high-value contracts, and major energy projects.

Alex Kay is a partner based in London, and part of the Restructuring & Special Situations team. He typically represents buy side investors and bondholder committees in complex cross border restructurings assisting his clients in all aspects of a transaction from initial contingency planning and investment analysis to implementation and management of complex work outs. Alex has particular experience of assisting creditors in challenging jurisdictions and is one of the go to lawyers for difficult emerging markets situations often using market first restructuring tools to reach a solvent solution. His work encompasses using a range of insolvency and reorganization tools and processes including restructuring plans, schemes of arrangement, pre-packaged administrations, Chapter 11 processes and a number of other European reorganization tools to achieve his clients' goals. Alex has also acted for investors on a number of complex direct lending financing transactions often using complex and bespoke debt instruments and Inter-creditor structures. Until January 2024 Alex was the independent chairman of the European Leverage Finance Association.

Amelia Stawpert

Amelia advises on all kinds of investment funds matters, spanning the life of an investment vehicle and the many challenges its managers and investors can face along the way. Her practice has evolved as the funds industry explores innovative strategies and transactions. She advises on fund formation and marketing in the private and listed space as well as on co-investments, managed accounts, fund exits and investor exits (including GP-led secondaries and tender offers). Her practice is complemented by a second investment-based focus on real estate joint ventures, as well as corporate acquisitions and disposals of real estate. Amelia's experience covers a range of asset classes including real estate, private equity (including impact investment), infrastructure, hedge funds and UCITS. She advises both fund managers and fund investors. Amelia particularly enjoys the extra perspective that advising investors gives her and how this complements her advice to managers. She has a talent of balancing technical experience with practical assistance and market knowledge for complex transactions, focusing closely on what her clients want to achieve.

With a focus on corporate and sovereign debt securities offerings, Andrew's career is rooted in a broad corporate finance 'City' practice spanning equity and debt; secured and unsecured; public and private; structured and plain vanilla. He brings this vast experience to bear in helping clients get the deal they want – complex and difficult when needs be; simple and straightforward when possible. He has worked on financings by issuers across a wide spectrum of credit quality, geography and sector. He has a leading role in our debt capital markets practice in emerging markets and has worked on transactions in EMEA and Asia.

Andrew Shaw is a partner in the firm’s Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects (IERP) team, and has more than 20 years’ experience in energy law. He advises major players throughout the international energy sector on energy transition matters (e.g. hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, CCUS and DAC), renewables (e.g. wind, solar, BESS and geothermal), petrochemicals, and conventional oil, gas and LNG projects and transactions. Andrew is deeply experienced in commercial contracts across the energy value chain, advising on engineering, design, supply, transportation, installation, construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning agreements, as well as technology licensing and commodity sale and purchase agreements (including feedstock and offtake), and advises many international companies on strategy in this area. Andrew has worked on such matters across Europe, North America, Latin America, the C.I.S, Africa, the Middle East, China, South and Southeast Asia, Australia and the Arctic.

Andrew Taylor is a banking partner based in London. He has a broad finance practice, acting for banks, national and multilateral DFIs, government, clearing houses and corporates. A significant part of Andrew’s practice is trade and commodities financing, and emerging markets lending in general. He leads our global Trade and Export Finance practice which has been consistently ranked in Band 1 by the leading UK legal directories Chambers and Legal 500 for over 15 years. Andrew is chairman of our firm's international legal opinions committee. Andrew joined Hogan Lovells in 1993 as a trainee solicitor, and has been a partner at the firm since 2002.

Andrew Gallagher

Andrew is a partner in the firm's Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects (IERP) team. He focuses on infrastructure finance, project finance, PPP and related M&A transactions. He advises senior lenders, sponsors/investors and borrowers on a variety of international infrastructure and project finance deals across a range of market sectors including transport (rail, roads, airports and ports), social infrastructure (hospitals and schools), power (IPPs/IWPs) and renewable energy (offshore transmission, solar and energy-from-waste).

Andrew Welbourn

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.

Having headed up the firm's global corporate practice for over 10 years, Andrew now leads Hogan Lovells Africa Practice, overseeing one of the most dynamic and entrepreneurial groups within the firm. With his roots in commercial law, Andrew has and continues to act for a wide range of businesses, from sports to consumer, agribusiness and pharmaceuticals. Most recently, this has involved him advising on complicated and sophisticated contracts across various countries in Africa, in addition to assisting multinational corporates all over the world.

Andrew J. Flemming

A partner since 2007, Andrew Flemming 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 partner Jo Solomon has gone from strength to strength in recent years, and is now ranked as a leading practice by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners. With 20 years of real estate and banking experience Andrew executes complex transactions, working alongside his clients to structure financing solutions on their real estate transactions. Known for his "can-do approach" and for getting the deal closed with good humour, Andrew's in-depth knowledge of the UK and European markets leads him to often act for new entrants to the market. Working out of the London office Andrew regularly acts for leading banks as well as debt funds and borrowers including high net worth individuals.

Angela Dimsdale Gill

The leader of the pension litigation practice, Angela has conducted a number of landmark cases. She has a wide background of litigation in multiple jurisdictions and her claims experience includes confidential information, fraud, insolvency and breach of fiduciary duty. These days her industry focus is almost exclusively on pensions and professional liability. She is one of our lead partners in professional liability and has dealt with substantial claims of all kinds against pensions and other professionals.

Angus is a partner based in London and a member of the construction and engineering disputes team. He has a strong interest in supporting the firm's Japanese clients within the construction/engineering sector, and recently delivered a series of client seminars in Tokyo, explaining the 2017 updates to the FIDIC forms of contract.

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Anthony Doolittle

Anthony Doolittle is a partner in the firm's corporate practice in London. His practice covers a wide range of transactions, including public and private M&A, joint ventures, and equity capital markets work. Anthony has developed in-depth knowledge in the financial services, insurance, life sciences, and energy sectors. Before joining Hogan Lovells, Anthony was a senior associate in the corporate department of a Magic Circle law firm.

As part of our Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment practice, Antonia Croke focuses on complex, cross-border litigation for multinational companies and financial institutions. Antonia is highly experienced in advising on corporate and shareholder disputes, fraud, insolvency/restructuring and financial services litigation. Before joining Hogan Lovells, Antonia worked in the London office of an international law firm and as an associate in two leading Australian law firms in Sydney from 2004 to 2010. Antonia also spent time on secondment in the Litigation team at a major UK bank. In 2015 Antonia was featured in the Cambridge Judge Business School magazine, Flux as a “Leading Light” in the legal industry.

Arun Velusami is a partner in the firm's Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects (IERP) team with experience in advising on energy and infrastructure projects in emerging markets, including in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the CIS region and the Caribbean. He has particular experience in Africa and is Co-head of the firm's Africa Practice. Described as “sought after for his handling of renewable power mandates”, Arun has advised project developers, development finance institutions, public sector entities and contractors in a variety of energy and infrastructure projects. These include renewable energy projects (solar, wind, biomass, geothermal), thermal projects (fuel oil, gas, and coal) and hydropower projects. He also has experience of cross-border power trading arrangements, captive power and embedded generation projects.

Ben is the global head of our Oil, Gas & LNG group and is a member of the Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects practice in London. He is a go-to expert in the sector and operates both in the UK and internationally on projects, transactions and regulatory matters. Ben regularly advises energy companies, investors and governments on upstream projects, gas sales and transportation, LNG projects, oil & gas M&A, financing arrangements and energy trading. Ben leads the firm's work advising the BP and SOCAR led consortium on all aspects of the US$45bn Shah Deniz 2 gas project and 3,500km Southern Gas Corridor, one of the largest and most complex oil & gas projects of recent years.

Bryony is a finance and fintech lawyer, with over 15 years' experience advising on fundraising solutions in the financial services sector. Known for her dedication to clients, Bryony is skilled in transaction structuring, in finance for funds, broader lending platforms (including blockchain-based offerings) and digital assets including token structuring and issuance. She is passionate about sustainable finance and investment solutions, including green, social and sustainability-linked instruments, transition finance and impact investing. A core team member of Hogan Lovells’ Digital Assets and Blockchain practice, Bryony also supports clients in using novel structures, involving digital assets, to take advantage of the multiple efficiencies and flexibilities available. Combining her experience and passion in both areas, Bryony has a strong focus on the integration of ESG with digital assets, including in climate and broader sustainability related projects and the scaled impact investing space.

As a partner in our international corporate practice in London, Caitlin advises clients on a wide range of corporate and other complex transactional matters, with a particular focus on helping clients to build their businesses through mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. Caitlin frequently acts on transactions which are at the intersection of business and government, whether representing clients making acquisitions in highly regulated industries, or working to build strategic partnerships between the private and public sectors. Caitlin has significant experience helping clients through complex separation or integration issues, and much of her work involves transactions which combine an acquisition or investment with a long-term commercial relationship or strategic partnership.

Charles Brasted

Charles Brasted works at the intersection of business, law and policy. He helps businesses engage effectively in the making of the laws, regulations and policies that affect them. He also helps governments, regulators and other policymakers to take robust decisions.Charles is a seasoned litigator and a Solicitor Advocate whose practice is underpinned by his experience of acting in commercial judicial reviews and other legal challenges before UK Courts and tribunals, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. His experience spans a wide range of industries, acting for claimants, defendants and interested parties in high-profile and complex matters in heavily regulated sectors such as energy, financial services, gambling, life sciences, media and telecoms. As head of our public law and policy practice, Charles has been at the forefront of developing our innovative approach to government relations policy advocacy, which brings together legal knowledge, dispute resolution experience and public affairs skills in a seamless team.

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.

Christopher Hutton

Praised by clients for his "calm and measured" approach, Christopher Hutton advises clients on all aspects of UK and EU competition law. He represents clients before antitrust authorities in the UK and across Europe, including specialist sectoral regulators

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Ciara Kennedy-Loest

Whether you are looking for someone to help you coordinate a global merger, fight your corner in a procurement dispute or help you make sense of the State aid rules, Ciara can assist. The regulatory insights and contacts she has with anti-trust agencies from splitting her twenty years with the firm between our London and Brussels offices can make all the difference when it comes to getting your mergers through. Her punchy and pragmatic style has also made her a household name in the field of public procurement where she has secured great results for clients in the UK courts and also the European Courts in Luxembourg where she has a 100% success rate.

Claire Southern

People are often surprised to find out that Claire's a pensions lawyer. She's learned to take that as a compliment. She enjoys working closely with clients to find solutions to their problems and believes that pensions law is much improved by some straight talking and a sense of humour. Claire likes variety and this is reflected in the wide range of clients and matters that she works on. She has developed specialist practices in trustee friendly derivative instruments and the VAT recoverability of pension scheme expenses.

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Crispin Rapinet

Leading our global Investigations, White Collar and Fraud practice, Crispin, has wide ranging experience in international and cross-border issues arising out of complex fraud, bribery and corruption, insolvency and asset recovery situations. Now based in London, he worked in our Hong Kong office for 5 years and subsequently managed our offices in Asia and the Middle East for 8 years.

Daniel was named in The Lawyer’s 2023 "Hot 100" list of top lawyers working in the UK and focuses his practice on corporate transactions, in particular on equity capital markets, and domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He brings extensive experience in advising on public takeovers, including P2Ps, and he has advised numerous companies, private equity houses and financial institutions in the context of these transactions. Daniel also has particular focus on IPOs, secondary fundraisings and private placements, acting for issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders on London Main Market and AIM transactions.

Daniel is a patent litigator in the UK. He acts for clients such as Merck, Lilly, Amgen and BMS. Recent key cases include Schutz v Werit (Supreme Court), Actavis v Lilly (Court of Appeal and currently pending before the Supreme Court), and BMS v Teva (availability of interim injunctions).

David is a partner in the Banking practice at Hogan Lovells in London, focusing on trade and commodity finance. He is consistently recognised as a leading lawyer in this area by Chambers and Legal 500. He has extensive experience advising banks and trading companies on trade finance structures across the globe, particularly in emerging markets such as CIS, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. David's practice covers financings on a diverse range of commodities such as oil, steel, zinc, copper, soybeans, tobacco, and cocoa. He also supports the work of various Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) operating in the trade and commodity finance space. Additionally, David has significant experience and knowledge in relation to supply chain finance techniques and export financing (ECA-backed finance).

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David advises on a range of securitisation and structured debt capital market transactions , including portfolio sales and forward flow transactions. David has worked with originators, arrangers and investors on a number of private and public transactions involving loan and lease receivables in jurisdictions across Europe. David's current areas of focus include automotive and consumer loan transactions.

Derek B. Meilman executes complex cross-border M&A and joint venture transactions. He has experience in diverse industry sectors, with a particular emphasis on industrials (including energy and infrastructure) and consumer retail (especially branded businesses). His clients are financial and strategic investors from a broad range of institutions, including public and private companies, private equity firms, hedge funds (including distressed credit desks), pension funds, development finance institutions, family offices, founders and other investors. Derek often advises on acquisition activity relating to business restructurings.

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Dion Panambalana

Dion has been a real estate partner at Hogan Lovells for 16 years. He likes to stay close to the asset where he can add value to the deal. He likes to break down complexity in a way that can be easily understood. He likes to work with, not against, the deal counterparties to get the deal done pragmatically (and for everybody to come away feeling as if the deal has worked for them all).

Duncan Buchanan

After qualifying as a solicitor in 1990, Duncan Buchanan realised he had a passion for pensions, which he has concentrated on since 1992. His wealth of experience is second to none and he has been an asset since he joined us as a partner in 2006.

Ed Harris is our Global Head of Private Equity & Funds, based out of the London office. Ed advises on a broad range of corporate and funds transactions, with particular focus on private M&A, joint ventures, co-investments, secondaries, GP-led transactions and leveraged buy-outs. He acts for both private equity houses, institutional investors and corporates across a range of sectors.

Employment partner Ed Bowyer is 'very commercial', advising multinational corporations on issues arising from all aspects of the employment relationship. Ed is 'recommended for his client skills' and his 'open and friendly style'. Clients appreciate that he takes the time to get 'under the skin' of their businesses and find out what makes them tick. In doing so, he is able to approach problems holistically, appreciating the commercial and legal issues. He also manages the employment aspects of complex international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and large scale outsourcing agreements.

Eduardo Ustaran

As co-director of the global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice of Hogan Lovells, Eduardo Ustaran is internationally recognised in privacy and data protection law. He is a dually qualified English Solicitor and Spanish Abogado based in London. Eduardo is also the author of The Future of Privacy (DataGuidance, 2013), a ground-breaking book where he anticipates the key elements that organisations and privacy professionals will need to tackle to comply with the regulatory framework of the future. Eduardo advises some of the world's leading companies on the adoption of global privacy strategies and is closely involved in the development of the new EU data protection framework.

Edward is a partner in our Corporate & Finance practice with over a decade’s experience advising both life and general insurance clients. He advises clients across a broad range of transactions, including M&A, insurance and reinsurance arrangements, corporate reorganisations, insurance regulation (including Solvency II) and general corporate advice. He has particular expertise in insurance and banking business transfer schemes, having advised on some of the largest in the sector and for Brexit related purposes. Edward has also advised a number of clients in the Lloyd’s of London market.

Edward Brown is a partner in our pension team. Hogan Lovells (previously Lovells) born and bred, Edward trained at the firm, qualified in 2005, and became a partner on 1 January 2013. Edward has helped clients structure and manage liability management exercises (like PIEs and ETVs), make benefit changes to their schemes and negotiate actuarial valuations. Clients have appreciated Edward's advice when schemes are under investigation by the Pensions Regulator, or navigating their way into the Pension Protection Fund.

Recognised for having deep experience of acting for large corporations and financial institutions on a wide range of disputes, Elaine regularly acts for banks, fund managers and other financial institutions in contentious matters. She also has experience in sports and media disputes. Elaine has particular knowledge of contentious regulatory matters including internal investigations, representing financial institutions and their employees who are under investigation by regulators, and representing them in enforcement and disciplinary proceedings brought by the FCA, other regulatory, disciplinary and criminal authorities both in the UK and overseas.

Elizabeth Slattery

Head of the London Employment practice, Elizabeth has over 30 years' experience advising clients on employment law issues on a national and international basis. She is known as a lawyer who dispenses 'commercial, solutions-orientated advice' and who 'always gets the job done'. With her strategic approach and experience, Elizabeth helps clients to navigate their way through sensitive Board and senior executive issues, complex corporate transactions and challenging employment aspects of regulatory and other investigations. On the contentious side of her practice, Elizabeth defends international corporations in employment disputes in the Employment Tribunal and High Court.

Elliot Weston is a partner in the tax practice with a broad experience of corporate tax matters. He has advised extensively on mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, funds, capital raisings, corporate reorganisations and financing transactions. Elliot regularly acts for investors and fund managers on the formation, downstream investment and capital raising of private and listed funds, in the UK and internationally.

Partner With over 30 years experience, Emily has built a reputation for delivering innovative ideas and solutions to Fintech companies and other established players. She has extensive experience in law, regulation, payment schemes and other infrastructure that apply to the fast moving payments, consumer finance, merchant acquiring and banking industries. Emily is working increasingly on projects where technology is disrupting the traditional relationships between banks and their customers, increasing competition and creating new products (e.g. robo-advice) and where the blockchain will drive further change, not just to crypto-currencies.

For over 15 years, Erik has been helping investment managers, promoters and investors launch and invest in funds. Erik advises across a full range of alternative asset classes, and has established funds investing in private equity, infrastructure, renewables, reinsurance, real estate, emerging markets as well as hedge funds. As a partner and head of the listed funds practice at Hogan Lovells, Erik pioneered the London Main Market listed infrastructure fund market as well as the London listed reinsurance fund market, acting for most of the listed funds in these sectors.

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As a counsel in the Asset Finance practice in London, Faraz focuses on aviation and shipping, he acts for operating lessors, banks and operators on a broad range of transaction types, including sale and leasebacks, operating leases and bank financings. Faraz is an aviation enthusiast and, as a result, has also built up a practice of advising on 'power by the hour' arrangements, aircraft acquisitions and regulatory matters both in England and the United Arab Emirates. He has been recognized by leading operating lessors, banks and airlines for his ability to negotiate complex provisions relating to aircraft technical matters. Faraz spent six months on secondment with Standard Chartered Bank where he worked with their global aviation finance team in Dublin. Faraz has previously spent five years in Hogan Lovells' Dubai office where he advised leading bank arrangers on numerous high profile syndications with a particular focus on Islamic Finance transactions. Faraz was named in the Airline Economics "40 under 40 list" 2019 and is 'recommended' for Islamic Finance transaction in Legal 500's 2015 edition.

Florian Agnel is a partner in our Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects (IERP) practice, based in London. He has extensive experience of all aspects of PPP/PFI, infrastructure and renewable energy projects. He also advises clients on infrastructure and renewable energy investments and structuring work including acquisitions, disposals and refinancing of infrastructure and renewable energy investments, fund establishment and co-investments.

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Frances Le Grys is a partner in our London office.

Francis Booth is a partner based in the London office. His practice focuses on leveraged and acquisition finance. He has led transactions advising banks, debt funds and borrowers on a variety of financing structures, including senior, mezzanine, FOLO, unitranche and PIK arrangements. Secondments to Barclays and Marlborough Partners, a leading European debt advisor, have provided him with valuable commercial experience, whilst secondments to our offices in Singapore and Sydney have allowed him to work with lawyers across our international network.

Georgy Kalashnikov

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.

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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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James Doyle leads the global Corporate & Finance practice group. As a debt capital markets partner, James provides a wide spectrum of advice, primarily focusing on derivatives and structured finance. This includes assisting clients with sophisticated financial products, including securitised derivatives, repackagings, funding structures, and associated regulatory advice. James works with financial institutions, government agencies, corporates, asset managers, and funds across the world.

James is one of the few lawyers who can genuinely call themselves an indirect real estate professional. His early career focused on direct real estate, allowing James to gain a wealth of expertise in, and understanding of, investment, disposal, development and letting transactions across the real estate spectrum. Over the last 15 years, James has taken that experience into the indirect real estate sector, in the acquisition and disposal of corporate real estate holding vehicles, structuring UK and pan-European real estate joint ventures, advising on fund structurings, restructurings, investments and exits.James' experience includes advising on a wide range of UK, European and global investment vehicles including limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, trusts, corporate structures and listed vehicles.

James Maltby is a partner in the London Restructuring & Special Situations team. He advises banks, bondholders and corporates on multi-stakeholder restructurings, in both cross-border and domestic situations. James also advises investment banks and funds on their distressed or special situation investing and debt trading generally. James has significant experience of contingency planning work, enforcement strategies and both consensual and non-consensual restructuring solutions including schemes of arrangement and company voluntary arrangements. He also advises administrators on pre-packaged administration sales and trading insolvencies.

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Jeffrey Hurlburt

For over 25 years, Jeff Hurlburt has advised investors, including private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) investors; corporate clients; and investment banks active in a variety of industry sectors. Many of his clients are in the technology, media, and telecom; and life sciences industries.Since starting his practice in New York City in 1988, and moving to London to practice in 1997, Jeff has continued to focus on a variety of international financial transactions. Jeff's deal experience includes effectively negotiating and closing a multitude of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), international private equity and venture capital transaction (both on behalf of companies and investors), U.S. and international private placements and public offerings including Rule 144A, Regulation S and dual-listed offerings.

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Jennifer O'Connell is a debt capital markets partner focusing on structured products and derivatives with a particular emphasis on structured products designed for the retail marketplace. Her practice covers structured products and derivatives across a wide range of asset classes including interest rates, credit, foreign exchange, equity and inflation. She also has a depth of experience in assisting with the implementation of new regulation. Drawing on her experience of working in-house, Jennifer is noted for her commercially-focused advice with one client commenting that she is “particularly practical and business friendly”. Her clients include leading investment banks, accountancy firms, large corporates and pension funds amongst others.

Jeremy is a partner in our investment funds team who acts for managers and investors on a broad range of funds and transaction types. He has a focus on international alternative asset funds, both listed and private, including infrastructure, private equity/venture capital and private debt. His extensive experience includes launching closed-ended, open-ended and hybrid funds, advising on primary and secondary deals, and co-investments and continuation funds, as well as negotiating separate account and fund of one arrangements. Jeremy has a particular passion for impact investment and acts for a wide range of international and development finance institutions on their sponsoring of, and investments in, impact funds.

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Banks, debt funds and borrowers turn to Jo when they need advice on a wide variety of financing structures such as senior, second lien and unitranche/super senior financing arrangements and PIK financings on acquisitions and other leveraged finance transactions. Jo is a young and dynamic partner in our banking team, where she focuses her practice on acquisition and leveraged finance transactions. Jo has been instrumental in developing our market-leading alternative lender practice and her close relationships with some of the very early debt funds in the UK market means she has been at the forefront of the development of the unitranche product, and indeed worked on one of the very first unitranche financings in the London market back in 2008. To deal with Jo is commercial, practical and user-friendly. In 2015, Jo was named in The Lawyer's 'Hot 100' list and in Financial News' '40 under 40 Rising Stars in Legal Services”.

Jo is known for being a commercially minded real estate finance lawyer focusing on the client's objectives, having focused on real estate finance throughout her career, she has an in-depth knowledge of the market and who is active within in it. She acts for a wide variety of borrowers, including institutional investors as well as private equity on all elements of the real estate finance market including development finance. On the lending side, Jo acts for a variety of investment banks and debt funds.

Widely regarded as one of the UK's top product liability defence lawyers, John has acted in high profile Group Actions in the High Court relating to the Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccine, Tobacco, Vioxx, Blood Products, All Metal Hips and Niger Delta Oil Spills. John gives litigation and risk management advice to global companies and trade associations in a range of industries including life sciences, oil and gas, telecommunications, food and beverages, consumer goods and transport. He has also worked with clients to co-ordinate the defence of cross-border product liability claims in over 35 jurisdictions, including claims in the U.S., Canada, Australia and various countries in Europe.

John is a partner in the London office. John acts for private equity houses, institutional investors and corporates across a broad range of international corporate and M&A transactions. John advises clients across a number of sectors, including financial institutions, energy & infrastructure, mining and natural resources, technology and consumer. He previously spent four years working in Madrid and has an active practice advising on Spanish and Latin America-related transactions.

John Connell is a partner in our global M&A and corporate finance practice. He is Head of the firm's London M&A practice. He has a broad corporate practice and specialises in domestic and cross-border public and private M&A and private equity. He acts for both listed and private companies, financial institutions and private equity clients. He has a wide range of experience, including public takeovers, private acquisitions and disposals, private equity and growth equity investments, joint ventures, listings, capital raisings and restructurings. John advises across a broad range of sectors.

Partner John is a highly experienced IT lawyer with a market leading reputation in the financial services sector. His main focus is advising financial institutions on their strategic IT projects and he supports his clients in implementing innovative digital and technology solutions whilst managing legal and regulatory risk. John has a reputation as a lawyer in the FinTech area and has been heavily involved with leading edge developments. John has been actively involved in developing industry-wide solutions for electronic data exchange issues. He worked on both the Origo Legal Framework and TISA Exchange, which was established to facilitate the electronic re-registration of assets and portfolios between platforms.

John is a senior corporate and M&A partner in our London office. John has a great depth of experience across many different industry sectors. John has a particular focus on transactions in regulated sectors and spends a significant proportion of his time on transactions in the financial services sector. John has vast experience advising clients on complex reorganisations and restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investments and debt portfolio sales. His clients include corporates of all shapes and sizes, financial institutions, banks, asset managers, investment firms, funds, private equity and other financial services firms.

John has been practising transactional real estate law at Hogan Lovells for nearly 20 years. John has acted for a number of clients, whether investors, developers or occupiers, for many years. He trained at the firm and was made a partner in 2009. He deals with all types of real estate transactions for all types of clients. This includes institutional investment, landlord and tenant, sales, purchases and portfolio management, and property development. John has particular knowledge in outsourcing and leasehold liability deals and also advises on indirect property investments.

As a partner, John Tillman advises clients on major commercial disputes, focusing particularly on cases involving financial transactions and insolvency/distressed situations. He also regularly advises on fraud and asset recovery exercises, from investigations through to litigation and enforcement. The majority of John's cases have an international element, and he regularly advises on disputes involving multiple jurisdictions where cross-border co-ordination is critical.

Jonathan focuses on investment fund and asset management-related matters. These include public and private capital raisings, M&A activity and regulatory advice. Jonathan works with asset managers, investment banks and corporate clients throughout the world and across all asset classes. Much of the work involves dealing with offshore financial centres, so Jonathan is very familiar with their laws and lawyers. Jonathan practised for over four years in Chicago and is qualified in New York and Illinois as well as England and Wales. He uses his U.S. experience on a daily basis to help his clients.

Jonathan Chertkow

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.

Julian Craughan

Julian Craughan is the Head of Capital Markets - International and part of the Structured Finance group based in London. He has extensive experience in securitisations and structured finance transactions, including portfolio sales and forward flow transactions. He advises lenders, arrangers and originators on asset backed financings and securitisations of various asset classes including retail automotive receivables (including personal contract plan (PCP) and standard hire purchase), buy-now-pay-later (BNPL), SME loans, lease receivables, dealer floorplan receivables, consumer receivables, trade receivables, commercial mortgages, residential mortgages and infrastructure assets.

Julianne Hughes-Jennett

Julianne is a Partner in Hogan Lovells' international arbitration and litigation practices and head of the firm's Business and Human Rights Group. She has been appointed to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR as a member of the Task Force on Emergency Arbitrator Proceedings. She has extensive experience of complex, high-value commercial disputes (including ad hoc arbitrations and arbitrations under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL and ICSID), focusing in particular on emerging markets in the natural resources, life sciences, TMT, Diversified Industries and Financial Institution sectors.

Katie McConnell

Katie Gill practices primarily in the area of domestic and international banking and finance. With a particular emphasis on acquisition and cross-border finance, she has represented both borrowers and lenders on a wide range of lending transactions, including secured and unsecured lending, bilateral and syndicated loans, senior and mezzanine loans, subordinated debt and intercreditor issues. She has extensive experience in acquisition financing, corporate borrowing and real estate finance, and has advised clients in a variety of industry sectors. Katie has specific experience in acquisition finance in the Hotels, Hospitality and Lodging Industry, as well as in the Energy and Technology sectors.

Senior Associate

Senior Associate

Kieron O'Callaghan

Kit Johnson practices within our Debt Capital Markets team. Kit has extensive experience advising corporate trustees across the whole spectrum of capital markets, structured finance, and other debt products. Regarded as a market-leading practice, our trustee team helps our clients on both new issuance and post-issuance matters, with a particular aptitude for guiding trustees involved with distressed debt situations and inter-creditor disputes.

Leanne is a partner in the London Private Equity & Funds team. Leanne regularly advises GPs and LPs (including pension funds and fund-of-funds) on a full range of secondary acquisitions and disposals, continuation funds/GP-led transactions, co-investments and minority investments in all asset classes (PE, infra, credit and real estate). Named among the top 25 up-and-coming lawyers in the European private equity space in Law.com International’s 2021 Private Equity Rising Stars list, Leanne has also been recognised as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers and is a 'go-to' and trusted figure in the London private equity team.

Lisette Lach-Reichle

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.

As a partner in our Financial Services Disputes team, Louise Lamb focuses her practice on helping banks and other financial institutions to avoid or resolve complex litigation quickly and cost-effectively. She also frequently helps banks to conduct internal investigations and advises them on how to navigate their way through regulatory investigations and enforcement actions. Louise has acted for a wide range of financial institutions both in the UK and abroad, and has handled disputes and investigations across the retail banking, wealth management, trade finance and investment banking sectors.

Malcolm is a partner in our Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects (IERP) practice. He is an experienced transactional EPC and projects lawyer with deep experience advising public and private sector clients on major transactions and regulatory developments in the UK and around the globe. His work focuses on ‘first of a kind’ complex transactions in heavily regulated markets, and in particular global game-changing projects providing innovative solutions to overcome global challenges such as the climate crisis. Ranked by Legal 500 UK in each of the last three years, Malcolm has particular experience in the nuclear energy and defence sectors. He also has significant experience advising on energy transition and renewables projects, especially those with a major technology component. Malcolm also lectures on the prestigious Construction Law & Dispute Resolution MSc at King’s College London, is a founding member of our Business and Social Enterprise (HL BaSE) faculty, and is a key member on our ESG Alliance board.

Margaret Kemp qualified into the London Business Restructuring and Insolvency Group in 1993. Since that time she has advised clients on all aspects of restructuring and insolvency including debt/equity swaps, debt sales, enforcement strategies, and sales through an insolvency process. In 2007 she became the London Business Restructuring and Insolvency Group's professional support lawyer with particular responsibility for the group's documentation and training, client training, and transactional support.

Mariel is a senior associate within the debt capital markets group with a particular focus on fund finance and digital asset backed financing structures. She acts primarily for funds clients on a range of transactions including syndicated and bilateral capital call facilities, NAV facilities, hybrid facilities, as well as team management/GP support lines. She also advises alternative lending providers on digital asset offerings (including blockchain-based offerings and token structuring and issuance).

Mark has over 20 years' experience advising on complex and high-profile competition/antitrust issues. He focuses on obtaining competition clearances for M&A transactions and joint ventures, and representing clients in cartel, monopoly, and market investigations. He is equally at home advising on UK, EU and multi-jurisdictional matters.

Markus Burgstaller

Since 1998, Markus has concentrated on public international law. Markus combines experience in public international law at the highest level of government with many years of experience in advising and representing states, international organisations and businesses in private practice. He focuses on international investment law and acts in arbitrations under ICSID, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules and in proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union. He also advises investors on structuring investments worldwide.

Mathew Ditchburn

Mathew is one of the UK's leading authorities in property litigation. Working with investors, occupiers and a range of other stakeholders, Mathew takes a commercial approach to resolving property disputes: get the facts straight and the law right, know what your strengths are, what you really need and what you can live without, and devise a strategy to suit. He helps clients to think laterally and find creative solutions to even the most intractable property disputes.

Matthew Felwick

Matthew is a disputes Partner in the Global Product Law practice and is co-chair of our London life sciences team. Whether advising a life science company facing a group action in England, or helping a global product manufacturer work through claims across Europe, Matthew's extensive experience of complex, cross-border litigation means he gets the commercial context and quickly finds the best solution.

Matthew Bullen focuses on pensions and trusts litigation. He has considerable experience in handling large and complex disputes, both domestic and multi-jurisdictional, as well as conducting investigations on matters that raise regulatory issues or which may result in litigation. His cases frequently involve insolvency or public law elements. In recent years he has worked particularly intensively on moral hazard regulatory actions, both for targets of regulatory action and trustees.

Matthew Knowles

Megan James is a Counsel in our market-leading Corporate Trusts practice. She acts for trustees, custodians, and other service providers across the full range of debt capital markets and loan products. Megan advises on new money deals, post-close amendments, restructurings, and distressed debt situations. She has extensive experience advising service providers on large scale remediation and restructuring projects, including LIBOR remediation, Brexit-related business reorganisations, and sanctions due diligence. Megan gained invaluable experience from her time seconded to the legal and restructuring teams at two leading corporate trustees. She employs that experience to anticipate trustee and agent concerns and to offer up creative solutions. The Hogan Lovells trustee practice has dedicated trustee lawyers located across our global network, including in the UK and Continental Europe, the US and the Asia Pacific region. We are a go-to firm for some of the world's largest trustee providers with a particular focus on complex, distressed or defaulted matters.

As a partner in our financial services team, Michael Thomas has spent his career advising all types of financial institutions on a wide range of matters. The core of Michael's practice is the provision of financial services regulatory advice. Michael advises firms on how financial services regulation will apply to them from their initial set-up, to their on-going business, and in relation to key events such as corporate transactions or outsourcing arrangements. In addition to regulatory advice, Michael advises financial institutions on commercial transactions, such as major outsourcing arrangements and distribution deals.

Michael Roberts

Michael Davison

Mike Matheou sees issues affecting projects from the perspective of all key parties and rapidly cuts through those matters to reach robust solutions favorable to all, relying on his deep experience acting for private sector bidders and financiers, as well as governmental and other procuring authorities.

Nathan is a partner in our international arbitration group, acting for large multinationals in complex and high-value international arbitrations and cross-border disputes. He has extensive experience in African related disputes and is an active member of the firm's cross-practice Africa group. Nathan also has experience in other emerging markets including Asia, India, Russia and the CIS.Nathan has higher rights of audience in the English courts and regularly appears as an advocate in international arbitrations. He also advises clients on risk management and strategies to avoid or resolve disputes at an early stage.

Nathan Sherlock

Senior Associate

Neil Kurzon is a counsel in the Hogan Lovells' London office.

Neil Mirchandani

With over 25 years' experience helping clients resolve their most difficult disputes, Neil has a commercial, hands-on approach to his cases and always thinks strategically about how best to bring a case to a successful conclusion. He gets as much satisfaction from helping clients prevent disputes arising and is often asked to advise on pre-action issues. Neil handles a wide range of financial services disputes as well as corporate and commercial disputes, often involving multiple parties and across jurisdictions.

Nicholas Holman

Nick Holman co-leads our Investment Funds team and is proud that he has spent his entire professional career at the firm. Nick has extensive experience across a broad range of alternative investment funds, and advises both fund managers and institutional investors. As well as being recognized by both the Chambers UK and Legal 500 legal directories as a Leading Individual for real estate and infrastructure funds, he is also recognized widely for his work on the launches of private equity and impact investment funds. Nick's broader experience includes advising on pledge funds, complex co-investments and secondaries transactions (including "GP-led" continuation funds), as well as carried interest schemes and employee co-investment vehicles. Nick is very focused on ensuring that both he and his team provide thoughtful advice that is tailored for each situation. He is immersed in the funds industry, and has advised fund associations in both the US and UK on a range of business-critical matters. Nick picked up the 'Funds Team of the Year' trophy at the prestigious 2015 'The Lawyer' Awards for his work advising on the launch of a truly innovative debt fund. The award was even more satisfying because the fund in question is focused on bringing off-grid power to very poor communities in the developing world; using his fund structuring skills to make a difference is something Nick is passionate about, whether working for social entrepreneurs, development banks or other impact investors.

Nicholas Heaton

Nicholas leads the 'excellent, top-notch' competition litigation practice in London. His extensive experience litigating before the High Court and the Competition Appeals Tribunal enables him to represent clients in a wide range of industries, from financial and industrial to transport and technology. Nicholas is a commercial litigator and a recognized leader in the fields of Antitrust and Competition Litigation, Pensions litigation and Professional liability litigation. His depth of experience gives Nicholas a true understanding of client's issues.

Nicholas Roberts

When it comes to getting complex real estate deals closed, clients look to Nick. His clients rely on his team player approach and ability to translate legal documents into straightforward commercial arrangements focused on goals not legal niceties.Nick brings a wealth of knowledge in investment, disposal, development, letting and joint venture transactions. Whether the property is a major mixed use development (or redevelopment), offices, retail, offshore energy asset, in the private rented sector or otherwise Nick is able to deliver commercially focused strategic advice.Nick has first rate knowledge and experience from across the sector. He works with a stellar collection of clients - from international institutional investors and banks to major property developers and listed companies.

Nicholas Cheffings

Nick has been working on insurance and reinsurance matters since he joined the firm in 1984. He is a litigator who helps clients solve their most complex problems. Nick co-chairs our insurance disputes practice. Over the years Nick has dealt with most types of insurance, including claims relating to directors and officers, crime policies, property damage, business interruption, products liability, public liability and employer's liability. He has also handled many professional liability claims, especially involving insurance brokers.

Described by Legal 500 as a practitioner who is "approachable and pragmatic" and one that is “proactive, thinks ahead and provides pragmatic solutions”, Nicola has over 20 years’ experience advising clients on game-changing and often innovative corporate finance transactions. Nicola’s experience is broad and extends to corporate transactions, domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures, the Takeover Code, disclosure and governance issues, securities law and the Listing Rules as well as secondary capital raising and restructurings. She is also often called upon by boards of listed companies to advise on their significant corporate matters. She has experience across a number of sectors including, in particular, insurance, financial services, retail and real estate. Nicola is Leader of our Global Insurance Sector and was awarded Insurance Lawyer of the Year at the Women in Insurance Awards 2023. Nicola was also named as a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer in 2024, with a client saying, "Nicola has the ability to solve transactional complex problems very quickly, delivers very straightforward honest advice and she really understands our business."

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Oliver Humphrey

Oliver Chamberlain

As well as leading the firm’s Global Banking practice, Paul Mullen acts for both lenders and borrowers at the top end of mid-market sponsor-backed financings, Paul has been particularly involved with the development of the direct lending market in Europe, advising lenders on unitranche and other types of direct lending products (including first loss/second loss, second lien, and PIK) as well as banks providing working capital and other facilities alongside the funds. Paul's extensive experience and deep understanding of the market means that clients often call on him when they need advice on developing new and innovative products. As the head of our market-leading direct lending practice, he has built strong relationships with a range of major global debt funds including Ares, Barings, Permira Debt Managers, CVC Credit, EQT, Five Arrows, and Hayfin as well as banks and sponsors.

Paul is a partner in Hogan Lovells' top ranked UK commercial law practice. With extensive experience across a variety of industries he advises clients both domestically and internationally on the matters that are important to delivering products and services to their customers. Having spent time in-house, Paul understands the need to navigate in a timely and pragmatic way the challenges faced by business by working with senior management, project teams and in-house legal advisors to deliver creative, practical and business friendly solutions that achieve your goals.

Paul Randall heads our Employee Share Incentives practice. He brings nearly 30 years of City experience. Over this time, he has advised numerous UK and overseas companies, listed and unlisted, on the corporate, tax and regulatory aspects of the design, implementation and operation of domestic and multi-national employee share plans, employee benefit trusts and executive remuneration. He has also advised in the context of many corporate transactions, including IPOs, takeovers, reverse takeovers, buyouts and general M&A.

Penny Angell is our UK Managing Partner. Her own practice focuses on acquisition and leveraged finance and other complex corporate debt arrangements. Never one to adopt a "one size fits all" mentality, Penny has continually adapted to changing market dynamics and debt structures and has consequently advised on a wide array of leverage financings, including senior, mezzanine, PIK and unitranche/super senior financing arrangements on acquisitions and other leveraged finance transactions, including take-privates, bids, leveraged recapitalisations, and domestic and cross-border leveraged buyouts. Her commercial, solutions-based approach means she is equally at home advising borrowers and lenders (both banks and debt funds). She also has particular experience in the highly regulated area of insurance company financings. Penny brings a wealth of experience derived from a career that spans several credit cycles, enabling her to provide clients with practical, commercial advice on the key issues in structuring and documenting debt finance transactions. This is underlined by Chambers UK 2020, which notes that clients describe working with Penny is as a "flawless experience," because "she is committed and dedicated as well as highly experienced in her field." In previous years, Penny received the Europe Women in Business Law "Best in Banking & Finance" award. In addition to her client practice, Penny sits on the Financial Law Committee of the City of London Law Society, a respected industry body comprised of representatives from leading London law firms.

Innovative, insightful and practical, honed by 25 years + diverse experience. Whether helping clients broker multi-party deals, navigate the intersection of business and government or find the right business structure, Peter distils what really matters and uses creative solutions where necessary. Peter has a particular interest in managing change and in setting legal issues or transactions in the wider context, understanding the perspectives of multiple parties and how they are relevant to delivering success. He has delivered many projects in technology and media solving complex issues concerning software, rights and data. He understands the particular sensitivities of the public sector whether expressed through regulation or direct state involvement in deals. He knows how important it is not to see a supply chain or distribution network as a series of separate transactions but as a series of interdependent relationships from the source to the ultimate consumer. In addition to his work with clients, Peter has also held a number of leadership roles at the firm, including heading the Commercial team and co-leading the firm's Technology, Media & Telecoms sector work, as well as taking a prominent role in the firm's current transformation programme and serving for many years as a member of the International Operations Committee of predecessor firm Lovells. Peter has written, spoken and appeared on many platforms including Reuters TV, Sky News and PLC magazine on subjects as diverse as the trends in TMT M&A, the UK's Consumer Rights Act and preparing your business for a downturn. He is also one of the principal creators and contributors to the Hogan Lovells proprietary set of global contracting tools and insight (www.hlcomplexcontracting.com).

Philip is a partner in our Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects (IERP) practice. He has wide experience of all aspects of infrastructure and energy transactions. His principal expertise is in structuring and delivering equity monetisation solutions for infrastructure and energy owners by way of direct and structured sales, fund establishment and transitions and debt and equity financings.

As a dispute resolution lawyer, Philip Parish focuses in securities, investment banking and fund disputes and contentious regulatory matters. Philip has experience in all aspects of financial markets litigation. Philip regularly acts for investment banks, fund managers and other financial institutions in contentious matters. His experience covers all aspects of contentious regulatory matters such as internal investigations, representing financial institutions and their employees who are under investigation by regulators, and representing them in enforcement and disciplinary proceedings brought by the FCA, other regulatory, disciplinary and criminal authorities both in the UK and overseas.

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Rachel is Head of Financial Services Regulation at Hogan Lovells, advising banks, insurers, asset managers and clearing houses and exchanges.She has been recognized as a leading individual in her field by industry commentators and legal directories for nearly two decades. Her vast experience at the heart of the sector allows her to make instinctive judgements in tackling structural and regulatory issues.Rachel is known for being tenacious in defending her clients' interests, attracting widespread admiration as a formidable negotiator.

Rebecca Wales is an experienced commercial litigator who has acted in some of the most complex and high value international disputes recently before the English Courts. She has been involved in several ground breaking interim applications, broadening the scope of freezing orders and pushing the boundaries of injunctions. Rebecca has significant experience of applications for pre-emptive and interlocutory relief, including freezing orders, search orders, third party disclosure orders and orders for cross-examination and committal. She was also involved in obtaining the largest receivership order ever granted by the English court.

Richard Diffenthal

Richard has a wealth of experience across the full range of corporate practices, including equity capital markets, joint ventures and corporate advisory work, concentrating on mergers and acquisitions (both private and public, domestic and cross border) as well as corporate restructurings. Richard's practice is focused on clients in the Technology, Media and Telecoms ('TMT') and Financial Services sectors.

Richard Goss has a comprehensive cross-border asset finance practice with particular emphasis on aviation finance. He represents an array of industry participants including operating lessors, airlines, financial institutions, and manufacturers on a diverse range of multijurisdictional transactions. These include sale and leasebacks, operating leases, portfolio trading, export credit, and PDP financings for fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. He has also advised clients in a variety of airline restructurings, insolvencies, and aircraft repossessions. He brings a solution-focused and pragmatic approach, which reflects more than 15 years of experience in the aviation sector and his position at the heart of the industry. Richard builds deep client relationships and is a trusted advisor to whom clients return time and again for support on their most challenging transactions. Earlier in his career, Richard spent six months on secondment to Standard Chartered Bank's aviation finance team based in Dublin, gaining valuable insights from an operating lessor perspective. He is regularly seen at aviation finance conferences and has lectured to the Irish Law Society's Diploma course in Aviation Finance and Leasing. Active across a number of pro bono and community activities, Richard put his knowledge and experience in the helicopter sector to charitable use as part of Hogan Lovells' citizenship activities. He played a key role advising London's Air Ambulance on a pro bono basis on its acquisition and financing of a second helicopter to provide crucial emergency support for the people of London.

As a partner in the Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure team, Richard Tyler's main focus is on International oil & gas and LNG Projects, but he is also active in Energy Financings, acquisitions and disposals, restructurings, energy and commodities trading, power projects and energy regulation. He led the award winning Hogan Lovells team which acted for the Shah Deniz Consortium as Project Counsel on the US$ 45bn Shah Deniz 2 and Southern Gas Corridor Projects. He has received praise from client for his commercial and industry knowledge, his 'hands on' approach to getting projects and transactions completed and his team's ability to deliver projects on time and on budget.

Richard Welfare

Richard Welfare focuses on regulatory compliance work within the Commercial Law practice area. Richard works with manufacturing companies to ensure that they comply with legislation and regulatory frameworks, including requirements governing product composition, labeling, packaging and claims, rules relating to advertising and marketing campaigns and other key considerations when launching a product in the EU/UK. Richard has helped clients resolve issues with UK enforcement authorities, including Trading Standards, the ASA (Advertising), MHRA (Medical Devices) and the FSA (Food).

Robert Anderson

Robert Gardener

Director of Government Affairs

Robert Fugard offers clients extensive experience of advising on big-ticket, cross-border asset finance, and Islamic finance transactions, with a particular focus on the aviation sector. As head of our Asset Finance practice, Robert is deeply immersed in the sectors his clients' operate in. Working at the forefront of the sector's search for new and innovative sources of finance, Robert has structured and advised on a wide array of pre-delivery, export credit-supported, tax-enhanced and Islamic financing, in the leasing, bank, and capital markets. Robert focuses on complex cross-border financing in the aviation sector, advising airlines, banks, and leasing companies on the acquisition and disposal of aircraft portfolios and on the financing of aircraft using a range of financing techniques. Robert's practice covers both commercial and corporate aircraft.

Robert Shoesmith

Senior Associate

Delay, cost and defects are perennial issues that haunt all engineering and construction projects, but Roberta Downey's focus is on helping clients develop practical and commercial strategies to manage (or at least mitigate) these traditional risks in an evolving market against a background of challenges from new technology and procurement approaches.

Roger is a partner in our Commercial and Retail Banking team, with particular experience in payments, consumer credit and mortgage regulation. He works with a broad cross-section of banks (both international and local, established and challenger), specialist lenders and payment service providers and infrastructure providersRoger works with these clients and with the key industry bodies to help with the development and implementation of new law and regulation. He also advises on the ongoing impact for all aspects of our clients' businesses, such as licensing and prudential requirements, product design, alliances like distribution and outsourcing arrangements, and transfers of portfolios or businesses.

Rosemary Miller

For fifteen years, Rupert has navigated complex HMRC discussions and tax litigation for corporates, individuals and pension funds, and is the Leader of our Tax Disputes team in the UK and Europe. Beyond navigation, Rupert provides technical knowledge in areas many group tax functions have not needed to develop themselves: taxpayer rights and HMRC powers, tax statutory interpretation, tax public law, tax-related evidence and procedure. His commercial approach has made him a valuable extension to in-house tax teams on a wide-range of projects.

Rupert Sydenham

Rupert Sydenham has advised on legal issues arising from construction projects for over 20 years. He brings a wealth of experience in helping clients ensure projects are put and stay on track and, where disputes are unavoidable, in the conduct of formal and informal dispute resolution proceedings. His experience derives from projects in many different sectors and jurisdictions, including from a 10 year period between 1998 and 2008 in which he was based in the firm's Hong Kong office. In addition, Rupert runs a procurement disputes practice. He has represented clients in several of the highest profile procurement cases reported in England over the past few years.

A partner in our London office, Ruth Grant focuses on dispute resolution work in the fields of product liability and professional liability/negligence. Ruth has a broad litigation background based on over 30 years experience handling disputes for a variety of commercial clients in the High Court in London and working with US lawyers in proceedings in the US for UK clients. With extensive involvement of over 15 years in tobacco-related litigation in the UK, the US and in a number of British Commonwealth jurisdictions, Ruth has a wealth of knowledge on managing complex cross-border litigation and the evidential issues that can arise.

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.

For nearly 20 years, Sarah has been practising IP law in the London office. As a partner her focus is on the protection of confidential information and patent law but she has experience of most areas of intellectual property law. Her clients range from large pharmaceutical and medical device companies to manufacturing businesses as well as start-ups. Sarah is experienced in litigation and negotiating commercial intellectual property agreements. Her practice is diverse: from recovering confidential information using search orders to carrying out intellectual property audits. The common thread of her work is anything technical. Before studying law, Sarah took a degree in physics. This technical background helps her to get to grips quickly with the underlying technology in patent cases and the complexities of software licensing, amongst other things.

Sarah is a seasoned M&A practitioner with an impressive range of experience advising on private acquisitions and disposals, public takeovers, joint ventures, strategic alliances, restructurings and business transfers. Sarah's clients include a wide range of corporates, private equity funds, DFIs and infrastructure funds, whom she advises on their most complex and high-profile transactions. Sarah is a member of our M&A leadership team. She has experience across a number of sectors including, in particular, oil and gas, power, renewable energy, infrastructure and real estate. Her practice is international and includes a particular focus on Africa and other emerging markets, where she has acted on some of the most significant platform M&A transactions in the energy sector in recent years. Sarah is recommended as a Next Generation Partner by Legal 500 (2024) for M&A, and was recently identified as one of the best and brightest up and coming female lawyers in the UK by Law.com International. She is commended by clients for her user-friendly approach and ability to combine technical excellence with commercial, pragmatic advice.

Scott is a partner in the firm’s Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Project (IERP) team. He advises on a wide range of infrastructure and energy work (including major development projects, PPP projects and project finance transactions), as well as electricity generation, transmission and supply arrangements, energy transition issues, ESG and related legal and regulatory issues in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He has 20+ years of experience advising governments, developers, investors, banks and other financial institutions on some the largest and most complex deals in the global infrastructure and energy markets and has been involved in deals in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. Scott focusses principally on transactions in the energy, energy storage and energy transition sectors, and has advised on nuclear, oil and gas, LNG, hydrogen, power and renewable energy (including onshore and offshore wind, solar, tidal, EfW, biomass, carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS)) deals. He also has experience advising on major transactions in the aviation, aerospace and defense, social infrastructure, transport, telecommunications and waste sectors. He has advised on joint ventures, M&A, financings, refinancings and restructurings and distressed projects in a variety of infrastructure and energy sectors.

Shah Jahan H. Khandokar

Senior Associate.

Shalini Bhuchar

Well known by clients, counter-parties and peers alike for her commercial and solution driven approach, Shalini has extensive experience in a broad range of asset finance work and has been involved in a variety of cross-border aviation, shipping, plant and equipment transactions as well as general banking transactions. Shalini's experience includes loan and lease financings, including capital markets financings, operating leases and charters, single asset and asset and loan portfolio disposals and acquisitions and restructurings. Her clients include banks, lessors, airlines, shipping companies, debt funds and private equity firms. Shalini’s practice includes considerable experience in Africa, and she is a core member of the firm’s Africa Practice. Shalini is known for her ability to lead on complex, multijurisdictional transactions across a range of product types in a solutions focused manner. She has been lead counsel on numerous matters which represent key trends in the asset finance market - both product based (such as ESG-related products, non-payment insurance backed financings, privately placed bonds and alternative lending) and geographically (such as in the African region).

With a career that has followed the rise of, and trends in, the indirect real estate sector, Sian Owles brings extensive experience in structuring real estate joint ventures, corporate wrapped real estate transactions and real estate funds. Much of Sian's work involves advising on joint venture and club deal terms for real estate investment and development, the acquisition and disposal of corporate real estate holding structures, fund structuring, restructuring, investments and exits. Increasingly, the real estate sector is international in focus and Sian's practice reflects this. She advises sovereign wealth funds, international fund managers, overseas pension funds, UK fund managers and REITs on their UK and pan-European investments. Hogan Lovells' strength and depth as a global law firm provides the competitive advantage keeping Hogan Lovells at the forefront of the structured real estate market.

As counsel in our banking group, Simon focuses his practice on real estate finance transactions. He has experience acting for banks, borrowers and funds on a wide range of real estate finance transactions which has also included advising in the context of both solvent and insolvent corporate restructurings. Simon has undertaken secondments at Thames Water, The Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays Bank - with this, he has gained a valuable insight into the business needs of these institutions and others like them and a broader understanding of how he, and Hogan Lovells, can continue to provide pragmatic, hassle free and top quality legal counsel.

Simon advises clients on all aspects of corporate transactions, with a particular focus on growth capital, private equity and complex and cross border mergers and acquisitions. Simon has a wealth of experience advising sponsors on growth capital and private equity investments into high-technology businesses, particularly in regulated sectors including life sciences and financial services. During 2020 and 2021 Simon spent eleven months on secondment to a leading global investment bank, advising on numerous growth capital and emerging markets transactions. Simon is one of the founding lawyers of our Birmingham office and has practiced abroad, having also spent seven months seconded to the Shanghai office of an international law firm. Simon began his career in Law, following three years working in the Loss Control and Risk Management team of a global car hire firm.

Stephanie Saunders

Stephanie has extensive experience across shipping and aviation assets, both commercial and private. With a strong background in ship financing for all types of floating assets, from cruise ships to FPSOs and superyachts, Stephanie has experience in managing a wide range of transactions, from complex leveraged finance secured deals to substantial transactions involving 50 or more vessels across multiple jurisdictions. Stephanie has in-depth experience in superyacht financing, sale and purchase, and acts for many of the leading financial institutions lending in the area, as well as high net worth individuals – which is complemented by wide experience in the corporate jet and helicopter markets. Stephanie has guided airlines, lessors and financial institutions on leasing and financing arrangements of all shapes and sizes, from warehouse facilities to sale and leaseback structures as well as restructurings and part-out arrangements. Stephanie also acts for capital providers and key insurance market participants in connection with Funds at Lloyds and other insurance and reinsurance financings, advising on various capital structures to support Syndicates within Solvency II and other regulatory requirements.

Stephen Bennett

Steven McEwan has deep knowledge of a number of different practice areas. He primarily advises insurers, re-insurers, pension schemes and banks. His practice is both advisory and transactional in nature, and frequently the two aspects are intertwined as the transactions that he works on often require regulatory approval.

Susan Whitehead

Senior Consultant

Based in London as Global Co-Head of Hogan Lovell's Antitrust, Competition and Economic Regulation practice and with extensive experience of working in the Brussels competition environment, Suyong is one of only a handful of EU practitioners equally at home handling complex mergers and JVs, high stakes cartel and abuse of market power investigations, as well as the resulting appeals and damages litigation before the EU and national courts.

Tarek is a dual Libyan/New York qualified lawyer with a broad practice that covers general corporate and commercial matters (foreign direct investment, joint ventures, restructurings), project development, finance and dispute resolution. He works principally in the sovereign wealth, energy, infrastructure and telecommunications sectors, with a geographic focus mainly on Libya and North Africa, but also on Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa more generally.

Throughout his career Tauhid has advised on all types of structured finance and debt capital market transactions and their related restructurings in a wide range of asset classes, including commercial and residential real estate, infrastructure and social housing, equipment leasing and insurance, and has also acted on debt portfolio sales and related financings, balance sheet management transaction and Solvency II driven transactions. He has advised a variety of key participants on these transactions, including lenders, arrangers, bondholders, originators, funds and swap providers, and has written and spoken widely in respect of securitization and structured finance and related regulatory and market developments.

Tim is a partner in the Financial Institutions Group. He provides corporate and regulatory advice to insurance industry clients including Part VII transfers, mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations, joint ventures, authorisations, and (re)insurance arrangements. He offers an integrated approach taking into consideration the demand for innovative financing structures. With his extensive experience dealing with insurance regulators, Tim works closely with clients to manage regulatory relationships in a constructive, timely, and coordinated way. His regulatory practice includes advising on organisational governance and the specific legal and regulatory requirements relating to the Lloyd’s market. He also helps clients navigate solvency and capital management regulation; anticipating regulatory issues before they arise. Tim joined Hogan Lovells in 1994 and became a partner in 2003. Since 2004 he has been recommended for non-life insurance corporate and regulatory work by the UK's legal directories. He is a regular speaker on insurance business transfers.

Senior Associate

Tom Astle is the Global Head of Restructuring & Special Situations, based in London. Tom's clients include funds, investment banks and corporates involved in domestic and multi-jurisdictional restructurings. Tom has 19 years of experience in stressed and distressed situations. These include liabilities management exercises, refinancings, extensions, capital raises and injections and general stakeholder management. The majority have been implemented with successful negotiation of a consensual solvent solution, although he has regularly used Restructuring Plans, pre-packaged administration, CVA and/or a Schemes of Arrangement, to deliver his clients' preferred solution. Tom has particular experience of dealing with multiple stakeholders, including syndicates of lenders, sponsors, and material pensions stakeholders. He also has a good working experience of more heavily distressed businesses and trading insolvency.

Tom Brassington

Tom Brassington is a senior partner in the firm's London Corporate & Finance practice group. He is ranked in Chambers Global for Corporate/M&A, with his expertise in international and cross-border M&A highlighted in particular. He has experience across a wide variety of work including public and private M&A, joint ventures, restructurings, private equity, and equity capital markets. While Tom is a generalist M&A practitioner, he regularly acts for clients in the Life Sciences and Technology, Media & Telecoms sectors. While Tom is based in London, he has also practiced in both Dubai and Hong Kong.

Head of Transfer Pricing EMEA

Tony Marshall, a partner in Hogan Lovells' Construction and Engineering Practice Group, is based in the London office. Tony has more than 30 years of experience helping clients with all manner of issues arising from the procurement of construction and infrastructure projects. Tom helps clients handle issues arising during projects, as well as dispute avoidance, and dispute resolution. These include mediation, expert determination, adjudication, dispute boards, arbitration, and court proceedings.

Victor Fornasier

Victoria Sutcliffe

As a partner in our London Real Estate Group, Victoria Sutcliffe deals with a wide variety of commercial real estate work and brings extensive experience to institutional investment, property portfolio management, large and high profile lettings and pre-lettings, sales, purchases and development funding projects, as well as co-ownership structures.

Whiston Bristow

Yasmin Waljee OBE

Senior Counsel International Pro Bono Director, London