Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Energy and natural resources, technology, media and telecommunications; corporate.

Chris is an experienced corporate finance lawyer working on domestic and international deals. Chris' transactional work includes IPOs, M&A, refinancings and reconstructions, joint ventures and private equity investments. His advisory work includes advising on corporate governance matters, including requisitions to remove directors and shareholder activism. Experience: advised on £18.5m underwritten open offer by an English company with coal assets for Indonesia, including a Rule 9 whitewash; continuing advice to AIM-quoted mining companies developing assets in Nicaragua, Madagascar, Tanzania and Indonesia on asset acquisitions and secondary fundraisings from time to time; acted on a £16m financing of an event seating group by MML Capital and Sports Invest Partners and the $16m financing of a diagnostics group by Galen Partners; advised an offshore venture debt fund with over 140 portfolio companies on its new investments from time to time and the restructuring of secured loans and warrants in its existing portfolio companies.

Admitted to practise in England and Wales and qualified to practise in Germany.