Professional practices group

Aster is a partner in Addleshaw Goddard’s professional practices group, described as ‘pre-eminent in terms of overall experience and depth of resource’ by the ‘Legal 500’. Aster advises professional practices on governance, structuring, partner and risk management issues, with a particular emphasis on international structuring matters. He also advises on mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and LLP conversions (both from general partnerships and limited companies). In addition, he works with businesses in the financial services sector, including hedge funds and private equity houses on partnership and the use of LLPs and partnerships.

Trainee and associate Linklaters 1998-2003; associate Barlow Lyde and Gilbert 2003-04; associate director Ernst & Young Global 2004-07; Addleshaw Goddard LLP 2007 to date, partner 2010.

Association of Partnership Practitioners and International Bar Association (Chair of the Academic and Professional Development Committee)

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; College of Law, Guildford.