Aimee Smart is counsel in Akin’s litigation group. She has experience conducting complex cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration. Aimee advises companies and individuals on a wide range of commercial and financial matters, with a particular focus on cases involving allegations of misconduct, fraud and money laundering. To learn more about Ms. Smart, please visit her profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/aimee-smart.html
Alex is an energy lawyer who advises market participants on complex greenfield and brownfield project development, project and structured financing, electricity regulation and industry codes and mergers and acquisitions in the Renewable Energy and Power sectors. He has particular experience of Electricity Market Reform, Contracts for Difference, carbon capture and storage, solar, wind, tidal, energy from waste and electricity and heat power purchase, off-take and supply agreements, as well as regulated asset and PPP models.Alex also advises clients in the Transport, Utilities, Oil and Gas and Mining sectors.
Focuses on acquisition finance transactions, representing private equity sponsors in leveraged buyouts. Drives direct lending and special situation transactions, as well as leading the finance aspects of complex restructuring transactions. Experience structuring a range of fund financings, as well as investment grade and corporate lending. Co-leader of the firm’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) group. Amy Kennedy structures leveraged financing arrangements for complex leveraged buyouts and other private equity transactions. Her clients include private equity sponsors, banks and other financial institutions (including non-bank alternative capital providers and direct lenders) and corporates (including client portfolio companies). To learn more about Ms. Kennedy, visit her full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/amy-kennedy
Barry Russell is a partner in Akin’s financial restructuring group. Representing noteholders, bondholders and other creditor groups, Barry is a leading force in the cross-border financial restructuring and institutional private placement market. For more than 25 years, he has advised on many of the most significant cross-border workouts and financial restructurings—some involving complex political and economic issues—of European companies. Insurance companies, pension funds, investment funds and other institutional investors rely upon Barry’s highly commercial, pragmatic approach and his ability to reach beneficial and successful outcomes for his clients. Barry focuses his practice on complex workouts and financial restructurings, as well as cross-border institutional private placement issuance. To learn more about Mr. Russell, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/barry-g-russell.html
Chiara Klaui is known for her pragmatic and to the point advice on EU trade compliance matters addressing anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, customs, export controls, foreign direct investment as well as economic sanctions. She provides compliance trainings, conducts internal investigations, assists with voluntary self-disclosures, and develops internal compliance programs for clients in the aviation, commodities, cyber-surveillance, defense, industrial, investment funds, IT, leisure, offshore, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, and shipping sector. To learn more about Ms. Klaui, please visit her full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/chiara-klaui.html
Dan Giemajner advises on the cross-border financing of energy, infrastructure and natural resources projects globally, with a particular focus on transactions driven by the energy transition. Dan’s expertise is in multi-sourced debt finance, where he advises across the full credit spectrum, including project finance, leveraged finance, acquisition finance, sustainable finance, pre-export finance, trade finance, receivables finance, royalty finance and streaming. He has worked on core and non-core infrastructure, telecoms, power, renewable energy, biomass, waste, energy from waste, oil and gas and mining transactions with a value of more than $20 billion. He is currently acting on a number of a first-of-a-kind transactions, including advising on projects across the battery value chain, advising on a $4.8 billion green hydrogen project and on a $2 billion sustainable aviation fuel project. Dan also has significant expertise acting on cross-border financings in emerging markets. His clients include banks, funds, development finance institutions, export credit agencies, monolines and other financial institutions (including non-bank alternative capital providers and institutional investors), corporates, traders, governments, developers and private equity sponsors.
Daniel Walsh represents both acquirors/investors and their targets/investees in acquisitions and investments in major markets around the world. His clients span industries including energy, telecommunications, technology, mining and manufacturing. He also handles public and private international and U.S. equity and debt offerings, representing both issuers and underwriters. Key Experience: Handles international and U.S. domestic acquisitions, joint venture and private equity transactions, as well as public and private international and U.S. equity and debt transactions. Assists with transactions in Europe, Latin America, Russia and the CIS, Africa, Asia and the United States. Counsels boards and management of public companies on corporate governance matters. Member of the firm’s management and compensation committees. To learn more about Mr. Walsh, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/daniel-g-walsh.html
David Sewell is an English lawyer who concentrates on cross-border corporate transactions. He focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity transactions. David has advised on a number of high profile cross-border transactions in the energy and telecoms sectors in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the United States. To learn more about Mr. Sewell, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/david-n-sewell.html
Davina Garrod is co-head of Akin's global antitrust & competition practice and head of Akin's international competition group. She advises multinationals, corporates and financial institutions on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and restructurings. With more than 24 years’ experience, in addition to navigating and obtaining antitrust and regulatory approvals for complex transactions within and outside of Europe, and negotiating remedies packages, Davina represents sovereign wealth funds, private equity (PE) firms and banks in the context of their strategic and financial investments (transactional and contentious). Davina also represents companies active in, inter alia, technology, communications, chemicals, energy, transportation, defence, retail and industrials in behavioural EC Article 101/102 and UK Ch.I/Ch.II investigations, and other investigations by government agencies and regulators globally, including UK National Security & Investment Act/European FDI, EU/UK State aid/subsidies, competition/regulatory appeals, and private damages claims before the CAT/courts. To learn more about Ms. Garrod, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/davina-garrod.html
Emma Simmonds is a partner in Akin ’s financial restructuring group. She has advised creditors on numerous high-profile restructurings of distressed bonds, private placement notes and loans in Europe. She has more than 15 years of experience working with a broad range of financial institutions on complex cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters across various industries and jurisdictions. Emma is a member of the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Council and chair of the London office’s Inclusion Council. To learn more about Ms. Simmonds, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/emma-simmonds.html
Ezra Zahabi is a partner in Akin’s financial regulatory group. She advises on relevant developments and considerations regarding changes to the UK and EU financial regulatory framework, particularly with regard to the UK financial services regulatory framework, including the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the rules of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the EU legislative and regulatory framework, including MiFID II; AIFMD; the Market Abuse Regulation; EMIR; the revised Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II) and the new EU ESG rules. Ezra counsels investment managers across strategies and geographies on regulatory compliance and provides strategic advice in connection with new or forthcoming regulatory requirements, including trading queries; market abuse and market conduct issues; interactions with regulatory authorities, regulatory applications and approvals; fund marketing and distribution; regulatory issues relating to the structuring of investment advisory platforms, and remuneration. To learn more about Ms, Zahabi, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/ezra-zahabi.html
Harry Keegan’s practice focuses on international mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets transactions, with a particular emphasis on emerging markets. He has considerable experience in equity offerings, stock exchange listings and UK Takeover Code governed transactions. The corporates in these transactions have operated in various industry sectors, including oil & gas, mining, telecommunications, technology, manufacturing, biotechnology/nanotechnology and financial services. Harry has previously been seconded to two investment banks. He also advises issuers on continuing obligations and corporate governance issues. He has considerable experience in international public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity transactions, across a range of sectors, involving numerous countries including in Europe, Russia/CIS, Africa, the Middle-East, India and North America. To learn more about Mr. Keegan, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/harry-keegan.html
Helen Marshall is a partner in Akin’s financial regulatory group. She has over 25 years of experience advising on UK financial regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). She provides assistance to her clients in a number of areas, including FCA and PRA compliance issues, authorisations and approvals, information requests, FCA thematic reviews, FCA investigations and enforcement, Regulatory Decisions Committee hearings and Upper Tribunal hearings. Helen helps clients to implement effective strategies to meet regulatory requirements and anticipate future obligations. She also assists clients in forging a positive and cooperative relationship with the relevant regulator to ensure they are well-positioned to engage with the FCA and/or the PRA. Helen was a Former Head of Enforcement at the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and has an excellent knowledge of the UK regulatory system. To learn more about Ms Marshall, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/helen-marshall.html
Inderveer Hothi’s practice focuses on finance and corporate transactions covering a wide variety of industries and jurisdictions, particularly in emerging markets. She represents corporate borrowers, high-net-worth individuals and financial institutions on a broad range of financing arrangements, including: cross-border acquisitions, project finance transactions, leveraged finance transactions, corporate finance transactions, private placements, Eurobonds and financial restructuring. To learn more about Miss Hothi, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/inderveer-hothi.html
James Roome is the senior partner of the London office and a member of the firm’s management committee and financial restructuring group. An English lawyer who concentrates on complex and cross-border insolvency, restructurings and disputes, James has advised on numerous restructurings of distressed bonds, notes and loans in Europe. He possesses a wealth of experience spanning more than 35 years, acting for investors on some of the largest and most high-profile UK and cross-border restructurings, as well as litigation and a wide range of debt and equity investments. To learn more about Mr. Roome, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/james-roome.html
James Terry is a partner in Akin's financial restructuring group. He practices in the areas of cross-border and domestic financial restructuring, workouts and insolvency, and advises clients in relation to strategic and legal issues concerning their distressed debt and special situations investments. James has broad knowledge in a range of different business sectors including telecommunications, packaging, paper, transport, mining, automotive, energy and power. James is known as the leading practitioner in the London market for Norwegian and other Scandinavian restructurings, as well as restructurings in the offshore, oil and gas and shipping sectors. His clients include hedge funds, bondholders, institutional lenders, secondary market investors and creditor committees. To learn more about Mr. Terry, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/james-terry.html
Jasper Helder’s practice focuses on international trade and corporate compliance matters addressing economic sanctions, export controls, customs, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering. He also advises on other aspects of trade regulation, including customs matters, trade remedies, free trade agreements and rules of origin. Jasper frequently assists U.S. clients with their EU compliance issues, advising a range of multinationals on EU and U.N. sanctions compliance for countries such as Iran, Russia, Crimea, Venezuela, North Korea etc. and on the interaction between those restrictions and U.S. sanctions. Additionally, he provides advice on the interaction between EU and U.S. export control rules, including International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Jasper’s practice further comprises EU customs compliance, in particular, customs classification, including Binding Tariff Information, and customs valuation and transfer pricing. To learn more about Mr. Helder, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/jasper-helder.html
Jeff McMillen is one of the premier tax lobbyists in Washington, D.C. advising domestic and major multinational companies on a variety of tax policy and regulatory issues. To learn more about Mr. McMillen, please visit his full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/jeffrey-d-mcmillen.html
Jenny Arlington has more than 10 years’ experience in representing a wide range of clients in high-value, complex international arbitrations under most of the main arbitral rules. She also acts in top end, intricate cross-border commercial litigations in the English High Court and, in conjunction with local counsel, in off-shore jurisdictions. The international disputes she handles have a particular focus on Russia, CIS, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and the Middle East. Native Bulgarian, she is fluent in English, Russian and German, trained at a Magic Circle firm and has a LL.M. in European Union law. Jenny also has long-standing expertise in data protection, privacy and cybersecurity matters and is a CIPP/E. She assists technology companies, clients handling Big Data and multinational conglomerates with compliance and in investigations involving cutting edge issues in this area, and advises multinational clients, including those developing and deploying machine-learning and AI technologies, on related UK and EU legislation and regulation. To learn more about Ms. Arlington, please visit her full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/jenny-arlington
Joe Hewton is counsel in Akin's financial regulatory group. He advises financial institution clients on matters of regulatory compliance, with particular experience in defending clients in investigations and enforcement proceedings brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). Joe’s recent contentious regulatory experience includes assisting clients (both corporates and individuals) in internal and regulatory investigations, including Regulatory Decisions Committee hearings; preparing for regulatory interviews; evaluating individual accountability, including fitness and propriety assessments; notifying and preparing reports for the FCA; and responding to information requirements. He also has experience advising on authorisations and approvals, including change of control; regulatory change projects, including the regime for individual accountability and associated post-implementation advice; cross-border compliance advice; market conduct and governance; and perimeter issues. To learn more about Mr Hewton, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/joe-hewton.html
John Daghlian is a partner in Akin’s investment funds group. He has advised on some of the largest and most complex secondary transactions for over two decades. He acts on a broad range of international and domestic private equity-driven transactions, including the establishment of private funds; private equity portfolio transactions; management buy-outs; secondary buy-outs; publicly traded funds; mergers and acquisitions; and general partner removal. He specializes in problematic situations. To learn more about Mr Daghlian, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/john-daghlian.html
John Holton represents asset managers on the launch and restructuring of private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds, and hedge funds. He advises on Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulations and is an acknowledged expert on how these regulations apply to non-U.S. firms. Advising numerous funds targeting emerging markets including Asian, African, South American and Middle Eastern markets, John has particular experience with Indian private equity fund launches. To learn more about Mr. Holton, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/thomas-john-john-holton.html
Justin Williams is an English qualified solicitor with 25 years’ experience of handling complex international disputes, both in international arbitration and before the English High Court. He heads Akin’s London international arbitration practice and has a broad practice, but with particular focus on energy and on technology. He has acted in numerous complex and high-value international arbitrations in Latin America, North America, the Caribbean, Europe, CIS countries, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Asia. His practice includes both commercial and treaty arbitration. In addition, Justin has acted in some of the largest and most complex litigation cases in England and (together with local counsel) in off-shore and other jurisdictions, including Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent. To learn more about Mr. Williams, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/justin-williams.html
Kambiz Larizadeh is a partner in Akin’s litigation group. He focuses on civil fraud and complex, cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration. He has extensive experience in leading teams in a wide range of high-value, complex international disputes, often involving allegations of misconduct and fraud. He has acted for both claimants and defendants. His clients have included large international corporations, major financial institutions, media and technology companies, airlines and a number of high-net-worth individuals. Kambiz has also advised on a diverse range of commercial disputes, mandatory and prohibitive injunctions, international and domestic freezing injunctions, and anti-suit proceedings in support of domestic litigation and arbitration. He has acted in a number of “bet the company” litigations and arbitrations involving claims in excess of $1 billion. To learn more about Mr. Larizadeh, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/kambiz-larizadeh.html
Liz Osborne is a partner in Akin’s financial restructuring group. She concentrates on UK and cross-border insolvencies, workouts and restructurings. She acts for hedge funds, bondholders, institutional lenders, secondary market investors, and creditor committees in relation to strategic and legal issues concerning their distressed debt and special-situation involvements. To learn more about Ms. Osborne, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/liz-osborne.html
Mark Mansell has represented noteholders, bondholders and other investors in numerous cross-border private placements and other financings. Mark also advises creditors on complex UK and cross-border workouts and financial restructurings. To learn more about Mr. Mansell, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/mark-mansell.html
Matthew Durward-Thomas represents investment funds as well as private and multinational public companies on a broad range of corporate tax matters, including domestic and international corporate and finance transactions and investment fund structuring. He has a particular focus on UK and EU financial restructurings. These matters often involve the resolution of novel and complex tax issues. Matthew helps to develop and apply tax-efficient structures while achieving desired commercial outcomes for clients. To learn more about Mr. Durward-Thomas, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/matthew-thomas.html
Michael Gustafson is a finance lawyer with significant experience leading complex debt financings across the credit spectrum. He focuses on institutional private placements, direct lending and financial restructuring matters. To learn more about Mr. Gustafson, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/michael-gustafson.html
Richard Hornshaw leads Akin’s London litigation group and the Firm’s international disputes practice. He primarily acts for investment firms and a range of other financial institutions on high-value, complex and cross-border disputes and focuses his practice on finance and securities law matters, as well as distressed debt, insolvency and restructuring situations and shareholder activism. He has experience in conducting and resolving disputes—both in arbitration and litigation—in the United Kingdom and elsewhere around the world. Richard qualified as a Solicitor Advocate in 2002 and is also qualified as a solicitor in Hong Kong, where he previously practiced. Richard is a CEDR accredited mediator. To learn more about Mr Hornshaw, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/richard-hornshaw.html
Rob advises clients on a variety of projects and transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors, with a particular focus on upstream and midstream oil and gas, LNG and LNG shipping matters. Rob assists clients with the structuring and development of projects, joint venture arrangements, asset sales and purchases, and corporate acquisitions, disposals and financings. His experience includes negotiating, drafting and advising on commercial arrangements including liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreements, LNG terminal use agreements, common facilities agreements, gas sale and purchase agreements, crude oil offtake agreements, pipeline transportation agreements, vessel charter agreements, joint venture agreements, and asset sale and purchase agreements.
Robert Aulsebrook’s practice focuses on international debt finance, project finance, capital markets and derivatives. Robert has particular experience providing advice on financing and investment in Russia and elsewhere in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). He advises corporate borrowers, lenders, investment funds, investment fund managers, corporate investors, high-net-worth individuals and other market parties on a wide variety of finance and derivatives issues in the London market. For borrowers and lenders, Robert provides advice on terms of primary market loans, loan participations and secondary market trading of debt. He also provides advice to issuers and purchasers of equity and debt instruments, depository receipts, Eurobonds, convertible debt securities and commercial paper. To learn more about Mr. Aulsebrook, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/robert-w-aulsebrook.html
Scott Pettifor advises on merger cases (at an EU, U.K. and multijurisdictional level), behavioral issues and the application of sectoral regulations. Scott’s understanding of the merger control landscape is significant and affords him the ability to provide succinct, actionable advice. He provides multijurisdictional advice on large global transactions for merging parties as well as for the financial institutions with related exposure. Scott regularly obtains merger control approvals for clients before the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and is well placed to assist clients in a post-Brexit environment. He acted for a client on one of the first transactions to be approved by the CMA under the revised de minimis regime introduced in 2017. His work has spanned myriad industry sectors, including: Telecommunications Food and retail Investments Pharmaceutical Aviation Energy services Media Insurance To learn more about Mr. Pettifor, please visit his full profile: www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/scott-pettifor.html
Sebastian Rice is the partner in charge of Akin’s London, Geneva and Hong Kong offices. Mr. Rice’s practice focuses on providing advice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions.
Serena Lee is a partner in Akin’s tax group. She advises on all aspects of corporate tax, including domestic and international corporate and finance transactions, financial restructurings and corporate reorganizations. She also advises on a broad range of funds and investment structures, oil and gas tax issues and handles activist shareholder matters. To learn more about Ms. Lee, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/serena-lee.html
Shaun Lascelles has more than 20 years of experience advising on cross-border M&A and private equity transactions. He focuses on transactional public and private cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and international joint ventures. He advises private equity firms, infrastructure investors and corporates in relation to complex, high-end transactions and has deep knowledge of the oil & gas and energy sectors, often across emerging market jurisdictions that include Africa and Russia. To learn more about Mr. Lascelles, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/shaun-lascelles.html
Simon Rootsey works with private equity firms, infrastructure investors and corporates on complex cross-border M&A (both public and private) and private equity transactions across a broad range of sectors and in multiple regions. He frequently represents clients in the energy (especially downstream and midstream), infrastructure and healthcare / life sciences sectors where he has particularly deep experience. Mr. Rootsey regularly works with clients on transactions across Africa (where he has worked on deals covering over 30 African jurisdictions), Latin America and transatlantic take private transactions or other transactions where U.S. clients are investing (often for the first time) in Europe. To learn more about Mr. Rootsey, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/simon-rootsey.html
Stephen Peppiatt is a finance lawyer with significant experience advising lenders in relation to domestic and international financings. He advises financial institutions in relation to debt restructurings, as well as derivatives and other financial instruments. To learn more about Mr. Peppiatt, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/stephen-peppiatt.html
Tom Bannister is a partner in Akin’s financial restructuring group. He focuses his practice on cross-border financial restructurings and workouts. Tom represents a broad range of institutional and distressed investors. His clients include private placement noteholders, senior secured noteholders, syndicated lenders, senior lenders, mezzanine lenders, ad hoc committees and official committees of unsecured creditors in Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings. To learn more about Mr. Bannister, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/tom-bannister.html
Vance Chapman focuses his practice on special situations, equity offerings and equity investments. He also has considerable experience in financial restructuring and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Chapman has advised hedge funds, private equity funds and other investors in numerous UK and cross-border transactions. He also has extensive experience in activist investments across a range of sectors. To learn more about Mr. Chapman, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/vance-chapman.html
Yujin advises U.S. and foreign clients in trade litigation before U.S. agencies and international organizations. She has significant experience representing foreign companies in trade remedy proceedings before the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Court of International Trade, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Yujin also advises governments and companies on U.S. and international trade policy issues, and has represented several governments before the World Trade Organization on trade remedy and other issues. To learn more about Ms. McNamara, please visit her full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/yujin-kim-mcnamara.html
