Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Edwin Northover is an Asia-based corporate partner and Head of our Financial Institutions and Corporate practices in Asia.

Mr. Northover has a broad cross-border public and private mergers & acquisitions practice, with a particular focus on mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures and distribution agreements in the insurance industry.

Mr. Northover joined Debevoise in 2007 and was based in the firm's London office prior to his move to Asia. During 2013, Mr. Northover spent six months on secondment to the Mergers & Acquisitions team of a multinational insurance company in Paris. In 2015, he spent a period in the Financial Institutions Group of our New York office. Mr. Northover is admitted to practice in England & Wales and Hong Kong.

English.

He was admitted as a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales in 2006 and Hong Kong in 2013.

Mr. Northover graduated in 2001 with a Double First Class Honours degree in Modern History from Merton College, University of Oxford. He went on to study at BPP Law School, London (2002-3).