Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Ashar Qureshi

Mr. Qureshi is a partner in the corporate department and head of EMEA global transactions, resident in Fried Frank's London office. He concentrates practice on international corporate transactions, including capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance, covering Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He has experience representing international financial institutions, including underwriters, as well as corporations and governments on IPOs, equity and debt securities (including high-yield), complex hedge fund and private equity transactions and structures, rights offerings, and restructurings and privatisations.

Ashley Katz

Mr. Katz is a restructuring and insolvency partner resident in Fried Frank's London office. He has extensive experience advising distressed investors, borrowers, financial institutions, bondholders and insolvency practitioners in relation to all aspects of restructuring and insolvency matters. He advises on a range of cross-border and UK restructurings and insolvencies including matters in the automotive, real estate, construction, financial services, retail and leisure sectors. Mr. Katz has lectured on a range of insolvency topics including the Eurozone crisis, cross border insolvency administration, anti-avoidance provisions, employment/ insolvency law, directors’ duties and customer insolvency.

Darren Rogers

Mr. Rogers is a partner and head of Fried Frank's European real estate group, resident in London. He specialises in the full spectrum of commercial real estate transactions, with a particular focus on real estate capital markets transactions, major City of London lettings, joint ventures and large-scale mixed-use development work. His clients include real estate companies, sovereign wealth funds and private equity firms, among others.

David Selden

Mr. Selden is counsel in Fried Frank's corporate department and asset management practice, resident in the London office. He works on a variety of investment management and securities law matters, with emphasis on private investment vehicles including hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds, hybrid funds and funds-of-funds. Mr. Selden advises major financial institutions, fund sponsors, institutional investors, investment advisors and commodity trading advisors on commercial, securities and compliance matters relating to the formation and offering of funds, management company structure, bespoke products, managed accounts and related matters.

Duncan Saunders

Mr. Saunders is a senior associate in Fried Frank’s Litigation team, based in London. He represents corporates, banks, investors and ultra-high-net-worth individuals in complex, high-value, multi-jurisdictional litigation, arbitration and investigations. His practice has a particular focus on the banking and financial sectors, Russia and the FSU, civil fraud, freezing injunctions, and interim relief.

Graham Greenwood

Mr. Greenwood is an associate in Fried Frank's finance practice, resident in the Firm's London office. He represents international investment banks, private debt funds, financial sponsors and borrowers on a wide range of complex domestic and cross-jurisdictional transactions.  He specializes in leveraged acquisitions, term loan B, bank-bond financings and restructurings and has extensive experience in funds financing, including both subscription and GP liquidity lines as well as asset level leverage and gearing facilities.

Gregg Beechey

Mr. Beechey is a corporate partner in Fried Frank's asset management practice, resident in the London office. He is a regulatory specialist who focuses on alternative investment funds and the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). Mr. Beechey counsels a range of financial sector clients in connection with issues related to financial promotion, authorization and ongoing compliance, structuring and marketing, regulatory capital, agreements with customers and service providers, anti-money laundering and Financial Conduct Authority regulation generally.

Ian Lopez

Mr. Lopez is a partner in the corporate department and the mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices. He has a broad range of experience in a variety of corporate finance transactions, including public M&A, private M&A, equity capital market transactions, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings. Mr. Lopez has represented companies in numerous industries, including financial services, media & telecom, insurance, healthcare, and consumer goods, among others.

James Kitching

Mr. Kitching is a barrister and dispute resolution partner resident in Fried Frank's London office, although he works extensively with Fried Frank's international offices. Mr. Kitching has substantial experience in handling client’s largest and most complex disputes, often involving the coordination of parallel civil, criminal and regulatory proceedings in multiple jurisdictions. Specifically, Mr. Kitching undertakes high profile commercial litigation; international arbitration; and white-collar crime and enforcement, special investigations and compliance monitoring work.

Jons Lehmann

Mr. Lehmann is a corporate partner resident in Fried Frank's London office. He represents clients, including private equity sponsors, investment banks, hedge funds and public and private companies, on a wide range of domestic and cross-border finance transactions across all levels of the capital structure. His experience covers leveraged buyout financings including public to private transactions, real estate finance transactions, US Term Loan B and bank-bond financings, structured finance transactions (including fund level financings), investment grade finance transactions and other complex financing and restructuring transactions.

Justin Michaelson

A dispute resolution partner and a dual qualified barrister and solicitor advocate. He has extensive experience in major international commercial disputes and has appeared before many international commercial arbitral tribunals, both institutional and ad hoc, in disputes covering a wide variety of jurisdictions, and sectors, including oil and gas, real estate, software technology, metals, telecoms, private equity and major projects. Mr. Michaelson represents clients in the Commercial Court division of the High Court of England and Wales and has significant experience seeking orders from the Court under the Arbitration Act 1996 and preliminary relief in support of foreign proceedings under the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1992.

Kate Downey

An asset management partner and head of Fried Frank’s European private equity funds practice. Ms. Downey specialises in fund formation, representing fund sponsors and financial institutions across a broad range of asset classes, including private equity, venture and growth, infrastructure, credit and real estate. She has experience in advising fund managers on carried interest, co-investment and other incentive arrangements, including leveraged co-investment arrangements. Additional experience in a broad range of international private equity transactions, including secondary portfolio acquisitions and synthetic secondaries, fund and management company restructurings and other general corporate matters.

Kathryn Cecil

Ms. Cecil is a partner in the corporate department and the finance practice, resident in Fried Frank’s London office.  Ms. Cecil represents sponsors, banks, funds and public and private companies on a wide range of finance transactions.  Ms. Cecil’s experience includes structuring, negotiating and documenting complex financings at all levels of the capital structure with a focus on fund finance and leveraged finance.  Ms. Cecil advises on fund subscription and NAV facilities as well as other fund financing arrangements. Ms. Cecil also acts on leveraged finance and direct lending transactions as well as special situations and debt restructuring transactions.

Mark Mifsud

Mr. Mifsud is an asset management partner and the managing partner of Fried Frank’s London office. He represents international clients in a broad range of transactions, with an emphasis on advising private fund managers in relation to the structuring and establishment of private investment funds, including private equity, real estate, infrastructure and debt funds. Extensive experience advising clients in relation to secondaries, incentive schemes, carried interest arrangements and co-investment plans. Also counsels private investment managers, significant limited partners and other parties on related matters and general corporate finance.

Neil Caddy

Mr. Caddy is a partner in the corporate department and the finance practice, resident in Fried Frank's London office. His practice focuses on leveraged finance, direct lending and restructuring situations advising arrangers, funds, sponsors, trustees and corporates across a wide range of products including cov-lite, unitranche, bank-bond, transatlantic, second lien, mezz, private high yield and holdco PIK.

Patrick Williams

Mr. Williams is a partner in Fried Frank's European real estate group, resident in London. Mr. Williams has wide transactional experience on real estate driven transactions, including complex real estate investment transactions, mixed-use developments and pre-letting arrangements, joint venture agreements and forward-funding arrangements. Mr. Williams acts for a broad mix of clients, including property investment companies, global real estate fund managers, banks, infrastructure development and land promoter specialists, ultra-high-net-worth individuals and family offices, and a range of Asian sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises.

Sam Wilson

Mr. Wilson is a corporate partner in Fried Frank's asset management practice, resident in the London office. He has extensive experience representing private investment fund managers, sponsors, financial institutions and investors in relation to the establishment and operation of a wide range of private investment funds, including private equity, credit, infrastructure, growth and real estate. He also advises clients on co-investment structuring, fund financing arrangements and other complex corporate transactions.

Tobias Caspary

Dr. Caspary is a partner in the antitrust department and divides his time between Fried Frank's London and Frankfurt offices. Dr. Caspary’s practice covers European, UK and German competition law. He advises and represents clients before the EC, the CMA, and the German Federal Cartel Office. Dr. Caspary has worked on some of the largest and most complex cross-border mergers worldwide; and has advised in connection with numerous competition investigations, including Phase II cases before the EC and the CMA, and cartel investigations in sectors such as window mountings, car components and fuel surcharge. He has a strong focus on private equity, and represents clients across a range of industries, including media, telecoms, technology, and financial services. Dr. Caspary also advises on economic sanctions and other trade regulatory matters.