Abigail Hung
Abigail Hung is an associate in the Tax practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. She has experience in a broad range of transactions including financing arrangements, M&A, and fund structuring.
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Alex Kaufman
Alex S. Kaufman is a partner in the Private Equity practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Palo Alto office. Mr. Kaufman advises private equity funds and standalone technology companies on mergers and acquisitions transactions, including leveraged buyouts, growth equity investments, and divestitures, with an emphasis on the software and technology sectors. His clients have included many of the leading technology-focused buyout and growth equity funds in the Bay Area. Mr. Kaufman also serves as U.S. counsel to numerous Israeli technology companies.Mr. Kaufman graduated, with honors, from the Emory University School of Law, where he served as senior editor of the Emory International Law Review, president of the Jewish Law Students Association, and senior advisor to the Federalist Society. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Alexander Horstmann-Caines
Alexander Horstmann-Caines is a partner in the Global Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He focuses on high-yield offerings and leverage and acquisition finance transactions. He also has significant experience advising financial institutions, corporations and private equity sponsors on a wide variety of other debt and equity capital market and corporate finance transactions, bond financial restructurings and U.S. securities law matters, including, initial public offerings, liability management transactions and offerings conducted in reliance on Regulation S and Rule 144A.
Anu Balasubramanian
Anu Balasubramanian is a corporate partner at Paul Hastings. She leads our private equity practice in London and is the vice chair of our global private equity practice. Ms. Balasubramanian's clients include Abry Partners, Oakley Capital, Accel-KKR, Aurium Capital, HIG, and Wipro Limited.
Arun Birla
Arun Birla is the chair of the London office of Paul Hastings and vice-chair of the global Tax Department. Mr. Birla is widely recognised for his expertise in tax and investment funds. He provides tax advice to UK and international clients on a wide range of matters including, M&A, private equity, private and credit funds, structured and asset finance, joint ventures, financing arrangements, mergers, demergers, reorganisations, and restructurings.
Arun Srivastava
Arun Srivastava is a partner in the London office of Paul Hastings. He provides sound and comprehensive legal advice on regulatory requirements across Europe. Mr. Srivastava spent a year on secondment to the U.K. Financial Services Authority between April 1999 and April 2000.
Mr. Srivastava focuses his practice on helping regulated firms comply with evolving regulatory obligations, particularly in relation to innovation in the FinTech space. He has particular expertise in advising clients on the cross-border offering of products and services across the European Union including in relation to the use of national private placement regimes. Mr. Srivastava also advises clients on complex contentious financial services matters including regulatory investigations and disputes.
Brad Bondi
Brad Bondi is Global Co-Chair of the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice at Paul Hastings and a nationally recognized litigation partner. He focuses on securities and financial investigations (SEC and DOJ) and securities and complex litigation. He also advises boards of directors and audit committees concerning significant governance matters. He is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. and New York offices.
The publication Law360 recognized Brad as a national MVP in white collar in 2022, 2021, and 2019, Benchmark Litigation lists him as “national practice area star” in both securities and white collar, and The National Law Journal named him a Washington D.C. Trailblazer in 2020 to recognize his significant contributions to the field of securities law. The National Association of Corporate Directors has twice honored him for his work in the board room. Securities Docket describes Brad as “the first choice among Boards of Directors and Audit Committees of the Fortune 500 when their company is faced with SEC or DOJ problems.”
Mr. Bondi has two decades of experience representing and counseling companies, financial institutions, boards of directors, audit committees, and senior executives in a broad range of investigations and complex business litigation, with an emphasis on securities and financial regulations and corporate governance matters. He previously held senior positions in government, including at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Mr. Bondi leads the representation of significant legal matters including major litigation in trial and appellate courts and in arbitrations (securities litigation, derivative litigation, and complex business litigation), SEC, FINRA, and PCAOB enforcement matters, criminal inquiries (including FCPA, DOJ, and USAO matters), and various investigations (including independent investigations overseen by audit committees and special committees).
Mr. Bondi regularly serves as a senior advisor to boards of directors, audit committees, special committees, independent directors, and senior executives during corporate crises, significant transactions, and governance challenges. He has guided boards and board committees through the most extraordinary corporate events, including independent investigations, defense of derivative lawsuits against directors and officers, class actions, accounting irregularities and Restatements, auditor disputes, hostile takeover attempts and activist shareholders, mergers and acquisitions disputes, cyber intrusions and data breaches, and investigations of alleged misconduct by executives.
Mr. Bondi advises clients in connection with regulatory enforcement actions, private lawsuits, and governmental and congressional investigations arising from suspected violations of securities laws, accounting irregularities, auditor disputes, internal controls, market manipulation, revenue recognition issues, tax-related matters, insider trading, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other commercial bribery law compliance, matters involving LIBOR and other reference rates, compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank Acts, potential antitrust concerns, and cybersecurity. He also oversees complex civil and criminal litigation, such as securities litigation, corporate control litigation, commercial litigation, contractual disputes, arbitrations, and criminal proceedings. Mr. Bondi has litigated significant legal disputes in various state and federal courts, including serving as counsel of record for successful briefs before the Supreme Court of the United States: for an investment bank in Credit Suisse First Boston Ltd. v. Billing (interpreting securities laws as implicitly precluding the application of antitrust laws in the IPO process) and for an amicus curiae in Yates v. United States (construing Sarbanes-Oxley’s criminal provision for document destruction, 18 U.S.C. § 1519). He also served as counsel of record for an amicus curiae brief before the Supreme Court of the United States in Salman v. United States (concerning the personal benefit element of insider trading law) and Liu v. SEC (concerning the SEC’s authority to seek disgorgement), and he has advised on other cases before the Court.
Mr. Bondi regularly advises financial institutions, including banking institutions, broker-dealers, investment advisers, mutual funds, and hedge funds, and their respective boards on issues relating to compliance with securities laws, criminal laws, SEC and FINRA rules, and governance requirements.
Mr. Bondi defends clients in enforcement actions, prosecutions, and investigations initiated by federal and state agencies and departments, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Department of Justice (DOJ), United States Attorneys and grand juries, State Attorneys General, Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC), Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Federal Reserve, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). On occasion, he has served as an expert witness regarding issues relating to securities law and insider trading law.
Brian Maher
Brian Maher is a partner in the Asset-Backed Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the London office. He has experience in the acquisition, sale and securitization of a wide range of asset types, including equipment loans and leases, mortgage loans, rental car fleets, credit card receivables, point of sale receivables, trade receivables, student loans, unsecured consumer loans, SME loans, performing and non-performing loan portfolio acquisitions and financings, restructurings, refinancings, forward flows, warehouse facilities, CLOs, asset-based lending, and secured loan transactions. His clients have included Apollo, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Haydock Finance, Redding Ridge, and TPG Angelo Gordon.
Cameron Saylor
Cameron Saylor is a partner in the Structured Credit practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. Mr. Saylor specializes in structured finance, securitization, asset backed lending and credit funds, with a focus on CLOs. Mr. Saylor advises the leading arrangers and managers on European CLO transactions, having recently advised clients such as Credit Suisse, Blackrock, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Pinebridge, Societe Generale, Oak Hill Advisors, Och Ziff, ICG, Alcentra, Bank of America, PGIM, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Citi, Barclays, Natixis, BNPP, Nomura, and Rothschild. Mr. Saylor is an expert regarding European and U.S. risk retention, having advised on complex and novel compliance issues relevant to both U.S. and European CLO and other securitization transactions. He has spoken at various industry conferences and is regularly quoted in the industry press on matters concerning risk retention, Brexit, and other regulatory matters. Prior to joining Paul Hastings, Mr. Saylor spent close to 10 years in the structured finance practice at other leading U.K. firms. He trained and worked as a lawyer in Canada prior to moving to London.
Christian Parker
Christian Parker is a Structured Credit partner in the London office of Paul Hastings who specializes in structured bond and fund products and generally acting for credit fund managers. His experience encompasses a broad range of credit fund and structured capital markets transactions with particular expertise in structures that meet the requirements of newly evolving EU and U.S. regulatory developments. His expertise has most recently been recognized with two IFLR awards as lead counsel in the last four years.
Crispin Daly
Crispin Daly is an associate in the London office of Paul Hastings.
David Broderick
David Broderick’s practice focuses on complex real estate transactions, including debt and equity transactions, and all types of restructurings, workouts and dispute resolutions. David concentrates on mortgage and mezzanine financing, construction lending, debt syndication, preferred equity, bridge financing and other structured financings. He also focuses on asset management, mortgage loan foreclosures, UCC public actions, intercreditor/co-lender disputes, real estate-related litigation, partnership disputes and bankruptcies.
David also works on loan securitization transactions, real estate fund formations, financing facilities and private equity asset level transactions, sale/leaseback transactions and related financing.
David Prowse
David Prowse is a partner in the corporate & practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He has a broad corporate & practice involving a wide range of corporate transactions including public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity transactions, as well as general corporate and commercial advisory matters.
David Ereira
David Ereira is a partner in the Restructuring and Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. Mr. Ereira’s principal areas of practice are Restructuring and Insolvency, Private Equity and Acquisition Finance, and Real Estate Finance. Mr. Ereira was chairman of The Insolvency Service and was awarded an OBE for services to insolvency. Prior to joining Paul Hastings, Mr. Ereira was a partner at Magic Circle firms.
David Patrick Elder
David Elder focuses on mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, corporate governance and general corporate securities matters. He represents major corporate clients across a broad array of sectors, as well as issuers, underwriters and investment banking firms in public and private offerings. Along with various other mergers, acquisitions and capital markets transactions, David has represented a major international oil and gas company in a $2.5 billion tender offer and merger proposal, and counseled a major energy company in its negotiation of the largest naming rights transaction of its kind. David has been a member of the firm’s management committee, audit and finance committee, and partnership admissions committee.
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Diala Minott
Diala Minott is a Structured Credit partner in the London office of Paul Hastings. Mrs. Minott specializes in structured finance transactions, including acting on numerous CLOs and CDOs—both pre- and post-crisis, as well as acting on bespoke hybrid mid-market CLO type funds. Her practice also encompasses debt and credit funds with a particular focus on direct lending, CLO equity and risk retention funds. She covers regulated and unregulated funds, both onshore and offshore, with a particular expertise in Luxembourg funds.
Duncan Woollard
Duncan Woollard is a partner in the Private Funds practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He advises on a wide range of fund related work including in private equity, private debt, real estate, mezzanine, venture, credit, natural resources, infrastructure, funds of funds, distressed and special situations, and activist funds, as well as advising on the structuring of carried interest, co-investment and other incentive schemes, secondary transactions, fund restructurings and spin-outs, and the establishment of new investment management businesses. His clients include Investindustrial, NorthEdge Capital, Pamplona Capital, LaSalle Investment Management, MML Capital Partners, Xenon Private Equity, Innova Capital, Hutton Collins, Omni Capital, Barings Capital, AMC Group, MVM and Innotech Investments.
Edward Meadowcroft
Edward Meadowcroft is a partner in the Real Estate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's London office. His practice consists of advising on the full spectrum of documentation across the real estate sector, including advising on acquisitions and disposals, restructurings, joint ventures and management agreements. Mr. Meadowcroft has experience in advising both UK and international clients operating across a variety of jurisdictions and regularly works on significant cross border mandates.
Edward Holmes
Edward Holmes is a partner in the leveraged finance practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's London office. His practice focuses on leveraged loan and capital markets transactions, with an emphasis on representing underwriters and arrangers in high-yield debt offerings, acquisition financing syndicated lending, restructurings and liability management. Mr. Holmes is able to draw from a wide array of experience on a variety of capital structures and instruments, both debt and equity, representing issuer and underwriter clients, as well as private credit investors. Mr. Holmes was named a Next Generation Lawyer by Legal 500 UK for high yield. He is a member of the bar of the State of New York.
Fred Kelly
Fred Kelly is an associate in the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's London office.
He advises both companies and individuals in relation to investigations by UK and international law enforcement agencies and regulators.
Fred has advised on a number of significant government, regulatory and internal investigations, particularly in relation to matters involving bribery and corruption, fraud, money laundering and cartel offences.
Frederik Mühl
Frederik Mühl is a private equity and infrastructure M&A partner in the Corporate Department of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Frankfurt office. He specializes in representing private equity and infrastructure investors on national and cross-border corporate transactions.
In addition to his buy-out and infrastructure practice, Mr. Mühl has considerable experience with growth transactions and has advised on a number of distressed M&A transactions.
Garreth Wong
Garreth Wong is a Litigation Partner and Global Co-Chair of International Arbitration at Paul Hastings, based in the firm’s London office.
With over 20 years of practice, Mr. Wong is an English barrister, lead counsel and trusted advisor to corporates and asset managers in high-stakes, board-level disputes. Renowned for his strategic leadership, commercial astuteness and formidable advocacy, Mr. Wong has successfully deployed creative strategies to resolve intractable, complex, high-value disputes – often involving billions of dollars – spanning concurrent arbitrations, multi-jurisdictional litigation, investigations or other legal proceedings. His is particularly in demand in business-critical and strategically significant matters.
Mr. Wong’s extensive experience spans cross-border and international disputes across the Americas, Africa, Europe, Russia, Central and South Asia, China and Asia, under a wide range of civil, common, and public international laws. His broad practice covers diverse sectors including investments and business combinations (M&As, JVs and shareholder agreements), energy, mining and natural resources, projects and construction, telecommunications, technology, financial services, aviation, and life sciences.
Mr. Wong has appeared as an advocate before both international tribunals and the English courts. In addition to his work as counsel, he regularly acts as arbitrator. Mr. Wong has provided pro bono advocacy training for prosecutors at the International Criminal Court.
Helena Potts
Helena Potts is a partner in the Financial Restructuring group at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office.
Ms. Potts has represented the full spectrum of stakeholders in formal and informal restructurings and refinancings, with a particular emphasis on high-value complex cross-border matters across the full range of stressed and distressed situations, from insolvent liquidations to consensual restructurings and new money opportunities, with broad experience across all types of capital structures.
James Baillie
James Baillie is a partner in the Structured Credit practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. Mr. Baillie's practice focuses on structured finance, securitization, asset-backed and fund leverage lending with a particular focus on CLOs. Mr. Baillie advises originators, investment managers, lenders and arrangers, having recently advised clients such as Alcentra, Bank of America, Barclays, Canyon, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, i80 Group, ICG, JP Morgan, Mizuho, Morgan Stanley, Oakhill, Och Ziff and PGIM.
Jamie Holdoway
Jamie Holdoway is a partner in the London office of Paul Hastings.
Mr. Holdoway acts for a broad range of financial sponsors and has experience across transactions comprising the full range of downstream activity, including leading complex leveraged buyouts, consortia bids, sponsor joint ventures and minority investments and management incentivisation, across a variety of sectors, including technology, digital infrastructure, retail and business services. His clients include Abry Partners, Oakley Capital, Francisco Partners, Marlin Equity Partners, Link Mobility and Wipro Limited.
Jason Brooks
Jason Brooks is a partner in the Structured Credit practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He advises leading investment and retail banks as well as other financial institutions and corporates on a wide range of derivatives and structured products.
Mr. Brooks specializes in derivative-linked and asset-backed securities and advises on both wholesale and retail structured product offerings linked to a wide range of asset classes including credit, equities, funds, commodities, indices, and rates.
Mr. Brooks also advises on repos, securities lending, collateral structures, and netting. He is currently advising clients on the impact of EMIR and other regulations relating to derivatives and structured products.
Jason Raeburn
Jason Raeburn is a Partner in the London office of Paul Hastings and heads up our London intellectual property and technology litigation practice.
Jason's practice has a particular focus on complex technology disputes, often relating to trade secrets, patents and copyright in the fields of software development and licensing, cloud, life sciences, and AI-related implementations. His practice also encompasses IP crossover issues involving breach of contract, contractual interpretation, IT infrastructure, the misuse of data, and reputational threats.
Jessamy Gallagher
Jessamy Gallagher is the Global Co-Chair of the Paul Hastings Corporate Department and is a partner in the Energy and Infrastructure practice, based in the London office.
Ms. Gallagher focuses her practice on international public and private M&A in the infrastructure, energy, and real assets markets. She also has extensive experience counseling on business-critical corporate governance matters.
Jiten Tank
Jiten Tank is a Partner in the Tax practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He has a broad range of experience which includes providing tax advice in connection with the structuring of financial products and working on transactional matters. His areas of focus include lending, real estate finance, structuring joint venture companies, and sales and acquisitions. His practice is truly international and a significant majority of his work has a cross-border element. He also has experience in indirect (VAT, stamp duty, SDRT) planning, particularly in the context of financial and real estate transactions.
Joanna Dimmock
Joanna Dimmock is a partner in the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. Ms. Dimmock has broad experience representing individuals and corporates. She has particular expertise in international corruption, criminal cartels, economic sanctions, extradition, mutual legal assistance, private prosecutions and FCA investigations, and many of these cases have an international component. Ms Dimmock frequently acts in high-profile and sensitive cases against the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the National Crime Agency, HM Revenue & Customs, the Financial Conduct Authority, the police, and other agencies, both in the UK and overseas.
Jonathan Pickworth
Jonathan Pickworth is Head of the London Investigations and White Collar Defense practice. He has more than three decades of experience representing corporates and individuals in investigations by U.K. and international agencies. He also advises firms on internal investigations, due diligence, compliance, and risk in relation to criminal and regulatory matters. Mr. Pickworth’s practice focuses on allegations relating to money laundering, corruption, market misconduct, fraud, tax evasion, and insider trading. He frequently interacts with the Serious Fraud Office, the National Crime Agency, HM Revenue & Customs, the Financial Conduct Authority, the police, and other agencies.
Karan Chopra
Karan Chopra is a partner in the Global Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He advises clients on a range of cross-border leveraged, investment grade and fund finance transactions at all levels of the capital structure including senior, super senior, second lien and PIK and across syndicated and private credit financings.
Keith Schomig
Keith Schomig is a partner in the National Security Regulation and Investigations and Global Trade Controls practices of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He focuses his practice in the areas of national security reviews before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), as well as foreign ownership, control, or influence (FOCI) mitigation matters before the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy.
Ken Deutsch
Ken Deutsch is Global Co-Chair of the Entertainment and Media practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Century City office. He represents a broad array of operating entities in the entertainment and media industries, including film and television studios, streaming platforms, and independent media companies, advising on their most significant corporate transactions as well as on a variety of film, television, and other commercial ventures.
Mr. Deutsch also routinely represents financial institutions, investment funds, high-net-worth individuals, and other media and content financiers in evaluating and executing on investment and acquisition opportunities in the entertainment space. He has particular experience in structuring complex equity and debt financings, content funds, and strategic joint venture arrangements.
Mr. Deutsch, who has been referred to as a “Hollywood Heavyweight” by The American Lawyer, is recognized as one of the few Band 1 leading lawyers for Media & Entertainment: Transactional in California by Chambers USA, where clients note that he is “deeply knowledgeable” with a “fantastic ability to handle complex transactions.” He is also recognized as a “Leading Lawyer” for Media and Entertainment: Transactional by The Legal 500 US and is routinely recognized by a number of industry publications, including Variety’s “Hollywood’s New Leaders,” “Dealmaker Impact Report,” and “Legal Impact Report,” and The Hollywood Report’s “Power Lawyers.”
Kirsty Devine
Kirsty Devine is an associate in the Employment practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's London office. Ms. Devine provides U.K. and international clients with commercially focused, practical advice on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters, including employment contracts and policies, hiring/firing, restrictive covenants, and the employment aspects of corporate restructurings. Ms. Devine regularly supports clients with complex international employment issues and is focused on helping clients achieve their desired outcome while mitigating any associated legal, financial or reputational risk.
Konstantin Burkov
Konstantin Burkovis an associate in the London office of Paul Hastings. Mr. Burkov advises clients on a broad range of financial services regulatory and compliance matters.
Prior to joining Paul Hastings, Mr. Burkov spent seven years at another international firm, during which time he was seconded to the London legal teams of two major U.S. financial institutions.
Kristopher Hansen
Kris Hansen is Co-Chair of the Financial Restructuring group at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Hansen is a dealmaker and a consummate tactician renowned for his strong judgment, financial IQ and expansive market knowledge.
Matthew Peters
Matthew Peters is an associate in the Real Estate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's London office. His practice focuses on corporate real estate including corporate and investment property acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings and reorganisations. Mr. Peters has experience of advising both U.K. and international clients operating across a variety of jurisdictions and regularly works on significant cross border transactions.
Matthew Poxon
Matthew Poxon is a partner in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's London office. Matthew has a broad corporate practice, which covers all aspects of our corporate practice, including international transactions (including private acquisitions and disposals, public takeovers and joint ventures), equity capital markets and general advisory matters.
Max Kirchner
Dr. Max Kirchner is a partner in the Securities and Capital Markets practice. His practice focuses on the representation of investment banks, private equity sponsors, multinational companies, and investment funds in capital markets, direct lending and leveraged finance transactions. He regularly works on complex high-yield bond offerings, IPOs, restructurings, and acquisition financings by companies around the world across a broad array of industries. Given the depth and breadth of his experience, Dr. Kirchner is consistently recognized in both Chambers and The Legal 500.
Maximilian Kirchner
Dr. Max Kirchner is a partner in the Securities and Capital Markets practice. His practice focuses on the representation of companies, investment banks and private equity sponsors in capital markets and leveraged finance transactions. He regularly works on complex IPOs, high-yield bond offerings and acquisition financings by companies around the world across a broad array of industries.
Mei Lian
Mei Lian is a partner in the Financial Restructuring practice, based in London. She has a broad and extensive practice with years of experience across a wide spectrum of high-end finance transactions, which often involve cross-border features.
Ms. Lian focuses her practice on representing institutional investors, as well as corporate borrowers, issuers, private equity funds and sponsors on a wide range of finance transactions. She has particular expertise navigating complex stressed and distressed situations, advising across the entire capital structure, and utilizing various finance instruments. Ms. Lian also represents hedge funds and alternative credit providers in connection with bespoke financing transactions and distressed and restructuring investment opportunities.
Michael Ward
Michael Ward is a partner in the Tax practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the London office. Michael advises on the tax aspects of a broad range of international and domestic matters, including leveraged finance, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, energy and infrastructure projects, restructurings, investment funds, derivatives, and real estate transactions.
Michael James
Michael James is a partner in the Real Estate department of the Paul Hastings London office. Mr. James’ practice focuses on corporate real estate transactions. He has experience in several areas including structured acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, real estate finance, fund investments, and hotel acquisitions and operations. Mr. James has developed a leading reputation in the corporate real estate space and is the “go-to” adviser for a number of major European clients.Mr. James has significant experience based on cross-border structures and transactions involving jurisdictions such as Luxembourg, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Jersey.
Michael Smith
Michael Smith is a Structured Credit partner in the London office of Paul Hastings. Mr. Smith’s practices focuses on structured finance, securitization, capital markets and derivatives.
Miles Flynn
Miles Flynn is a partner in the Real Estate Department in the London office of Paul Hastings. He has a broad range of experience covering banking, debt capital markets, and debt restructuring transactions and his practice focuses on the financing, restructuring, and securitization of real estate and real estate debt.
Mohamed Nurmohamed
Mo Nurmohamed is a co-chair of the Global Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He has experience across a broad range of issues in banking law, with particular emphasis on matters relating to leverage finance and private equity finance transactions.
Mr. Nurmohamed has particular experience in relation to cross-border acquisition and leveraged finance transactions. He was selected by Financial News as one of its 2014 40 Under 40 list of rising stars in the European legal profession. He has also been seconded to both J.P. Morgan’s credit team and Deutsche Bank’s leveraged finance team.
Mr Bill Choe
Bill Choe is a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Palo Alto office. He is a leading corporate and securities lawyer with deep expertise in domestic and cross-border technology M&A (including stock and asset sales and purchases, mergers, tender offers, spin-ins, and divisional sales), having led dozens of significant buy-side and sell-side representations of public and private tech companies in deals ranging in value from a few million dollars to billions of dollars.Mr. Choe also specializes in advising high-technology companies at early-through-exit stages of their growth cycle, as well as venture capital and private equity funds that focus on investing in such companies. He advises issuers and investment funds with respect to equity and debt financings, and provides day-to-day counsel to the senior management and boards of directors of issuers concerning fiduciary obligations, corporate governance, options and restricted stock, employment-related matters, intellectual property protection, commercial agreements and disputes, pre-exit strategies and planning, and other business issues.Mr. Choe previously served as co-head of the global technology industry group and global head of tech M&A at another international law firm. He also has served as vice president of legal at a publicly-traded information and analytics company, where he led the department’s M&A, securities, and corporate governance matters.
Nina Moffatt
Nina Moffatt is an associate in the London office of Paul Hastings. Ms. Moffatt focuses her practice on providing legal and commercial advice on regulatory requirements across Europe.
Ms. Moffatt’s practice focuses on helping regulated firms comply with evolving regulatory obligations. She has particular expertise in large cross border offerings and product design. She also regularly assists clients with their relations with the U.K. regulators, including applications for authorization and supervisory issues.
Ms. Moffatt has spent time on secondment at a U.K. retail and investment bank and a multinational financial services company.
Oliver Browne
Oliver Browne is a partner in the Complex Litigation and Arbitration Practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. A Solicitor Advocate, he helps clients resolve complex cross-border disputes both in court and through arbitration.
With over twenty years of experience, Mr. Browne offers strategic counsel on clients’ most intricate commercial disputes, often tackling novel legal challenges. Renowned for his pragmatic approach, he crafts effective strategies aimed at resolving critical cases swiftly and efficiently.
Specializing in oral and written advocacy, Mr. Browne offers tailored advice to corporations spanning diverse sectors and high-net-worth individuals alike. His extensive experience encompasses navigating complex commercial litigation globally and handling arbitration-related matters across all tiers of the English court system. He is well-versed in international arbitration, having participated in proceedings under the auspices of leading arbitral institutions and on an ad hoc basis.
Patrick Bright
Patrick Bright is a partner in the Global Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He regularly acts for investment banks, sponsors, corporates and bond investors, focusing on high-yield offerings and leveraged and acquisition finance. He also has significant experience advising on a wide variety of other financing and capital markets transactions, bond restructurings and U.S. securities law matters.
Paul Patrow
Paul is a tax partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on the tax aspects of forming and investing in private equity funds, hedge funds and joint ventures and the tax aspects of private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions.
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Paul Severs
Paul Severs is a partner in the Finance and Securities and Capital Markets practices at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. Mr. Severs has been involved in the European securities market since the early 1990’s. He has more than 25 years’ experience in the structured finance and securitisation markets. Most recently, Mr. Severs has been involved in advising funds establishing, acquiring and growing non-bank loan origination businesses and servicing platforms and acquiring associated loan portfolios. He advises on acquisition finance, growth capital, regulatory capital and compliance requirements. He also advises on asset acquisition and financing structures, warehouse financing and the securitisation and trading of loan assets. Mr. Severs has significant experience advising clients on JV and co‑investment structures and establishing new debt origination funds. He works closely with the Paul Hastings funds group. He has also been actively involved in advising clients purchasing assets, loans and companies from securitisation structures, related tender offers and exchange offers, voting rights in different parts of the capital structure and downgrade related issues. He advises noteholder steering committees and sponsors in the context of restructuring loans and capital markets financing transactions. Mr. Severs has experience in all the main financial asset classes including residential and commercial mortgages, consumer loans, and revolving credits. He has also advised extensively on whole business securitisations including infrastructure and utilities, leisure facilities, and nursing homes. Mr. Severs advises funds, arrangers, originators, trustees, rating agencies, swap counter parties, and entrepreneurs. Geographically, he has worked on transactions throughout Europe, Asia, and Japan. Prior to joining Paul Hastings, Mr. Severs was the head of Structured Debt and Capital Markets at another international law firm.
Peter Hayes
Peter Hayes is a Finance partner, based in the Firm’s London office. Peter focuses his practice on bank finance, particularly cross-border acquisition and leveraged finance, including related restructuring work. He represents private equity sponsors, hedge funds, commercial banks, investment banks, direct lenders, and corporate borrowers across the capital structure.
Rebecca Copcutt
Rebecca Copcutt is a partner in the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's London office. Ms. Copcutt focuses on criminal enforcement actions and investigations with a particular interest in cross-border cases involving alleged market misconduct, criminal cartel behavior, money laundering, bribery and corruption.
Ms. Copcutt has particular insight into financial crime investigations and enforcement activity brought by the UK authorities, including the Serious Fraud Office and the Financial Conduct Authority. She has experience advising clients on criminal and regulatory enforcement action with a cross-Atlantic dimension, including cases led by the U.S. Department of Justice, the CFTC, the SEC and the OCC.
Ms. Copcutt’s practice has included working on matters managed in New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston. She has also spent time on client secondment at a leading investment bank.
Reena Gogna
Reena Gogna is a partner in the Global Finance practice and is based in the firm’s London office. She represents a wide range of financial institutions in connection with general banking and finance matters, including leveraged finance, senior debt and high yield financings, debt restructurings, and refinancings.
Rehan Hanif
Rehan Hanif is a Partner in the London office of Paul Hastings. His practice focuses on real estate finance.
Rehan has a broad range of banking and finance experience, with a focus on European cross-border real estate finance transactions. He acts for lenders, arrangers, private equity sponsors, and other real estate investors advising them on financing and restructuring of senior and mezzanine real estate debt.
Roger Barron
Roger Barron is a partner in the London office of Paul Hastings. Mr. Barron is a specialist in corporate law, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, demergers and reorganisations, and corporate finance. He has a wide range of sector expertise, including energy, utilities, media, and telecoms. Mr. Barron is also a key boardroom adviser to a number of the firm’s FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 clients, offering strategic guidance and counsel on corporate governance.
Ronan O'Sullivan
Ronan O’Sullivan is one of the Managing Partners of Paul Hastings. Prior to becoming Managing Partner of the Firm, he was Chair of the London Office and Vice Chair of the global Corporate Department. Mr. O'Sullivan focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance and has considerable experience in private and public takeover work, joint ventures and domestic and cross-border restructurings.
Ross Anderson
Ross Anderson is a partner in the Global Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He has experience across a broad range of issues in banking law, with particular emphasis on matters relating to leveraged finance, private equity finance, and cross-border acquisition financing transactions.
Stephen Nicolas
Stephen Nicolas is a partner in the corporate Real Estate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's London office. His practice focuses on corporate real estate, including acquisitions, disposals (direct and indirect), joint ventures, and management agreements (both hotel and general asset). Mr. Nicolas has experience advising both UK-based and international clients operating across a wide variety of jurisdictions (including USA).
Stuart Rowson
Stuart Rowson is a partner in the Energy and Infrastructure practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the London office.
Mr. Rowson has more than 25 years of experience. His practice focuses on a wide range of financings to facilitate the acquisition of energy and infrastructure assets together with multi-sourced debt platforms and portfolio financings.
Stuart Alford KC
Stuart Alford KC is a partner in the London office of Paul Hastings. Mr. Alford is a specialist in financial crime, specifically bribery, corruption, money laundering, fraud and dishonesty. He has an exceptional background advising on global investigations, criminal prosecutions and civil claims (in particular those involving UK and U.S. agencies), as well as advice and representation on issues of legal privilege, directors’ duties, shareholder disputes and judicial review.
Previously, Mr. Alford was Head of Banking Fraud and a member of the Management Board of the UK Serious Fraud Office. His career started with 20 years at the Bar in London, including time as a United Nations prosecutor, Legal Adviser to the Iraq High Tribunal (Saddam Hussein) and as a Special Advocate of the UK Attorney General.
For almost a third of his career Mr. Alford has been King’s Counsel, providing senior, team-leading guidance and advocacy. He is trusted by general counsel and company boards for his calm, authoritative advice.
Susan Leader
Susan Kay Leader is a partner in the Complex Litigation and Arbitration practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Century City office. Ms. Leader litigates and tries cases in high-stakes commercial matters and class actions in federal and state courts. She has chaired more than a dozen trials, arbitrations, and international arbitrations and has represented clients in a variety of industries, including entertainment and media, hospitality, funds, and renewable energy sectors. Ms. Leader’s broad base of experience includes handling a wide variety of commercial litigation matters, employment disputes, products liability disputes, franchise law violations, False Claims Act, and RICO and Sherman Act violations.
Ms. Leader is a sought-after instructor in trial advocacy, frequently lecturing in southern California and overseas.
Suzanne Horne
Suzanne Horne is a partner and head of the International Employment practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. She has a broad-ranging practice covering all aspects of employment law and employment-related matters advising both U.K. and international clients. Ms. Horne provides practical and commercially driven advice on both contentious and non-contentious matters with a focus on business transfers, outsourcings, insolvencies, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, investments, and the application of TUPE (U.K. business transfer legislation). On the international front, Ms. Horne also has extensive experience in cross-border, pan-European, and multinational projects including business reorganization, integrations, redundancies, hiring and firing. She has a special interest in advising employers on employee related data protection and privacy matters and high-level litigation.
Timothy Earle
Tim Earle is an associate in the Structured Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He specializes in structured finance and securitization, with a focus on RMBS, consumer loans, large loan portfolio acquisitions and disposals and CLOs. Mr. Earle advises the leading sponsors, issuers, servicers, arrangers and lenders in the market.
Prior to joining Paul Hastings, Mr. Earle worked in the securitization practice at another leading international firm in London. He trained and worked as a lawyer in New Zealand prior to moving to London.
Tom Cartwright
Tom Cartwright is a partner in the Private Equity practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office.
Mr. Cartwright counsels UK and international private equity sponsors, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices on private equity investments and M&A transactions. On an ongoing basis, he represents a number of private equity-backed companies and other corporations both in the UK and internationally on commercial transactions.
Mr. Cartwright often speaks about the current issues in the private equity industry. He also writes about these topics for the UK and international trade press.
Victoria Morton
Victoria Morton is a partner in the London office of Paul Hastings. Ms. Morton advises clients such as sponsors, issuers, servicers and rating agencies on a range of finance transactions, including RMBS and large loan portfolio acquisitions.
Prior to joining Paul Hastings, Ms. Morton worked at another international firm, during which time she spent six months seconded in Singapore.
William Needham
William Needham is Co-Chair of the European Financial Restructuring group at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He acts for companies, sponsors and investors on domestic and cross-border financial restructurings, distressed debt, complex capital solutions, bespoke financings and alternative investments across Europe. He also advises on related M&A and buy outs, acquisition finance, fund investments and disputes.
Yar Chaikovsky
Yar R. Chaikovsky is Global Co-chair of the Intellectual Property practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Palo Alto office. He oversees the firm’s 100-plus lawyer IP practice. He serves as lead trial counsel for some of the most preeminent global technology companies in their most important matters. Throughout his career, Mr. Chaikovsky has won jury trials and ITC hearings in addition to obtaining summary judgments and summary determinations. This success has led him to be accepted as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and to be praised by numerous leading publications as one of the nation’s top patent trial lawyers. Mr. Chaikovsky was Yahoo!’s first head patent counsel. Before practicing law, he was an engineer in the missile systems defense department of Hughes Aircraft Company.