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Antony Single is a structured finance lawyer focusing on aspects of transportation transactions. His practice includes asset finance, leasing, funds, corporate lending, Islamic finance and restructuring. Antony advises financial institutions, lessors and airlines in the transportation and defense sectors on their asset based and receivables-backed finance and leasing transactions, utilizing leveraged debt, funds platforms, capital markets and tax-enhanced structures. Antony also has extensive experience in Shari'a compliant transactions. Antony has spent time working in Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices at his previous firm.

Audrey Koh

Audrey Koh leads the Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense practice of the London office and has a broad range of experience across energy and natural resources, financial services, and life sciences and pharmaceuticals sectors, advising corporations, senior executives and high-net-worth individuals. Audrey specializes in cross-border investigations focused on anti-bribery laws, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and UK Bribery Act, sanctions, money laundering and financial fraud that involves multi-jurisdictional regulators and enforcement authorities and parallel civil fraud litigation and asset tracing. Audrey also advises on anti-bribery, anti-corruption (ABC), anti-money laundering, anti-facilitation of tax evasion, sanctions and ESG compliance, due diligence and related training. Additionally, she has experience in both conducting (on behalf of enforcement authorities) and responding to dawn raids, and representing clients in antitrust investigations.

Charles Golsong

Charles Golsong is a dispute resolution counsel based in Pillsbury’s London office, focusing on international arbitration. Charles has a wide range of experience in all aspects of international arbitration, across a broad range of industry sectors (including energy, construction, infrastructure and petrochemicals). Charles has advised clients in numerous jurisdictions under the rules of major institutions including the LCIA, ICC, DIAC, SCC and UNCITRAL Rules. He also has experience in investor-state disputes, litigation (principally arbitration related) and regulatory investigations.

Chris Knight

Chris Knight’s asset finance practice focuses on acting for lessors, banks, funds, export credit agencies and airlines on a wide range of high-value, cross-border aircraft and engine finance transactions. Chris’ extensive transactional experience spans sale and leasebacks, finance and operating leases, novations, JOLCOs, Balthazar / ECA backed finance and lease structures, PDP, warehouse, and bridge financings (amongst others), OEM purchase agreements and engine maintenance and support agreements.

Deborah Ruff

Deborah Ruff is Pillsbury’s International Arbitration Practice Group Leader. She has extensive experience in multi-jurisdiction disputes, with a focus on high-value and complex international arbitration in the energy, infrastructure and construction, telecommunications and financial sectors. Deborah conducts international arbitration disputes often over JOAs, the construction of and off-take from refineries and petrochemical plants, as well as rig, energy trading and transport, and coal and nuclear power plant disputes. She also regularly represents clients in other infrastructure, shareholder and financial disputes. Deborah conducts arbitrations under the rules of all of the major institutions and rules including the LCIA, the ICC, DIAC, the Swiss, Stockholm, Hong Kong and UNCITRAL Rules. She has also represented both investors and states in BIT and ICSID cases.

Gavin Watson

Pillsbury partner Gavin Watson advises clients on complex corporate and commercial transactions, specializing in the energy and sustainable finance sector, as well as the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects worldwide. Gavin’s practice is now more closely focused on various aspects of the energy transition and the emerging circular economy, including advising one of the first floating offshore wind developers on its plans to decarbonize oil & gas operations and large onshore industrial processes, advising a leading fusion energy company on the development of a commercial scale demonstrator in the UK, and counseling several engineering and technology companies seeking to commercialise technologies and concepts that advance energy transition or enable growth of the circular economy.

Graham Tyler

Graham Tyler leads the firm's Asset Finance team globally. A recognised authority on aircraft finance and leasing, Graham regularly represents financial institutions, leasing companies, equity investors, airlines and arrangers in the procurement, financing and leasing of new and used aircraft and engines and aircraft portfolio acquisitions, financings and sales. Adept at crafting complex cross-border leasing and innovative financing structures, Graham negotiates commercial debt deals including warehouse facilities, export credit-supported arrangements, operating and finance leases, Islamic finance transactions, tax-based and capital market deals and where necessary the restructuring of those deals.

Greg Hammond

Greg Hammond represents parties in corporate finance and projects transactions—both in the UK and internationally—including M&A, private equity, equity capital markets and JVs. Greg frequently advises on matters relating to the energy and natural resources industries. He represents governments, public and private corporations, private equity firms, hedge funds, traders, banks and multilateral agencies, with a focus recently on Africa, Middle East, Latin America and Asia.

James Campbell

James Campbell leads the Corporate practice of the London office and acts for clients, ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies and governments, on a broad range of issues. James’s practice includes mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, joint ventures, IPOs, private equity, venture capital, fund formation, investment management, issues of compliance and corporate governance, investigations and asset recovery, and sports law.

Julia Kalinina Belcher

Julia Belcher is a dispute resolution special counsel based in Pillsbury’s London office, focusing on international arbitration. Julia has substantial experience in complex international disputes, having advised clients in various jurisdictions (in particular, CIS and MENA) and industries (including energy, construction, petrochemicals and financial services). Julia has advised clients under the best known arbitration rules (LCIA, ICC, SCC, DIAC, UNCITRAL) and conducts her own advocacy at arbitration hearings. She also has experience in investor-state disputes and in international litigation, primarily arbitration related (interim relief, enforcement).

Lee Rubin

Pillsbury Global Sourcing & Technology Transactions partner Lee Rubin has over 15 years of experience advising on a range of commercial transactions, primarily technology and complex outsourcing arrangements. Lee regularly advises on high-value sourcing deals, providing strategic and practical advice to guide clients through the structuring and negotiating of their critical technology-related contracts. Lee’s experience covers application development/maintenance outsourcing, systems integration, SaaS/cloud and software licensing transactions, and he works closely with clients in the financial services sector, including having spent time on secondment to a major international bank working on its regulated outsourcing arrangements. Lee also has extensive experience advising on M&A-related transition services arrangements.

Matthew Oresman

Matthew Oresman helps clients navigate complex international challenges, succeeding at the intersection of cross-border business, law, policy and politics. Matthew is managing partner of the London office, from where he leads the firm’s International Government Law & Strategies practice, carrying out high-profile activities in many of the world’s capital cities. He principally advises business executives, governments, political leaders and NGOs on achieving their most important objectives. He regularly designs and implements legal and policy solutions, including managing integrated U.S. and Europe-based initiatives. He advises global businesses on entry into emerging markets and compliance with U.S. and international regulations.

Osama Abu-Dehays

Pillsbury Corporate partner Osama Abu-Dehays is known throughout the Middle East and North Africa for his commercial, technology, media and telecommunications law experience. Based in London, Osama represents broadcasters, football leagues and telecom/technology providers. He crafts licensing deals, litigates intellectual property disputes, and advises on regulatory and corporate matters. Osama has drafted media and sports regulations, and has advised on numerous high-profile, politically sensitive civil and criminal cases. Before joining Pillsbury, he worked as chief legal officer at Al Jazeera network and other major media groups.

Rakhi Savjani

Rakhi Savjani has acted for clients across the aviation industry including several of the top ten operating lessors, major Middle Eastern airlines and various financial institutions. Rakhi has extensive experience working on a wide range of high-value, cross-border aircraft and engine trading, financing and leasing transactions utilising a variety of structures including finance and operating leases, secured debt, pre-delivery payment financings, export credit agency-supported deals and Islamic financings. Rakhi also regularly assists our clients with their aircraft and engine acquisitions and disposals and the related lease novations.

Scott Morton

Scott Morton advises clients on data privacy and commercial contracts issues, international trade and sanctions compliance, ASA complaints, comparative advertising issues and ad clearance, direct marketing, prize competitions and regulatory compliance. He advises organizations on data protection matters, including compliance, data processing agreements, data subjects' rights, international data transfers (including BCRs), internal and consumer-facing policy reviews and data protection impact assessments. Scott’s practice also focuses on international trade compliance, particularly export controls and UN, EU and UK sanctions.

Steven Farmer

Steven Farmer advises companies, from some of the world’s largest multinationals to startups, looking to launch or expand in the UK/EU, whilst navigating complex regulatory and legal issues. His client relationships encompass a range of sectors, including technology, financial services, energy, manufacturing, aviation and defence. Steven is a member of the firm’s Technology Transactions and Regulatory teams, with a focus on international trade, e-commerce and data privacy issues. He co-chairs the firm’s Global Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity team and leads the firm’s UK/EU AI Task Force.

Vincent Zabielski

Vincent Zabielski’s practice focuses on international nuclear energy matters, including providing strategic advice related to new-build EPC contracts, power purchase agreements, operation and maintenance, fuel supply chain, liability issues, international treaties, mergers and acquisition, dispute resolution and export controls. He has particular experience in crafting integrated solutions for new-build projects that leverage his legal, business and engineering experience.

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