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Michael Ilter is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, advising on private equity and M&A transactions as well as on corporate law, reorganizations and capital markets law. His practice focuses on representing international clients in complex national and cross-border mid and large cap private equity and M&A transactions. Further, he specializes in advising on growth investments, carve-out transactions, joint ventures, consortia and club deals. Michael has handled numerous private equity, growth and M&A deals including also public, infrastructure, real estate, venture capital and distressed transactions. He has particular experience in the sectors automotive, aviation, financial services, healthcare, industrials, medical technology, software and technology.

A. Kristina Littman

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Adam Turteltaub

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Agathe Richard

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Alessandro Turina

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Alexander Cheney

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Alexander Ryan

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Alexander Dye

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Allison Tam

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Amanda Amert

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Amir Jahanguiri

Amir H. Jahanguiri is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and Co-Chair of the firm’s Project Finance Practice Group. Amir primarily focuses on the development and financing of energy, telecoms and infrastructure projects, public infrastructure projects and complex multi-tranched corporate and hybrid bank and capital markets debt financings. Amir regularly advises host governments, regulators, sponsors, contractors, off-takers, export credit agencies and lenders on the development, financing and restructuring of projects in the public and social infrastructure sectors, including seaports, roads, tunnels, airports, railways, urban mobility, infra tech, telecoms and hospitals among others. He also advises on major projects in the water, power, gas, petrochemical, industrial and metals and mining sectors, mainly in Europe, North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle-East.

Andres Mena

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Andrew Gray

Andy Gray is a partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department and the Private Equity Practice Group in London. He represents major financial sponsors and corporations based across Europe and North America on various corporate transactions, focusing on leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, restructurings and capital raisings.

Andrew Tromans

Andrew Tromans is a partner in the London office and a member of the Corporate & Financial Services Department. He advises insurance and financial institution clients – including life and non-life insurance companies – Lloyd's vehicles, brokers and other intermediaries on a broad range of company law matters, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, outsourcings and start-ups. Andrew has conducted a number of significant insurance business transfers under Part VII of FSMA 2000. His practice also includes advising on policy wordings, FSA and EU regulatory matters (including the UK regulatory handbooks and the implementation of Solvency II), capital-raisings and the establishment of new insurance vehicles. He has particular experience in the life insurance market and has also advised on a number of significant transactions in relation to businesses at Lloyd's of London.

Anne Brynn

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Anne Choe

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Anne Kleffmann

Anne Kleffmann is a partner in the Litigation Department and Labor & Employment Practice. She advises companies, private equity firms and financial institutions doing business in Germany on all aspects of individual and collective labor law, as well as transactional labor law. Drawing on her broad experience in the field, Anne helps German and multinational clients navigate complex and business-critical employment law matters, advising on both standalone labor issues and the labor aspects of sophisticated transactions.

Anne-Laure Barel

Anne-Laure Barel is a senior associate in the Public Law department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. Anne-Laure has significant experience in the resolution of disputes arising from the performance of administrative agreements (mainly concession agreements and public-private partnerships). For instance, this past year, she has played a major role in a pre-litigation matter related to a urban motorway. Anne-Laure also has valuable experience in general public law. In this regard, she handles matters involving local governments or public / semi-public companies. Anne-Laure’s clients are both public (local governments or semipublicly owned companies) and private (public works companies and investment funds).

Annette Péron

Annette Péron is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on private equity, mergers & acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, and corporate finance. Annette regularly advises companies on cross-border joint ventures.

Antoine Bouzanquet

Antoine Bouzanquet is Partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. He focuses on the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects, in France and abroad. Antoine advises a broad spectrum of market players, including sponsors (industrial sponsors and investment funds) and lenders (commercial banks and institutional investors), on complex greenfield and brownfield energy/infrastructure-related private equity, M&A or project development and financing transactions. Over the past few years, Antoine has been involved as main legal advisor in numerous high-profile transactions in the telecom, transport and energy sectors and has earned a reputation of problem-solving and success-oriented lawyer, with a combination of robust technical skills and strong business acumen. Before joining Willkie in 2015, Antoine worked as an associate at Mayer Brown where he advised on LBO and real estate transactions. He also gained experience in capital markets in a leading French bank. Admitted to the Paris Bar, Antoine graduated from the University of Paris 2 – Assas and the University of Oxford in business law. He also graduated from ESCP Europe, where he received a degree in management and finance. A native French speaker, Antoine is fluent in English.

Archie Fallon

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Arthur Lynch

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Ashley Young

Ashley Young is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and Co-Chair of the European Finance Department. He has approximately 20 years of experience advising clients on complex cross-border financing transactions. His practice focuses on acting for sponsors and borrowers, including private equity funds and their portfolio companies as well as credit funds at all levels of the capital structure on UK and international acquisitions, leveraged financings, restructurings and special situations transactions. In recent years Ashley has also handled multiple performing and non-performing loan acquisitions and the financings of those transactions.

Audrey Nelson

Audrey Nelson is counsel in the Business Reorganization & Restructuring Department. Ms. Nelson has significant experience handling out-of-court and cross-border restructuring matters on behalf of debtors, creditors and shareholders, as well as for investment and hedge funds. She has also worked on a number of LBO debt restructurings and lender-led restructurings. Ms. Nelson has advised clients in various industries including media, oil and gas, cosmetics and chemicals in high-profile insolvency proceedings and distressed M&A transactions. Additionally, she handles litigation aspects in connection with distressed company and insolvency matters.

Axel Wahl

Dr. Axel Wahl is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on cross-border and national mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity/venture capital transactions. In this role Axel has represented financial investors as well as corporate clients. He further advises the management of companies in transaction situations as well as in general corporate matters.

Barbara Grayson

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Batiste Saint-Guily

Batiste Saint-Guily is a Partner in the Business Reorganization & Restructuring practice of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. Batiste is regularly involved in in- and out-of-court restructuring matters, insolvency proceedings and various distressed transactions on behalf of debtors, creditors and shareholders as well as for investment and hedge funds. Admitted to the Paris Bar, Batiste graduated from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and holds a master degree (LL. M) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ben Hur

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Bettina Bokeloh

Bettina Bokeloh is a Partner in the Tax Department, focusing on advice to private equity firms and strategic investors on national and international M&A transactions. She also has significant experience in advising multinational corporations on corporate tax matters, including cross-border tax planning and reorganizations.

Boris Bronfentrinker

Boris Bronfentrinker is a partner in Willkie’s Litigation and Antitrust & Competition practices in London. Boris is a solicitor advocate practicing in complex commercial litigation, with particular experience in competition litigation. He has represented clients, both as claimants and defendants, in leading and high profile cases in both the High Court of England & Wales and the Competition Appeal Tribunal, as well as coordinating competition litigation proceedings in other jurisdictions globally. Regularly acting for both claimants and defendants gives Boris a unique perspective and insight into the conduct of competition disputes from both sides. Boris is experienced in not only litigating cases to judgment but also resolving claims through alternative dispute resolution, such as mediation. Boris also has experience of representing clients in the defence of investigations by the European Commission and national competition authorities, including sector inquiries, as well as managing internal investigations into competition law and bribery/corruption issues.

Brett Miller

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Brice Pommiès

Brice Pommiès is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions and general corporate law matters. He has also acquired significant experience in corporate finance, with a specific focus on shipping financing. He was seconded to the New York office in 2009 and 2010.

Casey Donnelly

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Cédric Hajage

Cédric Hajage is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions. In the area of private equity, Cédric has regularly represented private equity firms in leveraged buy-outs (including through competitive auctions and public-to-private transactions), build-ups and sales.

Charles Cording

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Charles-Antoine Erignac

Charles-Antoine Erignac is a Special European Counsel in the Public Law department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. Charles-Antoine has renowned experience in administrative agreements such as public procurements, concessions and public-private partnerships, mainly in the infrastructure and energy sector (such as rail, renewable power and social infrastructures). Charles-Antoine has as well significant experience in economic public law. He has specific knowledge regarding foreign investments in France, State aid, privatisations and regulated sectors (particularly in the aeronautical sector). In this regard, he supports Willkie’s other departments whenever their matters include public law aspects or regulatory aspects (especially in M&A transactions or restructuring operations). He recently worked for various investment funds on their French operations.

Christophe Garaud

Christophe H. Garaud is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. Mr. Garaud specializes in private equity and mergers and acquisitions transactions across multiple industries. He is actively involved in representing private equity funds in their acquisitions, build-ups and dispositions of targets for both public and private companies both in France and internationally. Mr. Garaud has acted on some of the most significant transactions closed in France.

Christopher Giancarlo

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Christopher Peters

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Claire James

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Claire McDaid

Claire McDaid is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Private Equity Practice Group in London. She focuses on private equity and corporate M&A transactions, advising principally financial sponsors, family offices, corporates and strategic investors on a variety of cross-border investment transactions, including leveraged buyouts, complex carve-outs, club deals, growth equity, recapitalisations and liquidity transactions. Claire has particular experience in the distressed and turnaround sphere, advising a variety of stakeholders in such transactions across Europe.

Colin Fulton

Colin Fulton is a partner in the Asset Management Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP in London. Colin’s practice focuses on advising sponsors of private investment funds, co-investment vehicles and separately managed accounts, in connection with a broad range of matters, including fund formation and on-going operational matters, co-investments and secondary transactions. He also advises fund sponsors and managers in structuring their governance and compensation arrangements. Colin has experience representing investors seeking opportunities in private investment funds as passive investors, co-investors and anchor investors covering numerous sectors and strategies, including buyout, debt, real estate, infrastructure, venture capital, fund of funds and energy funds.

Conrad Bahlke

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Cornelia Thaler

Cornelia Thaler is a partner in the Real Estate Department and leads the real estate practice in the Frankfurt Office. She advises private and institutional investors, PE firms, Family Offices and developers on complex real estate transactions, including sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, NPLs infrastructure, asset management and litigation on all asset classes (including data centers, hotels, life science, logistics, office and living).

Craig Menden

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Craig Martin

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Cristina Caggiano

Cristopher Greer

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Daniel Gendron

Daniel Gendron is a partner in Willkie’s Corporate & Financial Services Department and Finance Practice in London. He has extensive experience in leveraged finance transactions, hybrid capital, special situations and financial restructurings, as well as high yield bond issuances. He acts for a variety of borrowers (focusing on financial sponsors and their portfolio companies) and lenders (focusing on private capital providers, in particular hybrid capital and credit opportunities funds). He has wide-ranging experience in both new money and stressed/distressed financings, enabling him to deliver comprehensive and commercial advice to his clients. Daniel has advised on significant matters including: Platinum Equity on: the financing of its acquisition of Sunrise Medical, a world leader in advanced assistive mobility solutions, from Nordic Capital the financing of its acquisition of Imerys’ High Temperature Solutions business, the financing aspects of its acquisition of HarbisonWalker International, and the group’s subsequent refinancing Insight Partners on the financing aspects of its sale of a majority stake in AMCS, a global leader in performance and sustainability software, to EQT Private Equity IK Partners on its acquisition of a minority stake in A-SAFE, a leading manufacturer and distributor of industrial polymer safety barrier systems Searchlight Capital Partners on its recommended final cash offer for the entire share capital of London-listed Gresham House plc, a specialist alternative asset manager Investcorp Technology Partners in the financing of its acquisition of software solutions firm NetRom

Daniel Hurstel

Daniel Hurstel is senior counsel in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. He serves as a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Mr. Hurstel has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions/capital markets, group restructurings, joint ventures, IPOs, corporate governance and the creation of a wide variety of financial instruments. Mr. Hurstel represents French and foreign companies in France. His clients include large French and international corporate and financial institutions and LBO funds.

David Heales

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David Kupka

David Kupka is Partner in the Antitrust & Competition Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Brussels. Focusing on European and French competition law, his main areas of practice encompass anticompetitive practices (cartels, vertical restrains and abuse of dominant position) and merger control issues. He practices in French and English.

David Luce

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David Griffiths

Corporate & Financial Services

David Arnold

David Arnold is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Private Equity Practice Group in London. His practice is focused on representing financial investors and corporate clients across Europe and the US on mergers and acquisitions, divestments, restructurings, capital raisings and general corporate law matters.

David Boston

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David Drewes

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David Jansen

David Jansen is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services and Asset Management Departments. He focuses his practice on advising clients on financial services regulatory and asset management matters as well as on M&A transactions in the financial sector. David provides counsel on banking and insurance regulatory matters, and also advises asset management companies on the structuring and launch of investment funds. He also advises institutional investors, family offices and high-net-worth individuals on their investment management matters. In addition, he regularly represents clients in proceedings before European and German regulatory authorities.

Deborah Tuchman

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Dennis Jenkins

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Dharshini Prasad

Dharshini Prasad is Partner in the firm's International Arbitration practice group. She is triple qualified to practice in Singapore, England and Wales, and New York and has extensive experience in the resolution of complex cross-border disputes in both civil and common law jurisdictions. Dharshini has advised States, State entities and corporations on commercial, investment and public international law issues and has represented clients in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations under multiple arbitral rules in the United States, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. She has particular experience with energy, mining, private equity and pharmaceutical disputes having represented clients in several billion-dollar arbitrations in these sectors. Dharshini also has an active practice as arbitrator and regularly teaches, writes and speaks on issues of international arbitration.

Dominique Mondoloni

Dominique Mondoloni is a partner in the Litigation Department. He handles general commercial litigation and arbitration, including shareholder disputes and merger and acquisition-related disputes, and white-collar criminal investigations. Litigation Mr. Mondoloni has over 28years experience as a trial lawyer, representing French and foreign clients before the Courts of France in a variety of civil and commercial disputes. Mr. Mondoloni has significant experience handling merger and acquisition related disputes. Arbitration Mr. Mondoloni regularly acts as Counsel to French and foreign companies in ad hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings and regularly advises clients in proceedings before national courts to enforce or set aside arbitration awards. Mr. Mondoloni is regularly appointed as arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations. White Collar Criminal Investigations and Defense Mr. Mondoloni acts as Counsel to plaintiffs in white collar criminal investigations conducted in France and as defense counsel to companies and their directors and employees in connecting with white collar criminal investigations. Mr. Mondoloni has handled a large number of investigations for US and French companies in connection with allegations of foreign corrupt practices.

Duncan Speller

Duncan Speller is a partner in the firm's Litigation Department, and Co-Chair of Willkie’s Arbitration Practice Group. Duncan is based in the London office, where he practices International Arbitration and English High Court Litigation. Duncan is an English barrister. He has significant experience in international arbitration and has successfully represented clients as an advocate on some of the most challenging, high-value and complex cases over the past decade. Duncan has represented clients in over one hundred and fifty institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, sited in both common and civil law jurisdictions, including England, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria and Germany. Duncan also has substantial experience of international commercial litigation in both the English Court of Appeal and in the Commercial and Chancery Divisions of the High Court. He has particular experience of arbitration and litigation concerning aviation, oil and gas, insurance and reinsurance, private equity, telecommunications, banking and competition law issues. Duncan sits as an arbitrator and has been appointed as arbitrator or emergency arbitrator by multiple arbitral institutions.

Eduardo Fernandez

Eduardo Fernandez is a partner in Willkie's Corporate & Financial Services Department in Paris. Eduardo focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. He is co-head of Willkie's European Committee and co-managing partner of Willkie's Paris office. A native New Yorker, Mr. Fernandez commenced his career as an associate in Willkie's New York office. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish. Mr. Fernandez has extensive experience advising both privately held and publicly listed companies on cross border acquisitions and dispositions, corporate venture investments and strategic alliances in a broad range of industries, including business services, consumer products, education, food and healthcare services. He regularly represents some of Europe's most prominent private equity sponsors on leveraged buy-outs (LBO), leveraged recapitalizations and late stage growth capital investments and has acted on several of the most prominent LBO and growth capital transactions in recent years on the French market. Eduardo Fernandez also regularly advises family-owned professional long term investors on a variety of matters.

Edward Downer

Edward Downer is a partner in the Business Reorganization & Restructuring Department. With extensive experience in international financial restructurings, distressed debt investment and stressed and distressed financings, Edward is a go-to adviser for clients investing or involved in financial distress situations. He has developed a broad restructuring practice in the UK, Europe, Australia and the US, representing distressed debt investors, special situations lenders, distressed companies and other finance parties including bank and non-bank trustee companies.

Eilidh Brown

Insurance - Transactional and Regulatory

Elaine Whiteford

Elaine Whiteford is a partner in Willkie's Litigation and Antitrust & Competition practices in London. She has over 20 years' experience of contentious EU, Competition and Regulatory work, specialising in follow-on damages litigation, challenges to regulatory decisions, cartel investigations and threatened disputes. Elaine also has extensive experience in relation to regulatory investigations conducted by the European Commission and other competition regulators. Her regulatory experience also extends to investigations by the Competition and Markets Authority, the Financial Conduct Authority, Ofwat, the Swiss Competition Commission and the Singapore Competition Authority and her experience includes investigating conduct, evaluating evidence and preparing leniency applications.

Elizabeth Bannigan

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Elizabeth Bower

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Eric Halperin

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Eugene Chang

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Faustine Viala

Faustine Viala is a partner in the Antitrust & Competition Practice Group. Faustine has experience in European and French competition law. Her main areas of practice encompass merger control, anticompetitive practices (anticompetitive agreements and abuse of dominant position) and distribution law. Faustine advises French and international companies mainly active in the fields of media, sports, chemical industry, aeronautic, cosmetics and telecoms, focusing both on counseling and litigation.

Gabriel Flandin

Gabriel Flandin is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions involving public and private companies, including both private equity and strategic acquirer transactions, as well as bankruptcy-based asset sales. He also regularly advises on corporate governance issues and joint venture structuring. Gabriel is a lecturer on corporate law topics at the Université de Montpellier, where he provides several courses on LBO structuring. He served for one year as external general counsel for Deutsch Group in New York.

Gavin Gordon

Gavin Gordon is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department in London and Chair of the European Private Equity Practice Group. His practice is focused on representing sponsors and other investors on European buy outs, take privates and growth deals. He also represents multiple clients in relation to special situation and distressed M&A opportunities. Gavin has advised many of the leading European and U.S. sponsors on transactions in the UK and almost every European jurisdiction.

Georg Linde

Georg Linde is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. He focuses on complex corporate/M&A and private equity transactions. Georg has a particular focus in high-tech sectors including aerospace, IT/telecommunications, chemicals and renewable energies.

George Pain

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Giles Harvey

Giles Harvey is an associate in Willkie's Litigation and Investigations & Enforcement Practices in London. Giles has broad experience in the litigation and arbitration of commercial disputes including post-M&A SPA claims, and matters concerning civil fraud. Giles has represented a number of leading corporates in high stakes disputes, often involving concurrent proceedings and arbitrations in a number of jurisdictions. He also experience in follow-on damages litigation arising in competition law.

Graham Lane

Graham Lane is a partner in the Business Reorganization & Restructuring Department and Co-Chair of the European Restructuring Group. He advises stakeholders in all types of restructuring and insolvency matters, with a particular focus on complex cross-border projects. Graham is frequently called upon to: (i) act for par and distressed investors in both "yield" and "loan to own" scenarios; (ii) act for large multinational debtor groups in the negotiation, documentation and implementation of complex and frequently hostile restructuring transactions; (iii) act for private equity and venture capital investors seeking to capitalise on restructuring opportunities and to protect and optimise existing investments; and (iv) provide advice and guidance for insolvency practitioners, particularly in connection with novel and ground-breaking issues arising from "COMI shifts" and pre-packaged administrations. Graham has gained extensive experience from playing key roles in some of the largest and most noteworthy market-leading restructurings of the last decade, including Intu, Lecta, Europcar, Agrokor, Premier Oil, Travelodge, Klöckner Pentaplast, MF Global and European Directories. He is also known for his broad experience in the French market having been involved in CGG, Vivarte, Latécoère, Eurotunnel and other significant French restructurings.

Grégoire Finance

Grégoire Finance is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. His practice is focused on advising French and international financial institutions and corporate clients on complex international M&A transactions, private equity and leveraged buyouts transactions, bankruptcy sales and recapitalizations as well as corporate governance, commercial and strategic matters.

Grégoire Bertrou

Grégoire Bertrou is a partner in Willkie's Litigation Department in Paris and the Co-Chair of the Firm Arbitration Practice Group. Grégoire has more than 20 years of experience as a trial lawyer representing clients before French courts and arbitration tribunals. He has acted in more than 50 international arbitration proceedings, both as counsel and arbitrator. His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution, particularly with regard to M&A transactions, corporate law and general commercial matters. Grégoire also regularly represents clients in complex compliance and enforcement matters, including internal investigations and the resolution of administrative and enforcement proceedings involving either French authorities (Public Prosecutor, AMF, CNIL, DGCCRF, etc.) or foreign authorities (DOJ, OFAC, etc.). Grégoire co-authored Chapter 14, ‘France’s Anticorruption Legal Framework’ in Martin Weinstein, Robert Meyer and Jeffrey Clark (eds.), ‘The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Compliance, Investigations and Enforcement’.

Gregory Astrachan

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Grégory de Saxcé

Grégory de Saxcé is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. A graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences-Po Paris) and Université Paris II – Panthéon Assas, he has spent his entire professional career at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP within our leading Private Equity practice. Mr. de Saxcé focuses on private equity transactions, with a particular focus on cross-border matters and the negotiation of complex incentive packages for rollover management (notably in competitive auctions), in the context of which he regularly advises both corporate clients and private equity funds.

Gregory Astrachan

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Guy Inbar

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Henrietta de Salis

Henrietta de Salis is a partner in Willkie’s Asset Management and Corporate & Financial Services Departments and is based in the Firm’s London office. She heads Willkie’s Financial Services Regulatory practice in London and is also part of the Firm's Structured Finance & Derivatives, Cybersecurity & Privacy, Digital Works and Environmental, Social & Governance Practice Groups. Henrietta is a financial services lawyer providing advice and transaction support to banks, securities firms, asset and investment managers, funds and intermediaries — including broker-dealers, custodians, trading platforms, private equity firms, wealth managers and insurers — on UK and European financial services legislation and compliance matters in both the wholesale and retail markets.

Henry Cohn

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Howard Block

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Hugo Nocerino

Hugo Nocerino is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. Hugo is mainly involved in French and international M&A and private equity transactions, for listed or non-listed groups or investment funds. Admitted to the Paris Bar, Hugo graduated from a Professional Master 2 in Business Law and Tax from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne / HEC and of a Professional Master 2 in Financial Management and Tax from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Iben Madsen

Iben Madsen is our People & Development Partner, responsible for the training and development of lawyers in the London office. Prior to moving into the People & Development role, Iben was a partner in the Business Reorganization & Restructuring Department. She gained extensive experience advising all types of stakeholders (including debtors, creditors and insolvency practitioners) on restructurings, insolvency proceedings, acquisitions and disposals of stressed and distressed businesses. Iben gained particular experience in handling complex, cross-border mandates, such as Intu, Lecta, Proserv, Premier Oil, CGG, Core Media Group, Monier and Travelodge. She has also regularly been called upon to advise a range of stakeholders in the special situations sphere.

J. Christopher Giancarlo

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James Fitzmaurice

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Jan Wilms

Jan Wilms is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and leads the German Finance Department. He focuses on syndicated lending transactions, in particular leveraged buy-out financing, corporate lending and project financing. Jan regularly advises sponsors, borrowers and lenders on a wide range of syndicated lending matters.

Jane Scobie

Jane Scobie is a partner in the Tax Department. She advises clients on a broad range of complex corporate and commercial tax matters with a particular focus on private equity transactions including investments, private and public company takeovers, private fund formation and restructurings as well as other private funds issues. She also assists clients on employment taxation and share incentive arrangements.

Jared Bartie

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Jared Fertman

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Jasmin Dettmar

Jasmin Dettmar is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Frankfurt. Jasmin focuses her practice on advising on complex acquisition financings for financial sponsors, debt funds and strategic investors as well as on corporate finance matters and financial restructurings.

Jason Pearl

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Jay Hughes

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Jay Spinola

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Jean-Quentin De Cuyper

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Jeffrey Poss

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Jeffrey Pawlitz

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Jennifer Tait

Dual qualified in the UK and in NY, Jennifer Tait is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. Jennifer practiced corporate and securities law in New York before moving to the London office. Her focus includes representing issuers and underwriters in capital markets transactions in the US and in Europe, in public and private offerings of debt (including high yield), equity and hybrid securities. Jennifer also has experience in liability management transactions including consent solicitations, and tender and exchange offers, corporate and securities regulatory issues, and disclosure and corporate governance matters. Jennifer also has particular experience representing (re)insurers and investment banks in connection with insurance-linked securities transactions, including catastrophe bonds and other (re)insurance structured finance products.

Jens-Olrik Murach

Dr. Jens-Olrik Murach is a partner in the Antitrust & Competition Practice Group. With more than 20 years of experience practicing antitrust law in Brussels and Germany, Jens’ practice covers the complete range of EU and German antitrust issues across a wide spectrum of industry sectors. Jens has also significant experience in handling Foreign Direct Investment Screening matters, particularly before the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. Jens also advises on EU Foreign Subsidies and EU state aid matters.

Jerry Healy

Jerry Healy is a partner in Willkie’s Litigation and Compliance, Investigations & Enforcement Practices in London. Jerry has broad experience in the litigation and arbitration of commercial disputes including banking and finance related matters and civil fraud. Jerry has represented a number of leading corporates and financial institutions in high-profile and high value disputes, frequently involving concurrent proceedings in a number of jurisdictions. He also acts for financial institutions and corporates involved in regulatory investigations and enforcements, both civil and criminal, and in implementing anti-corruption systems.

Jessica Sheridan

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Jillian Merns

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John Knapke

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John Thomas

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John Schwolsky

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Jordan Messinger

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Jorge Kamine

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Jörn Kowalewski

Dr. Jörn Kowalewski has long-standing experience advising stakeholders within complex corporate restructurings, both out of court and within insolvency proceedings, as well as handling distressed M&A transactions. Dr. Kowalewski advises distressed investors, lenders, lender groups, and steering committees, as well as the debtors, shareholders, and management in: Out-of-court (financial and operational) restructurings Distressed M&A transactions Debt-to-equity transactions Dr. Kowalewski enhances his legal advice with an entrepreneurial and pragmatic approach, drawing on his prior experiences running a midsized international trading company and serving as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.

Joseph Ferraro

Joseph Ferraro is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Insurance - Transactional and Regulatory Practice Group in London. He has a broad range of experience advising on mergers and acquisitions transactions and corporate finance matters, including private equity investments, insurance linked securities, stock exchange listings and public offerings.

Joseph Marx

Joe Marx is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and a member of the Capital Markets Practice Group. He has over 20 years of experience in international capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, rights issuances, accelerated primary and secondary offerings, Rule 144A transactions, US registered offerings, private placements and debt offerings, as well as cross-border mergers and acquisitions, dual track processes and other corporate transactions. Joe advises clients across a broad range of industries, including chemicals, life science, real estate and the automotive industry.

Julian Golay

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Justin Browder

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Kamyar Abrar

Kamyar Abrar is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, where he focuses on private equity and M&A transactions, including distressed transactions. He has handled numerous transactions in a variety of industries. Kamyar also counsels clients on a wide variety of antitrust and compliance issues, ranging from mergers and acquisitions, B2B exchanges, joint ventures and distribution practices to civil litigation. He has represented clients before the European Commission, the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) as well as German courts.

Kara Baysinger

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Kari Larsen

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Katrina Robson

Partner

Kirsty Maclean

Kirsty Maclean is a partner in the London office and member of the Corporate & Financial Services Department. Kirsty advises insurance, reinsurance and other financial institution clients on a broad range of transactions and non-contentious matters. Kirsty has gained a reputation as a notable lawyer in the longevity and pension de-risking market, having advised European and US-based clients on many of the largest and highest-profile longevity transactions completed to date. Kirsty regularly advises on complex collateralised reinsurance transactions and has a particular focus on the interface between (re)insurance and the capital markets.

Komal Raina

Komal Raina is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Finance Department in London. Komal focuses on a wide range of financing transactions acting for sponsors and alternative asset managers including on leveraged and acquisition financings, distressed lending transactions and restructurings.

Krystyna Blakeslee

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LaRue Robinson

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Laura Acker

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Laura Friedrich

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Laura Delanoy

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Lionel Spizzichino

Lionel Spizzichino is a partner in the Business Reorganization & Restructuring Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris and co-Chair of the European Restructuring Group. He has extensive experience in Lender-led and complex cross-border restructurings as well as French pre-insolvency and insolvency matters, including amicable restructuring, insolvency proceedings, restructuring litigation and distressed mergers and acquisitions. Lionel also advises regularly on mergers and acquisitions with a particular focus on cross border acquisitions and complex carve-outs. His clients include companies, creditors or investors in a wide range of sectors such as airlines, aircraft, media, chemical, financial services and automotive. He also advises investment funds, recovery funds and hedge funds. Lionel has been involved in some of the most significant pre-insolvency proceedings, bankruptcy proceedings and high-profile M&A and distressed M&A cases in France.

Lisa Eskenazi

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Margery Neale

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Maria-Leticia Ossa Daza

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Mark Stancil

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Mark Cognetti

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Markus Lauer

Markus Lauer is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on public take-overs as well as on complex M&A and corporate transactions. He has broad experience in wide range of transactional matters in the real estate and automotive sectors. Markus assists with joint ventures, general corporate and governance matters and has in depth knowledge of capital markets and related regulatory issues.

Matt Basil

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Matt Gaul

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Matthew Makover

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Matthew Thomas

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Matthew Block

Matthew Feldman

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Matthew Berger

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Matthew Rizzo

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Matthias Schudlo

Dr. Matthias Schudlo is a partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department focusing on complex cross-border and national mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity transactions. Prior to joining Willkie, Matthias was an associate at another international law firm. Matthias has a focus on infrastructure, transportation and chemicals.

Matthias Schrader

Matthias Schrader is a partner and heads Willkie’s Litigation Practice Group in Germany. In addition to domestic and international litigation and arbitration matters, his practice focuses on compliance and regulatory matters across a broad spectrum of industries. As a litigator, Matthias acts as counsel to both claimants and respondents in a wide variety of commercial litigations and arbitrations before various courts and arbitral tribunals under the auspices of the world’s leading arbitral institutions (ICC, LCIA, SIAC, DIS, etc.). He has successfully negotiated out-of-court settlements of complex disputes for a variety of commercial and private clients. Furthermore, he has represented sovereigns in litigations as well as international investment arbitrations. Matthias also acts as arbitrator in high-stakes commercial arbitrations. Matthias regularly advises clients on matters of European and German anti-money-laundering and anti-terrorism-financing regulations, sanctions, financial markets compliance, including allegations of insider trading and market manipulation, antitrust and State-aid law and day-to-day compliance issues. He represents a diverse client base including health care, chemicals, natural resources, energy and mining, consumer goods and retail, high-tech, automotive, real estate and financial institutions. In addition to in-court representation, Matthias has acted for clients towards state prosecutors, regulatory authorities and public consumer associations on matters of proper business conduct and fair competition.

Maurizio Delfino

Maurizio Delfino is a Senior Counsel in the Corporate and Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, the founding partner of Delfino e Associati Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (“D-WFG”), and the Chairman of D-WFG Executive Committee. Maurizio’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions of listed or unlisted companies, including distressed, joint ventures and public/private partnerships, corporate governance and general corporate and securities law matters. Maurizio has been the lead corporate lawyer in a number of high profile transactions, including hostile takeover bids and buy outs on behalf of Italian or international clients of the firm. He has represented government owned corporations, public and private companies and financial investors in a wide range of Italian and cross border transactions. He has also assisted the Italian Treasury on a number of privatizations. In addition, Maurizio has advised board of directors and board committees on a variety of corporate governance issues. The industries where Maurizio has acted for either strategic or financial investors in Italy are diverse and include banking and insurance, various infrastructure, steel, oil and gas, chemical and pharmaceutical, automotive, aerospace and defense, food, design. He has also assisted on various Italian SPAC projects. Maurizio has written monographs and published articles in law reviews and is a frequent lecturer in the fields of ESG compliance, corporate finance and the protection of minority shareholders.

Maxime de l'Estang

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Maximilian Schwab

Maximilian Schwab is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, advising financial investors/Private Equity Houses and corporate clients on cross border and national mergers and acquisitions, including carve-out transactions as well as international joint ventures and investment projects. Maximilian has a strong track record on advising on transactions in regulated industries such as infrastructure, health care and energy. He holds an Executive Master of Business (EMBA) of University of Münster.

Melainie Mansfield

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Melanie James

Melanie James is a partner in Corporate & Financial Services Department and a member of Willkie’s Insurance Transactional and Regulatory Practice Group. Melanie is an insurance sector leader with over 20 years' experience handling (re)insurance transactional, commercial and regulatory matters, gained both in-house and in private practice. She uniquely combines her experience across these disciplines to provide her clients with exceptional and very well-informed advice. Melanie advises on all aspects of non-contentious insurance transactions including domestic and cross-border M&A (both buy and sell side), joint ventures, reorganizations (including SE and cross-border mergers), portfolio transfers and complex reinsurance transactions, international distribution arrangements as well as structuring, formation and licensing of (re)insurance platforms and PRA, FCA and Lloyd's regulation.

Michael Gottlieb

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Michael Graham

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Michael Stern

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Michael Babbitt

Litigation, Intellectual Property

Michael Groll

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Michael Schachter

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Michael Katz

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Michael Li-Ming Wong

Michael focuses on white-collar criminal matters, complex civil litigation, data-privacy investigations and litigation, and internal investigations.

Michelle Clark

Michelle Clark is a partner in Willkie’s Antitrust & Competition and Litigation practices in London. Her areas of practice include competition litigation, UK and EU regulatory investigations and GDPR/Data Protection Act 2018 compliance and litigation. Michelle is recognised in the market as a leading competition lawyer with particular experience in competition litigation. Acting for both claimants and defendants, she regularly coordinates multi-jurisdictional litigation with a particular focus on collective actions, cartel damages and abuse of dominance claims, often involving intellectual property and FRAND issues. Her experience includes litigating in the English High Court, the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal. Michelle also advises clients in relation to competition investigations, both infringement proceedings and market sector inquiries, and consequential appeals and judicial reviews following decisions of competition and regulatory authorities. Michelle's vast experience spans multiple industries, with a particular focus on the financial services, automotive, retail, sports, media, pharmaceutical and technology sectors. Michelle also provides strategic and general competition counselling advice.

Miriam Steets

Miriam Steets is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on private equity/venture capital investments as well as cross-border and national mergers and acquisitions. Miriam represents both, private equity/venture capital investors and corporate clients in connection with growth oriented investments as well as transaction situations and general corporate matters. In addition, she advises clients on capital market related matters. Prior to joining Willkie, Miriam was a senior consultant at a Big Four accounting firm.

Misty Sanford

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Moritz Vettermann

Dr. Moritz S. Vettermann is counsel in the German Real Estate Department. His focus is on national and international real estate transactions, private equity related real estate invest-ments, portfolio deals and structurings as well as real estate joint ventures. He has worked for clients such as Arax Properties, Tristan Capital Partners, Brookfield, UBS Real Estate, Patri-zia, Blantyre Capital, Greystar, CVC, Lonestar, Groß & Partner, Cheyne Capital, Hudson’s Bay Company, Deutsche Landentwicklung AG, CR Investment Management, Domicil, Ston-eVest AG, Samsung, Colony Capital as well as for various US hedge funds.

Nanyi Kaluma

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Nathalie Duguay

Nathalie Duguay is a partner in the Asset Management Department and has been a practitioner in the area of asset management and in particular the area of private equity fund formation for over 20 years. Nathalie's practice focuses on private equity investment funds (buyout funds, mezzanine funds, distressed funds, debt funds, venture funds, property funds, funds of funds, infrastructure, etc.) and related transactions. She assists clients in the creation of worldwide private equity investment funds and in establishing regulated portfolio management companies. She also advises investment funds and international institutional investors on their portfolio investments and divestments (secondaries).

Neal Kumar

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Neesa Sood

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Neil Townsend

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Nicholas Bugler

Nicholas Bugler is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Insurance Transactional and Regulatory Practice Group in London.. He advises on a wide range of issues affecting the international insurance and reinsurance industries. He advises both insurance and reinsurance companies, insurance general agents and investors of all types. Recently, he has had a particular focus on the intersection of the reinsurance and capital markets industries.

Nicola Chesaites

Nicola Chesaites is a partner in Willkie’s Litigation and Antitrust & Competition practices in London. Nicola has extensive experience of competition damages litigation before UK courts, having represented claimants and defendants before the English High Court and the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, including applications for collective proceedings orders under the UK’s new competition class-action regime. Nicola also has significant experience in challenging and defending EU institutions in EU law matters, having represented clients in EU banking, trade, sanctions, customs, pharmaceutical, transport and competition law disputes. She has appeared before the EU General Court and Court of Justice in Luxembourg in over 25 cases, and represented the EU in many disputes. Nicola’s experience acting for both claimants and defendants, as well as her extensive experience of complex EU litigation provides her with an extremely valuable perspective for claimants and defendants involved in multi-jurisdictional claims, especially concerning matters of competition and EU law, before national courts and the EU courts in Luxembourg.

Norman C. Bay

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P. Georgia Bullitt

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Patrick Meiisel

Patrick Meiisel is a partner and heads Willkie's German tax practice. Patrick focuses on providing tax advice for corporate clients, private equity funds and financial institutions on mergers and acquisitions, corporate tax matters, reorganizations, domestic and international tax planning, double tax treaty matters and EU law. He also counsels clients on capital markets and debt finance transactions. Patrick's writings are regularly published in various tax law publications and he is a frequent speaker at seminars and universities. He holds the position of a teacher (Lehrbeauftragter) for tax law at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen.

Paul Lombard

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Paul Pantano

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Peter Burrell

Peter Burrell is Chair of Willkie’s Litigation, Compliance, Investigations & Enforcement, and White Collar Defence Practice Groups in London. He is the Managing Partner of the London office. Peter is recognised as one of the UK’s leading specialists in corporate crime and compliance matters. His practice includes advising on compliance issues relating to money laundering, bribery and corruption, sanctions and fraud; conducting complex internal corporate investigations; and defending companies and individuals in investigations and enforcement actions by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office, Financial Conduct Authority, HM Revenue and Customs, and other law enforcement and regulatory agencies. He also handles complex High Court litigation and arbitration proceedings in London, with a particular focus on financial fraud, securities disputes and financial reporting issues.

Philip Coletto

Philip Coletto is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and Private Equity Group in London. His practice focuses on advising private equity sponsors and other institutional investors on a range of complex, cross-border investments, including leveraged buy outs, minority investments, carve-outs, special situation transactions and growth and venture capital. Philip has represented, amongst others, Insight Partners, Davidson Kempner, Blantyre Capital, Genstar Capital, Aquiline Capital Partners, Freshstream, IK Partners, Bluewater, Ardian and FFL Partners.

Philipp Girardet

Philipp Girardet, Chair of the European Competition Practice Group, advises on a broad range of EU and UK competition law issues, including complex merger and cartel matters. Philipp also has an active EU and UK competition compliance and competition litigation practice across a wide spectrum of industry sectors, including industrials, consumer goods, digital platforms / e-commerce, financial services, telecoms, media, music, pharma and transport. He also advises on UK criminal cartel offence matters. He was the Deputy Director of the Cartel Investigations division at the UK Competition Authority (then the Office of Fair Trading) and the Co-Chair of the Leniency Working Group of the European Competition Network (ECN) from 2005 to 2007.

Philippe Grudé

Philippe Grudé is special European counsel in the Tax Department, focusing on the tax aspects of IPOs, LBOs, mergers and acquisitions and other reorganizations of businesses. Philippe regularly handles complex tax issues relating to mergers and acquisitions and other high-profile transactions. He has significant experience in the areas of tender offers, stock or asset purchases and private offerings of securities.

Prakash Paran

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Rahul Saha

Rahul Saha is a partner in Willkie's London office. Rahul advises on a wide range of EU and UK competition law issues, including EU and UK merger control, cartels, competition litigation and UK market investigations. He advises across a wide range of sectors including heavy industry, retail, consumer, e-commerce, telecom and energy. He also has experience advising on EU and UK sector-specific regulation relating to energy and telecom.

Richard Roeder

Dr. Richard Roeder is a partner in Willkie’s German practice. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and Willkie’s Global Trade & Investment, Compliance, Investigations & Enforcement and Environmental, Social & Governance practice groups. Richard focuses on international trade, compliance and white collar investigations, as well as transactional regulatory risk assessments. He advises clients from various industries in the areas of sanctions, export control, supply chain, anti-money-laundering and anti-corruption compliance. His clients include in particular financial services and insurance companies as well as companies from the automotive, mining, oil and gas, healthcare and information technology sectors.

Rita Mitchell

Rita D. Mitchell is a partner in Willkie’s Compliance, Investigations & Enforcement and White Collar Defence Practices in London. Dual-qualified in the US and the UK, her practice includes advising and defending corporations in a variety of criminal and civil investigation and enforcement matters, conducting complex, worldwide internal investigations in relation to bribery, corruption, fraud, sanctions, human/business rights, and money laundering, advising on and developing and benchmarking compliance programs, conducting pre-merger and third party due diligence, and providing day-to-day counseling and training on compliance with US and English laws, including the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and UK Bribery Act 2010 (Bribery Act).

Rita Molesworth

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Robert B. Stebbins

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Roger Wise

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Rosalind Fahey Kruse

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Russell Leaf

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Sara Tonnies Horton

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Sarah Wong

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Sarah Gelb

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Shaimaa Hussein

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Simon Baskerville

Simon Baskerville is a partner in Willkie’s Restructuring Department, and a Co-Chair of the European Restructuring Group. He is based in the Firm’s London office. Simon has more than 25 years of experience representing stakeholders in stressed, distressed, and insolvency situations in the UK and internationally. He is recognized as a leading lawyer in the restructuring industry with particular experience acting for lenders, bondholders, companies and financial sponsors on complex cross-border restructurings.

Simon Osborn-King

Simon Osborn-King is a partner in Willkie's Litigation and Investigations & Enforcement Practice Groups in London. Simon has a broad-ranging domestic and cross-border contentious practice specialising in civil, criminal and regulatory investigations and disputes involving allegations of fraud, bribery, money laundering, sanctions violations, data breaches and other misconduct. Simon has particular experience in advising on compliance and governance issues, including the design and implementation of compliance programmes. Simon also frequently handles complex contractual disputes and contentious business restructuring and reorganisation matters in London. Simon’s experience covers a wide spectrum of industry sectors, including financial services, professional services, information technology and energy resources & industrials.

Simon Weiss

Simon Weiss is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and a member of the Firm’s Capital Markets Practice Group. He focuses on equity and debt capital markets transactions and has a wealth of experience across IPOs, capital increases, equity-linked transactions and investment grade and high-yield bond offerings. Simon regularly advises issuers, underwriters and other key market players in a wide range of complex domestic and cross-border transactions. Simon also advises on regulatory issues relating to capital markets transactions, M&A and corporate matters.

Simona Agnolucci

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Solomon Wifa

Solomon Wifa is a partner in the Asset Management Group. A well-established investment funds lawyer with experience across a diverse range of asset classes, Solomon has represented sponsors in the formation of, and institutional investors investing in, private equity, hedge, debt, mezzanine, infrastructure, real estate, energy and venture capital funds across a variety of sectors. Solomon also has extensive experience working on a wide range of secondary transactions, secondary directs, co-investment deals, management spinouts, managed accounts and joint ventures, and is involved in transactions in China, sub-Saharan Africa, India, Turkey and Central and Eastern Europe.

Sophie-Jeanne Laroche

Counsel, Sophie-Jeanne Laroche represents French and foreign clients before national courts in a wide range of complex financial, commercial and corporate litigation (in particular shareholder’s and post-acquisition disputes) often in an international context. She provides strategic advices in pre-litigation or litigation phases for companies handling complex crisis and sensitive disputes. Sophie Jeanne advises her clients on prevention and anticipation conflicts and is actively involved in the development of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation. Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2006, Sophie Jeanne received a Master’s Degree (DEA) in Droit Privé Général from University of Paris II Panthéon- Assas and a second Master’s Degree (DEA) in Droit des Affaires et de l’Economie from University Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne. Sophie Jeanne joined the firm in 2006 and became counsel in 2015. She has been lecturer on civil law at Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne.

Spencer Simon

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Stephanie Duchene

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Steven Seidman

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Tariq Mundiya

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Terence Rozier-Byrd

Terence Rozier-Byrd is a partner at Willkie, where he is a member of the Asset Management Department and the Private Funds practice. He is based in the Firm’s New York office. Terence represents private fund sponsors on the formation and operation of funds across a wide range of alternative investment asset classes, including private equity, growth equity, credit, real estate, fund of funds, hybrid and hedge funds. Terence advises institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds, public and corporate pension plans, endowments, and family offices, in connection with their investments in, and co-investments alongside, various private funds. Terence also offers valuable guidance to investors in negotiating funds-of-one and managed accounts tailored to meet their specific investment objectives. Terence also has significant experience representing both private fund sponsors and institutional investors on seed capital arrangements, early and growth stage venture capital investments, secondary transactions in private companies, as well as secondary transactions involving interests in private funds.

Thierry Laloum

Thierry Laloum is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and head of the Public & Environmental Law practice of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. Mr. Laloum has a wealth of experience in economic law (e.g. privatisations, foreign investments in France and financing of local governments), public contracts (concession agreements and public private partnerships), planning law (building permits and expropriation procedures), public domain and regulated sectors. He also advises his clients in high-profile pre-litigation issues (negotiations between the parties, discussions before Experts Committees) and on litigation issues before the administrative judge. Mr. Laloum advises both public (public bodies, local governments, semi-publicly owned companies) and private entities (mainly financial institutions, investment funds and public works companies). Significant projects he has handled include the development of underground trains, high speed railway lines, motorways, ports, hospitals, airports, stadiums, and waste treatment facilities among others, including in the context of Public Private Partnerships (PPP).

Thomas Binet

Thomas Binet is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on banking and finance. Mr. Binet has extensive experience in the areas of structured finance, debt restructuring and corporate finance. He regularly acts as counsel to lenders, borrowers, sponsors, senior, mezzanine and unitranche arrangers for such financing activities.

Thomas Cerabino

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Thomas French

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Thomas Henry

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Tiana Rambatomanga

Tiana Rambatomanga is a partner in the Asset Management Department in Paris. Tiana’s practice covers all segments relating to private funds, with a particular focus on private equity, infrastructure, renewable energies, debt and real estate funds. She specializes in advising investment managers on legal, regulatory and commercial matters relevant to the creation and fundraisings of private funds and investment platforms. Tiana’s experience covers a broad range of products and strategies, from large private funds to smaller market players and bespoke products in particular regarding « retailization » of private markets. Ms. Rambatomanga has extensive experience in particular concerning the formation of general and sector-based French, Luxemburg and pan-European it regulated and unregulated funds, including LBO funds, mezzanine funds, venture capital funds, funds of funds, secondary funds, master/feeder structures. She regularly acts for LPs in relation to their funds’ investments and advises on secondary transactions. Ms. Rambatomanga also advises portfolio managers and institutional investors throughout their business development, including co-investments, joint-venture, club-deals, spin-offs, set-up of French approved management companies and investment advisers. Ms. Rambatomanga is a member of Level 20, a European association that promotes the presence of women in the private equity industry and is a member of the legal committee of France Invest. She regularly lectures on investment funds and GP/LPs relationships in France and the UK (Master ESCP Paris, MBA Oxford University) and has been involved in student mentoring programs to promote equal opportunities. In 2022, Ms. Rambatomanga lectured a virtual Masterclass "Finance Sociale et Durable/Sustainable Finance" session at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers on the ESG Revolution: Regulatory framework and key benefits for Private funds. Ms. Rambatomanga also authored an article in CF – Le Courrier Financier on the FCPR Evergreen funds dedicated to unit-like insurance policies, as she’s the first practitioner on the French market to have structured this type of new private equity products.

Tiffany Lee

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Tim Landwehr

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Tim Baumgartner

Tim Baumgartner is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and a member of Willkie’s Insurance Transactional and Regulatory Practice Group. Tim has extensive experience advising on a wide range of corporate transactions, including international and domestic M&A (including competitive auction processes on the buy and sell side), joint ventures and long-term strategic partnerships, intra-group restructurings and general corporate advisory work. In additional to general corporate transactions, Tim has a particular focus in the insurance sector, advising on the full spectrum of corporate insurance transactions, which in addition to the above includes transactions within the Lloyd’s market, portfolio transfers and complex reinsurance transactions for both life and non-life businesses.

Timothy Sawyer

Tim Sawyer is counsel in Willkie’s Finance Department in London. He has extensive experience acting for leading sponsors on major acquisition financings, refinancings and related transactions opposite large bank syndicates and credit funds. He advises clients across the credit spectrum on a broad range of loan products, including on complex multi-jurisdiction transactions.

Todd Goren

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Todd Cosenza

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Vadim Mahmoudov

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Viktor Okasmaa

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Virgile Chanel

Public Law

William Thomas

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Wolfgang Münchow

Wolfgang A. Münchow is counsel in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. Wolfgang’s focus includes mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, real estate, finance and general corporate matters.

Wolfram Prusko

Dr. Wolfram Prusko is a partner in the Business Reorganization & Restructuring group in Frankfurt. His practice is focused on the representation of investors, debtors and creditors with respect to cross-border special situations, restructurings — particularly financial and bond restructurings — and insolvency proceedings. Wolfram is experienced in real estate and international bank restructurings. He worked on a number of landmark international cases over the recent years in Germany and Central Europe, which include the comprehensive restructuring of the Croatian food conglomerate Agrokor (transformed into Fortenova), the resolution of the Austrian bad bank HETA Asset Resolution (f/k/a Hypo Alpe Adria Bank) and financial restructuring of the German real estate group IVG Immobilien.

Wulf Kring

Wulf Kring is counsel in the Tax Department. He focuses on advising private equity firms, VC funds and corporate clients on M&A transactions and tax-oriented restructurings as well as fund-related tax aspects (including the structuring of investment funds and carried-interest structures). Wulf also has significant experience in capital markets transactions, as well as in advising multinational corporations in connection with (cross-border) tax audits and the conclusion of bi- and multilateral advance pricing agreements (APA).

Ziyad Aziz

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Michael Ilter