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Alastair Goldrein
Alastair Goldrein
Alastair’s practice focuses on advising creditors, sponsors, insolvent companies, and insolvency practitioners on all aspects of cross-border and domestic restructurings, insolvency, and corporate rescues. He advises: - creditors concerning their distressed debt and special situations investments; - multinational debtor groups in complex international restructurings; - private equity investors on distressed M&A transactions or the protection of existing investments; and - insolvency practitioners, with a particular focus on emerging markets as well as restructurings in the energy sector.
Chrishan Raja
Chrishan Raja
Chrishan Raja’s practice focuses on international capital markets transactions, both equity and debt, with a UK or U.S. nexus. His recent equity experience includes several transactions which were the first of their kind, such as ACG Acquisition Company (London listing and 2024 de-SPAC, the first SPAC to complete an acquisition under the FCA’s new regime), Burning Rock Biotech (the first direct listing of its kind on the London Stock Exchange), and Hepsiburada (the first listing of a Turkish company on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange). His recent experience on the debt side includes English law governed debt issuances, Reg S/Rule 144A offerings of New York law governed notes, and many U.S.-registered offerings of debt securities by financial institutions.as well as public and private mergers and acquisitions. He has extensive experience in the firm’s capital markets and M&A practices in Russia.
Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore’s practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation. He is the co-head of the firm’s global international arbitration group. Chris has represented multinational corporations in complex international commercial arbitrations across a range of industries seated in the world’s most frequently selected arbitral seats and before tribunals formed under the rules of the leading institutional and ad hoc arbitration regimes, including the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), and UNCITRAL, and in litigation matters before state and federal courts throughout the United States. Chris also has extensive experience acting as counsel in matters involving foreign states both in investor-state disputes under the rules of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and in international litigation proceedings, including litigation involving the immunity of foreign states and their agencies under the U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and public international law.
David Gottlieb
David Gottlieb
David I. Gottlieb’s practice focuses on international capital markets and cross-border M&A transactions, including IPOs, investment-grade, sovereign and high-yield debt offerings, privatizations, SPAC transactions, and liability management. David is one of a small handful of U.S. securities law experts based in Europe for more than a decade, and regularly advises U.S. and foreign private issuer clients and global investment banks on disclosure, corporate governance, regulatory, and ESG matters. He is a current leader of the firm’s Financial Institutions Industry Group and has extensive expertise in the European banking, oil and gas, metals and mining, and tech sectors. He has worked on transactions in numerous jurisdictions across Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, MENA, and Israel.
Ed Aldred
Ed Aldred
Ed Aldred’s practice focuses on complex cross-border public and private leveraged acquisition and infrastructure financings, leading combined loan and high-yield bond financings, and senior and junior capital structures. Ed is a highly regarded leveraged finance lawyer, with more than 19 years’ experience advising on complex leveraged finance deals and developing innovative solutions and strategies for clients on their most strategically significant transactions. He advises private equity and infrastructure funds, corporates, family offices, and sovereign wealth funds on acquisition, infrastructure, and other event-driven finance transactions, as well as minority stake, holdco, and other structured finance transactions. In addition to working on buy-side financings, Ed also supports his clients across all aspects of sell-side finance work (including staple finance, vendor loans, certain funds, change of control, and other sell-side analysis) and with on-going portfolio and liability management work (including taps, A&Es, repricings, refinancings, and recapitalizations). Ed has led on many “firsts” in the loan market during his career and has acted on some of the largest and most innovative transactions. His knowledge and experience covers the full spectrum of loan products, from syndicated institutional cov-lite incurrence-based TLB facilities through to unitranche and covenanted maintenance loans, including super senior, senior secured, and junior debt instruments. In addition to his familiarity with the European loan market, Ed also has extensive international experience raising U.S. dollar debt in the syndicated U.S. TLB loan market under English law and acting for many international first-time issuers in the syndicated loan market. He has worked closely with the Loan Market Association to develop and deliver their training, including their financial covenant training in particular, and spoken at several Loan Market Association hosted conferences.
Gareth Kristensen
Gareth Kristensen
Gareth Kristensen is a Partner based in Cleary Gottlieb’s London office with a focus on UK, European and cross-border technology, AI, data and intellectual property matters. Gareth advises leading global corporations, high-growth companies and private equity/venture capital firms on the development, use and regulation of AI technologies, including copyright, data rights and training issues, AI and data regulatory compliance (such as EU AI Act, Data Act and GDPR matters), licensing, partnerships, collaborations and outsourcing deals, and AI business strategy, AI legislative reform and internal AI governance matters. He has extensive experience advising on technology transactions, global M&A and investments, and commercial contracts with a substantial IP, technology and data component. His practice covers the full range of IP rights including patents, trademarks, copyright, design rights, database rights, and trade secrets. Gareth is a member of the UK Financial Markets Law Committee’s Artificial Intelligence Working Group, and holds the CIPP/E accreditation (Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe) from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).
Ian Shawyer
Ian Shawyer
Ian’s practice focuses on private equity transactions and complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions. With over two decades of experience in private equity, Ian is a longstanding and trusted advisor to pan-European and international corporations, institutional investors, alternative asset managers, senior management teams, founders, and investee companies for both transactional and advisory matters. Ian has in-depth experience advising on a full range of transactions, including leveraged buyouts, consortium deals, bolt-on acquisitions, carve-outs, co-investments, minority deals, recapitalizations, divestments, distressed M&A, public-to-privates, joint ventures, reorganizations, and restructurings. Ian also advises global asset management clients on GP-stake transactions, GP succession planning (including restructuring ownership and governance arrangements), and structured secondary market liquidity solutions (including GP-led and LP-led secondary transactions).
James Norris-Jones
James Norris-Jones
James has more than 20 years’ experience of English and international commercial dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration, investigations, and enforcement. He regularly advises clients involved in class actions, including collective proceedings in the Competition Tribunal. He has particular experiences in the financial services and tech sectors, and in cases involving fraud and insolvency. Many of his cases have involved cross-border issues and/or proceedings in foreign jurisdictions.
James Brady-Banzet
James Brady-Banzet
James Brady-Banzet’s practice focuses on dispute resolution, investigations, and enforcement. James has substantial experience representing some of the world’s leading organisations on a wide range of commercial disputes, group and collective litigation, banking disputes, and international arbitrations. He has considerable trial experience, and his work frequently involves complex multijurisdictional matters and high-stakes disputes.  James also has significant experience representing clients in investigations by regulatory and law enforcement authorities. He is cited as “clever, hard-working and very dedicated,” “sharp and thoughtful,” “personable and highly intelligent,” with the ability to “manage both the legal team and clients to achieve the best results” and “an exceptional partner on a major long-running dispute.” James also writes and speaks on topics including class actions, ESG litigation, parent company liability, M&A disputes, and crisis management.
Jonathan Kelly
Jonathan Kelly
Jonathan Kelly is consistently recognized as one of the UK’s leading practitioners in the field of disputes and enforcement, and as a “litigation veteran” with 30 years in practice. He is cited by UK and European legal directories and the media as one of “the UK’s leading banking litigators,” an “outstanding lawyer,” “esteemed litigator,” and “a formidable opponent.” He is described as a “class act…a real market leader” who is “top rated…keen and insightful, clear, concise” and “great to work with because you know he’s seen it all before.” He has advised on a wide range of significant disputes, involving antitrust and competition, banking and financial services, corporate and private equity, regulatory enforcement and investigations, and sovereign immunity. His cases invariably involve complex multijurisdictional elements.
Nallini Puri
Nallini Puri
Nallini Puri’s practice focuses on cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and franchising transactions. She has advised multinational corporates, private equity funds and sovereign wealth funds on their investments in UK, Europe and India. Nallini’s recent work includes advising Veolia on its €2.4 billion divestment of the Suez UK waste business, Alstom in its €5.8 to €6.2 billion acquisition of Bombardier Transportation, Schibsted, the majority shareholder of Adevinta, in Adevinta’s $9.2 billion acquisition of eBay Classifieds and McDonald’s Corporation in the $2.08 billion formation of a joint venture with CITIC Limited and Carlyle to act as the franchisee for McDonald’s in China and Hong Kong.
Nick Rumsby
Nick Rumsby
Nick Rumsby’s practice focuses on public and private mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, restructurings, joint ventures, demergers, and equity financings. He is uniquely placed to advise on UK takeovers having completed a two-year secondment to the UK Takeover Panel as a senior case officer (2008-2010) where he was involved in all major decisions and policies made during that time. Following his secondment, Nick has spent over a decade advising targets and UK and overseas bidders on some of the largest and most high-profile takeovers in the UK market.
Paul Stuart
Paul Stuart
Paul Stuart’s practice focuses on competition law and litigation. Consistently recognized as a specialist in competition litigation, Paul��s practice covers collective proceedings before the Competition Appeal Tribunal, standalone and follow-on litigation in the English courts, and appearing as an advocate before the EU General Court and Court of Justice. Paul also advises on all aspects of UK and EU competition law, including merger control, cartels, abuse of dominance, and digital markets regulation. He is also an active member of Cleary Gottlieb’s pro bono practice.
Polina Lyadnova
Polina Lyadnova
Polina Lyadnova’s practice focuses on a broad range of cross-border debt transactions at various levels of capital structure. Her experience ranges from complex and transformational assignments to innovative middle-market transactions and covers debt restructuring, finance, special situations, sanctions laws and regulations, with a particular focus on the emerging markets. Polina provides a broad range of business advisory, strategic planning, and crisis management skills to achieve bespoke solutions for clients facing unique circumstances. She is a co-editor and contributor to Cleary’s Global Restructuring Insights, the monthly publication featuring select topics that highlight notable themes, trends and developments in bankruptcy and restructuring matters, and a co-author of Cleary’s Trade Watch blog providing regular updates on sanctions developments.
Sarah Lewis
Sarah Lewis
Sarah’s practice focuses primarily on international capital markets transactions, with an emphasis on U.S. securities laws and their application to offerings by non-U.S. companies in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and particularly in the Nordics. Her work includes equity offerings and debt offerings. Her transactional experience covers a wide range of offerings, including IPOs, rights offerings, accelerated bookbuild offerings, block trades and direct share placements, in the case of ECM transactions, and investment-grade debt offerings, as well as convertible and exchangeable bonds, in the case of DCM transactions.