Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Capital Markets

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.

Chrishan joined the firm in September 2012 as a trainee solicitor, qualified as an associate in September 2014, and became partner in January 2023. He has previously been resident in the firm’s New York and Washington, D.C. offices.

England and Wales

College of Law, London Moorgate,  Legal Practice Course, 2012

Harvard Law School, LL.M., 2011

University Of Oxford, Magdalen College, B.A., Law (First Class Honours), 2010