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Julian Acratopulo
Julian specialises in international commercial litigation and advises international corporates and global banks on a wide range of contentious matters including general commercial and financial disputes. Described by clients as an "exceptional strategist and tactician", he is a pre-eminent practitioner in the London market who is well-known for his involvement in some of the most high-profile and high-stakes complex disputes, including "bet the company" cases heard before London courts in the past decades. He has also built a market leading practice advising on cross-border disputes in the aviation sector. Due to the diverse nature of his practice and his standing as a trusted advisor to boards, he was recently appointed to co-lead the firm's Industrials, Transport and Mobility sector. He acted as President of the London Solicitors Litigation Association from 2018 until 2020.
Charles Adams
Charles Adams
Charles Adams is a dual qualified avvocato (Italy) and solicitor (England & Wales) who is widely recognised as one of Italy's leading banking and finance lawyers. Charles has advised banks and borrowers on some of the most significant syndicated loans, leveraged and project finance transactions in the Italian market over the past 20 years. He also advises clients on major Italian restructurings and insolvencies and is active in the Energy sector, having advised on some of Italy's landmark infrastructure and project financings and more recently on renewables transactions.
Howard Adler
Howard Adler
Howard Adler is Chairman of the Firm's Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Group in the Americas. Howard's practice focuses on the treatment of executive compensation and employee benefits matters in M&A transactions, designing and implementing equity-based, employment, separation, deferred compensation, change in control and similar compensation arrangements and advising boards of directors on fiduciary duties and governance matters with respect to their executive officers and directors.
Gianluca Bacchiocchi
Gianluca Bacchiocchi
Gianluca Bacchiocchi is a partner in the Global Financial Markets team with a focus in the energy and infrastructure sector. Gianluca has experience representing sponsors, issuers and underwriters in cross-border capital markets transactions as well as infrastructure clients and their sponsors in a range of domestic and international securitization matters, including Rule 144A/Reg S of government receivables and revolving credit facilities, private placements, and hybrid transactions.
Daniel Badea
Daniel Badea
Daniel Badea is a founding partner of Clifford Chance Badea and has more than 26years of market leading experience, having been involved in ground breaking banking, capital markets or project finance transactions and in some of the most complex white collar/strategic risk management cases in Romania, advising global or local financial institutions, financial investors or global corporate enterprises. Daniel is a founding member of the Romanian Education Trust, a non-profit organisation designed to support the further education of Romanian graduates in the top MBA schools in the world; he is also member of the Board of Save the Children Romania and, respectively, of the Board of Aspen Institute Romania.
Yong Bai
Yong Bai
Yong Bai is a partner in the Antitrust Group of Clifford Chance. He specializes in antitrust and competition issues and has more than 10 years of experience advising Chinese and multinational corporations on merger control, foreign investment regulatory matters and investigations across a range of industries. Yong joined Clifford Chance in 2010 and became a partner since 2018. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, he worked at the PRC's Ministry of Commerce. Yong is admitted in New York and also holds a PRC legal professional qualification certificate (currently not a PRC practising lawyer). Yong is a native Mandarin speaker and fluent in English.
Neil Barlow
Neil Barlow
Neil Barlow is a partner in Clifford Chance's Corporate/M&A practice, based in New York. He has a particular focus on private equity transactions. Neil specializes in advising on cross-border M&A and has a wealth of experience advising on M&A in North America, Europe and Latin America and is adept at executing domestic or cross-border transactions involving those geographies. Neil has spent time on secondment with CVC Capital Partners and with 3i, and has worked in the New York, London and Dubai offices of Clifford Chance.
Marc Bartholomy
Marc Bartholomy is the Head of the Corporate and Real Estate practices in Moscow. Marc Bartholomy has significant experience in all types of investment projects in Russia and the CIS, joint venture structures, acquisitions and disposals across a broad range of industries. He specialises in real estate projects, including acquisitions and disposals, construction, development, financing and leasing. He has been recognized as the most influential lawyer in the Russian real estate market by Top 100 Market Makers ranking for five years running (2012-2016).
Spencer Baylin
Spencer Baylin
Spencer Baylin specialises in cross-border and domestic M&A, with a particular focus on private equity transactions. Spencer advises international and domestic private equity houses, financial sponsors and corporates on a wide range of transactions across the M&A lifecycle, including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and disposals, takeovers, mergers, joint ventures, strategic investments, IPOs, restructurings and refinancings. He also advises on infrastructure, growth and real estate transactions for private equity houses and financial sponsors.
Lori Ann Bean
Lori Ann Bean
Lori Ann Bean specialises in the development and financing of infrastructure and energy projects worldwide. Lori Ann has an extensive broad-based experience in project and acquisition finance, representing export credit agencies, multilateral development institutions and other governmental and commercial lenders, as well as project sponsors and other project participants. Lori Ann advises clients in various other financing vehicles for infrastructure and energy transactions, including 144A offerings and other bond issuances, guarantee facilities, equity funds and corporate finance. Experience crosses a broad range of industry sectors, including power, oil and gas, transport infrastructure (airports, toll roads and rail), telecom and petrochemical
Marie Berard
Marie Berard
Marie Berard leads the London International Commercial Arbitration Group. With over 20 years of experience in international arbitration, she represents multinational corporations in complex disputes across a wide range of industries, including energy, oil & gas, construction, and finance. She has acted as counsel in arbitrations under all major institutional rules (including LCIA, ICC) as well as ad hoc proceedings under the UNCITRAL Rules. Marie also sits as an arbitrator. She is a Director of the Board and a Court Member of the LCIA and serves as Vice President of the LCIA European Users' Council. She previously held positions on the ICC UK Arbitration & ADR Committee and the ICC UK Selection Subcommittee. Recognised as a Global Leader by Who’s Who Legal Arbitration, Marie has been featured in the Legal 500 International Arbitration Powerlist UK and the Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Litigators. She is ranked in Chambers UK and Legal 500. Marie frequently speaks at international arbitration conferences and delivers guest lectures at leading universities.
Jeff Berman
Jeff Berman
Jeff Berman is a partner in the firm’s US Financial Services Regulatory Group, with a practice that focuses on regulatory matters involving US and non-US investment funds, asset managers, banking organizations and bank holding companies, and includes private equity and hedge fund formation and financial institutions M&A. Jeff has over 25 years’ experience with US bank and securities regulation. He advises clients on the operations of foreign banking organizations in the United States, capital adequacy rules and prudential standards, and regulatory approvals for acquisitions and new activities, as well as on compliance matters involving investment advisers, private offerings, and fund governance. Most recently, Jeff has been advising the firm’s global clients on the strategic impact of regulatory reform under the Dodd-Frank Act and the JOBS Act, including with respect to private equity and hedge fund marketing, investment adviser registration and reporting, Volcker Rule compliance, and enhanced supervision of systemically important banks.
Joshua Berman
Joshua Berman
Joshua Berman, a seasoned trial and appellate lawyer, has over twenty years of experience handling white collar and government investigations matters both in the private sector and in government. Josh represents and provides counsel to corporate clients, Boards of Directors and individuals in government, Congressional and internal investigations, civil litigation, information security, and securities enforcement proceedings. Josh has expertise in developing global compliance and training programs for companies, and handling due diligence in connection with anti-corruption and other potential fraud matters. 
Jay Bernstein
Jay Bernstein is Chair of the US REIT, Specialty Finance and Permanent Capital Vehicle Practices. He has also served as Chair of the Firm’s US Corporate Finance group for more than ten years. His practice is focused on the creation of innovative permanent capital vehicles. Jay represents clients in both domestic and international markets, sponsors, investors, investment banks, specialty finance companies, REITs and clean energy and other companies in their capital raising and merger and acquisition activities. He is recognized in the US market as a true innovator and the person to turn to when any real asset company is looking to break new ground or implement new strategies or market firsts. He has a long and successful track record of guiding clients through many truly transformative transactions. Over the past 20 years, he has participated in more than $50 billion in capital raising, fund formation, strategic joint ventures, platform formations and mergers and acquisitions for clients around the globe.
Benjamin Berringer
Ben Berringer represents  clients in government investigations and complex commercial litigation. He has specific experience in private fund litigation, as well as complex trading and market issues. Ben has represented individuals and corporations in connection with regulatory investigations before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the United States Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and numerous non-US regulators. Ben also has extensive experience representing and advising corporations on litigation and regulatory matters arising under US privacy and data protection laws.
Lindsay Bickerton
Lindsay Bickerton has a broad range of experience in complex commercial and financial services litigation and high net worth disputes, which are often cross-border in nature. Her clients include financial institutions, corporates and high net worth individuals. Lindsay regularly acts for major financial institutions on high value and reputationally significant litigation matters, often involving multiple jurisdictions and regulatory sensitivities. Lindsay also acts for ultra high net worth individuals in connection with cross-border succession and inheritance disputes, involving trust structures and substantial family owned businesses. In the aviation sector, she advises manufacturers, airlines, lessors and financiers on a range of contentious issues and disputes.  
Miles Binney
Miles Binney
Miles Binney has extensive international experience in derivatives and financial markets products. He is also a key contributor to the firm's international FinTech capabilities. His expertise across a broad range of asset classes, transaction types and jurisdictions offers a unique and highly valued package. Miles regularly advises on global and local financial regulatory developments and financial market infrastructure. Miles also has extensive experience in FinTech, with a particular interest in blockchain and crypto products. He regularly advises leading DLT technology firms, crypto derivative exchanges and other innovative businesses on global regulatory, trading and product development related matters. He has worked in our London and Singapore offices. He has spent time in-house in leading financial institutions, including client secondments in London to Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Man Group, as well completing an international secondment to Zurich.
Richard Blewett
Richard Blewett
Richard Blewett is a Partner in Clifford Chance's Antitrust Practice in Brussels. He recently relocated from Asia where he was head of the China Antitrust Practice. Richard has a wide range of experience on international merger and antitrust work and has key clients across a number of sectors including TMT, energy, commodities, retail, financial services, and transport. His experience and knowledge spans across Asia and the EU from his time spent in Beijing, Hong Kong, London and Brussels.
Charles-Henri Boeringer
Charles-Henri Boeringer
Charles-Henri Boeringer specialises in white collar crime matters. Over the last few years, he has assisted clients before criminal authorities and courts at all stages of proceedings, from investigation to final hearing, in very high profile matters involving frauds, corruption or market offences. From 2010 to 2012, he was seconded to our Hong Kong office where he was working with our Asia Anti-corruption practice. Charles-Henri has also extensive experience in commercial litigation. Charles-Henri is a member of our global Corruption Risk team. He is the Africa Practice Leader for Risks, Compliance, Investigations.
James Bole
James Bole
James Bole specialises in advising UK-listed and international corporate clients on the full range of corporate transactions, with a particular focus on public M&A transactions. For the last two years, James was seconded as Secretary to the Takeover Panel, the independent regulator of takeovers and other matters to which the City code applies. During his secondment, he acted as a senior regulator of the highest profile takeovers in the UK market, including the contested £25 billion takeover battle for Sky, and in formulating Takeover Panel policy.
Jonathan Bray
Jonathan Bray
Jonathan Bray specialises in international fund formation, secondaries, and advisory work in the debt, real estate debt, real estate and private equity sectors. His experience covers blind-pool funds, separate managed accounts and funds-of-one. In addition, Jonathan advises fund sponsors and investors on a range of fund-related products and transactions including co-investments, multi-currency and leveraged structures, secondary transactions including portfolio sales of fund interests, executive carried interest and co-investment arrangements, asset manager M&A, fund financings and open-ended funds. Jonathan also advises a number of significant institutional investors in connection with proposed private fund and separate account commitments.
Edward Bretherton
Edward Bretherton specialises in advising on the procurement, construction and related aspects of complex construction projects in the UK and internationally. Edward has particular experience in connection with UK development and social infrastructure projects and energy (conventional, renewable and nuclear) and infrastructure projects in the UK and internationally. He is a member of the Firm's Africa Group, and regularly advises on complex construction projects across the African continent, as well as in other emerging markets through Latin America and elsewhere.
David Brinton
David Brinton
David Brinton engages in a corporate and securities law practice focusing on mergers and acquisitions. David regularly represents sellers, purchasers and other parties in negotiated cross-border and domestic mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures and investment transactions as well as advising on a variety of financing transactions. David is experienced in public and private debt and equity offerings by both US and non-US companies with extensive experience advising funds and fund managers.
Sam Brown
Sam Brown
Sam Brown focuses on disputes in the energy, construction, engineering and technology sectors. Sam specialises in International Commercial Arbitration and has represented clients in arbitrations seated in a number of jurisdictions, conducted both under institutional rules (ICC, LCIA, SCC, LMAA) and ad hoc arbitrations under UNCITRAL rules and domestic arbitration legislation. He has also represented clients in the English High Court, Court of Appeal and UK Supreme Court. As well as acting for clients in formal dispute resolution proceedings, Sam also regularly provides advice on issues arising during the course of major construction and energy projects and assists clients with resolving disputes and claims at an early stage.
Clare Burgess
Clare Burgess
Clare is co-head of the Worldwide Projects group and co-head of the Energy Sector, with a particular focus on offshore wind projects, renewable portfolio transactions, hydrogen and other energy transition projects. She works on project development, financings and M&A in the sector. Clare acts for a broad range of market participants including sponsors, corporates, institutional investors, banks and multilaterals. Clare is a founder member of the firm's ESG Board and is an expert in sustainable finance. Her recent work includes advising on the financing of H2 Green Steel project in Sweden, advising AIP and PFA on the sale of a stake of their holding in the Walney Extension offshore wind farm, advising Renantis on the refinancing of renewable projects across Europe, and advising on the project bond refinancing of the Benban Solar Park in Egypt.
Alejandro E. Camacho
Alejandro E. Camacho has extensive experience in the area of cross-border capital markets transactions, particularly transactions involving issuers from emerging market countries. He has acted as counsel in connection with public and private international offerings of various types of securities including debt, equity and convertible securities of both public and private issuers. Alejandro has also been involved in several privatizations in Latin America. He has also acted as counsel in a variety of other international and domestic transactions including joint ventures, commercial lending, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital transactions.
Gareth Camp
Gareth Camp
Gareth Camp specialises in advising on public bids, private acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, group restructurings and other general corporate matters. Gareth has worked on a number of significant transactions for clients in the healthcare and consumer goods and retail sectors, many of which have had a cross-border element. During his professional career Gareth has worked in London, New York and Dubai and in 2011 was seconded to an international healthcare company headquartered in Europe.
Donald Carden
Donald Carden regularly advises multinational corporations, financial institutions, insurance companies and funds on issues of Federal and New York State income taxation, with a particular emphasis on corporate and partnership taxation and the tax aspects of structured finance transactions. Donald is a regular speaker on tax issues at industry events and is the author of numerous articles on tax issues. Since 2008, Donald has been recognized as a "Leading Lawyer" in Legal 500 and has been acknowledged as a leading practitioner in Chambers and the Tax Directors Handbook, and is a New York "Super Lawyer" for 2011.
Helen Carty
Helen Carty is the Head of the London Litigation and Dispute Resolution team and Co-Regional Practice Area Leader Litigation & Dispute Resolution for One Europe. Helen has significant experience of dealing with multi-jurisdictional matters. She is regularly called upon by major banks and financial institutions to act on their largest disputes. Helen's matters include defending mis-selling claims, acting for clients in relation to disputes arising under swaps and other industry standard documentation and co-ordinating and managing litigation for clients in a variety of overseas jurisdictions.
Angela Chan
Angela Chan
Angela Chan has almost two decades of experience advising on a broad range of debt capital markets transactions, including international bond offerings, medium term note programmes, regulatory capital, hybrid securities and equity-linked products such as convertible bonds and exchangeable bonds. In recent years, Angela is particularly active in advising Chinese clients on their offshore bond issuances, including Chinese state-owned and privately owned enterprises, as well as prominent state-owned banks and other financial institutions.
Mark Chan
Mark Chan
Mark is admitted in New South Wales, Australia, England and Wales and Hong Kong. He specialises in a wide range of debt and equity-linked capital markets products. Mark advises both issuers and underwriters on standalone debt issuances, medium term note, certificate of deposits and commercial paper programmes, convertible and exchangeable bonds, corporate hybrid capital and regulatory (bank and insurance) capital products, ESG-related issuances, liability management exercises (including tender and exchange offers and consent solicitations and debt restructurings) as well as bespoke private capital markets financings.
Alexander Chester
Alexander Chester
Alexander Chester specialises in international fund formation, secondaries, and advisory work in the private equity, debt, real estate, infrastructure and fund of funds sectors. Alex's experience covers blind pool funds, secondary transactions, general partner-led restructurings, co-investments and separate accounts. Alex's experience also includes advising on carried interest and executive co-investment arrangements, as well as various internal matters relating to fund managers. He has advised on a number of acquisitions and spin-outs of fund management businesses. He advises managers on the establishment of private funds, including in respect of structuring, marketing, fund terms, investor negotiations and closings, as well as issues arising over the life of the fund. He also advises a number of prominent institutional investors in connection with their proposed commitments to private funds.
Ying Chiang Chong
Ying Chiang Chong
Ying Chiang Chong specialises in debt and equity capital markets transactions for companies and real estate investment trusts in Singapore and across South East Asia, and is a member of the Global Financial Markets group. Ying Chiang has extensive experience in international debt and equity capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, high yield debt issues and tender offers and has executed transactions across a broad range of sectors throughout South East Asia. She is recognised by Chambers Asia as an Up and Coming lawyer and by the Legal 500 Asia Pacific as a Rising Star in the domestic and foreign firms categories, respectively. Ying Chiang is an active supporter of diversity and inclusion, and is a founding member of the Clifford Chance Singapore women's network.
Timothy Cleary
Timothy Cleary
Timothy Cleary specialises in structured finance and bank capital management. He has a particular focus on synthetic securitisation and other credit risk mitigation and risk transfer transactions, acting for banks and investors across Europe, North America and Asia. Timothy also has broad experience in all aspects of OTC derivatives, in particular in connection with asset-backed securitisation, whole business securitisation, project and asset finance and real estate finance, as well as the repackaging of derivative exposures and securities financing transactions. He regularly advises industry bodies such as the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and Prime Collateralised Securities (PCS) in relation to the evolving regulatory landscape for securitisation in the EU.
Melissa Coakley
Melissa Coakley leads the London Restructuring and Insolvency team. Melissa advises a broad spectrum of stakeholders on consensual and non-consensual cross border and domestic restructurings, work outs, reorganisations and formal insolvencies. Melissa's commercialism, high level of technical knowledge and strategic thinking has seen her acting across sectors (including infrastructure, retail, transport, telecommunications, manufacturing, oil and gas, financial services, commodities), across geographies, engaging with differing regulatory environments and legal systems (including 5 years spent on secondment in the Middle East), and for a wide variety of stakeholders: corporate borrowers, funds, banks, insolvency officeholders, government, private equity sponsors and material trade creditors.
Remus Codreanu
Remus Codreanu
Remus Codreanu is a Partner with a broad and in-depth experience in advising and representing important Romanian and international companies on various types of areas such as: litigation & arbitration (he advised and represented important Romanian and international companies in more than 1,000 domestic, cross-border, as well as international litigation and arbitration cases), employment, public and administrative law, including public procurement, intellectual property (especially, trademark and copyright’s law), construction, energy, insolvencies, media law and white-collar crime matters. Remus also has extensive experience on PPP and procurement related matters, legally advising clients in all stages of processes - from pre-qualification and tender related preparation, selection and negotiation through to award or related disputes arising therefrom. He is nevertheless expert in employment-related matters since he has been actively involved inter alia in negotiations of collective labour contracts, on complex restructuring processes (e.g., collective dismissals, TUPE, etc.), as well as (re)designing internal policies and procedures and also represented numerous companies before the Romanian employment courts on a broad range of employment issues such as: labour agreements, dismissals of top and middle management employees, discrimination & harassment claims, etc.
Evan Cohen
Evan Cohen
Evan Cohen has over twenty five years of experience representing clients in the areas of acquisition and leveraged finance, project finance, syndicated lending and restructurings. His clients include commercial and investment banks, borrowers, institutional investors and project sponsors. Evan’s extensive experience spans multiple jurisdictions including the Americas, UK, Europe and Asia. He spent eight years in Asia leading the US Banking practice and heading up the Asian Distressed Debt practice
Ness Cohen
Ness Cohen
Ness Cohen is a partner in Clifford Chance's Real Estate group and is the Chairman of the Firm's Real Estate practice in the Americas, based in New York. He specializes in real estate private equity and joint ventures as well as acquisitions, dispositions and financings involving real estate. His work also includes representing REITs, investment banks, insurance companies, real estate funds and developers in real estate acquisitions, dispositions, financings, and real estate related transactions.
Xavier Comaills
Xavier Comaills
Xavier Comaills specialises in the formation and fundraising of private equity investment funds and in particular concerning French and European funds' managers. He has extensive experience in primary fundraising and is also leader on secondary transactions including sale of portfolio interests but also GP-led secondary transactions. Xavier also advises institutional limited partners with respect to their investments in private equity and real estate funds. Xavier is also an expert on carried interest structuring.
Clifford Cone
Clifford Cone
Cliff Cone is a Partner in the New York office of Clifford Chance and the co-head of the U.S. Funds and Investment Management Practice. He focuses primarily on the investment management sector and has a broad base of expertise advising alternative investment managers, registered investment companies, BDCs, specialty finance companies and boards of directors with respect to all aspects of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Cliff has extensive experience with the organization and ongoing representation of U.S. registered open-end and closed-end investment companies, hedge funds, private equity funds, commodity funds, exchange-traded funds and business development companies. Cliff also regularly consults with investment advisers on registration and ongoing compliance and disclosure issues, including compliance with the rules of the New York Stock Exchange and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA). Cliff served on the Committee on Investment Regulation of the New York City Bar.
Alex Cook
Alex Cook is an experienced corporate, private equity and joint venture lawyer with a particular focus on M&A across the energy and infrastructure, TMT, pharmaceutical and banking sectors. He is the managing partner in Prague as well as being the head of both the corporate practice and the office's Slovak Desk. After over 17 years based in the CEE region, Alex has acted on transactions in most jurisdictions in the CEE/SEE region. He is also highly regarded for his English law expertise on cross-border transactions.
Jim Cotins
Jim Cotins
Jim Cotins is a partner in the Structured Capital Markets Group of Clifford Chance, based in New York. He has extensive experience in structured finance, including all aspects of the securitization of loans and securities backed by commercial real estate, with a primary focus on CMBS, including multi-seller conduits, single borrower securitizations, CRE CLOs, net-lease securitizations and single-family rental securitizations (including both single borrower and multi-borrower deals). Jim regularly represents all the main participants in commercial real estate-related securitizations, including issuers, underwriters, collateral managers, loan sellers and a nationally recognized statistical rating agency organization. He also represents investors in the acquisition and financing of all types of commercial real estate-related assets, including whole loans, B-Notes, participations, mezzanine loans, preferred equity, bank loans, CMBS and REIT debt.
Alexandre Couturier
Alexandre Couturier
Alexandre Couturier has over 15 years of experience in real estate transactions and financing, advising on asset and share property acquisitions, disposals and financing, cross-border and domestic portfolios, sale and leaseback schemes, and restructuring of commercial and industrial groups involving real estate assets. Additionally, Alexandre has particular expertise in the formation of real estate investment funds including French REITs (OPCI), joint ventures and private equity-type funds. He also routinely advises in leasing matters and in real estate development transactions. He has deep knowledge of the hospitality sector.
Stella Cramer
Stella Cramer
Stella Cramer is the APAC Head of Clifford Chance Tech Group and a technology and data lawyer based in Singapore. Stella advises on technology matters across the Asia Pacific region. She specialises in complex digital and transformational technology projects, platform collaborations, and technology transactions, often involving disruptive technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence. She has deep experience advising clients on global data compliance programmes, the commercialisation of data and high-profile cyber incidents. She leads high profile cyberbreach response for clients, coordinating the management of an incident and leading the regulatory investigations across multiple jurisdictions, working closely with senior management. She also advises on significant Fintech projects and was involved in the establishment of industry sandboxes in Singapore.
James Cranston
James Cranston
James Cranston is a commercial litigator with a broad range of experience including in commercial contract and company law disputes. James has also worked on several arbitration and investigatory matters. James works particularly with financial investor clients, such as private equity houses and sovereign wealth funds. James also has significant experience working with clients in the sport sector, having spent time on secondment at a governing body and a global sports franchise. James co-leads the firm's Sport Industry Group in London.
Simon Crown
Simon Crown
Simon Crown specialises in financial regulation, with a particular focus on funds and asset management, M&A and reorganisations involving financial institutions, and the fintech and payments sector. - Simon is a leading adviser on the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). As well as taking part in the UK regulator's legal experts group on AIFMD, Simon advises a large number of asset managers, fund administrators, depositaries and valuers on AIFMD issues. - Simon also regularly advises asset managers on other regulatory issues, such as fund structuring, distribution, licensing, client money and governance. - Simon has extensive experience in advising on acquisitions and disposals of regulated businesses. - Simon also regularly advises in the areas of structured finance (regulation of securitised receivables), market abuse, client money and safeguarding, and licence perimeter issues. - Simon is co-head of the firm's Fintech practice, and has a significant number of clients in the payments sector. - Simon is listed as a Leading Individual in Legal 500 UK for Financial Services: Non-Contentious Regulatory and is also ranked in Chambers.
Lounia Czupper
Lounia Czupper
Lounia Czupper specialises in banking, finance and debt capital markets transactions. Lounia advises both borrowers and lenders on all types of finance transactions, including syndicated loans, leveraged and acquisition finance, real estate finance and restructurings. Lounia also advises issuers and managers on debt capital markets transactions, including Eurobond issues, EMTN and CP programmes and various types of structured debt transactions. As part of her regulatory practice, Lounia advises credit institutions, investment funds and various other entities on regulatory matters and product development.
Christopher David
Christopher David
Christopher David specialises in representing both companies and individuals in white collar crime matters mainly involving allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption, insider dealing, tax evasion, cartels or money laundering. These matters predominantly involve investigations undertaken by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) or the National Crime Agency (NCA), as well as overseas agencies, such as the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as well as European agencies including the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service(“FIOD”) and Italian Guardia di Finanza. In addition, Chris has considerable experience in cross-border corporate and internal investigations on behalf of multi-national corporations and major financial services clients. These investigations often involve multiple jurisdictions, as well as compliance issues and risk management. Chris also has experience working as a member of a DOJ-appointed independent Compliance Monitorship team. Christopher is the co-author of “A Practical Guide to INTERPOL and Red Notices” published by Bloomsbury Professional and advises individuals regarding the procedure for applying for the deletion of red notices. Christopher is a trustee and board member of Appeal, a charity dedicated to overturning miscarriages of justice.
Alexandra Davidson
Alexandra Davidson specialises in advising investment managers on the establishment and offering of private funds, together with the legal, regulatory and commercial issues relevant to the funds' operation. Her experience spans a broad range of products and strategies, from large global private equity funds to smaller, bespoke products. Alexandra also represents a number of prestigious institutional investors in connection with proposed private fund commitments. Alexandra is based in London but has also worked as a Foreign Legal Consultant in the firm's New York office, advising various North American clients on legal and regulatory matters.
Caroline Dawson
Caroline Dawson
Caroline Dawson specialises in advising major global financial institutions and other market participants, on financial market regulation, mergers and acquisitions in the financial sector and securities and derivatives transactions. Caroline Dawson specialises in advising major global financial institutions and other market participants, on financial market regulation, mergers and acquisitions in the financial sector and securities and derivatives transactions. Caroline is a member of TheCityUK’s Switzerland MAG, a member of the International Business & Diplomatic Exchange’s Financial Services Advisory Group and regularly participates in ad hoc working groups established by the Bank of England, PRA and FCA. She was seconded to the EMEA equities team at Goldman Sachs in 2009 and to the Bank of England in 2014. Caroline has been named as one of the top Financial Services Regulatory practitioners in the UK in the Euromoney’s ‘Women in Business Law Expert’ Guide every year since 2020, and also as one of Global Banking Regulation Review’s “45 under 45” leading next generation banking regulation specialists from around the world. Caroline is listed as a 'Next Generation Partner' in the Legal 500 UK and as 'Up and Coming' in Chambers Financial Services: Non-Contentious Regulatory rankings.
Gareth Deiner
Gareth Deiner
Gareth Deiner is an English and New York qualified lawyer whose practice covers debt and equity capital markets transactions across the South and Southeast Asian region. Gareth advises sovereign and corporate issuers, private equity sponsors, financial investors, real estate investment trusts and investment banks on their most complex and strategic capital markets transactions and capital reorganisations. He is also a noted expert on ESG-related solutions and sustainable finance transactions, having advised on numerous award-winning and market-first transactions, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sector.
Marie-Isabelle Delleur
Marie-Isabelle Delleur
Marie-Isabelle works as counsel and arbitrator in commercial and investment arbitration disputes in a variety of fields including energy, mining, construction, infrastructure, public concessions, transportation, distribution, telecommunications and international investments under the ICC, ICSID, LCIA and UNCITRAL Rules, with a special focus on disputes in Latin America, Europe and Africa. She has particular experience advising clients in disputes arising in the context of internal compliance investigations and cooperation with criminal authorities in several jurisdictions and advises clients on matters of ESG compliance. Marie-Isabelle also assists clients with the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards in France. Prior to joining the firm, Marie-Isabelle practiced for five years in another Magic Circle firm in Paris.
David DiBari
David DiBari
David D. DiBari is the practice area leader for US Litigation & Dispute Resolution, the US lead Partner for the Firm's Global Risk Team, and the Managing Partner of Clifford Chance’s Washington, D.C. office. He has over 25 years of experience in complex civil, regulatory and criminal matters arising under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, US economic sanctions and export controls, US securities and banking laws and regulations, and other laws and regulations affecting the conduct of international business. David has extensive experience in defending global companies in multi-jurisdictional investigations and litigation, advising companies on crisis management, and in developing and implementing cross-border risk mitigation and compliance programs. David has represented both domestic and multi-national companies before the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve, New York Department of Financial Services, Department of State, Department of Treasury, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, US Congress and other Federal and state authorities and SROs
Glen Donath
Glen Donath
Glen Donath is in the firm's White Collar and Regulatory practice. His practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, governmental enforcement actions, internal investigations, health care fraud and abuse, corporate compliance and complex civil litigation. A highly regarded former federal prosecutor, Glen has successfully represented health care providers, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies and various other corporations in an array of complex civil and criminal proceedings, including matters arising under securities, tax, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), environmental, healthcare, False Claims Act, bribery, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), anti-money laundering and other criminal statutes. He also has successfully defended many prominent corporate officers and high-ranking public officials in similar matters. Additionally, he has conducted internal investigations for major corporations and their audit committees. Glen previously served for a number of years as a Senior Assistant US Attorney in the Fraud and Public Corruption Section of the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, where he conducted grand jury investigations and prosecuted cases involving a wide variety of white collar matters, including health care fraud, money laundering, mail and wire fraud, tax offenses, bankruptcy fraud, and government corruption. During his time as a federal prosecutor, Glen first-chaired dozens of trials involving a wide range of criminal offenses to successful verdicts. He received numerous Department of Justice Special Achievement Awards for sustained superior performance.Glen appears frequently in the media as an authority on white collar criminal defense and government investigations. Recently he has appeared on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront, and NPR's Morning Edition. He has also been quoted in various publications including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Bloomberg Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, LA Times, AP, Reuters, and many others.
Daniel Drabkin
Daniel Drabkin
Daniel Drabkin is a partner in Clifford Chance's Funds and Investment Management group, based in New York. Daniel specializes in the representation of sponsors in all aspects of fund formation, structuring, marketing and operating alternative investment funds, with significant experience in real estate, private credit, private equity and fund-of fund strategies. Daniel also represents institutional investors in negotiating LP-side investments into funds, co-investments and other managed accounts, and has significant experience with secondaries transactions (both buy-side and sell-side) involving the purchase and sale of mature fund interests. Daniel has a broad spectrum of legal experience, having previously worked in-house as corporate counsel to a public real estate and investment management firm.
Anne Drakeford
Anne Drakeford
Anne Drakeford specialises in derivatives and structured finance. Anne has worked on a full range of financial market products and transactional securities, including OTC fixed income and equity based derivatives, asset backed securities, credit and equity-linked notes and synthetic CDOs. Anne also has extensive experience in the derivatives related aspects of loan finance, securitisations and covered bond transactions. In addition, Anne has advised a wide range of clients on collateral arrangements and security issues. She has also managed large scale documentation reviews both for major banking clients as part of their internal risk management exercises and for corporate clients in the context of M&A transactions.
Dorian Drew
Dorian Drew
Dorian Drew is a solicitor-advocate and former barrister, specialising in investigations and regulatory enforcement action, as well as financial services litigation. Dorian has represented clients during investigations and disciplinary action brought by domestic and international regulators, including the FSA, SFO, various exchanges, SEC and US DOJ. Dorian has spent nine months on secondment in the Enforcement Division of the FSA. Dorian is also Co-Chair of Clifford Chance's Armed Forces Network.
Henri d\'Ursel
Henri d\'Ursel
Henri d'Ursel is head of the Brussels real estate practice. Henri's expertise encompasses all aspects of real estate law, including acquisitions, sales, reorganisations and developments. He focuses on significant transactions for leading market players in both the domestic and international markets. Henri's work products cover all stages of the property life cycle. His client base includes large international real estate investment companies, funds, and hospitality and leisure players, as well as family investment trusts.
Francis Edwards
Francis Edwards
Francis Edwards is the head of our Derivatives and Structured Finance Practice in Greater China and a market leading derivatives and structured finance specialist. Francis specialises in all forms of derivatives, financial market products and structured finance, including repackagings, credit derivatives, equity derivatives and other OTC derivatives, structured products, securities lending and repos, as well as netting, collateral, clearing, custody and credit risk management issues. His focus is on complex transactional matters and innovative market developments in Asia Pacific. Francis also regularly advises on Hong Kong regulatory matters and on issues arising from the global OTC derivatives regulatory reforms. Francis is a regular speaker on derivatives and regulatory matters, including for ISDA and other trade associations.
Paul Ellison
Paul Ellison
Paul specialises in advising on UK financial services regulatory matters. He advises a broad client base on a wide range of matters including the regulation of private funds, providing advice on structuring, the regulatory aspects of corporate transactions, FCA authorisations and variations of permission, the ongoing compliance obligations of FCA authorised firms and assisting firms with their response to FCA enquiries. Paul has recently been advising on the impact of changes to EU and international fund marketing rules for private fund managers, the potential impact of AIFMD 2 and UK regulatory divergence on the market and the impact of key ESG disclosure legislation on fund managers and other industry participants, including the EU's SFDR and the UK's SDR proposals. Paul also participates on industry bodies, including the BVCA regulatory committee. Paul is listed as a Leading Individual in Chambers UK for Financial Services: Non-Contentious Regulatory.
Bruce Embley
Bruce Embley
Bruce Embley specialises in cross-border and domestic M&A for a wide range of clients with a particular focus on financial sponsors and international corporations. Bruce is an M&A partner based in London and has worked with QIA for over 15 years on a wide range of projects. He is well regarded for advising on complex and high-profile M&A transactions, including two of the five largest M&A deals of all time (AB InBev/SABMiller and Royal Dutch Shell). His experience also includes restructuring matters involving M&A, such as debt-for-equity swaps, acquisitions out of Chapter 11, and distressed M&A.
Thomas England
Thomas England
Thomas England has more than 15 years of experience advising financial investors, financial institutions and corporate clients on finance and restructuring transactions across Asia-Pacific. Thomas specialises in complex financing and restructuring transactions across a broad range of products including acquisition finance (including portfolio acquisitions and disposals); restructuring transactions; energy and resources financings (including reserve-based lending); asset-backed financings and other trade finance; direct lending, real estate financing, funds financing, margin lending and other structured finance, as well as syndicated lending. Tom has a broad exposure to a number of jurisdictions in the region, with a particular focus on India and Indonesia.
Andrew Epstein
Andrew Epstein
Andrew Epstein’s practice focuses primarily on public and private capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate finance and general corporate transactions. Andrew represents issuers, underwriters, initial purchasers/placement agents and purchasers in public and private capital markets transactions and buyers, sellers and financial advisors in M&A transactions. He has experience across a broad range of industries, including specialty finance, asset management, real estate and real estate investment trusts (REITs), hospitality and healthcare. Andrew has also advised clients in IPOs, follow-on equity and debt offerings, pre-IPO/144A offerings, Regulation S offerings and other private placements. Mr. Epstein has also advised institutional clients in the structuring of real estate opportunity funds and the continuing investment activities of these funds.
Mariana Estévez
Mariana Estévez
Mariana Estévez experience has focused primarily on hybrid financings and debt capital markets transactions in Latin America. Mariana’s experience includes representing domestic and international financial institutions applying innovative structures, such as securitizations and bank-bond structures, to finance energy and infrastructure projects throughout Latin America. She also has extensive experience representing issuers and financial institutions acting as initial purchasers or placement agents in high yield and investment grade debt offerings and liability management transactions by corporates, sovereigns and quasi-sovereigns in Latin America.
David Evans
David Evans
David Evans has been involved in energy and finance matters his entire career, including positions as Chevron's chief natural gas lawyer, Vice President and General Counsel of an independent power developer, and as a partner in two major law  firms. His current practice primarily involves representing lenders to, investors in, and developers of energy and infrastructure projects. He also advises clients on energy regulatory matters in the United States, including the Federal Power Act, the Natural Gas Act, the Atomic Energy Act , and the Energy Policy Act.
Fergus Evans
Fergus Evans
Fergus Evans is a partner in Clifford Chance's aviation finance and leasing practice and has extensive experience in various types of financings, including asset and structured finance (including tax leasing), syndicated lending, export credit agency backed financing, debt trading and restructuring. He also heads both the Thailand focus group for the firm, having been Office Managing Partner of our Bangkok office for 12 years, and our Vietnam focus group. Fergus is currently based in Singapore and has worked in several offices for Clifford Chance, including in London, Hanoi, Hong Kong and Bangkok.
Richard Evans
Richard Evans works in Clifford Chance’s Global Asset Finance Group. He acts for borrowers and financiers on a wide range of asset finance transactions, specializing in aviation. His experience covers a wide range of financing structures, including full and limited recourse operating lease financings, direct airline financings, Japanese, French and Spanish tax lease structures, PDP financings, unsecured term loans and structured capital market transactions, as well as leasing and sale transactions. Richard is currently located in London but previously worked for two years in Clifford Chance’s Singapore office, as well as spending a year on secondment at GECAS.
Jake Farquharson
Jake Farquharson
Jake Farquharson focuses primarily on domestic and international capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate finance and general corporate transactions. Jake represents sponsors, issuers and investment banks in their public and private capital raising activities. He advises clients across a range of industries, including real estate and real estate investment trusts (REITs), FIBRAs, specialty finance, energy, infrastructure and hospitality. Since 2010, Jake has participated in more than US$8 billion of capital raising transactions, including IPOs, follow-on equity and debt offerings, pre-IPO financings, 144A and Regulation S offerings and other private placements.
Benjamin Fisher
Benjamin Fisher specializes in cross-border asset finance transactions within the aviation sector and has extensive experience advising clients on a wide range of transaction types including secured and unsecured debt financing, portfolio acquisitions and sales, securitizations, restructurings, operating leases, finance leases, export credit agency-supported financings and joint ventures. Prior to joining the New York office, Benjamin worked for a number of years in the London and Hong Kong offices. He is dually qualified to practice in New York and England and Wales.
Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher specialises in digital infrastructure. With over 15 years of experience in the industry, he advises corporates, investors and regulators on a broad range of commercial and corporate transactions, alongside complex industry issues. Having worked in private practice, in-house for some of the world’s largest telecommunications operators, and within broader commercial roles, Mark brings in-depth commercial, operational, legal and organisational understanding across a diverse range of client requirements and industry issues.
Terence Foo
Terence Foo
Terence Foo has over 20 years of experience in advising on cross-border M&A and joint ventures, including advising multinational clients on inbound investments in China, as well as advising Chinese enterprises on their outbound investments. Apart from Terence's cross-border M&A experience, he also heads the China private equity practice and has extensive experience in advising private equity and sovereign wealth funds on investments in China. Terence joined Clifford Chance's London office in 1999 and became a partner since 2009. Terence is admitted in Singapore and England & Wales. Terence speaks Mandarin and English.
Eddie Frastai
Eddie Frastai
Eddie Frastai is a partner in Clifford Chance's Real Estate group, based in New York. Eddie specializes in advising real estate owners, developers, operators, managers, investors and financial institutions on a broad range of real estate transactions pertaining to large office, hotel, retail, residential and mixed-use projects, including sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial mortgage, mezzanine and construction financing, debt restructurings and discounted payoffs. Eddie has been a guest lecturer at New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate and a panelist at the Law and Business Association of New York University School of Law.
John Friel
John Friel
John Friel is a partner in Clifford Chance's Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice, based in New York. John represents corporate and financial institution clients in complex litigation and government enforcement actions. His practice focuses on antitrust, securities, and derivatives matters, both criminal and civil, and he has particular expertise in cross-border matters. John represents clients before a number of US agencies, including the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as well as numerous enforcement agencies around the world.
Javier García de Enterría
Javier García de Enterría specialises in corporate matters and equity capital markets. Javier has a broad experience in all types of M&A transactions, with a special focus on takeover bids, corporate restructurings, corporate governance, regulation of listed companies and ECM transactions, as IPOs or rights issues. A former Corporate and Commercial law professor, he has participated in different committees of experts appointed by the Spanish CNMV, in matters as the corporate regulation for the issuance of securities by listed companies or the activity of the proxy advisors in the Spanish market.
Steven Gatti
Steven Gatti
Steven Gatti specializes in regulatory enforcement proceedings before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other securities regulators, and in other regulatory matters within the financial services sector, including internal investigations. Steve advises multi-national broker-dealers, asset managers, and other financial services companies with respect to financial markets and trading regulation, compliance, the development of new products, and financial institution mergers and acquisitions.
Anthony Giustini
Anthony Giustini
Tony Giustini is the senior partner of our global energy, infrastructure and projects practices. His global practice covers investment, development and finance transactions in the power, renewables, sustainability, clean hydrogen, oil and gas, petrochemical, mining, and infrastructure sectors. He served for years as head of the firm's Worldwide Projects Group and Africa Group. Tony is also the leader of the Clean Hydrogen Taskforce (CHT), a group of Clifford Chance lawyers around the globe following the latest in clean H2 regulation, transaction structuring and market developments. Over more than three decades, Tony has represented developers, investors and lenders in many multisource, complex energy, infrastructure and industrial projects in a variety of sectors, in Europe, Africa and other emerging markets. These include oil and gas pipelines, renewables (including geothermal), gas (including renewable natural gas) and coal fired power plants, LNG, mining and transportation projects. Most recently, he has led or worked on teams assisting clients on several (including GW-scale) clean H2 matters, including in Spain, France, The Netherlands, Morocco and Namibia. As the CHT leader, Tony brainstorms with market players across the upstream, midstream and downstream of the emerging clean H2 value chain, including developers, offtakers, regulators, investors, and lenders.
Anthony Giustini
Anthony Giustini
Tony Giustini is the senior partner of our global energy, infrastructure and projects practices. His global practice covers investment, development and finance transactions in the power, renewables, sustainability, clean hydrogen, oil and gas, petrochemical, mining, and infrastructure sectors. He served for years as head of the firm's Worldwide Projects Group and Africa Group. Tony is also the leader of the Clean Hydrogen Taskforce (CHT), a group of Clifford Chance lawyers around the globe following the latest in clean H2 regulation, transaction structuring and market developments. Over more than three decades, Tony has represented developers, investors and lenders in many multisource, complex energy, infrastructure and industrial projects in a variety of sectors, in Europe, Africa and other emerging markets. These include oil and gas pipelines, renewables (including geothermal), gas (including renewable natural gas) and coal fired power plants, LNG, mining and transportation projects. Most recently, he has led or worked on teams assisting clients on several (including GW-scale) clean H2 matters, including in Spain, France, The Netherlands, Morocco and Namibia. As the CHT leader, Tony brainstorms with market players across the upstream, midstream and downstream of the emerging clean H2 value chain, including developers, offtakers, regulators, investors, and lenders.
Jessica Gladstone
Jessica Gladstone is a partner and solicitor-advocate specialising in international arbitration, commercial and public law litigation and public international law. Widely recognised as "one of the brightest talents of her generation" (Chambers UK), she advises on international trade and investment, immunities, economic sanctions and human rights. Jessica has represented multinational corporations, financial institutions, international organisations, states and individuals before arbitral tribunals and domestic and international courts, including the Privy Council and the European Court of Human Rights. An accomplished advocate, she has acted in some of the most complex international and commercial disputes, and she is a trusted adviser on risk and reputation management, including political risk, business and human rights and wider ESG issues. A former legal adviser for the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Jessica has experience negotiating treaties, and representing the UK at the United Nations, the Council of Europe and in other international institutions. Beyond her practice as counsel, she also sits as arbitrator. Jessica is a member of the Board of Save the Children UK and a co-founder and trustee of Advocates for International Development.
Janice Goh
Janice Goh
*Cavenagh Law LLP and Clifford Chance Pte Ltd are registered in a Formal Law Alliance under the name Clifford Chance Asia. Janice specialises in commercial dispute resolution with particular emphasis on contentious financial regulatory and corporate investigations and enforcement, regulatory compliance matters and white collar crime including market misconduct and anti-bribery. Janice has advised on some of the most complex and high-profile cross-jurisdictional regulatory investigations in recent years, including the LIBOR/FX benchmark investigations and anti-money laundering investigations in relation to the 1MDB scandal. Janice also advises regularly on employment law, and is particularly experienced in dealing with employment issues in the context of investigations. Janice has been recognised by the Singapore Business Review as one of "Singapore's most influential lawyers aged 40 and under". Janice practised in Hong Kong with Clifford Chance before moving to Singapore.
Megan Gordon
Megan Gordon
Megan Gordon's work encompasses a broad range of regulatory matters arising under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), US anti-money laundering (AML) and economic sanctions laws and regulations, export controls, privacy and US data protection laws and regulations. She advises clients on how to manage risk exposure in a wide-variety of legal areas affecting companies and financial institutions conducting international business. She also advises multinational companies in connection with transactional risks and in designing and implementing their compliance programs.
James Gouwar
Jim Gouwar is a partner in the Tax, Pensions & Employment group in New York. His practice concentrates on the tax aspects of structured finance transactions such as mortgage- and asset-backed transactions, collateralized loan and debt obligations (cash and synthetic) and real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs). Jim has been involved in the development of innovative securitization structures and has worked with a broad range of financial assets. Jim has experience with private equity funds, hedge funds, regulated investment companies, and other pooled investment vehicles.
Jim Gouwar
Jim Gouwar
Jim Gouwar's practice concentrates on the tax aspects of structured finance transactions such as mortgage- and asset-backed transactions, collateralized loan and debt obligations (cash and synthetic) and real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs). Jim has been involved in the development of a number of innovative securitization structures and has worked with a broad range of financial assets. Jim has experience with private equity funds, hedge funds, regulated investment companies, and other pooled investment vehicles.
Pierre Goyat
Pierre Goyat specializes in the tax aspects of domestic and cross-border transactions (M&A, private equity) as well as fund and carried interest structuring. He also advises corporate executives on profit-sharing and management incentive plans. Pierre is a graduate of HEC Paris (Grande Ecole Program, 2011), of Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne university (Master's in Law, 2012), and of Cornell University (Juris Doctor, 2012). He joined Clifford Chance Paris' Tax team in 2019, after having practiced at a leading French law firm from 2013 to 2019. Pierre is a member of the Paris bar.
Paul Greenwell
Paul Greenwell
Paul Greenwell specialises in asset and structured finance, in particular, in relation to the PRC and Japanese markets, and has extensive experience acting for financiers (debt and equity) and lessors in all aspects of aircraft finance and leasing including limited recourse and structured financing, commercial debt financing (including syndicated lending), securitisation of receivables, export credit financing, portfolio transactions (including multi-aircraft purchases and lease novations), corporate acquisitions and disposals, sale and leasebacks, tax leases, finance leases, operating leases, leasing joint ventures and airline defaults, insolvencies and restructurings and aircraft repossession.
Kelly Gregory
Kelly Gregory
Kelly Gregory is a partner in the Corporate Group of Clifford Chance. With nearly 20 years of on the ground experience in China, Kelly specialises in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, disposals, reorganisations and general corporate advisory matters. Her clients include both multinational and Chinese corporations. Kelly has extensive experience advising clients across a broad range of industries, including consumer goods & retail, energy, technology and industrials. Kelly joined Clifford Chance in 2004 and became a partner since 2011. Kelly is admitted in England and Wales and Western Australia. Kelly is a native English speaker and fluent in Chinese and French.
Naomi Griffin
Naomi Griffin
With over 20 years' experience in her legal career, Naomi has acted for clients across a range of sectors and industries on complex commercial litigation, class actions and regulatory investigations. She has experience litigating in the Federal Court and Supreme Courts of NSW and Victoria as well as in the Queens Bench division in the UK (being admitted as a solicitor in NSW and the High Court of Australia and in England and Wales). She has advised clients in parliamentary inquiries and follow-on litigation to such inquiries. Naomi is Co-Chair of the firm's global Class Actions and Group Litigation Group, Co-Chair of the Innovation & Best Delivery Committee for APAC and a member of the global ESG Risk working group. Naomi previously worked for a top tier Australian firm, in-house at a global bank and in-house at a wealth manager. She has training and experience as a legal project manager and regularly integrates technology into her team's project delivery. Naomi is highly regarded by clients for her technical skills and trial experience. She earned her Masters of Business Administration from Warwick Business School, Warwick University, her Masters of Law from the University of New South Wales and her Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Science from the University of Newcastle (with an emphasis on chemistry). Naomi is a passionate supporter of the firm's Accelerate network promoting greater diversity and inclusion.
Mark Grime
Mark Grime
Mark Grime advises on complex and high-stakes antitrust / competition law matters and investigations, including in relation to merger control, cartels and unilateral conduct. His practice focuses particularly on advising clients in respect of antitrust issues and obtaining regulatory approvals for large (and contentious) transactions. Prior to joining Clifford Chance Mark worked in the Enforcement and Mergers divisions of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission. He is dual qualified in Australia and New York.
Benjamin Harding
Benjamin Harding
Benjamin Harding is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Benjamin primarily advises private investment fund sponsors in relation to the structuring and establishment of investment arrangements across a broad range of alternative investment strategies, with particular focus on real estate and infrastructure. Benjamin advises on a wide range of investment arrangements. In addition to traditional fund structures, he routinely advises on consortia, separately managed accounts, co-investments and joint ventures. He advises throughout the entire life cycle of an investment arrangement. Benjamin has addressed a broad range of other transactions relating to private investment funds including secondary transactions, associated carried interest and co-investment plans, fund restructurings and the acquisition and disposal of underlying fund assets.
Cameron Hassall
Cameron Hassall
Cameron specialises in corporate M&A, private equity, aviation, energy and infrastructure (including energy transition), technology and banking disputes. Cameron has more than 20 years of experience of both litigation and arbitration across APAC. He is a partner of and maintains active practices in both our Hong Kong and Australian offices. Cameron has been granted full rights of audience as a solicitor advocate in Hong Kong and is a senior and globally recognised arbitration practitioner. Cameron has achieved recognition in the Legal 500 and/or Chambers & Partners Global, Hong Kong and Australian guides, including the Legal 500 Private Practice Powerlist for Australasia and Hong Kong Hall of Fame. Cameron's arbitration experience as counsel and / or arbitrator includes arbitrations under the AAA, CIETAC, HKIAC, ICC, LCIA, SCC, SIAC and UNCITRAL Rules.
Ben Hatton
Ben Hatton specialises in property litigation and dispute resolution and litigation risk-avoidance. Ben has expertise in all aspects of property disputes and landlord and tenant issues, with particular expertise in development issues including rights of light, rent review advice and arbitrations, property-related insolvency, professional negligence on property matters, asset management disputes including expert determinations and disputes in relation to contracts and issues arising out of Brexit. His expertise includes rent review opinion writing, service charge disputes, fit-out disputes, dilapidations, alienation disputes, forfeiture, enfranchisement issues, easements, restrictive covenants, possession actions, contract and joint venture disputes, mortgage & charge portfolio enforcement and foreclosure, property finance disputes, 1954 Act disputes, and advising lenders and developers on risks on developments. Ben is experienced in County Courts, High Court, Court of Appeal, Mediations, Expert Determinations and Arbitrations.
Adam Hedley
Adam Hedley
Adam Hedley specialises in environment, health & safety (EHS), carbon market and climate change regulation. His expertise spans compliance advisory, project and transactional matters, as well as environmental and climate-related litigation, regulatory investigations and enforcement actions. Adam is a member of our Global ESG 'Board, with particular focus on EHS governance, ESG-related disclosures and reporting, carbon reduction/net-zero objectives and renewable fuels/energy transition.
Philip Hertz
Philip Hertz
Philip has been a Partner since 2002 and is Global Co-Head of the Restructuring and Insolvency Group. He is a member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals, INSOL, and the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association. Philip is a past President of the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association. Philip is the co-author of the chapter entitled “Schemes of Arrangement” in Tolley's Insolvency Law and “Compromising Shareholder Claims both generally and in listed companies” in “The Law and Practice of Restructuring in the UK and US” as well as numerous articles on insolvency related topics. His practice involves general insolvency and restructuring work (as well as insurance run-off and insolvency work).
Philip Hill
Philip Hill
Philip Hill has over 20 years' experience dealing with a wide range of commercial, corporate, financial services and banking disputes and regulatory issues. He has extensive experience handling complex, multiparty and frequently cross-border disputes in the courts and in arbitration. Particular areas of expertise include professional negligence and fraud, advising claimants and defendants on complex professional negligence disputes; IT disputes and issues relating to online gaming; and Insurance. Philip regularly acts for policyholders on significant coverage disputes, including in the financial services, oil and gas, energy and infrastructure sectors. Philip also advises on non-contentious aspects of risk management. This includes advising professional services firms as well as drafting and reviewing insurance programmes and wordings, including advising on regulatory issues (Basel II/III compliance). Philip co-heads Clifford Chance's contentious insurance group, which is rated Tier 1 for policyholder claims by the Legal 500.
Oliver Hipperson
Oliver Hipperson
Oliver Hipperson is Head of the Asset Finance Group in London. Oliver advises a wide range of clients in the transportation sector, with a primary focus on the financing, leasing, trading and repackaging of aviation and maritime assets. He also advises banks and export credit agencies on export finance transactions across a wider range of sectors. Oliver has been very active in secondary debt trading, having acted for both buyers, sellers and financiers of large secured and unsecured loan and lease receivable portfolios (including in some cases the subsequent restructuring and repackaging of those portfolios). Oliver worked for two years in a commercial role in the investment banking division of Barclays Bank plc, giving him a particular insight into the structuring and execution of capital equipment financing transactions.
Ling Ho
Ling Ho
Ling Ho has spent over 30 years advising clients on intellectual property related matters in the Greater China region. Her expertise covers the full spread of contentious and non-contentious IP issues. She is the head of the Hong Kong Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice and is a core member of the firm's global Tech Group with particular focus on IP, cyber, tech disputes and risk management. Ling has extensive trial, deal and strategic counselling experience, and has acted in leading cases in the fields of trademarks, patents, copyright, designs to confidential information. Ling is regularly involved in negotiating and drafting brand usage, technology transfer and other IP related collaboration agreements for clients investing into Asia markets. Ling's practice also spans arbitration, commercial litigation, cyber, data privacy, defamation as well as product liability claims. Her clients range from multinational corporations and government agencies to leading businesses and individuals in the region, across a broad spectrum of industries including healthcare, technology, media, consumer goods and retail, financial services and leisure.
Melissa Hollenders-Brown
Melissa Hollenders-Brown specialises in international arbitration disputes in the energy and resources, construction and maritime sectors. Melissa has a particular focus on in international arbitration and has represented a clients in arbitrations seated in a number of jurisdictions and conducted under a wide range of rules (LCIA, ICC, LMAA, UNICTRAL, ICSID, AAA). Melissa has represented corporations, state-owned entities and high net worth individuals. At the post-award stage, she has advised on global enforcement strategies and coordinated proceedings involving multiple jurisdictions. Melissa has worked in Clifford Chance’s London and Paris offices. She has also previously worked (on secondment) in the In-House Legal team at an independent power producer focused on power generation projects in Africa. Melissa is admitted as a Solicitor-Advocate (Civil Proceedings) in the Courts of England and Wales.
Emil Holub
Emil Holub is head of Prague's real estate practice and widely recognised as one of the top real estate lawyers in the Czech Republic. His extensive experience in all aspects of real estate law includes specialisation in real estate M&A and development projects in both the Czech Republic and the region as a whole. Emil's involvement in the majority of the large-scale transactions that have taken place over the last two decades in the Czech Republic has gained him comprehensive and significant market-recognised expertise.
Marcia Hook
Marcia Hook
Marcia Hook is an energy regulatory partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Drawing on a deep understanding of complex laws, regulations, and market rules, Marcia provides clients with practical advice to navigate opaque energy regulatory requirements and complicated energy litigation. She has represented clients across the energy industry before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Department of Energy, state public utility commissions, and U.S. Courts of Appeals. Her experience representing clients across the energy industry helps Marcia provide transactional advice that extends beyond standard-issue regulatory matters such as approvals and filings to transaction strategy and deal structure, tailored to the needs and objectives of the client. Marcia also advises clients regarding the negotiation and development of commercial agreements, including agreements for the purchase and sale of power, transmission rights, hydrogen, natural gas, and LNG. Marcia was recognized as “Up and Coming” in the 2021, 2022 and 2023 editions of Chambers USA for Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation), Nationwide, and “Up and Coming” in the 2022 and 2023 editions of Chambers Global for Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation), USA.
Robert Houck
Robert Houck
Robert Houck represents clients in government investigations and complex commercial litigation with a specific focus on cross-border matters. He has specific expertise in complex trading and markets issues. Robert has represented corporations and individuals in connection with regulatory investigations before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the United States Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange, various state attorneys general and numerous non-US regulators. Robert has extensive experience representing companies, underwriters, corporate officers, and outside directors in class actions brought under the Commodity Exchange Act, the US and state antitrust laws, the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Ross Howard
Ross Howard
Ross Howard is a partner in Clifford Chance's Global Financial Markets Team and a member of the firm's Worldwide Projects Group and Energy and Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure Sector Groups. Ross specialises in advising sponsors and lenders in connection with the development and financing of complex and large-scale projects in the renewable energy, power, oil and gas, natural resources and infrastructure sectors. He has extensive experience advising on the structuring, negotiation and financing of large-scale international projects across Asia Pacific, Africa and Europe. Ross is currently based in Singapore.
John Howitt
John Howitt
John Howitt is a partner in the US Finance and Restructuring Group of Clifford Chance specializing in asset finance. In particular, he focuses on aircraft finance, including leveraged lease transactions, operating leases (domestic and cross-border), new and used aircraft purchases (including portfolio acquisitions), sales (including portfolio sales) and sale-leasebacks, securitizations, restructurings and manufacturer support arrangements. John also has considerable experience in bank and private placement credit transactions, including asset-based financings; domestic and Latin American debt restructurings; acquisition and recapitalization financings; project financings; domestic, Eurodollar, and Eurocurrency loans; loan and note swaps; sales and participations; letter of credit facilities; and commercial paper facilities.
Nigel Howorth
Nigel Howorth
Nigel Howorth specialises in planning, environment, energy and public law. Nigel's expertise includes property development, energy and renewables projects including environmental and health & safety issues in respect of corporate mergers and acquisitions, as well as advising on environmental and climate change regulation, environmental disputes and litigation. Nigel is a Partner and head of the London Environment and Planning Group. He also leads the firm's Global Environment Group, Environment & Climatic Trading Group and Climate Change Group. Nigel is a member of our global Climate Change Risk team.
Peter Hughes
Peter Hughes
Peter Hughes is a counsel in Clifford Chance's Americas Energy and Infrastructure Group, based in Washington, DC. He advises developers, investors, lenders and US agencies relating to energy and infrastructure projects worldwide, with a particular emphasis on the US and US federal energy regulatory issues. He has particular expertise in renewable energy financings. Peter received a J.D. from New York University School of Law, an A.B., summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College, a MES in EU Integration Studies from the University of Bonn, Germany, as a Fulbright Scholar, and a MPhil in Historical Studies from the University of Cambridge, England. He is admitted in New York and Washington, DC, is a dual American and British citizen, and speaks fluent German.
Christopher Ingham
Christopher Ingham
Christopher Ingham has 13 years' experience of acting in a range of commercial litigation and arbitration disputes. Christopher has particular experience representing insurance policyholders on big ticket insurance coverage disputes and advising them on policy wordings and the use of insurance to support projects and transactions, with a particular focus on credit, political risk, title, property, business interruption and liability insurance. He also represents major insurers and other clients in disputes and contentious regulatory matters.
Patrick Jackson
Patrick Jackson
Patrick Jackson has extensive experience in capital markets, banking and corporate transactions, and certain US regulatory matters involving large Brazilian banks and industrial companies. His focus areas cover structured products and project financings for companies in the agribusiness, energy, infrastructure and oil and gas sectors, and energy transition generally. He also has served as Regional Pro Bono Partner in São Paulo and on the committees for several of the Firm's corporate responsibility initiatives.
Steve Jacoby
Steve Jacoby co-heads the Luxembourg Banking, Finance and Capital Markets practice and handles acquisition finance, bank lending, securitisation, capital markets, regulatory, derivatives, general banking law (including litigation), corporate law and insolvency matters. Steve is an associate lecturer (Chargé de Cours Associé) at the University of Luxembourg and a lecturer at the Luxembourg Bar School in banking, finance and capital markets law. He is a regular contributor to legal journals and a member of various advisory committees on financial law questions within Luxembourg public institutions and professional organisations.
Praveen Jagadish
Praveen Jagadish
Partner Praveen Jagadish specialises in infrastructure and low-carbon energy, advising developers, financial investors and lenders on the commercial and financing elements of major greenfield projects, and the refinancing and sale / acquisition of brownfield assets. He has extensive experience in infrastructure transactions in the transport, maritime and telecommunications sectors, and low-carbon energy and energy infrastructure transactions in sectors including offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, nuclear, energy-from-waste, smart metering and EV charging.
Zayed Al Jamil
Zayed Al Jamil
Zayed is a partner in our Tech group and leads the Complex Commercial Transactions and Outsourcing practice in London. He specialises in complex outsourcings, technology development and procurement agreements, data licensing and the separation aspects of M&A transactions. Zayed has a particular focus on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, IoT and DLT and on transactions which involve the licensing of valuable datasets. Zayed has previously worked in-house at a well-known financial index provider and as head of legal for a technology company.
Melissa Jones
Melissa Jones
Melissa Jones specialises in all types of commercial real estate transactions including complex developments, direct and indirect acquisitions and disposals, forward fundings, lettings and property financings. Melissa has a broad client base which includes international investors, funds and major UK developers. Melissa's expertise spans a variety of asset classes, including office, retail, residential and student accommodation. She also has particular experience with over station developments as well as the real estate aspects of compulsory liquidations.
Johannes Juette
Johannes Juette
Johannes Juette is a Partner with over 20 years' experience. He is a US qualified lawyer and has extensive experience in international debt and equity capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, high yield debt issues and tender offers. Johannes has executed transactions across a broad range of sectors throughout South East Asia, including transportation and logistics, shipping, natural resources and energy, with a particular focus on Indonesia and Malaysia. He is ranked as a leading lawyer for international capital markets and is recognised as a foreign expert based in Singapore for Indonesian capital markets work.
Jonathan Kewley
Jonathan Kewley is the Co-Chair of the Clifford Chance Tech Group, a team of over 600 Tech lawyers globally. He was recently voted Partner of the Year at the British Legal Awards - which recognised his leadership in Tech as well as driving a more progressive workplace culture in law. He is a globally renowned expert on AI innovation and safety. Jonathan is a trusted advisor to boards and senior leaders of some of the world's largest technology companies and investors. His work spans AI, cyber security, data and digital innovation. He leads projects in the Tech regulatory and transactional space. Alongside this, his public policy work with governments and regulators around the world helps to shape the future technology landscape. He is the founder of an AI Ethics Scholarship at Oxford University to encourage people from disadvantaged backgrounds to study Computer Science. Additionally, he supports a program to ensure more girls study coding in local schools. Jonathan was invited to speak at the world's first global AI Safety Summit hosted by the UK government, and in 2023 hosted a conversation between Sam Altman (founder of OpenAI) and 500 undergraduates in London on the impact of AI on our future. In 2024 he received the honour of being asked by the City of London to deliver their Christmas lecture on AI at the Old Bailey. He speaks regularly to audiences around the world on the tech revolution, and works closely with universities and think tanks globally to help steer the development of AI policy. His views on Tech are frequently sought by BBC News, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post and China Daily.
Anna Kirkpatrick
Anna Kirkpatrick
Anna Kirkpatrick specialises in business and human rights, ESG risk, international law and international arbitration. Anna has acted for a variety of clients in international arbitrations conducted under the LCIA, ICC, LME and SCC Rules of Arbitration dealing with disputes in the construction, energy, and financial sector. Anna acts for corporates in disputes relating to human rights and environmental harms (including in relation to the effects of climate change) and advises on other forms of dispute resolution such as complaints to the OECD's National Contact Points. She also advises international organisations, governments and corporates on international law issues including privileges and immunities, the implementation of soft law standards, such as the UNGP and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and emerging ESG regulatory frameworks. Her BHR and ESG risk experience also encompasses governance and strategic work for companies seeking to embed human rights as well as ESG and sustainability focused elements into their policies and processes, while managing the risk of litigation, liability and reputational harm.
George Kleinfeld
George Kleinfeld has over thirty years of experience in the fields of international economic regulation and foreign trade controls. He advises leading financial institutions, industrial enterprises, trading companies and global investors on US sanctions issues and compliance with US sanctions laws and regulations. He has participated in a wide range of US sanctions investigations and enforcement actions as well as designing compliance programs and providing compliance training and risk analyses for multinational corporations and financial institutions in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Asia and the Americas. He also advises clients on compliance with US export controls and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and has obtained scores of national security clearances for foreign acquisitions of strategic US business assets from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). George works closely with the firm's global corporate, capital markets and finance practices to resolve complex due diligence and transactional issues in his areas of expertise.
Celeste Koeleveld
Celeste Koeleveld
Celeste Koeleveld has over 25 years of experience in government enforcement, regulatory and civil litigation matters that span federal, state and local government in the United States. Over the course of her career, she has held senior positions in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) and the New York City Law Department. Celeste represents clients, both corporates and individuals, with regulatory compliance, internal investigations, and all phases of civil, criminal and regulatory litigation, from inception through the appellate process. Her significant government experience imparts a particularly insightful perspective to her advice and counsel in matters involving regulatory agencies. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Celeste served on the executive committee of DFS, joining in 2016 as General Counsel, and ultimately serving as Deputy Superintendent and Special Counsel. During her time at DFS, she handled a broad spectrum of regulatory and enforcement actions, including disciplinary and enforcement proceedings, licensing matters, implementation of legislation and promulgation of regulations. In particular, as General Counsel, Celeste was instrumental in the development and implementation of DFS cybersecurity and transaction monitoring regulations. In addition to her recent role at DFS, Celeste previously served for 16 years in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, rising to serve as the Chief of the Criminal Division. In that role, she led a team of more than 160 Assistant US Attorneys and oversaw all criminal investigations and prosecutions. She also served as the Chief Appellate Attorney of the SDNY for four years, overseeing the extensive appellate practice. During her tenure with the SDNY, she also served as the Chief of the General Crimes Unit. Prior to joining DFS, Celeste served for eight years as Executive Assistant Corporation Counsel at the New York City Law Department. In this role she oversaw several litigation and trial divisions and provided legal advice to City agencies responding to governmental investigation from a variety of federal, state and local prosecutors and investigative bodies.
Valerie Kong
Valerie Kong
Valerie Kong is Clifford Chance's Office Managing Partner in Singapore and also sits on the firm’s Asia Pacific Leadership Group. She specialises in cross-border M&A and is qualified in both Singapore and England & Wales. Well regarded among market sources for complex acquisitions, divestments and joint ventures, she has over 20 years of experience advising financial investors and multinational corporates on transactions in the consumer goods & retail, energy and transport & logistics sectors across South East Asia and other emerging markets. Part of her practice includes advising underwriters on W&I insurance policies for M&A transactions.
Paul Koppel
Paul Koppel
Paul Koppel regularly advises clients regarding a broad range of ERISA and executive compensation matters, including ERISA issues for alternative investment funds and financial institutions, advising fund sponsors on the application of ERISA to funds that include retirement plan investments and advising private equity funds and hedge funds on the issues that arise in connection with pension plan investors, and advising on compliance with ERISA’s fiduciary requirements when ERISA plan assets are being managed. Paul has represented clients before federal government agencies, including the Department of Labor, the SEC, the IRS and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
Jeremy Kosky
Jeremy Kosky
Jeremy Kosky is a Litigation Partner and Solicitor Advocate with significant experience in big ticket commercial litigation with a particular focus on financial investors and financial institutions and corporate trustee disputes and private wealth disputes for HNWIs and family offices. He leads the commercial litigation and private wealth disputes teams in London with a real focus on fiduciary risk. He has taken cases to trial in London, Paris, Luxembourg, Milan, Turin, Bermuda, Cayman, Jersey and Guernsey. And he is also well known for his ability to negotiate settlements persuasively for his clients - recently enhanced by qualifying as a mediator.
Bartosz Krużewski
Bartosz Krużewski's practice focuses on a wide range of arbitration and litigation matters. He specialises in complex disputes both domestic and international. His experience includes post-merger, construction, finance, investment and shareholder disputes as well as advisory work in the oil and gas, telecoms and construction sectors. Bartosz also advises and represents clients in white-collar and directors' liabilities related matters. Bartosz has represented States, governmental agencies and private parties. He regularly sits as an arbitrator under various arbitration rules and publishes in the field of arbitration. Bartosz also specialises in court and out-of-court restructurings, including involvement in high-profile contentious and non-contentious restructurings.
Leng-Fong Lai
Leng-Fong Lai
Leng-Fong Lai is the firm's Co-Managing Partner and the Head of Capital Markets Group in Tokyo and specialises in all forms of capital markets and structured finance instruments including receivables and other asset-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed financings, structured MTNs, equity-linked and convertible securities, securities repackaging and other forms of securitised derivatives, hybrid securities, project bonds and other infrastructure financings. Leng-Fong also advises banks and sponsors on project and real estate finance and investments in Japan.
Anita Lam
Anita Lam
Anita Lam practises across all areas of employment law, with a particular focus on contentious employment, discrimination and data privacy disputes. As a seasoned litigator, Anita is one of the very few solicitors in Hong Kong who has Higher Rights of Audience granted by the Higher Rights Assessment Board. Anita's clients include banks, listed companies, airlines, tertiary institutions, hospitals, theme parks, stock brokers, foreign law firms, railway corporations, tunnel operators, publishers, pharmaceutical companies and fashion retailers. Anita is a member of our global People Risk team.
Rob Lambert
Rob Lambert
Rob Lambert is a disputes Partner, specialising in the law and practice of international arbitration. Rob is recognised as a leading practitioner in the international arbitration field. He has particular experience in international engineering, energy, construction, IT and telecoms disputes, as well as considerable experience of joint venture and shareholder disputes. Rob has handled arbitration cases under ICC, LCIA, ICSID, UNCITRAL and other international rules. He has conducted arbitrations (institutional and ad hoc) in numerous jurisdictions in Europe, Asia, US, Middle East, Africa and Australia. Rob is an experienced advocate, having appeared as lead counsel before numerous international arbitral tribunals, and also sits as an arbitrator.
Jacqueline Landells
Jacqueline Landells
Jacqueline Landells' advisory practice is focused on international economic regulation and foreign trade controls. Ms. Landells has experience counseling on the regulation of international trade and investment transactions under US foreign trade controls, including US economic sanctions administered by the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and US export controls. She advises US and international clients on compliance with these regulations in regard to ongoing and going forward business and transactions, as well as assisting with investigations and reviews of historic practices. She also regularly advises clients on obtaining national security clearances from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) for foreign acquisitions in the United States.
Paul Landless
Paul Landless
Paul Landless is a financial markets lawyer specialising in structured finance, derivatives and financial markets products, including securitisations, repackagings, structured notes, securities lending and repo. He leads the financial markets team in Singapore and South East Asia. Paul has extensive experience in commodities trading and financing, structured trade finance, carbon markets products and exchanges. He regularly advises on global and local financial regulatory developments and financial market infrastructure. Also, Paul is one of the leaders of the firm's Fintech practice and a member of the Panel of Recognized International Market Experts in Finance Foundation (PRIME) based in the Hague.
Shaun Langhorne
Shaun Langhorne
Shaun is a partner in Clifford Chance's Singapore office and is a recognised leader in the field of cross border restructuring. Shaun has been at the forefront of many of the high profile and cutting edge restructuring transactions over that time. Shaun acts for funds, private equity sponsors, sovereigns, corporates, banks, investment banks and other stakeholders in all manner of contentious and non-contentious transactions. Prior to joining Clifford Chance he worked at a global law firm where he started the Singapore restructuring practice. Shaun is a fellow of INSOL and is admitted to practice in Hong Kong and Victoria, Australia.
Renée Latour
Renée Latour
Renée Latour has more than 15 years of experience advising clients in international trade regulation and compliance matters, including complex cross-border and domestic issues involving export controls, economic sanctions, and national security reviews of foreign investment conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Renée has extensive experience in the development and implementation of global compliance and training programs, conducting internal investigations and representing entities in enforcement actions, and negotiating national security agreements with the US government.
Carla Lewis
Carla Lewis
Carla Lewis specialises in contentious regulatory matters and financial crime, with a particular focus on EU and UK sanctions, anti-money laundering and anti-bribery and corruption. Carla represents a variety of governmental, non-governmental, corporate and individual clients, and has extensive experience advising clients on both risk and crisis management, liaising with relevant competent authorities where necessary. Carla has lived and worked in London, Paris, Dubai and New York, and was seconded for six months to the Litigation, Investigations and Enforcement Team at a global bank in Singapore.
Yufei Liao
Yufei Liao
Yufei Liao specialises in corporate M&A, private equity, and capital markets work, with a focus on the tech sector. Yufei regularly advises Chinese privately-owned and state-owned enterprises and investment funds on their cross-border acquisitions and investments, as well as public market transactions. He also represents international financial investors on their investments in China (including growth capital/venture capital, pre-IPO, cornerstone and PIPE) as international counsel. He has extensive experience in a wide range of industry sectors including TMT, real estate, financial services, and consumer goods & retail.
Tom Lin
Tom Lin
Tom Lin specialises in M&A and corporate finance with a particular focus on private equity transactions. Tom advises private equity houses, other financial investors and corporates on a wide range of matters, including buyouts, secondaries, joint ventures, MBOs, minority and co-investments, public M&A, management incentives and restructurings. His experience covers healthcare, financial services, infrastructure, renewables, consumer, education, industrials, logistics and real estate. He has been based in Singapore since 2011 and previously served as in-house counsel at the private equity arm of an international financial institution.
Rae Lindsay
Rae Lindsay specialises in international law, litigation, transnational regulation and risk management. She has a particular focus on business and human rights and other aspects of ESG law. Rae is co-head of the firm's Public International Law and Business and Human Rights practices, and is a member of the Firm's ESG Board. Rae represents governments, international organisations and multinational corporations across a range of sectors. In the area of business and human rights she advises across the spectrum of issues that arise: from policies and their implementation, through risk assessment and management, due diligence, incorporation of human rights considerations into transactions and business relationships, investigations as well as dispute avoidance and resolution. She often advises clients in complex matters arising in high risk areas and conflict zones. Her work increasingly involves matters concerning the human rights impacts of climate change (and the intersections of environmental and social issues).
Jessica Littlewood
Jessica Littlewood
Jessica Littlewood is Global Operations and Business Transformation Partner and leads Clifford Chance's European CLO practice. She is widely regarded by banks and investors alike as the market leader in the synthetic securitisation market, in its increasingly complicated regulatory landscape. She has developed and is leading the firm's European CLO practice, and is an adviser to the CLO market representing CLO managers and investors. Jessica is recognised as a leading Structured Finance & Derivatives lawyer by Chambers Global 2024, Chambers UK 2025 and Legal 500 2025; was named Lawyer of the Year for Structured Finance & Securitisation at the IFLR Women in Business Law Awards 2025; and is recognised as one of the leading female lawyers in the world in IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2024. Jessica received the ‘Personal Contribution to the Industry’ award at the SCI Credit Risk Transfer Awards 2022
Daryl Liu
Daryl Liu
Daryl Liu is a Clifford Chance partner with over 15 years of experience across private funds. He co-leads the Singapore Funds & Investment Management group and his practice focuses on international fund mandates across private equity, real estate, infrastructure, credit and venture capital strategies. He represents leading global and regional sponsors and financial investors on primary fundraisings, fund secondaries and restructurings, fund investments, co-investments and advisory mandates in Asia and elsewhere.
Fang Liu
Fang Liu
Liu Fang focuses on both securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He represents issuers and global investment banks in Hong Kong IPOs, SEC-registered offerings, share placements as well as Rule 144A and Reg. S bond offerings. He also advises PRC state-owned and private companies, multinationals and private equity firms on China inbound and outbound acquisitions, investments, dispositions and related financings. His deal experience extends across a wide variety of industry sectors, including financial services, healthcare/consumer goods, TMT and energy/natural resources.
Maggie Lo
Maggie Lo
Maggie Lo has over 20 years of experience and has a track record of advising both lender-side and borrower-side on cross-border financings, including project finance, acquisition finance, fund finance, receivables finance, pre-IPO finance, corporate loan transactions, non-performing loan transactions and restructuring mandates. Apart from advising international financial institutions on their transactions in Greater China, Maggie also focuses on advising Chinese financial institutions on significant outbound financings and investments, particularly in the real estate, manufacturing, energy and resources, infrastructure and industrials sectors.
Todd Lowther
Todd Lowther
Todd Lowther is a partner in the US Tax practice in Houston with extensive experience in the energy sector. Todd advises clients on the full range of oil and gas transactions including the taxation of natural resources, carbon capture tax credits, partnerships, international joint ventures, and M&A transactions common in the industry. Todd also provides general tax advice on corporate and business matters, including business formation, reorganization, and partnership and limited liability company structuring. He has experience in the structuring, organization, and capitalization of private equity funds, and frequently advises management teams from both a transactional and tax perspective.
Sam Luttrell
Sam Luttrell
Dr Sam Luttrell is a Partner in the International Arbitration Group at Clifford Chance, based in Perth, Australia. With a focus on disputes in the natural resources sector, Sam's globally-recognised practice covers both international commercial arbitration and investor-State arbitration. Examples of his experience in investor-State arbitration include high-profile cases against Thailand, Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Greenland and Denmark, Egypt, Kenya, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Slovakia. In addition to his work as counsel, Sam regularly publishes on international arbitration and international investment law topics and teaches at universities and arbitral institutions across the Asia-Pacific region.University of Western Australia (LLB/BA) 200 Articled Clerk, Kott Gunning Lawyers 2004 Admitted as a solicitor in Western Australia 2004 Law Lecturer, Murdoch University 2006 Murdoch University (PhD) 2009 Associate, Allens Arthur Robinson 2009 Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2011 Joined Clifford Chance 2013 Partner since 2017
Michael Lyons
Michael Lyons
Michael Lyons specialises in contentious regulatory matters including investigations and enforcement, commercial and financial services litigation/disputes and compliance advice. Michael has acted for clients during investigations and disciplinary action brought by domestic and international regulators. Michael's particular focus is on financial crime compliance issues, including economic sanctions, anti-money laundering and anti-bribery/corruption. He has been actively involved in providing advice to a broad range of financial institutions, corporates and individuals in this area.
Charlotte Madden
Charlotte Madden specialises in advising private equity houses and infrastructure funds on domestic and cross-border M&A. Charlotte has represented financial investors through all stages of the investment cycle across a range of infrastructure sectors, including highly regulated transactions. Charlotte is listed in Law.com International's Private Equity Rising Stars list and Legal Week's 40 Under 40: The Rising Stars in Private Equity. Charlotte is Clifford Chance's global co-head of the Infrastructure practice.
Lily Marcel
Lily Marcel
Lily Marcel specialises in the establishment and operation of private investment funds. She has advised clients on the establishment of a wide range of funds, including buy-out, debt, infrastructure and real estate funds. Lily also advises investors on the terms of their investment into such funds. She has experience advising on the funds-related aspects of corporate transactions. Lily advises fund sponsors on their carried interest and co-investment arrangements and has experience advising on the management structures of such sponsors.
Gauthier Martin
Gauthier Martin's practice encompasses all fields of French public law, both in advice and litigation. He has notably developed a recognized expertise in regulated sectors (in the energy, telecoms and transportation fields in particular) and complex public contracts (concessions, public private partnerships, public procurement agreements) related to major infrastructures, in France and internationally. Gauthier is further active on State aid aspects, public domain, public service and state-owned undertakings related matters. He is one of the administrators of our Clean Hydrogen Task Force and is an active member of our Energy Transition group (with experience notably in renewables, nuclear, transmission assets, e-fuels, batteries and green industry).
Vishal Mashru
Vishal Mashru specialises in private fund formation, secondaries and advisory work across a wide range of sectors, including private equity, debt, real estate, infrastructure. Vishal’s experience covers blind pool funds, separate accounts and GP-led restructurings, as well as advising on carried interest and co-investment structures and asset manager M&A. Vishal also advises managers on ESG issues relating to their funds and investors in relation to the terms of their investment in such funds.
Ash Masrani
Ash Masrani is an associate on our Complex Commercial Transactions & Outsourcing Team. She focuses on strategic technology and commercial transactions across various industry sectors, with a keen emphasis on complex outsourcings and digital transformation initiatives. Ash excels in guiding clients through the lifecycle of a transaction, from structuring deals and provider selection to negotiations, contract execution and post-contract management. Ash holds extensive experience in advising clients on strategic information technology outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO) transactions; software-as-a-service (SaaS) agreements; core systems implementations; software licensing and development arrangements; branding agreements, reseller agreements; and other related corporate and commercial transactions.
Emma Matebalavu
Emma Matebalavu
Emma Matebalavu is Head of Global Financial Markets and specialises in Real Estate Finance and all types of structured debt. She specialises in real estate related senior and mezzanine debt, intercreditor arrangements, restructuring and enforcement. Emma advises on CMBS and RMBS transactions, acting for servicers, borrowers, noteholders and other stakeholders. She also has significant experience of securitisation of personal loan, credit lenders, whole businesses and residential mortgages. Emma is a member of European Securitisation Forum/Association for Financial Markets in Europe and Commercial Mortgage Securities Association and speaks regularly at conferences.
Catherine McCarthy
Catherine McCarthy
Catherine McCarthy is a partner in the Americas Energy & Infrastructure Group.  She has extensive experience in power, mining, energy, telecoms, transportation and other infrastructure projects acting for clients including IFC, IDB, Citibank, Natixis, HSBC SMBC, Credit Agricole, CAF, , FMO, Proparco, DEG, BNP Paribas. Kate is one of firm's main relationship partners in the US for both agency lenders such as IFC, IDB and IIC and commercial banks such as Citibank, HSBC and SMBC. She has significant expertise in ECA financing, having acted for lenders in deals backed by COFACE, SACE, Hermes, US Exim, K-Sure, EKF, EKN, GIEK and CESCE. She also has expertise in multilateral guarantee and insurance products including the World Bank partial risk guarantee and the MIGA sovereign non-honoring and PRI policies.  
Caireen McCluskey
Caireen McCluskey is a senior associate in the Energy & Infrastructure Group. Caireen advises procuring authorities, developers, and financiers on the commercial and financing elements of major projects in the infrastructure and energy sectors. She has worked in our London, Sao Paulo, Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices. Caireen has advised on a wide range of infrastructure transactions including in the healthcare, wastewater treatment, and district cooling sectors, and energy infrastructure transactions with experience in both conventional power and renewables (including offshore wind, solar PV and energy-from-waste).
Don McCombie
Don McCombie
Don McCombie has over 15 years' experience of advising clients on transactions and disputes relating to IP and technology. On transactional work, Don's sector experience allows him to understand clients' key commercial drivers, also drawing on litigation experience to judge what matters and – crucially – what doesn't. In disputes, whilst Don has advised on numerous cases in the English courts, often in parallel with proceedings in the US and the EU, Don commonly employs mediation and negotiation to avoid court, relying on his transactional experience to reach a beneficial outcome.
Christopher McIsaac
Christopher McIsaac
Christopher McIsaac is joint head of the Americas Energy and Projects Group, which is focused on the development and financing of complex infrastructure projects. Christopher has a broad-based finance experience including lender and sponsor representation across a range of industry sectors, particularly oil and gas, power generation and other energy projects. He is Counsel to commercial lenders, export credit agencies, multilateral development institutions, and project sponsors. Christopher has structured, drafted and negotiated credit facilities involving recourse, non-recourse, mezzanine, capital lease, and offshore trust structures, among others. He has also structured and documented a variety of equity arrangements on behalf of sponsors and developers including: the negotiation of project contracts with concession grantors, power purchasers and other offtakers, EPC contractors, equipment suppliers, and fuel suppliers; negotiated and documented financing arrangements in the public and private markets involving commercial banks, export credit agencies, multilateral development institutions, institutional lenders, and underwriters. Christopher spent nearly five years in Asia, where he was the attorney in charge of the Singapore office of a major New York law firm.
Caroline Meinertz
Caroline Meinertz
Caroline Meinertz is head of Clifford Chance's Financial Regulation practice in London. Caroline advises many of the world's leading financial institutions (with a particular focus on global transaction services banks) on the implications of financial services regulation and law on their businesses. Named Lawyer of the Year for Financial Regulation at the IFLR Women in Business Law Awards 2025; named one of the most influential female executives working in financial services by Financial News; recognised as one of the leading female lawyers in the world in IFLR1000 Women Leaders; and listed as a leading individual in the Legal 500 UK 'Financial Services: Non-Contentious Regulatory' rankings. Caroline is a leading voice across the full spectrum of financial regulation, and has been at the forefront of providing strategic Brexit advice to a number of key global financial institutions. Caroline is a member of the Council of the International Regulatory Strategy Group advising the City of London Corporation and TheCityUK. Caroline also sits on Clifford Chance's Global Financial Markets Strategy Group and is one of the founding members of TheCityUK's Anglo German Financial Services Dialogue.
Hans Menski
Hans Menski
Hans Menski advises on cross-border oil & gas, power and infrastructure projects transactions, with particular expertise in first-of-a-kind project developments and complex, multi-source financings. Based in Tokyo, Hans acts for borrowers, sponsors and financiers on their international energy and infrastructure projects investments in a range of sectors including thermal and renewable power, refining and petrochemicals, oil & gas, mining and LNG. He also advises on the acquisition and acquisition financing of power and infrastructure assets and on ECA-covered financings. Hans previously worked in London and Paris and is a member of Clifford Chance’s highly-regarded Worldwide Projects Group.
Karalyn Mildorf
Karalyn Mildorf
Karalyn Mildorf has nearly 20 years of experience representing clients in Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and foreign ownership, control or influence (FOCI) mitigation matters. She also advises clients on the US Outbound Investment Security Program and in national security reviews before Team Telecom. Karalyn has advised clients on CFIUS issues in thousands of transactions covering a wide variety of industries and investor countries. She strategically guides clients through assessing national security risks for deals, transaction structuring and jurisdictional considerations, negotiation of deal terms, all stages of the CFIUS filing and review process, engagement with relevant government officials, CFIUS mitigation negotiation and implementation, CFIUS inquiries regarding non-notified transactions, and CFIUS enforcement actions. Karalyn also has extensive experience representing clients in FOCI mitigation matters. She has negotiated, prepared, and advised regarding compliance with, and implementation of, numerous FOCI mitigation arrangements, including Special Security Agreements, Proxy Agreements, Security Control Agreements, and FOCI Board Resolutions.
David Moldenhauer
David Moldenhauer
David T. Moldenhauer, a partner in the US Tax, Pensions and Employment group, practices international tax law. David provides tax and structuring advice for a wide variety of international financial and business transactions, including investment funds, carried interest and management co-investment arrangements, private equity investments, corporate acquisitions and restructurings, domestic and cross-border real estate transactions, joint ventures, financing transactions, financial instruments, equipment leasing and project finance. David also regularly consults on tax compliance and other technical US tax issues. David is an Adjunct Professor of International Tax at New York Law School.
Christopher Morvillo
Christopher Morvillo
Christopher J. Morvillo has extensive experience representing corporate and individual clients in white-collar government investigations, related regulatory and civil proceedings, and internal investigations. Chris' recent representations have included investigations and prosecutions of alleged insider trading, trade secret theft, securities fraud, accounting fraud, healthcare fraud, and alleged violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the Arms Export Control Act. He has also recently conducted internal investigations for corporate clients involving possible corporate espionage, violations of the Endangered Species Act, insider trading, and embezzlement. From 1999 to 2005, Chris served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he investigated, tried and handled appeals in a wide variety of criminal cases, including in the area of healthcare fraud, insurance fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, counter-terrorism, and narcotics. Among other notable prosecutions and investigations, Chris assisted in the criminal investigation arising out of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and served as one of the lead prosecutors on the successful 10-month counter-terrorism trial of defense attorney Lynne Stewart and her co-conspirators, one of the longest criminal trials in Southern District history.
Maxine Mossman
Maxine Mossman
Maxine Mossman has extensive experience in complex commercial and corporate litigation, large-scale litigation and class actions/group litigation, high net worth disputes and fund-related matters. Her clients include financial institutions, corporates, private equity funds, trustees and high net worth individuals. Maxine has advised on a number of high value complex matters, both in England and offshore. Maxine co-leads the London Private Wealth and Trusts Disputes team and has considerable experience of Cayman, Jersey and BVI proceedings.
Peter Mucchetti
Peter Mucchetti
Peter Mucchetti is a partner in Clifford Chance's Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Antitrust practices, based in Washington, DC. Peter Mucchetti specializes in antitrust litigation and competition matters. He has more than twenty-five years of antitrust litigation, investigations, and merger clearance experience, with particular expertise in the technology, healthcare, and consumer products industries. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Peter worked at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, where he served as the Chief of its Healthcare and Consumer Products Section. In that role, he led the Antitrust Division to its successful trial victories in highly complex cases concerning the proposed Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana mergers. Peter is a Vice Chair of the Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals Committee of the ABA Antitrust Law Section and a frequent speaker on antitrust topics.
Jason Myers
Jason Myers
Jason D. Myers' practice focuses on public and private capital markets transactions and other corporate finance and general corporate transactions in the real estate, hospitality and specialty finance sectors. He has advised sponsors, investment banks, REITs, specialty finance companies, and business development companies in their capital raising activities, including initial public offerings, follow-on equity and debt transactions, 144A offerings and other private placements and PIPEs, raising more than US$4 billion in the past few years. Jason has done extensive work in connection with REITS (both traded and non-traded) and privately held funds formed for the purpose of investing in real estate, including joint ventures. This work has included the formation and structuring of such entities, and the initial financing and investment in such entities. Jason has also advised on the structuring, acquisition and financing of investments made by such entities.
Jonny Myers
Jonny Myers
Jonny Myers specialises in domestic and cross-border public and private M&A and equity transactions. Jonny has advised private equity houses portfolios and corporate clients on a wide range of matters, including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and disposals, takeovers, mergers, joint ventures, IPOs, fund liabilities, cash confirmations, restructurings and refinancing. Jonny heads the global private equity practice, specialising in private equity and corporate finance and is recommended by IFLR, Legal 500 and Chambers for private equity and top-tier M&A.
Sarah N. Campbell
Sarah N. Campbell
Sarah N. Campbell is a counsel in the Global Financial Markets group of Clifford Chance, based in New York. She specializes in financial restructuring and bankruptcy. Her practice focuses on representing primarily financial institution creditors in multi-national and U.S. bankruptcy cases and in and out-of-court restructurings. Sarah also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Allan L. Gropper in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. She obtained her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and her undergraduate degree from Mills College.
Patrice Navarro
Patrice Navarro
As a partner in Clifford Chance’s TechDigital Group, Patrice Navarro focuses on data privacy, cybersecurity, tech transactions, and health data matters. He brings extensive experience and a genuine enthusiasm for technology-related issues, particularly in contract drafting and solving privacy challenges across various industries. His approach to legal matters is grounded in a solid understanding of the complexities within technology and industrial sectors. Before joining Clifford Chance, Patrice built his expertise by working alongside an IT law expert and collaborating with leading firms. Patrice’s practice reflects a deep understanding of intricate technology transactions and a practical approach to digital transformations, supporting the adoption of innovative solutions like AI, Fintech, big data, and cloud-based platforms. A committed advocate for data privacy and cybersecurity, he helps clients navigate compliance and governance projects, particularly under the GDPR framework, and is experienced in managing cross-border data transfer challenges and implementing Binding Corporate Rules. With a focus on real-world solutions, Patrice has worked on a range of tech and data transactions across sectors such as technology, energy, aerospace, and pharmaceuticals. His goal is to ensure that his clients are not only compliant with current data privacy regulations but are also prepared for future developments in the global AI and data landscape.
Lena Ng
Lena Ng
Lena Ng leads the financial regulatory practice in our Singapore office and advises on financial regulatory issues relating to financial services and market products, including banking services, securities, futures, derivatives, funds and payment services. Lena advises banks, financial institutions, corporates (including commodities houses), funds and payment service providers on licensing requirements, exemptions, conduct of business and other regulatory requirements. In addition, she advises on custody, collateral, netting and clearing issues, as well as cash and credit risk management. Lena's practice extends to advising on bank secrecy, confidentiality and data privacy. She also advises on fintech, cryptocurrency and blockchain related matters.
Jiahua Ni
Jiahua Ni
Jiahua Ni is a partner in the Global Financial Markets Group of Clifford Chance. He specializes in PRC-related cross-border financings and focuses on advising outbound financings for major Chinese banks. He also has extensive experience in advising international banks on their financings into China and assists clients in resolving complicated issues in PRC foreign exchange, security and other financial regulatory aspects. Jiahua joined Clifford Chance in 2007 and became a partner since 2013. Jiahua is admitted in New York and also holds a PRC legal professional qualification certificate (currently not a PRC practising lawyer). Jiahua is a native Mandarin speaker and fluent in English.
Kelwin Nicholls
Kelwin Nicholls
Kelwin Nicholls specialises in regulatory investigations/enforcement, M&A disputes, banking and financial services litigation/disputes and compliance advice. Kelwin's recent matters include bringing and defending claims arising out of acquisitions and disposals of public and private companies, defending mis-selling claims and disputes over swaps and options, and acting for corporate trustees in High Court litigation. He has represented clients in regulatory investigations and enforcement actions including cross-border investigations into rate-setting misconduct, investigations into rogue traders, investigations into suspected market abuse and several high-profile public inquiries. Kelwin also undertakes risk reviews of high-risk products and services within financial institutions and advises on anti-money laundering compliance and anti-bribery programmes for corporates and private equity firms.
Alex Nourry
Alex Nourry specialises in all aspects of EU and UK competition law, including the control of mergers and joint ventures, cartels and abuse of market power, State aid and subsidy control, public procurement and foreign investment controls. Alex is a member of the Brussels Bar as well as a Solicitor admitted in England and Wales and regularly represents clients before the EU and UK competition authorities as well as the European Courts across a wide range of industry sectors. Alex is a Vice-Chair of the ICC Global Commission on Competition and a member of the Editorial Boards of the European Competition Law Review (ECLR) and Competition Law Insight (CLI).
Chinwe Odimba-Chapman
Chinwe Odimba-Chapman
Chinwe Odimba-Chapman is Co-Regional Managing Partner for One Europe, and Office Managing Partner for London. She is an Employment Partner and specialises in all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law advising on a wide range of employment, labour and HR issues in the UK and on a cross border basis including: Tribunal and High Court litigation; executive recruitment, remuneration, grievance disciplinary and dismissal; restructuring/insolvency redundancies and collective matters; public and private M&A, outsourcings and employee transfers.
Miguel Odriozola
Miguel Odriozola is the Head of the Clifford Chance Antitrust team in Spain. He is a member of the Bar Associations of both Madrid and New York. From 1993 to 1999 he worked as a competition lawyer in Brussels. Since 2000 he is based in Madrid but splits his time between Madrid and Brussels. Miguel is a frequent speaker at courses and seminars on EU and Spanish competition law. He has also authored several competition law publications and he is the editor and co-author of the first treatise on the Spanish competition Act and its Regulation. He advises Spanish and international companies on all aspects of Competition Law, both in relation to the Spanish and the EU context. He has extensive experience in matters regarding restrictive practices and merger control operations in the energy, aviation, telecommunications, consumer goods and information technology sectors.
Olamide Oladosu
Olamide Oladosu
Partner Olamide Oladosu is based in London and specialises in energy and infrastructure project across Africa. He acts for sponsors and lenders on all aspects of international project financings (including upstream and midstream oil and gas projects, petrochemicals and power). He is admitted in England & Wales as well as in Nigeria with close to two decades' experience advising clients on transactions relating to across the energy, infrastructure and financial services. Previous experience includes Rand Merchant Bank Nigeria where he was General Counsel and one of the leading Nigerian law firms where he was an energy and projects partner. Olamide is the Africa Practice Leader for Banks and DFIs.
Diego Ballon Ossio
Diego Ballon Ossio
Diego Ballon Ossio is one of the partners spearheading our Fintech offering out of London. His broad regulatory practice spans across the entire spectrum of non-contentious financial services regulation covering trading, custody and settlement of traditional investments and digital assets as well as strategic advice to regulatory authorities on the design and development of new regulatory frameworks. Diego is a recognised expert in respect of regulatory policy development, particularly in the context of cryptoassets and the uses of digital ledger technology in traditional financial markets. He is often invited to participate in industry and standard setting bodies working groups including the UK Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC) Working group on Fintech and the IRSG working group on Fintech. He gained significant experience in financial regulation working at the UK Financial Conduct Authority (and predecessor organisation) from 2010 to 2015.
Meighan O’Reardon
Meighan O’Reardon
Meighan O’Reardon is a leader on the global Complex Commercial Transactions & Outsourcing Team at Clifford Chance. Her practice focuses on structuring, negotiating, and managing complex services and technology deals across multiple industries, most notably in the financial services, healthcare and manufacturing sectors. She also focuses her practice on serving private equity and investor clients to maximize operational value from their investments. Meighan's practice includes work with private equity clients to identify and execute strategies to find operational efficiencies and value at both the sponsor level and within portfolio companies. Meighan is regularly called upon to lead third party contracting work associated with large corporate transactions including in connection with IT and business process Transition Service Agreements and post-deal operations integration. She regularly supports transformational initiatives at her clients as they procure new services and technologies to improve efficiency, reduce costs and implement new technology solutions. With more than 18 years of legal experience, Meighan advises clients on strategic outsourcing transactions, service procurement initiatives, software licensing, data use and protection, and she frequently supports various bespoke commercial services transactions. She works with clients on all phases of transactions from deal structuring, proposals, provider selection, negotiations, to post contract governance. Prior to practicing law, Meighan spent 10 years working in management consulting, focusing on operations process improvement, critical infrastructure protection and information technology implementation.
Dieter Paemen
Dieter Paemen
Dieter Paemen's practice focuses on European and Belgian antitrust law. He has over twenty five years of experience advising clients in European and Belgian merger clearance procedures, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance investigations, licensing and distribution agreements, and copyright and unfair competition issues. He acts for complainants and defendants as well as interested third parties. Dieter has particular expertise in the information technology, retail, and manufacturing industries.
Ian Painter
Ian Painter
Ian Painter specialises in advising developers, investors, lenders, landlords and tenants on all aspects of real estate developments and major infrastructure projects, including acquisitions, disposals, lettings, forward fundings, solvent and insolvent restructurings/CVAs, financings and joint ventures. Ian has experience acting for a wide range of clients comprising primarily of major developers, international investors, banks and sovereign wealth funds. Ian's extensive expertise spans a variety of asset classes, including office, logistics, retail, residential and student accommodation. He is also noted as a specialist in development projects which have a direct interface with operational railway, such as over-station developments and regeneration of assets in close proximity to the London underground network.
Michael Pallaras
Michael Pallaras
Michael Pallaras specialises in acquisition finance, real estate finance and private credit transactions, covering the Asia Pacific region from Hong Kong. Michael has been based in our Hong Kong office for more than 10 years and regularly acts for sponsors, credit funds and financial institutions on transactions across the entire credit spectrum, from investment grade to distressed debt. He also has extensive experience in cross-border real estate and development financings, including hospitality, integrated resorts, data centres, logistics, commercial and retail assets.
Andrew Patterson
Andrew Patterson
Andrew Patterson specialises in all legal, regulatory, tax and governance aspects of remuneration, share plans and incentives. Before joining Clifford Chance, Andrew was Head of Incentives Law at Barclays, with accountability for managing incentives legal risk on a global basis. Andrew has particular expertise in drafting and advising on the design, implementation and operation of remuneration arrangements for financial services institutions and helping clients navigate through a heavily regulated landscape. He has extensive in-house and private practice experience of advising at the highest level, during a time of unprecedented legal and regulatory change.
Alis Pay
Alis Pay advises on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions including direct and indirect acquisitions and disposals, development, forward fundings, solvent and insolvent restructurings and real estate financings both domestic and cross border. Alis’ expertise spans a range of asset classes including logistics, office, student accommodation, PRS/BTR and hospitality and leisure. Alis is referred to as a “force inside European real estate” because of her track record of leading large-scale portfolio Real Estate M&A transactions that span the entire continent. Alis' experience also extends to the hotel sector where she has advised investors and financiers on high value and trophy hotel assets. Having worked with numerous foreign investors on cross-border transactions, Alis is well-versed in guiding new entrants into the European real estate market. Alis also leads the real estate input for Clifford Chance's market leading energy practice.
Sharis Pozen
Sharis Pozen
Sharis Pozen is a partner and is the Co-Head of the Global Antitrust Practice at Clifford Chance, based in Washington, DC. She has extensive experience in both government and private practice. Over the course of her career, Sharis has held senior positions at GE, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and two major law firms based in New York and Washington, D.C. Sharis is one of the few antitrust practitioners who has served in high-level positions at both the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Ashley Prebble
Ashley Prebble
Ashley Prebble is head of the Financial Institutions Group in London and head of the Global Insurance Sector Group. He specialises in corporate and regulatory insurance, including start ups, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance transactions, reorganisations, distribution agreements and all compliance and regulatory matters. He has experience of advising insurers, reinsurers and intermediaries in each the Lloyd’s, London and international markets. Ashley leads the firm’s insurtech initiative and has spoken at various global conferences. Ashley is a member of the LMG working group on government affairs and a member of the LMG’s Government Affairs taskforce.
Madalina Rachieru-Postolache
Madalina Rachieru-Postolache
Madalina specialises in local and international Capital Markets transactions, as well in Banking and Finance. Madalina is the Head of the Bucharest Capital Markets Practice. Over the years, she has advised financial institutions, investment banks, local and global companies. Her expertise includes all aspects related to initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary public offerings (SPOs), domestic bond issues, corporate and sovereign Eurobonds issues, EMTN programmes, GDRs issues, and receivables securitisations, being involved in almost all major Capital Markets transactions of the last 15 years in Romania. Madalina has been involved in high profile and complex finance and project finance transactions in Romania envisaging key industries including energy, establishing herself as an expert in the field. Her international experience includes a secondment to the Clifford Chance office in London.
Alice Raine
Alice Raine has a wide range of experience across the commercial real estate sector in acquisitions, lettings and developments with a particular focus on indirect property acquisitions and real estate joint ventures. She advises on domestic property transaction as well as cross-border portfolio deals and transactions where the assets are situated outside the UK. Alice works for a broad base of international clients including real estate funds, financial institutions and corporate occupiers.
Ben Redding
Ben Redding specialises in advising developers, investors, landlords, occupiers and funders on complex development projects, acquisitions, disposals, pre-lettings and forward fundings. Ben also has extensive experience acting for corporate occupiers on global headquarters relocations. He also advises on direct and indirect acquisitions and disposals as well as advising lenders on real estate aspects of financings. Ben has a broad client base and his expertise spans a variety of asset classes, including office, retail, data centres, hospitality and residential.
Stephen Reese
Stephen Reese
Stephen Reese is Co-Chair of the Healthcare & Life Sciences sector group and Co-Head of the Intellectual Property group. He is an experienced IP specialist advising clients on both contentious and non-contentious aspects of intellectual property rights. He advises broadly on strategy and the protection, exploitation and enforcement of intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, designs, trade secrets and copyright. He is also a co-lead for our Global Healthcare & Life Sciences sector group. Stephen has significant experience advising clients within the life sciences, healthcare, technology and FMCG sectors. He also advises on the UK and EU regulatory aspects of pharmaceuticals, biologics and medical devices and their interaction with IP strategy, exploitation and enforcement.
Michael Sabin
Michael Sabin
Michael Sabin is a Funds & Investment Management Partner and co-leads Clifford Chance's U.S. Funds & Investment Management Group. Michael specializes in advising sponsors on the structuring and formation of private funds and accounts across all strategies, including buyout, real estate, energy, infrastructure and credit, as well as related strategic transactions and internal arrangements. He also advises sponsors and investors in connection with complex secondary transactions and fund restructurings. Michael’s recent experience includes acting for Arison Holdings, The Blackstone Group, Capital Dynamics, Credit Suisse, DigitalBridge (formerly Colony Capital), DWS, Greystone, ICONIQ, Mercer, TCW and Tikehau.
Monica Sah
Monica Sah
Monica is a partner in the Financial Regulation Group. Previously, she was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and Head of Legal for International Wealth Management. Monica advises global financial institutions (asset managers and sell side) on a full range of legal and regulatory issues, including: establishment of new regulated entities, regulatory reform and implementation (e.g. AIFMD, UCITSV, ALMD5, SRD2 and MiFID2/R), financial product structuring, custody issues, expanding and maintaining a multi- product and jurisdictional platform, initial margin product development, governance and financial institution M&A. She is a leading advisor on Brexit structuring issues for asset managers, banks and dealers and on FinTech, cryptoassets and cryptocustody issues for cryptoasset issuers, crypto exchanges and crypto custodians. In Legal 500 UK, Monica is rated as a 'Leading Individual' in Clifford Chance's Tier 1 Fintech Practice and Financial Services: Non-Contentious/ Regulatory Practice. Monica is rated 'Highly Regarded' in IFLR1000 for Financial Services Regulatory and is recognised as one of the leading female lawyers in the world in IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2022. She is also recognised in Who’s Who Legal as a 'Thought Leader – GBRR' and 'Global Leader, Banking – Regulatory 2023', as well as being recognised as one of the world’s leading Regulatory practitioners in their Banking Report 2022.
Reiko Sakimura
Reiko Sakimura
Reiko Sakimura specialises in international capital markets, including international debt and equity offerings, convertible bonds and other equity-linked securities, medium term note programmes, euro-commercial paper programmes, samurai bonds, regulatory capital, and corporate hybrid securities. Reiko acts for underwriter and issuer clients in respect of a wide variety of capital market transactions for Japanese issuers accessing international markets through Regulation S and Rule 144A offerings, as well as foreign issuers accessing the Japanese markets.
David Saleh
David Saleh
David Saleh advises on UK and international tax structuring and related international corporate tax matters. He regularly works with our international tax network, providing cross-border tax advice, guiding International clients into territories outside their local jurisdictions. David's clients include some of the world's leading multinationals, private equity houses, governments and sovereign funds. David has particular expertise in real estate tax and indirect taxes, including restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and tax disputes leading our UK real estate tax practice. David also advises clients on tax policy, tax disputes (particularly inter-governmental) and also heads our leading UK indirect tax practice. He is a recognised leader for Tax in the Legal 500, Chambers and SuperLawyers directories.
Paul Sandosham
Paul Sandosham
Paul Sandosham is Managing Partner of Cavenagh Law LLP*, and heads the Energy, Infrastructure and Resources (Disputes) practice for Southeast Asia. He focuses on dispute resolution in the energy, power, oil & gas, infrastructure, construction, engineering, rail, utilities, natural resources and commodities sectors. Paul acts as counsel in court and international arbitration proceedings for various parties in disputes arising out of complex cross-border disputes and projects. Paul is a qualified Chartered Arbitrator and a fellow of CIArb and SIArb. * Clifford Chance Asia is a Formal Law Alliance in Singapore between Clifford Chance Pte Ltd and Cavenagh Law LLP
Gerard Saviola
Gerard Saviola
Gerard Saviola advises institutional and boutique sponsors of private investment funds including buyout funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds and debt funds. He has experience in advising global and local fund sponsors across Europe and in emerging markets, including Africa, Asia, Russia and Eastern Europe. In addition, Gerard advises on secondary transactions and spin-outs and advises institutional investors in structuring and negotiating their investments in private investment funds. Gerard is the Africa Practice Leader for Funds.
Kai-Niklas Schneider
Kai-Niklas Schneider
Kai Schneider is the head of the firm's Funds and Investment Management group in Singapore. He is a US qualified lawyer with over 20 years of specialist experience in the funds sector and advises clients on the formation of a wide variety of private equity funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds and credit funds. He also counsels clients on co-investments, secondaries and spin outs. Kai is co-chair of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Funds Industry Group and a member of the Advocacy Subcommittee of the Singapore Venture & Private Capital Association (SVCA).
Kate Scott
Kate Scott
Kate Scott specialises in financial services and technology litigation, with particular expertise in follow-on litigation from regulatory investigations and cross-border matters. Kate's focus is advising clients (particularly Financial Services and Fintech clients) on managing their portfolio of contentious matters. She is recognised in Legal 500 as both a Next Generation Litigation Partner, and for her Fintech and Data, Privacy and Cybersecurity work. Her practice and experience spans litigation (typically defending complex claims), alongside risk management and governance advice, to help her clients prevent disputes arising in the first place. Kate's banking disputes experience encompasses a wide variety of investment banking products: credit linked notes, credit default swaps, FX derivatives, structured notes and interest rate hedging products, to name a few. Recent work includes acting on alleged LIBOR misrepresentation claims, advising several banks on coronavirus-related financing disputes and defending Quincecare claims. Kate is also a specialist in Fintech litigation, advising both financial institutions and disruptors in the financial services industry on the civil risks arising from their use of data, new payments platforms, outsourcing, cryptocurrencies, cyber and their use of artificial intelligence (as well as being published in a number of external publications on such topics). Her speciality is defending collective data actions, where she is actively working with data and privacy experts to ensure that the question of "what is personal data worth" is properly addressed by the English courts in this emerging area of law. Having previously been seconded as the EMEA Head of Litigation for a global bank, Kate also has a deep understanding of the challenges our clients' face. Kate is active in using new techniques and technology to manage large scale litigation more efficiently for her clients, such as KIRA and Technology Assisted Review, and recently developed a platform to enable a bank to manage and monitor a portfolio of litigation spanning 5 jurisdictions.
Michael Seaton
Michael Seaton
Michael Seaton is a partner in the firm's U.S. Tax, Pensions and Employment practice focusing on partnership and corporate taxation, with an emphasis on REITs and private equity and real estate investment funds. Mike represents a number of public and private REIT clients on an ongoing basis.  He has been has been involved in the structuring, formation and initial public offering of a number of REITs, as well as merger and acquisition transactions involving REITs. In addition, Mike regularly advises both REITs and investment banks in connection with REIT public equity offerings.  Mike has also represented a number of Mexican REITs (FIBRAs) in connection with their initial public offering and follow-on equity and debt offerings. Mike advises sponsors and investors in connection with the formation and structuring of real estate funds and private equity funds.  He has provided advice to non-U.S. investors regarding the various U.S. tax consequences of private fund investments and secondary fund transactions, including the impact of FIRPTA, and has advised non-U.S. governmental investors regarding private fund investments and other investments in the United States.
Zarrar Sehgal
Zarrar Sehgal
Zarrar Sehgal leads Clifford Chance’s Global Asset Finance group, is Co-Head of the Global Financial Markets group in the Americas, and Co-Head of the Industrials, Transport & Mobility Sector group. He has extensive experience representing underwriters, lenders, lessors, and governmental agencies in a wide variety of asset finance transactions, including portfolio securitizations, acquisition financing, leveraged leasing, EETC transactions, secured lending, structured financing and credit enhancements. Zarrar has particular experience in financings and corporate transactions involving aircraft, rolling stock and vessels. He has worked on several of the most significant ABS and financings involving aircraft and railcars, including many transactions that have won “Deal of the Year” awards from industry publications. He has also participated in the evolution of the ABS product over the years. Another area of specialization for Zarrar is representing clients in connection with the acquisition or disposition of leasing companies and large portfolios of aircraft and other transportation assets.
Nish Shetty
Nish Shetty
Nish is Head of Clifford Chance's International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution practice in APAC. He is recognised as one of the leading arbitration practitioners in Asia and has advised on many complex cross-jurisdictional disputes for 27 years. Nish is on the arbitrators panel of most of the key arbitral institutions. He is the founder and ex-chairman of the SIAC’s Users Council; the Co-Chair of the Council of Arbitration of MCIA and the first in Asia to be appointed as a Judge of Appeal on the FIA International Court of Appeal in Paris. Nish is qualified in Singapore, England & Wales.
Masafumi Shikakura
Masafumi Shikakura
Masafumi Shikakura is a counsel and leads Clifford Chance’s antitrust practice in Tokyo. He specialises in antitrust law and foreign investment regulations and advises domestic and international companies on Japanese anti-monopoly law as well as Japanese regulations on foreign direct investments and sanctions. He handles multi-jurisdictional merger filing analyses and foreign direct investment filing analyses and coordination with local counsel in various jurisdictions for many transactions. Masafumi has also gained extensive experience in M&A transactions, in particular cross-border acquisitions and joint ventures. He has advised clients in power and energy, technology, healthcare and various industrial sectors.
Lei Shi
Lei Shi
Lei Shi is the Managing Partner of Clifford Chance's Mainland China offices and specialises in China-related dispute resolution matters, including international arbitration, regulatory compliance and investigation, and commercial litigation. Lei also co-leads the firm's Greater China international arbitration practice. Lei joined Clifford Chance in 2010 and became a partner since 2019. Lei is admitted in Hong Kong and New York and also holds a PRC legal professional qualification certificate (not holding current practicing certificate). Lei is a native Mandarin speaker and fluent in English.
Benjamin Sibbett
Benjamin Sibbett's focus is on mergers and acquisitions and related securities as well as corporate law matters, representing U.S. and non-U.S. buyers, sellers and other stakeholders, including financial sponsors and strategic investors, in a broad range of negotiated domestic and cross-border transactions, including negotiated acquisitions and dispositions, leveraged buyouts, reorganizations, joint ventures and other strategic investments. Benjamin has been involved in transactions across a wide range of geographies and industries, with particular experience in healthcare and TMT sectors.
Daniel Silver
Daniel Silver
Daniel Silver focuses on regulatory enforcement and white collar criminal defense matters. Dan represents individuals, investment funds, banks and other corporate entities in matters before the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal and state enforcement agencies. Dan also counsels clients on risk mitigation strategies with respect to cybersecurity, anti-corruption, sanctions and anti-money laundering issues. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Dan spent ten years as a federal prosecutor, serving in several senior leadership positions and as Chief of the National Security and Cybercrime Section within the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. In the U.S. Attorney's Office, Dan supervised a team of more than one hundred federal prosecutors, personally led complex cross-border investigations, conducted more than a dozen jury trials, and argued numerous appeals.
Kabir Singh
Kabir Singh
Kabir Singh is a partner in the International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution practice of Clifford Chance. He specialises in complex, cross border disputes with a focus on India and Southeast Asia. His clients include large multinational corporations, international banks and financial institutions across APAC. His practice focuses on international arbitration, regulatory investigations and contentious employment disputes. He has acted as counsel on numerous international arbitrations under the rules of ICC, SIAC, LCIA, HKIAC and AAA. Kabir has been appointed as an alternate member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce for a three-year term.
Andreea Sisman
Andreea Sisman
Andreea Sisman leads the Project Finance & Infrastructure, Real Estate Finance practice at Clifford Chance Badea and has more than 24 years of experience. Her expertise covers project finance, real estate and real estate finance, PPPs and concessions, providing specialist advice on public procurement regulations, concession of works and services, bankability issues, transactions with public and private assets, offtake agreements, project documentation and financing documentation. Her portfolio includes many first-of-its-kind PPPs/Concessions, infrastructure and complex projects in energy, transport and social infrastructure in Romania, Moldova and Turkey.
Midori Takenaka
Midori is Senior Associate in our Tech//Digital team who specialises in commercial and technology contracts. She works with clients across multiple sectors to find strategic solutions to complex separation and integration issues, with a particular focus on global manufacturing and distribution arrangements. She also advises on technology outsourcing arrangements, software arrangements and other complex services arrangements. She is a trusted advisor who has a deep understanding of commercial and strategic goals, working alongside C-suite and business teams to deliver the client's goals.
Robert Tang
Robert Tang
Robert Tang is a specialist in complex commercial litigation and international arbitration across Australia and the broader Asia Pacific region, with a particular focus on construction & infrastructure, energy & resources and TMT sectors. Robert acts as counsel and as arbitrator. Robert has extensive domestic and international experience in leading large-scale, high profile and complex commercial litigation and international arbitration, including international commercial arbitrations conducted under the ACICA, HKIAC, ICC, UNICTRAL and SIAC Rules. He was the recipient of the Young ADR Practitioner of the Year in the Australian ADR Awards 2018.
Simon Thomas
Simon Thomas
Simon Thomas is the London Head of Capital Markets at Clifford Chance. He advises issuers, sponsors and underwriters on a wide range of equity capital markets (ECM) transactions, including IPOs, rights issues, global depositary receipts, and equity placings in the UK and internationally. Recognised as one of the UK’s leading ECM specialists, Simon also frequently advises on complex, high-profile M&A transactions with equity components, and has significant experience across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
Hugo Triaca
Hugo Triaca
Hugo Triaca's practice focuses on capital markets and finance transactions, primarily in Latin America. He has extensive experience on high-yield and investment grade debt offerings, equity offerings, and liability management transactions. His experience includes advising financial institutions and corporate, sovereign and sub-sovereign entities across jurisdictions, sectors and products, such as green, social and sustainable capital markets and financing transactions, acquisition and project financings, exchange offers, tender offers, consent solicitations and other transactions. Mr. Triaca also advises foreign private issuers in connection with corporate governance, US securities laws and general corporate matters.
Sachin Trikha
Sachin Trikha
Sachin Trikha has a particular focus on international commercial arbitration disputes arising in the energy, infrastructure and oil & gas sectors. Sachin's experience includes advising on ICC, LCIA and LMAA disputes. He has a particular interest in commercial remedies arising from complex breach of contract claims. He has written articles, and spoken at a variety of conferences, on international arbitration procedure. Sachin is also a tutor of international commercial arbitration at King's College, London.
Matthew Truman
Matthew Truman
Matthew Truman is Global Co-Head of Leveraged Finance. He has over two decades of experience advising on acquisition finance, syndicated lending and restructuring transactions. Matthew regularly advises private equity sponsors, private credit funds, corporates, financial institutions, and banks across a variety of sectors including real estate, healthcare and life sciences, technology, manufacturing, and consumer. Matthew has been based in Asia since 2005, and plays a pivotal role in complex, cross-border financings across the Asia Pacific region. Matthew has practiced in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore.  
Ashwin Van Rooijen
Ashwin Van Rooijen
Ashwin focuses on contentious antitrust matters – abuse of dominance and restrictive agreements – as well as regulation in the technology sector. He has represented clients such as Nokia, GE, Samsung, Epic Games, and Oracle. Ashwin frequently acts for clients accused of abuse of dominance, having secured either wins (on six occasions, two of which after issuance of preliminary findings) or commitments (in two cases). He is equally active on the complainant side, having recently represented OLX on its successful abuse of dominance complaint against Meta, which resulted in the first ever European Commission antitrust fine for Meta. Ashwin also advises (prospective) gatekeepers as well as third parties on implications of the Digital Markets Act. Ashwin’s practice covers key issues in technology markets, including: (i) standard essential patents, (ii) standard-setting agreements, (iii) refusal to supply and refusal to license, (iv) interoperability, (v) aftermarkets, (vi) tying, (vii) data, and (viii) vertical restraints in licensing and distribution agreements. Ashwin previously worked as a software engineer in California and the Netherlands, and relies on his tech background to advise his clients and understand their business.
Jaime Velázquez
Jaime Velázquez specialises in M&A and corporate finance, mainly focused in regulated sectors such as financial, infrastructure, telecoms or energy sectors. Jaime has been the Legal Counsel for the Spanish Inland Revenue in Cataluña, Secretary of the Board of Directors and Legal Counsel for the State-owned Bank (ICO), Secretary of the Board of Directors of a private equity house (Axis S.G.E.C.R., S.A.) and General Secretary and Secretary of the Board of the Telecommunications Market Commission. Jaime leads the Clifford Chance Industrial and Financial Institutions groups in Spain.
Robert Villani
Robert Villani
Robert Villiani has extensive experience in structured capital markets. He has been involved in traditional and novel asset-backed and mortgaged-backed offerings as well in offerings of both traditional and novel structured credit products, investment funds and other financial instruments. Robert's experience includes representation of underwriters, issuers, credit enhancers, warehouse providers and other transaction parties in securitizations and repackagings of commercial real estate loans, leveraged loans and other corporate debt instruments, automobile and equipment loans and leases, corporate fleet leases, trade receivables, health care receivables, and securities and asset-backed securities. Many of these transactions were among the first of their type. Robert has also advised participants in the creation and maintenance of several investment funds and asset-backed commercial paper programs, particularly those focused on the acquisition of distressed assets, and has substantial experience working with derivatives and related products.
Stavroula Vryna
Stavroula Vryna specialises in competition law. She has extensive experience advising businesses on international merger control, foreign direct investment, complex antitrust investigations and competition law compliance across a wide range of sectors. Stavroula regularly advises clients on the implications of Tech regulation, such as the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the UK Digital Markets Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC). Stavroula has spent several years working in the firm's Brussels office and is a member of the firm's Tech Group.
Kate Vyvyan
Kate Vyvyan
Kate Vyvyan advises on a broad range of debt capital markets products in the UK, Europe and internationally, including standalone bonds, EMTN issuance, green and sustainability-linked bonds, regulatory capital and hybrid instruments, private placements and commercial paper. Kate’s clients include both issuers and underwriters. Notably, Kate advises many sovereigns, supranationals and international corporates, and also all the key investment banks active in the debt capital markets. Kate advises on liability management transactions, including tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations and restructurings. Kate is an active supporter of diversity issues and a leader of Clifford Chance’s gender parity network, Accelerate. Accelerate is committed to taking bold actions to accelerate the pace of change towards gender parity and drive forward an inclusive and diverse culture.
Donna Wacker
Donna Wacker
Donna Wacker is the Head of contentious regulatory and contentious insolvency in Hong Kong, and a core partner in the Asia Regulatory Group. Admitted in Hong Kong, Australia and England & Wales, Donna has more than 20 years experience in Asia, advising on contentious and advisory regulatory matters and complex litigation with an emphasis on the financial services industry. Donna's experience extends across advising banks, alternative investment funds, brokerages and listed companies in a wide range of regulatory matters and investigations by regulators across Asia, including investigations into insider dealing and market manipulation, short selling and position reporting.
Christopher Walsh
Christopher Walsh
Christopher Walsh has an in-depth experience of all capital market products and in particular structured finance transactions including Covered Bonds and securitisations. His experience includes working for both arrangers and originators on a wide variety of RMBS, CMBS, Covered Bonds, MTNs and real estate transactions and also on both conventional and Islamic financings and throughout the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Australasia. Chris has established a wide variety of debt programmes for various institutions including Barclays Bank, Clydesdale Bank, IPIC, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Barclays Capital, Citi and Deutsche Bank.
Thomas Walsh
Thomas Walsh
Thomas Walsh co-leads the firm's Greater China international arbitration practice and is the head of its Korean disputes practice. He has a particular focus and experience in post-M&A, private equity and tech related disputes. Thomas acts in arbitrations under all of the major arbitration rules such as HKIAC, SIAC, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL and has been based in Asia since 2010 so has a depth of experience in the region. He is recognised as one of the leaders in Asia in international arbitration. In accordance with this he has leadership roles with many of the leading global and regional arbitral institutions. This includes being appointed to the HKIAC's Council and Appointments Committee, being elected as the Chair of ICC HK's Nominations Committee and appointed to KCAB Next's Steering Committee.
Samantha Ward
Sam is experienced in all forms of commercial litigation with an emphasis on antitrust/competition litigation, regulatory investigations (including cartel investigations) and public/administrative law. She has advised clients on investigations, enforcement and dawn raids conducted by the European Commission, FCA and CMA. She has had senior secondments to clients and regulators including the former OFT, and as acting GC at a global insurance broker. In addition, Sam is a core member of the firm's Tech Group and has advised multiple clients on complex data related issues, including supporting clients with cyber crisis management and incident response, ICO investigations/enforcement and systems/controls reviews following a cyber event.
Kathleen Werner
Kathleen L. Werner is a Partner in the Capital Markets practice of Clifford Chance. Kathleen primarily represents companies and investment banks in capital markets and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Kathleen's clients include public and private companies in the financial services, real estate and media industries. She acts as regular outside corporate and SEC counsel to many of her clients. In addition, Kathleen frequently represents investment banking firms acting as underwriters and initial purchasers in public and private securities offerings. Kathleen's clients include public and private companies in a variety of industries, including the financial services, real estate, healthcare and media industries.
Iain White
Iain White
Iain White is a versatile lawyer with broad experience of domestic and cross border restructurings and formal insolvencies. Iain acts both on the creditor-side (for banks, funds and other lending institutions) and on the debtor-side (for borrowers, issuers and private equity sponsors) as well as advising insolvency officeholders. In recent years Iain has advised clients across a number of different jurisdictions and sectors, including commodities, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and real estate.
Ying White
Ying White
Ying White is a partner in the Funds and Investment Management Group of Clifford Chance. Ying has advised numerous global fund managers and institutional investors on their investments in public and private markets and funds in China. She also advises Chinese clients on the structuring, establishment and operations of offshore private equity funds and hedge funds. Ying joined Clifford Chance as a Partner in 2012. Prior to that, she was a legal counsel at the World Bank in Washington, DC for seven years. Ying was admitted in the District of Columbia. Ying is a native Mandarin speaker and fluent in English.
Martin Wurth
Martin Wurth
Martin Wurth is a Partner in the Global Financial Markets practice of Clifford Chance’s Luxembourg office. He specialises in structured finance, asset finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance and bank lending in cross border and local transactions, with a particular focus on financings to Luxembourg investment funds (subscription/equity bridge or NAV facilities). Martin is also a regular contributor to legal journals and is a regular speaker at Fund Finance Association conferences.
Terry Yang
Terry Yang
Terry Yang specialises in derivatives, structured products and financial regulatory matters. Terry has worked on a number of significant structured finance projects in Greater China, including China Connect, Bond Connect and the establishment of OTC Clear. He regularly advises both buy-side and sell-side clients on structured note investments, margin financing transactions and cross-border acquisitions involving OTC derivatives. Terry speaks regularly at industry conferences on financial regulatory developments affecting China and Hong Kong.
Christopher Yates
Christopher Yates
Chris Yates is a senior commercial disputes partner acting on the firm's highest profile corporate, banking and sports litigation. Like the firm's global platform, his practice is international - Chris regularly acts on cross-border disputes involving concurrent litigation in multiple jurisdictions, differing regulatory regimes and arbitration. Chris co-leads the firm's global Entertainment & Sports Group, where he represents investors, owners and stakeholders on industry defining matters. Chris is also one of the main partners in the firm’s securities litigation practice; an area where the firm leads the market. His client base is similarly broad; Chris advises private equity, FTSE 100 companies, SOEs, financial institutions, hedge funds, C-suite executives, founders and HNW clients. Chris enjoys an excellent market profile and is highly regarded for his practical and commercially strategic advice.
Andrew Young
Andrew Young
Andrew Young is a partner in Clifford Chance’s Global Financial Markets group, based in New York. Andrew advises lenders, corporates, sponsors and investors in all aspects of domestic and international financing transactions, including acquisition and leveraged loans, syndicated credits, direct loans, fund finance and private placements. He also advises clients in respect of restructurings, recapitalizations, intercreditor arrangements and bankruptcy issues. Previously with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, Mr. Young joined Clifford Chance in 2015. He earned his JD, magna cum laude, from New York Law School.