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Alberto Manzanares has over 30 years' professional experience in the banking sector and he specialises in all types of financing, including general lending, acquisition finance, project finance, asset finance and, in recent years, refinancing and restructuring.

Alberto Haito has extensive experience in financial markets and project financing and has represented various financial institutions, including multilateral organizations, commercial banks and sponsors in numerous energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America.

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.

Alex advises corporates, private equity investors and investment banks on complex and innovative securities offerings, including IPOs, rights offerings, and high yield and investment grade debt offerings. Alex has advised on more than €40 billion of securities offerings since 2017. He is ranked as a leading Capital Markets lawyer by Chambers and IFLR, and is recognized as one of Legal 500’s Hall of Fame Capital Market lawyers. Alex is a member of the Bar of the State of New York.

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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.

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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.

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Andrew Hutchins covers a wide range of bank lending areas, including syndicated lending, cross border leveraged transactions, acquisition finance, funds financing, structured lending and financing the acquisition of non performing loan portfolios.

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.

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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.

Anja Pfleger Andrade is a counsel in the São Paulo office of Clifford Chance. She has particular experience in capital markets, liability management, derivatives and structured finance transactions in Latin America and is a fluent Portuguese speaker. Anja received her LL.B in 2000 from London School of Economics and Political Science. She was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2005. Anja is fluent in Portuguese and German and has a good understanding of Spanish.

Anthony Wang specialises in syndicated and acquisition financing, project financing and commercial projects work. Anthony has extensive experience in advising arrangers and lenders in relation to acquisition financing and syndicated loans in Asia.

Anthony Oldfield is the managing partner of Clifford Chance's São Paulo office focusing on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including takeovers, joint ventures and venture capital transactions. He has also acted for a variety of issuers and underwriters advising on disposals, acquisitions, joint ventures and raising debt and equity. Anthony has worked in the London, Singapore and New York offices for the Firm and is currently based in the São Paulo office.

Anthony Giustini specialises mainly on project development and finance transactions in the oil and gas, petrochemical, power projects, mining and infrastructure sectors, in markets throughout the world. Anthony is particularly experienced in Africa-related matters and is the Regional Managing Partner for Africa.

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Avrohom Gelber practices U.S. tax law, focusing on cross-border finance and capital markets transactions. Avrohom provides tax and structuring advice for a wide variety of international financial and business transactions, including the formation of investment funds, corporate acquisitions and restructurings and derivative financial instruments.

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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.

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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.

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.

Bettina Steinhauer specialises in acquisition finance and general bank lending, including restructuring. Bettina advises leading German and international banks, private equity houses and corporates on domestic as well as cross-border financings, including transactions involving mezzanine and/or high yield debt and public to private transactions. Bettina's other areas of expertise include restructuring, infrastructure finance and property finance.

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.

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Carlos Portocarrero de las Heras specialises in joint ventures, bidding process, sale of portfolios and acquisitions of real estate companies. Carlos represents institutional investors, funds, financial institutions and a variety of other international real estate investors.

Carlos Hernández-Canut's main areas of practice are finance law, including banking and capital markets.Carlos specialises in project and structured finance. He has recently been involved in some of the most prominent refinancings and restructurings in Spain.

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.  

Cedric Burford has a particular expertise in debt and equity-linked bond issues, debt issuance programmes, commercial paper, structured debt issues (index-linked, credit-linked) and tax-driven finance structures. Cedric also focuses on French and other European markets, as well as US transactions, acting for major investment banks and issuers.

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.

Chad Bochan advises on energy and infrastructure financings in Asia Pacific. He also works on IBOR transition mandates for domestic and international clients, and leads Clifford Chance's Australian financial markets regulatory practice.

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.

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.

Chihiro Ashizawa specialises in capital markets, investment management and financial regulatory advice.

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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.

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.

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Head of London Energy and Infrastructure Group Clare Burgess is experienced in capital markets issuances, private placements and loans, with particular focus on the infrastructure and renewables sectors. Clare has advised on a wide range of infrastructure transactions including project bonds, private placements, corporate bonds and multi-source financings including secured corporate debt transactions (whole business securitisations). She acts for a broad range of market participants, including banks, institutional investors, multi-laterals, sponsors and corporates. She has particular experience advising on complex, credit-enhanced transactions, aggregator/portfolio financings, and restructurings/terminations. Clare advises on the issuance of green bonds, both corporate issuance, and renewables project and portfolio financings.

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.

Connie Heng is Clifford Chance's Regional Managing Partner in Asia Pacific and partner of the Greater China Capital Markets team. During her 20-plus year career, she has assisted many Hong Kong and Chinese issuers with their securities offerings in the international debt capital markets and has advised on numerous landmark transactions.

Partner Craig Nethercott is a partner in the Global Energy & Infrastructure Group at Clifford Chance. He has experience in project finance, banking, capital markets, and Islamic finance. Craig has advised on transactions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. He is ranked Band 1 for Projects by Chambers UK 2023.

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Daniel Zerbib began his career as a securitisation lawyer (CMBS, trade receivables) and now specialises in banking and finance, with a particular emphasis on infrastructure finance (both greenfield and brownfield), leveraged finance and debt restructuring.

Daniel Badea has experience in Romanian and international finance transactions including securities, derivatives, secured lending and project finance. He also advises on bond issues, corporate M&A in the real estate sector. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Dauwood Malik has extensive experience in debt finance, including corporate credit, infrastructure financing, real estate development and investment financing.

David Préat advises public and private entities as well as financial institutions on public law matters including deregulation, energy, privatisation, state aids, public domain and public services. David specialises in public contracts (concessions, public private partnerships (PPP), public procurement) in relation to major infrastructure projects including arenas, hospitals, prisons, railways, motorways and airports.

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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.

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.

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.

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Delphine Siino Courtin specialises in projects and project finance, particularly in Africa and Europe. Delphine has advised on projects in the power, oil & gas and mining sectors as well as on French private finance initiatives (PFI) and on acquisitions in the energy sector. Delphine is the Africa Practice Leader for Energy and Infra Transition.

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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.

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.

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Douglas E Deutsch is a partner in Clifford Chance's Global Financial Markets group, based in New York. He has earned a reputation as a skilled practitioner in the bankruptcy and corporate arenas. Douglas advises lending groups, lenders, agents and indenture trustees and other financial creditors and debtors, in U.S and cross border restructuring matters.

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.

Edith Leung is experienced in leveraged & acquisition finance (both sponsor and lender sides), general banking, and restructuring transactions.

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Eiichi Kanda specialises in real estate including investment, finance, development, funds, asset management and securitisation. Eiichi also advises both borrowers and lenders on structured financing, joint ventures and cross-border alliances between foreign and Japanese entities.

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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.

Emily Wicker focuses on secured lending and leasing transactions with an emphasis on aircraft leasing and financing. Emily is experienced in all aspects of aircraft finance, leasing and related restructuring transactions, including pre-delivery payment facilities, aircraft and spare parts credit facilities, EETCs and similar structured finance transactions. Emily joined Clifford Chance from Debevoise where she advised American Airlines in its Chapter 11 reorganization and Delta Air Lines and American Airlines in numerous EETC offerings and other capital markets financings.

Emma Davies heads Clifford Chance's Asia Pacific Healthcare & Life Sciences Sector Group. She has 25 years of experience advising clients on M&A, private equity and corporate restructuring matters. In addition, she led the China Corporate/M&A group in Shanghai from 2002–2012 and founded the firm’s China antitrust practice. Emma is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

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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

Fabricio Longhin advises developers, commercial banks, multilateral organizations, export credit agencies, infrastructure and energy funds and institutional investors in all aspects relating to the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America and the US.

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.

Fang BAO focuses her practice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (including foreign direct investment and outbound direct investment), private equity investments, as well as general corporate advisory. She has extensive experience advising clients in a wide range of industry sectors including energy and resources, financial services, TMT and consumer goods & retail.

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.

Filippo Emanuele is Co-Head of Finance & Capital Markets in Italy. He specialises in equity and debt capital markets and corporate finance.

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.

François Bonteil specialises in all areas of real estate work: Real Estate M&A (acquisitions and disposals of property-owning companies and portfolios of real estate assets), Real Estate Private Equity (joint ventures / shareholders' agreements), Real Estate services (including commercial leasing, development and asset management) and Real Estate Finance (acquisition / mortgage financings , corporate and funds financings).

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.

Gareth Old is a derivatives and structured finance lawyer in New York. His practice concentrates on risk management strategies for banks and financial investors, including cash and synthetic securitisations, derivatives and repo transactions, capital and regulatory advice. His clients include prominent fund and investment managers, banks, investors and service providers.

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George Kleinfeld 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.

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Giuseppe De Palma is Head of the Italian Banking and Restructuring practice, and specialises in Acquisition Finance, Restructuring and Project/Export Finance.Giuseppe has advised on groundbreaking domestic and international portfolio management transactions, restructuring project financings, leveraged finance on loan management/transactions, syndicated lendings and export credit transactions.

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.

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Grzegorz Namiotkiewicz specialises in banking and securities law. Grzegorz has vast experience in the finance sector and for the last ten years has been voted one of Poland's leading finance lawyers by both Polish and foreign legal directories and newspapers.

Guillermo Guardia has broad experience in international mergers and acquisitions, private-equity and joint-venture transactions. Guillermo has also advised several national and international financial institutions and corporations on acquisition finance, corporate financing and project finance transactions both in the energy and in the infrastructure sector.

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Henri d'Ursel heads the Brussels real estate team. Henri's expertise covers all aspects of real estate including, in particular, real estate acquisitions, reorganisations, developments and sale transactions. He focuses on significant market profile transactions and developments for leading market players, both in 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.

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.

Hugo Triaca specialises in equity offerings, high-yield and investment grade debt offerings, hybrid securities transactions, liability management transactions such as exchange offers and debt tender offers, acquisition financings and other corporate transactions. Mr. Triaca also advises foreign private issuers in connection with corporate governance, U.S. securities laws and general corporate matters.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Partner James Pay specialises in power, renewables, mining and metals, energy infrastructure transactions, including project and minority stake financings, commercial contracts and M&A and joint venture work. James is head of Clifford Chance's Global Renewables Group and co-head of our Mining and Metals Group.

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*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.

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.

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Javier Amantegui is a partner in Clifford Chance's Corporate/M&A group, based in Madrid. His experience includes general corporate/commercial law and corporate finance law practices. Javier specialises in domestic and international M&A and private equity practice with particular dedication to management, leveraged buy-outs and infrastructure transactions.

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.

Jay L. Bernstein is Chairman of the Firm’s US Corporate Finance Group. He represents, in both domestic and international markets, sponsors, investors, investment banks, specialty finance companies, REITs and other real estate, finance and hotel companies in their capital raising and merger and acquisition activities. He is also the Co-Head of the Americas Region's Financial Institutions Group, which assists a range of financial institutions, including insurance companies, specialty finance companies, asset management firms, business development companies, banks and investment banks, in their capital raising and merger and acquisition transactions. Jay's clients include leading specialty finance companies, REITs, investment banking firms, private equity and other institutional investors providing equity and debt capital to real estate, finance and hotel companies. He also advises institutional clients in the formation of private equity funds dedicated to real estate and hotel investments and represents several of these private equity funds in their investment activities. Since 1997, Jay has participated in more than US$25 billion of capital raising and mergers and acquisitions transactions involving real estate, finance and hotel companies primarily in but also outside of the US. These transactions include a variety of IPO transactions, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, strategic investments and mergers and acquisitions. Jay also represents issuers and underwriters in public and private and equity and debt offerings in a variety of other industries, including industrial manufacturing.

Jeanne Roig-Irwin is a partner in Clifford Chance's Real Estate group in New York. She specializes in complex real estate transactions including joint ventures, structuring, leasing, acquisitions and financings. Her work also includes representing funds, REITs, investors, real estate developers, and banks in transactions involving a wide range of properties including retail, office, hotel, commercial and mixed-use properties.

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.

Jeff Butler has a broad range of experience litigating complex commercial cases in federal and state courts, including substantial experience coordinating cross-border litigation and other litigation in multiple jurisdictions. Jeff has particular experience representing non-US clients with respect to contentious matters in the US, including securities class actions, financial product litigation, M&A litigation and bankruptcy-related litigation.

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Jennifer DeMarco primarily represents financial institutions in US and international debt restructurings and financial transactions including in connection with debtor-in-possession financings. Complementary to her corporate restructuring experience, she is also an experienced bankruptcy court litigator, having appeared in bankruptcy courts throughout the US.

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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.

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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.

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John Healy advises acquiring, selling and target companies and their financial advisors on both negotiated and unsolicited acquisitions for privately and publicly held corporations.

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.

Partner John Wilkins has a particular focus on the Power and Oil & Gas sectors and is the joint head of the Global Nuclear Group. John has extensive projects development & M&A experience in the energy sector with a focus on power and oil & gas. He has acted on high profile, complex world-scale projects in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia and has a particular focus on nuclear power and the shift into new energies by the oil & gas majors.

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.

Jonathan Lewis specialises in securitisation, structured finance, banking, derivatives and real estate finance. Since 2010, Jonathan has had a strategic role in advising EFSF / ESM in relation to the resolution of the euro area sovereign debt crisis.

Jonathan Zonis concentrates in representing issuers and underwriters in cross-border equity and debt (including high-yield) offerings. Jonathan has been involved in public and private transactions in equity and debt offerings by issuers in a variety of industries including banking, energy, manufacturing, real estate, infrastructure, luxury goods, telecommunications, media and shipping.

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José García Cueto focuses his practice on commercial and investor-State international arbitration matters. He advises on international disputes in a wide range of matters. José Ignacio has experience in the construction, energy and infrastructure sectors, including disputes related PC, RPC and EPC contracts, gas pipelines, power plants and concession contracts. He has experience advising on ICC commercial disputes, UNCITRAL, ICSID and ad hoc arbitrations.

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. 

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Julie Fu specialises in PE investments and M&A. She regularly advises private equity funds, multinational corporates and financial institutions on cross-border buyouts, minority investments, secondary investments, PIPE, disposals and joint ventures. Her industry experience includes consumer goods and retail, technology, real estate, healthcare, manufacturing and financial institutions.

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.

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).

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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 is a trustee of The New York Foundling.

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.

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Kevin Lehpamer focuses on public and private M&A transactions. He regularly advises sellers, purchasers and other parties in negotiated cross-border and domestic mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures and investment transactions. Kevin has represented a broad range of clients including Ingersoll-Rand, Blackstone, Toshiba, Tyco, Barclays, Owens –Illinois, KKR and JPMorgan.

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Lee Askenazi has extensive experience in structured capital markets, including all aspects of commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, collateralized loan obligations, collateralized debt obligations, re-REMICs, repurchase facilities and other structured products.

Lei Shi is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group of Clifford Chance. Lei specialises in China-related international arbitration over M&A, private equity, banking, technology and other commercial disputes, as well as under investment treaties. Lei's practice also covers regulatory compliance and investigation (especially anticorruption, sanctions and anti-money laundering) and commercial litigation. 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.

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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.

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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.

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

Luke Chen is a Counsel in the Singapore office and a member of the APAC Asset Management and Financial Regulatory Group. Luke assists clients with the formation and offering of investment funds and the regulation of investment managers. He advises fund managers and financial institutions on licensing and ongoing compliance requirements, and on the ongoing obligations for funds offered in Singapore. He is also involved in advising on the regulatory aspects of mergers and acquisitions.  

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).

Mariana Estévez is an associate in the Global Financial Markets group of Clifford Chance, based in New York. Her 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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.  

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Matt has extensive experience establishing private investment funds; advising on fund structuring and legal and regulatory aspects. Matt has worked on some of the largest fund launches in the region. He also acts for institutional investors on their investments in funds and separate accounts.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Partner Michael Pearson advises public bodies, investors, developers and financiers on major infrastructure projects internationally. Michael is recognised as a leading lawyer in the infrastructure sector by international directories, including IFLR1000, Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.

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.

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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.

Miquel Montañá specialises in dispute resolution (including arbitration), intellectual property and competition law. Miquel has worked on multi-jurisdictional intellectual property and commercial disputes involving patents, trademarks, unfair competition, distribution and agency agreements, copyright and breach of confidential information.

Nadia Kalic specialises in M&A and Projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors. She has worked on domestic and cross-border transactions across Europe, MENA, APAC and Australia. Nadia previously worked in Dubai and is a member of Clifford Chance’s Worldwide Projects Group. She is also a member of the Global ESG Board and Global Responsible Business Board.

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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.

Nicholas Wong is the firm's Global Clients, Markets and Products Partner and has over 20 years’ experience advising on project development and financing. Nick acts for sponsors, investors, banks, export credit agencies, multilateral financial institutions and governments on the structuring, development and financing of major energy, oil and gas, infrastructure and mining developments in APAC, Europe, Turkey, Russia and the CIS, Middle East and Africa.

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Nikolaï Eatwell specialises in Project, Project Finance and Export Credit transactions, particularly in Africa, Russia, the former CIS and Turkey. The matters Nikolaï has advised on include projects in the mining, metals, oil & gas, power and telecommunications sectors and financings with a wide range of commercial banks, ECAs and multilaterals. He also works on commodities financing.

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.

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.

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Patrick O'Reilly focuses on asset finance and has broad experience advising lenders, underwriters, operating lessors, manufacturers and export credit agencies in a wide variety of aircraft finance and related matters. Patrick has expertise in the areas of secured and unsecured lending, private placements, finance leases, operating leases, leveraged leases, portfolio acquisitions and sales, securitizations, restructurings, PDP financings and export credit financings.

Patrick Jackson is a partner in Clifford Chance' Global Financial Markets group, based in São Paulo. Patrick Jackson's principal expertise is in capital markets, liability management and restructuring transactions, and U.S. regulatory matters particularly those involving large Brazilian banks and industrial companies. Patrick received his JD in 2005 from Georgetown University Law Center and his AB from Harvard University in 1998. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 2007. Patrick speaks English and Portuguese.

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

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.

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.

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.

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Peter Avery specialises in finance and banking law. His areas of practice include project finance, leverage finance, restructuring, Islamic finance, asset finance and corporate lending. In addition to Dubai, Peter has worked in the firm's London, New York and Tokyo offices and has experience of high profile transactions across the globe.

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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.

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.

Philip Wagman advises clients on a range of domestic and international tax matters, including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures and leveraged buyouts, as well as structured finance and securitization transactions, equipment leasing, securities offerings and other financing transactions.

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Phoebe Lo specialises in non-contentious corporate insolvency and restructuring work. Phoebe has advised creditors, debtors and insolvency office holders in corporate restructuring and formal insolvency processes, including issues on enforcement of security, creditors' schemes of arrangement and loan and security assignments.

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.

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Rebecca Pereira is a counsel in the Tax, Pensions & Employment Group of Clifford Chance, based in New York. Her practice focuses on partnership and corporation taxation with an emphasis on investment funds, real estate, and REITs. Rebecca has experience providing tax and structuring advice for a wide variety of international financial and business transactions, including private equity investments, investment funds, cross-border real estate transactions, cross-border financings, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. Rebecca also regularly advises on REIT compliance and structuring issues.

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.

Reinhard Damman advises on insolvency law, with a particular emphasis on international and cross border insolvency and restructuring. He also specialises in French trust law 'fiducie'.Reinhard has acted for a broad spectrum of clients in fields including financial institutions, private equity funds, industrial corporations and insolvency trustees in France and abroad. With acknowledged experience in these fields, Reinhard is the author of numerous articles published in both specialist and general publications and is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences, in particular on European regulation of insolvency proceedings and French trust law.

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Richard Gordon specialises in financing transactions, including leveraged acquisitions, project and infrastructure transactions, corporate lending and restructurings, acting for both lenders and borrowers.

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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.

Rob Hagan has extensive experience in structured capital markets, focusing primarily on the acquisition, financing, management, disposition and securitization of residential and commercial mortgage assets.

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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.

Robin Abraham is the Managing Partner of Clifford Chance's Middle East Region and specialises in banking and project finance. Robin's areas of practice include project finance, restructuring, Islamic finance and secured and unsecured lending. He has acted on a number of high profile banking and project finance deals in the Middle East.

Rocky Mui focuses on transactional funds and regulatory advisory practice. He specialises in fund establishment, authorisation of funds, licensing and regulatory advice, PRC investment programs (QFI/Stock Connect/Bond Connect/CIBM Direct Access), cross-border mergers & acquisitions and general corporate related work. Rocky also focuses on Tech / Fintech and has developed expertise in cryptocurrency/blockchain related matters.

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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.

Partner Russell Wells is a Partner in Clifford Chance's London office and is the Global Head of the firm's Energy and Resources Sector, co-head of the Energy Transition Group and co-head of the Worldwide Projects Group. He has almost 35 years of commercial, corporate and finance experience in the energy sector – including a large number of landmark transactions throughout the World. Russell has worked in our Hong Kong, London and Singapore offices. Russell is ranked as Band 1 for his expertise in projects by Chambers UK, and is ranked as a Leading Individual by Chambers Global for his work across Africa. He is also listed in the International Who’s Who of Project Finance Lawyers and the International Who’s Who of Energy Lawyers.

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

Sarah Jones specialises in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, equity issues, also joint ventures and management buy-outs.

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.

Scott Bache specialises in advising financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity funds, financial advisers and turnaround professionals on the full range of restructuring matters, including corporate restructuring, distressed mergers and acquisitions and special situations investing. He also advises clients on a broad range of insolvency issues, security enforcement and general banking litigation. He has over 20 years experience working in Greater China.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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Susan Burkhardt is a partner in Clifford Chance's Funds and Investment Management group, based in New York. Susan Burkhardt's practice focuses on the formation of, and ongoing advice to, various types of private investment funds, accounts and structures across strategies, with a primary focus on credit and private equity. Over the course of her career Susan has advised on the legal and commercial aspects of new fund product launches, including funds-of-one, separately managed accounts, flagship and overflow accounts, and customized and strategic multi-strategy arrangements, including developing of terms, addressing marketability considerations, conducting cost-benefit analyses, and managing structuring issues, product documentation, and negotiations with leading institutional investors across the globe.

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Terence Foo is the Co-Managing Partner of Clifford Chance's China offices. Terence 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.

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.

Thais specialises in cross-border M&A, restructurings and joint ventures, with a particular focus on the Latin America and US markets. Thais regularly represents corporates, private equity houses, pension funds, infrastructure funds and other investors in their investments in the region. Among the sectors she focuses on are energy and infrastructure, consumer goods & retail and TMT.

Thierry Arachtingi specialises in banking and finance, with a particular emphasis on acquisition finance, real estate finance and debt restructuring. In leveraged finance and debt restructuring areas he advises on all types of senior and subordinated financings for domestic and cross-border acquisitions, including LBO, public-to-private transactions and private investments in public equity.

Thijs Alexander specialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and equity capital market transactions.

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.

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.

Thomas Baudesson specialises in commercial litigation and more particularly commercial contracts, corporate, product liability, labour law, domestic arbitration, white collar crimes, injunctions and conservatory measures. Thomas regularly advises on matters related to industrials, particularly aerospace & defence and automotive.

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Tim Cornell is a partner and head of Clifford Chance’s U.S. Antitrust practice, based in Washington, DC. Building on two decades of antitrust experience, he leads the U.S. team on advising global clients on complex antitrust matters including government, civil and criminal antitrust investigations, merger clearances, the regulatory review of mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property and technology licensing, supply and distribution agreements, joint venture formation, and the adoption of antitrust best practices. Tim has advocated on behalf of dozens of clients before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the federal courts and is also a thought leader in the antitrust community on a variety of issues. Tim leads the Clifford Chance veterans affinity group, CliffVets, in the United States.

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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.

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.

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.

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Victoria Bortkevicha specialises in a variety of banking transactions related to financing of Russian corporate and banking entities, secured and unsecured financing, project financing transactions, real estate financing transactions, aircraft finance and PPP projects in the Russian Federation. Victoria also specialises in regulatory work related to the Russian banking and insurance activities.

Virginia Lee advises on various corporate matters in Hong Kong, including mergers and acquisitions (both private and public), takeovers, initial public offerings, pre-IPO investments, joint ventures and equity fundraisings. Virginia also advises on matters concerning compliance with the listing rules, the Securities and Futures Ordinance and the Code on Takeovers and investigations by regulatory bodies

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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.

Yi Yang has over 15 years’ experience in advising multinational and Chinese companies on cross-border mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, disposals and strategic alliances across a wide range of sectors, including healthcare & life sciences, consumer goods & retail, real estate and manufacturing.

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.

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.

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.

Yoshiaki Shimizu specialises in real estate finance, real estate investment, development, structured finance, general banking and fund regulations.

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.

Yusuke Abe specialises in project finance, ECA finance, acquisition finance and other banking transactions, asset finance, real estate finance, derivatives and regulatory matters. Yusuke has worked in London and Hong Kong and is a member of Clifford Chance’s Worldwide Projects Group.

Zarrar Sehgal is head of the Transport & Logistics Group and Co-Head of the US Asset Finance Practice. He concentrates his practice on a wide variety of international asset finance transactions, including acquisition financing, leveraged leasing, EETC transactions, secured lending, structured financing, export credit agency-supported financings and credit enhancements. He also has extensive experience representing underwriters and issuers in public offerings and private placement of securities, including portfolio securitizations and debt and equity offerings. Zarrar has particular expertise in financings involving aircraft and has worked on several of the most significant securitizations and financings in the market, including many transactions that have been awarded 'Deal of the Year' awards from industry publications.