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Emma Davies
Position
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.
Career
Cambridge University (BA, Economics) 1988
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 1995
Joined Clifford Chance 1997
Admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong 1997
Seconded to Zheng, Liu, Yuan & Zhou law office, Beijing 1997-1998
Partner since 2004
Lawyer Rankings
Hong Kong > Corporate (including M&A)
(Leading partners)Andrew Crook leads the offering at Clifford Chance, with draws on the firm’s wider Greater China team to assist with a broad array of inbound and outbound China-related M&A. Emma Davies leads the firm’s healthcare and life sciences team, and is well-known for handling M&A and corporate restructuring mandates, and Virginia Lee is an expert in matters involving minority investments and share buy-back programmes. With ample expertise in the infrastructure and energy transition spaces, Alex Bidlake is a key figure within the team for joint ventures and corporate finance matters, while public M&A specialist Tommy Tam regularly assists investment banking clients and listed companies.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Asset finance (including aviation and shipping finance)
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets (debt)
- Capital markets (equity)
- Dispute resolution: international arbitration
- Fintech and financial services regulatory
- Investment funds
- Restructuring and insolvency
- TMT