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Abigail Bell
Abigail Bell
Abigail Bell advises on the structuring, establishment and listing of private funds including hedge, hybrid and private equity products, both regulated and unregulated, across a broad range of asset classes and domiciled in a range of onshore and offshore jurisdictions. Ms Bell has also acted on the establishment of a number of asset management businesses and has assisted on the drafting and negotiation of a wide range of corporate documentation, including shareholders' agreements, partnership agreements, limited liability partnership deeds and fund management and advisory agreements.
Adam Levin
Adam Levin
Adam Levin focuses his practice on advising ultra high net worth individuals, particularly with regard to their corporate structuring, governance, private equity and transactional matters and in the course of his practice also handles their disputes and other contentious matters. Mr Levin's clients are often from the CIS although typically they are based elsewhere, such as the UK or Switzerland, and have business interests worldwide. His work typically involves structuring around complex issues under an aggressive timeframe and has a significant cross-border element.
Adam Silver
Adam Silver
Adam Silver focuses his practice on commercial and financial litigation, fraud and contentious insolvency. He is particularly experienced in handling capital markets related litigation as well as advising on cross-border disputes and enforcement actions in a wide variety of jurisdictions.
Andrew Hearn
Andrew Hearn
Andrew Hearn is an experienced commercial litigator whose work is national and international and extends to the co-ordination of multinational disputes. His extensive client base includes hedge funds and other companies in the financial services sector, major brand owners from the manufacturing and retail services sectors and publishers.
Camille Abousleiman
Camille Abousleiman
Mr. Abousleiman has a 30-year track record of advising on some of the most innovative and complex emerging market transactions. He advises sovereign, quasi-sovereign, corporate and bank issuers, underwriters and other transaction participants on a wide variety of debt and equity offerings, including medium-term note programmes, Eurobonds, Islamic financing, private placements, block trades and initial public offerings. In addition, Mr. Abousleiman advises corporate, banking and hedge fund clients on a range of M&A transactions, including divestitures, auctions, tender offers, defensive strategies, going-private transactions and leveraged buy-outs. Mr. Abousleiman’s experience also includes advising clients on complex sovereign and corporate international debt restructurings, consent solicitations and exchange offers across the emerging markets.
Charles Wynn-Evans
Charles Wynn-Evans
Charles Wynn-Evans, head of the employment practice in London, focuses on all contentious and non-contentious employment -related matters. His practice includes handling issues relating to redundancy, unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal, unlawful discrimination, industrial action, boardroom disputes, restrictive covenants, agreed terminations, tax issues and all kinds of employment-related litigation as well as employment aspects of corporate transactions.
Christopher Gardner
Christopher Gardner
Christopher Gardener’s practice focuses on the structuring and establishment of private funds domiciled in a range of onshore and offshore jurisdictions and across a range of asset classes, including hedge, hybrid, debt, buyout, listed equity, real estate, renewable energy and agriculture/timber funds. Mr Gardner has acted for sponsors and investors from Western Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and the CIS.
Daniel Hawthorne
Daniel Hawthorne
Daniel Hawthorne acts for a broad range of corporate and financial services clients with a focus on UK and international tax matters. He has wide-ranging experience in the areas of corporate M&A, finance, financial services and investment funds. In addition, he has particular expertise in employee taxation and incentivization matters.
Edward Kling
Edward Kling
Edward Kling concentrates his practice on complex international deals, litigation and arbitration in major competition and antitrust, intellectual property and technology cases. Mr Kling has been lead counsel in numerous cutting-edge international cases.
Giles Belsey
Giles Belsey
Giles Belsey focuses his practice on financial services matters, with a particular emphasis on debt capital markets. Mr Belsey frequently advises on standalone and structured note issuances, medium term note programs, convertible bonds and hybrid capital. Additional transactions on which he regularly counsels clients include asset-backed financings, including securitisations, debt restructurings and tender offers.
Jason Butwick
Jason Butwick
Jason Butwick, managing partner of Dechert's London office, practises in all aspects of employment and partnership law. His practice ranges from the management of collective consultation obligations in the context of structural reorganisations to the handling of highly sensitive unlawful discrimination allegations against specific members of an LLP.
Laura Brank
Laura Brank
Laura Brank is a corporate and finance lawyer focused on emerging markets transactions. Over the past 30 years, Ms. Brank has advised multinational corporations, investment funds, banks and multilateral institutions, as well as high net worth individuals, on complex cross-border corporate and finance transactions, as well as on corporate governance and compliance matters across the emerging markets, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe and Central Asia. She has extensive experience in the mining and energy, TMT, life science and manufacturing sectors. Previously, Ms. Brank was the managing partner of Dechert’s Moscow office and remains head of its Russia Practice. Since February 2022, she has acted for dozens of companies exiting the Russian market through third party sales, management buyouts or liquidation of assets.
Mark Stapleton
Mark Stapleton
Mark Stapleton advises on UK and international direct and indirect taxation issues. He has extensive experience in relation to advising offshore funds and the investment management sector. In addition he advises on acquisitions of public and private companies, real estate acquisitions, securitisations, structured finance and a variety of other banking, financial and corporate transactions.
Paul Kavanagh
Paul Kavanagh
Paul Kavanagh focuses his practice on all matters relating to intellectual property. Mr Kavanagh regularly speaks at conferences and seminars and has contributed to various intellectual property related journals, periodicals and books.
Richard Frase
Richard Frase
Richard Frase advises on all aspects of financial services law. He has extensive experience of the legal and regulatory aspects of the UK financial services industry, gained in private practice, in-house, and with the regulators, covering both wholesale and retail markets and including regulation and compliance, derivatives and trading documentations.
Richard L. Heffner, Jr.
Richard L. Heffner, Jr.
Partner. Richard Heffner, an English solicitor and U.S. qualified attorney, advises on UK and U.S. financial services law, drawing on experience gained in-house, in private practice and with UK and U.S. regulators.
Stephen Zide
Stephen D. Zide represents a diverse range of clients in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and out-of-court restructuring matters. Stephen has been involved in many high-profile restructurings and has experience across a number of industries. His clients include both official and ad hoc creditor and equity committees, debtors, bondholders, investors and secured lenders.

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