Reed Smith LLP

Reed Smith LLP has a broad-ranging emerging markets practice in London, which draws on the firm's expertise in as banking and finance, real estate, commercial, energy and natural resources, construction, shipping, and tax to provide comprehensive advice on major projects, acquisitions and financing transactions. The firm also handles high-level disputes, and arbitrator and litigator Gautam Bhattacharyya is the lead partner in the emerging markets practice. Up-and-coming banking and finance partner Patrick Sutton is also active in emerging markets, particularly in trade and commodity finance, project finance and structured inventory finance transactions in Africa, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia and Europe. The London team has recently been invovled in transactions and projects in jurisdictions as diverse as India, Turkey, Egypt, Kuwait and Ghana.