Chris Bell
Norton Rose FulbrightThe ‘responsive, available and commercial’ team at Norton Rose Fulbright maintains a strong track record in big-ticket, cross-border transactions across the technology, energy, financial services, insurance and real estate sectors, and is well-placed to collaborate with its Formal Law Alliance partner Ascendant Legal LLC. Praised for his ’unparalleled deal-making knowledge’, Craig Loveless advises on M&A, disposals, restructurings and divestments, and jointly leads the team alongside Anna Tipping, who focuses on M&A in the financial services sector. Other key contacts in the practice include Shahin Foroughian, Dexter Tan and Chris Bell.
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Testimonials
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‘Norton Rose Fulbright's M&A team has fabulous knowledge and experience in cross-border renewable energy transactions. They are extremely familiar with every and all issues a client can come across in a complex M&A transaction.’
‘Craig Loveless has unparalleled deal-making knowledge as an experienced lawyer. He always knows what a client needs, and knows how to guide the client in complex cross-border M&A projects with his exceptional legal skill and business knowledge.’
‘They are highly collegiate, solution-oriented, customer focused and have a relentless tenacity to get things done.’
‘Craig Loveless has built a strong team over the years and they are quite formidable.’
‘Craig Loveless is a standout M&A partner in APAC. We love his proactive approach to managing transactions, meaning he's usually one step ahead of us. He's very methodical and logical in negotiations.'
‘Responsive, available and commercial.’
‘The team is very strong in large and complex cross-border M&A in Asia. They are definitely one of the strongest teams in the market.’
‘Craig Loveless and his team's intimate knowledge of the regional geographies, particularly complex jurisdictions like Indonesia, is unrivalled. Their ability to skilfully guide clients and investment banks down often hardly navigable paths and out the other side to closing is exemplary.’
Key clients
- AXA
- AWP Health & Life
- Brenntag (Holding) B.V.
- Pruksa Public Company Limited
Work highlights
- Advised AWP Health & Life SA (with its registered business names “Allianz Care” and “Allianz Partners”, the global healthcare solutions arm of Allianz SE) on its acquisition of certain businesses from Aetna Life Insurance Company and Aetna International Inc.
- Advising Brenntag, a global market leader in chemical and ingredient distribution, on its acquisition of the Aik Moh Group in Singapore and across Southeast Asia.
- Advised AXA IM Impact Fund Climate and Biodiversity on its investment into Forest Carbon Pte. Ltd., a premium large-scale wetland restoration project developer in Southeast Asia, in support of efforts to restore wetland forests, conserve biodiversity and develop rural economies.
Lawyers
Leading associates
Leading associates with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Shahin Foroughian
Norton Rose FulbrightLeading partners
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Craig Loveless
Norton Rose FulbrightPractice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Anna Tipping, Craig Loveless