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Travers Smith LLP

10 SNOW HILL, LONDON, EC1A 2AL, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7295 3000
Fax:
Fax 020 7295 3500
DX:
79 LONDON/CITY EC1
Web:
www.traverssmith.com
Email:
Paris, London

Chris Hale

Tel:
Work +44 20 7295 3000
Email:
Travers Smith LLP

Work Department

Corporate.

Position

Head of corporate department and partner in firm’s private equity practice focusing mainly on international LBOs; also advises large private and listed companies on mergers and acquisitions, and reconstructions.

Career

Articled Kingsley Napley; qualified 1981; associate 1981-82; associate Travers Smith 1983-87; partner 1987; member of the firm’s management committee 1991 to date; head of corporate 2003 to date.

Member

Treasurer, Society of Advanced Legal Studies.

Education

King’s College School, Wimbledon; Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1977 BA; 1981 MA); Wolfson College, Cambridge (1983 LLM).

Leisure

Football, gardening, legal history.

Practice Areas

Corporate finance; M&A; Private equity

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