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Zoë Ashcroft
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Work Department
Corporate department; international business and finance transactions, including M&A, commercial lending and corporate finance.
Position
One of the founding partners of Winston & Strawn’s London office, and head of the London corporate department, who concentrates her practice in business and finance transactions, and has more than 20 years of experience handling complex cross-border deals. Her experience includes mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and joint ventures, private equity investments, venture capital financing, and corporate lending (representing both lenders and borrowers); she also advises companies with respect to securities offerings, including London Stock Exchange listings, Alternative Investment Market listings, and dual listings on these markets in conjunction with the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ; clients include banking and financial institutions and companies in a variety of industry sectors, ranging from energy, cleantech, biotech, media and financial services groups to heavy industrial and manufacturing conglomerates.
Career
Solicitor England and Wales 1989; worked in Hong Kong 1989-90; solicitor Hong Kong 1990; associate Turner Kenneth Brown 1989-94; associate Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1994-98; partner Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1998-2003; partner Winston & Strawn 2003 to date. Director of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Limited, a UK registered charity. Trustee of the Climate Group.
Languages
Conversational French; a little Cantonese.
Member
Law Society; UK Institute of Directors; Home House; Mortons.
Education
Bristol University (1986 LLB (Hons)); College of Law, Guildford (1987).
Leisure
Travel, photography, painting, horseracing.
Practice Areas
Banking (non-contentious); Corporate and commercial; M&A
