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Stuart Bedford

020 7456 3322 stuart.bedford@linklaters.com

Work Department

Corporate.

Position

Stuart is based in London and was the former head of the London corporate division. He has broad experience in private equity, on both buy-outs and growth fund deals and more generally in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and capital raisings. Stuart has extensive transactional experience in emerging markets, particularly South-East Asia and Africa. A former head of the Energy Sector, Stuart has been involved in a broad range of energy and natural resources deals. Key clients include Carlyle, Oaktree Capital, TIAA-CREF, Anglo American, Noble Group, Sumitomo Corp, Temasek, Standard Chartered Bank and ANZ.

Career

Trainee Linklaters 1993 – 1995; Associate, Real Estate, Linklaters 1995 – 1996; In-house counsel, BAE SYSTEMS plc 1996 – 1998; Senior Consultant, Grosvenor Consultancy Services Limited 1998 – 2000; Managing Associate, Corporate Department, Linklaters 2000 – 2005; Partner, Linklaters 2005 – 2009; Partner Linklaters Singapore 2009 – 2014 (as Asia Head of Corporate from 2011), Partner London 2014 (as London Head of Corporate), 2016 Partner (and General Counsel of LeapFrog Investments), 2017 Partner, London

Education

Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1990); Chester College of Law (1993).