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Álvaro Abad

Álvaro Abad

Álvaro Abad is specialized in pharmaceutical and healthcare law. He advises pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medtech companies on legal matters related to medicinal products and medical devices, ranging from research and market access, to promotion and compliance issues, public procurement, or disputes within Farmaindustria, Fenin, and Autocontrol. In recent years, Álvaro has been very actively involved in the market launch of various gene and cell therapies. Álvaro is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Dravet Syndrome Foundation and of the Ethics Committee of the Dravet Syndrome Biobank.
Orson Alcocer

Orson Alcocer

Orson Alcocer leads the Real Estate practice in Madrid. With more than 25 years of experience, Orson is a highly regarded real estate lawyer with a distinguished track record of advising leading investors, developers, financial institutions, and corporate clients on complex, high-value real estate transactions.   He has deep expertise in structured acquisitions, joint ventures, financing, and development projects, covering a broad range of asset classes including office, retail, logistics, hotels, residential development, and data centres. He has extensive experience advising institutional investors and private equity firms on large-scale real estate acquisitions, portfolio transactions, sales and lease back deals, and distressed restructurings.
John Allison

John Allison

John is a senior corporate and M&A partner in our London office. John has a great depth of experience across many different industry sectors. John has a particular focus on transactions in regulated sectors and spends a significant proportion of his time on transactions in the financial services sector. John has vast experience advising clients on complex reorganisations and restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investments and debt portfolio sales. His clients include corporates of all shapes and sizes, financial institutions, banks, asset managers, investment firms, funds, private equity and other financial services firms.
Penny Angell

Penny Angell

Penny Angell is our UK Managing Partner. Her own practice focuses on acquisition and leveraged finance and other complex corporate debt arrangements. Never one to adopt a "one size fits all" mentality, Penny has continually adapted to changing market dynamics and debt structures and has consequently advised on a wide array of leverage financings, including senior, mezzanine, PIK and unitranche/super senior financing arrangements on acquisitions and other leveraged finance transactions, including take-privates, bids, leveraged recapitalisations, and domestic and cross-border leveraged buyouts. Her commercial, solutions-based approach means she is equally at home advising borrowers and lenders (both banks and debt funds). She also has particular experience in the highly regulated area of insurance company financings. Penny brings a wealth of experience derived from a career that spans several credit cycles, enabling her to provide clients with practical, commercial advice on the key issues in structuring and documenting debt finance transactions. This is underlined by Chambers UK 2020, which notes that clients describe working with Penny is as a "flawless experience," because "she is committed and dedicated as well as highly experienced in her field." In previous years, Penny received the Europe Women in Business Law "Best in Banking & Finance" award. In addition to her client practice, Penny sits on the Financial Law Committee of the City of London Law Society, a respected industry body comprised of representatives from leading London law firms.
Tom Astle

Tom Astle

Tom Astle is the Global Head of Restructuring & Special Situations, based in London. Tom's clients include funds, investment banks and corporates involved in domestic and multi-jurisdictional restructurings. Tom has 19 years of experience in stressed and distressed situations. These include liabilities management exercises, refinancings, extensions, capital raises and injections and general stakeholder management. The majority have been implemented with successful negotiation of a consensual solvent solution, although he has regularly used Restructuring Plans, pre-packaged administration, CVA and/or a Schemes of Arrangement, to deliver his clients' preferred solution. Tom has particular experience of dealing with multiple stakeholders, including syndicates of lenders, sponsors, and material pensions stakeholders. He also has a good working experience of more heavily distressed businesses and trading insolvency.
Simon Bacchus

Simon Bacchus

As counsel in our banking group, Simon focuses his practice on real estate finance transactions. He has experience acting for banks, borrowers and funds on a wide range of real estate finance transactions which has also included advising in the context of both solvent and insolvent corporate restructurings. Simon has undertaken secondments at Thames Water, The Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays Bank - with this, he has gained a valuable insight into the business needs of these institutions and others like them and a broader understanding of how he, and Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, can continue to provide pragmatic, hassle free and top quality legal counsel.
Jonathan Baird

Jonathan Baird

Jonathan focuses on investment fund and asset management-related matters. These include public and private capital raisings, M&A activity and regulatory advice. Jonathan works with asset managers, investment banks and corporate clients throughout the world and across all asset classes.  Much of the work involves dealing with offshore financial centres, so Jonathan is very familiar with their laws and lawyers. Jonathan practised for over four years in Chicago and is qualified in New York and Illinois as well as England and Wales.  He uses his U.S. experience on a daily basis to help his clients.
Shalini Bhuchar

Shalini Bhuchar

Well known by clients, counter-parties and peers alike for her commercial and solution driven approach, Shalini has extensive experience in a broad range of asset finance work and has been involved in a variety of cross-border aviation, shipping, plant and equipment transactions as well as general banking transactions. Shalini's experience includes loan and lease financings, including capital markets financings, operating leases and charters, single asset and asset and loan portfolio disposals and acquisitions and restructurings. Her clients include banks, lessors, airlines, shipping companies, debt funds and private equity firms. Shalini’s practice includes considerable experience in Africa, and she is a core member of the firm’s Africa Practice. Shalini is known for her ability to lead on complex, multijurisdictional transactions across a range of product types in a solutions focused manner. She has been lead counsel on numerous matters which represent key trends in the asset finance market - both product based (such as ESG-related products, non-payment insurance backed financings, privately placed bonds and alternative lending) and geographically (such as in the African region).
Adam Blakemore

Adam Blakemore

Adam Blakemore is a Tax partner in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's London office. He advises on the taxation aspects of structuring domestic and cross-border corporate and financing transactions. He has advised on a wide range of financing transactions, including securitisations, hybrid capital issuances, repackagings, credit linked instruments, stock lending arrangements and a variety of financial products. Adam’s practice includes acting on restructurings in solvent and distressed debt situations, corporate reorganisations and reconstructions. He has a particular interest in the structuring and restructuring of investment funds, asset management entities and private equity financings. He also provides advice on corporate acquisitions, demergers and joint ventures, both within the UK and internationally, and provides counsel on disputes and litigation with revenue authorities, representing clients before the Appeal Courts. Adam is admitted to practice in England and Wales.
Francis Booth

Francis Booth

Francis Booth is a partner based in the London office. His practice focuses on leveraged and acquisition finance. He has led transactions advising banks, debt funds and borrowers on a variety of financing structures, including senior, mezzanine, FOLO, unitranche and PIK arrangements. Secondments to Barclays and Marlborough Partners, a leading European debt advisor, have provided him with valuable commercial experience, whilst secondments to our offices in Singapore and Sydney have allowed him to work with lawyers across our international network.
Ed Bowyer

Ed Bowyer

Employment partner Ed Bowyer is 'very commercial', advising multinational corporations on issues arising from all aspects of the employment relationship. Ed is 'recommended for his client skills' and his 'open and friendly style'. Clients appreciate that he takes the time to get 'under the skin' of their businesses and find out what makes them tick. In doing so, he is able to approach problems holistically, appreciating the commercial and legal issues. He also manages the employment aspects of complex international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and large scale outsourcing agreements.
Tom Brassington

Tom Brassington

Tom Brassington is a senior partner in the firm's London Corporate & Finance practice group. He is ranked in Chambers Global for Corporate/M&A, with his expertise in international and cross-border M&A highlighted in particular. He has experience across a wide variety of work including public and private M&A, joint ventures, restructurings, private equity, and equity capital markets. While Tom is a generalist M&A practitioner, he regularly acts for clients in the Life Sciences and Technology, Media & Telecoms sectors. While Tom is based in London, he has also practiced in both Dubai and Hong Kong.
Charles Brasted

Charles Brasted

Partner Charles Brasted works at the intersection of business, law and policy. He helps businesses engage effectively in the making of the laws, regulations and policies that affect them. He also helps governments, regulators and other policymakers to take robust decisions. Charles is a seasoned litigator and a Solicitor Advocate whose practice is underpinned by his experience of acting in commercial judicial reviews and other legal challenges before UK Courts and tribunals, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. His experience spans a wide range of industries, acting for claimants, defendants and interested parties in high-profile and complex matters in heavily regulated sectors such as energy, financial services, gambling, life sciences, media and telecoms. As head of our public law and policy practice, Charles has been at the forefront of developing our innovative approach to government relations policy advocacy, which brings together legal knowledge, dispute resolution experience and public affairs skills in a seamless team.
Jon Brose

Jon Brose

Jon P. Brose is a partner in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Tax Group. Jon advises on tax issues relating to CLOs and other structured finance and securitization vehicles. In this capacity, he has represented managers, underwriters, issuers and placement agents. He also provides tax advice regarding securities offerings, structured products, derivatives and other financial instruments, repurchase agreements, credit facilities, and partnerships and other joint ventures, as well as a variety of other commercial transactions and capital markets activities. In addition, Jon represents investment funds (including hedge funds, funds of funds, and private equity funds) and their managers on all aspects of their businesses, including management entity and fund formation, seeding arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, partnership tax issues, international tax issues, compensation arrangements, and ongoing investment activities and transactions. He is experienced with a broad range of investment strategies and asset classes, including long/short equity, credit, distressed asset, commodities, cryptocurrencies and real estate.
Edward Brown

Edward Brown

Partner Edward Brown is a partner in our pension team. Hogan Lovells Cadwalader born and bred, Edward trained at the firm, qualified in 2005, and became a partner on 1 January 2013. Edward has helped clients structure and manage liability management exercises (like PIEs and ETVs), make benefit changes to their schemes and negotiate actuarial valuations. Clients have appreciated Edward's advice when schemes are under investigation by the Pensions Regulator, or navigating their way into the Pension Protection Fund.
Fernando Calancha Marzana

Fernando Calancha Marzana

Fernando is the Head of the Madrid Regulatory practice and, as of January 1st, serves as the Office Managing Partner. He coordinates and leads a multidisciplinary team, bringing a wealth of experience in regulatory, contentious, and corporate matters within Public and Administrative Law, as well as in the private sector. A State Lawyer (Abogado del Estado) currently on leave of absence, Fernando joined Hogan Lovells Cadwalader after serving as Head of the Regulatory Practice at PwC Tax & Legal. During his tenure at PwC, he specialized in three key areas: Regulatory, M&A, and Litigation & Arbitration.  
Andrew Carey

Andrew Carey

With a focus on corporate and sovereign debt securities offerings, Andrew's career is rooted in a broad corporate finance 'City' practice spanning equity and debt; secured and unsecured; public and private; structured and plain vanilla. He brings this vast experience to bear in helping clients get the deal they want – complex and difficult when needs be; simple and straightforward when possible. He has worked on financings by issuers across a wide spectrum of credit quality, geography and sector. He has a leading role in our debt capital markets practice in emerging markets and has worked on transactions in EMEA and Asia.
Andrew Carlon

Andrew Carlon

Andrew Carlon is a partner in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's Tax Department. His practice focuses on assisting clients with the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions. He regularly advises on private company acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, taxable and tax-free public company transactions, cross-border restructurings, and spin-offs, including pro rata spin-offs, split-offs, Morris Trust spin-merge transactions and IPO-spin combinations. In addition to his M&A work, Andrew also routinely advises on both public debt and equity offerings and syndicated lending transactions.
Holly Chamberlain

Holly Chamberlain

Holly Chamberlain is co-chair of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Finance Group, head of the firm’s Real Estate Finance practice and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Her practice focuses on real estate finance as well as matters affecting property owners’ ownership, acquisition and disposition of real estate interests. She represents lenders in the financing of a range of properties, including: office, retail, hotel, multi-family, industrial and skilled nursing facilities through single asset as well as multi-state and multi-property transactions. She advises clients on a wide range of transactions, such as: the origination of mortgage and mezzanine loans (including stabilized and unstabilized assets, term loans, bridge loans, revolving credit facilities and future advance facilities), preferred equity investments in real estate joint ventures, unsecured real estate loans, single-family rental portfolios, bridge and term facilities, loan workouts and consensual foreclosure. Holly also advises on the negotiation of co-lender and intercreditor agreements, secondary market mortgage and mezzanine loan sales, loan servicing, the acquisition and disposition of properties, negotiations of property management agreements and the renegotiation, acquisition and sale of stressed real estate loans. Holly was recognized in Forbes’ 2025 America’s Best-In-State Lawyers guide for her work in Real Estate Law in Charlotte. She was named to Lawdragon’s  inaugural “Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers” guide, and was among 25 women recognized by the Charlotte Business Journal as part of its “2023 Women in Business Awards.” Holly was also recognized by Law360 as a Real Estate MVP for advising on many of the most significant commercial real estate financings in 2022 and 2024. Holly is regularly recognized as a leading real estate lawyer by Chambers USA, Legal 500 U.S., IFLR 1000, Best Lawyers in America, and is a recipient of Connect Media’s inaugural “Lawyers in Real Estate” award recognizing the top 50 real estate lawyers in the country as well as the 2022 awards. A member of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's Women’s Leadership Initiative, Holly also serves as partner mentor for several associates and summer associates, is a primary representative for the firm in its recruiting efforts, both on and off campus, and is a sponsor to “protégées” in the firm’s Sponsorship Program. Holly is also a member of the CREFC Women’s Network.
Emma Clarke

Emma Clarke

As a partner in our Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects practice, Emma Clarke focuses on infrastructure finance, public-private partnerships (PPP) and project finance, infrastructure mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and fund financing transactions, advising primarily on the financing aspects. She brings over 20 years of extensive experience to her clients across sectors as diverse as energy (renewables including wind and waste, as well as gas and electricity), water, transport (roads, rail, ports), and accommodation (health care). She has acted on some of the largest and most complex deals in the international and domestic infrastructure market. Her clients are drawn from across the spectrum of infrastructure market participants including sponsors and borrowers, commercial banks, multilateral lenders and other financial institutions, and government agencies. She has helped clients solve a range of financing challenges in particular deals involving bank, bond, and hybrid financing structures. As well as advising clients on a wide range of financing solutions across the infrastructure, PPP and project finance, and infrastructure M&A space, Emma also has experience of advising parties on on-going finance contract management issues and restructuring/refinancing under-performing and distressed infrastructure debt.
John Connell

John Connell

John Connell is a partner in our global M&A and corporate finance practice. He is Head of the firm's London M&A practice. He has a broad corporate practice and specialises in domestic and cross-border public and private M&A and private equity. He acts for both listed and private companies, financial institutions and private equity clients. He has a wide range of experience, including public takeovers, private acquisitions and disposals, private equity and growth equity investments, joint ventures, listings, capital raisings and restructurings. John advises across a broad range of sectors.
Julian Craughan

Julian Craughan

Julian Craughan is the Head of Capital Markets - International and part of the Structured Finance group based in London. He has extensive experience in securitisations and structured finance transactions, including portfolio sales and forward flow transactions. He advises lenders, arrangers and originators on asset backed financings and securitisations of various asset classes including retail automotive receivables (including personal contract plan (PCP) and standard hire purchase), buy-now-pay-later (BNPL), SME loans, lease receivables, dealer floorplan receivables, consumer receivables, trade receivables, commercial mortgages, residential mortgages and infrastructure assets.
Rebecca Crowley

Rebecca Crowley

Rebecca Crowley is a partner in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Finance Group and based in London. Rebecca focuses her practice on the financing, refinancing and acquisition financing of infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure assets, with particular experience in cross-border acquisition financing. She acts for sponsors, corporate borrowers, and lenders (infrastructure funds, bank lenders, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies and pension funds) on a broad range of capital structures, with significant experience handling digital infrastructure and energy transactions. Rebecca has been recognized by The Legal 500 UK as a “Rising Star” in Infrastructure annually since 2021, with client feedback noting that she is “a name to note for cross-border acquisition financing” and “the best in the business.” She joined Hogan Lovells Cadwalader from the London office of a major global law firm, where she practiced in its finance department since 2015. She is admitted to practice in England & Wales.
Assia Damianova

Assia Damianova

Assia Damianova is special counsel in the Capital Markets Group in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s London office. Her practice focuses on complex financing transactions involving a wide variety of asset classes. Assia has extensive experience with derivative products (including credit default swaps, credit-linked notes, total return swaps, currency and interest rate swaps, equity derivatives, structured repos and other derivative instruments) and securitisation transactions, and related regulatory issues. In addition, she advises buy-side clients on a wide range of trading, compliance and portfolio management issues. Assia is admitted to practice in England and Wales.
Angela Dimsdale Gill

Angela Dimsdale Gill

The leader of the pension litigation practice, Angela has conducted a number of landmark cases. She has a wide background of litigation in multiple jurisdictions and her claims experience includes confidential information, fraud, insolvency and breach of fiduciary duty. These days her industry focus is almost exclusively on pensions and professional liability. She is one of our lead partners in professional liability and has dealt with substantial claims of all kinds against pensions and other professionals.
James Doyle

James Doyle

James Doyle leads the global Corporate & Finance practice group. As a debt capital markets partner, James provides a wide spectrum of advice, primarily focusing on derivatives and structured finance. This includes assisting clients with sophisticated financial products, including securitised derivatives, repackagings, funding structures, and associated regulatory advice. James works with financial institutions, government agencies, corporates, asset managers, and funds across the world.
Matthew Duncan

Matthew Duncan

Matthew Duncan is a partner in the Capital Markets Group in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's London Office. He advises a wide range of institutions and other entities that operate, invest in or deal with businesses that provide financial services and products to the consumer, financial, commercial and public sectors in the United Kingdom and other jurisdictions (including banks, lenders, credit funds, insurers, reinsurers, pension funds, alternative investment funds, investment managers, finance arrangers and fintechs). Matthew has played a significant role in many landmark, innovative “first of kind” transactions that have been widely followed by many issuers, including the first UK single-issuer, segregated, multi-issuance, residential mortgage-backed securities program. He has been involved with UK covered bonds since the first transaction in 2003 (prior to there being a legislative framework for such transactions in place). He has also played a leading role in advising fintech businesses and working on innovative fintech structured financings, especially involving the tokenization of assets and the use of smart contracts (typically using distributed ledger technologies, such as blockchain) and artificial intelligence (AI), and he often speaks at conferences in this field. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales.
Nicola Evans

Nicola Evans

Described by Legal 500 as a practitioner who is "approachable and pragmatic" and one that is “proactive, thinks ahead and provides pragmatic solutions”, Nicola has over 20 years’ experience advising clients on game-changing and often innovative corporate finance transactions. Nicola’s experience is broad and extends to corporate transactions, domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures, the Takeover Code, disclosure and governance issues, securities law and the Listing Rules as well as secondary capital raising and restructurings. She is also often called upon by boards of listed companies to advise on their significant corporate matters. She has experience across a number of sectors including, in particular, insurance, financial services, retail and real estate. Nicola is Leader of our Global Insurance Sector and was awarded  Insurance Lawyer of the Year at the Women in Insurance Awards 2023. Nicola was also named as a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer in 2024, with a client saying, "Nicola has the ability to solve transactional complex problems very quickly, delivers very straightforward honest advice and she really understands our business."
Andrew J. Flemming

Andrew J. Flemming

A partner since 2007, Andrew Flemming heads up the Firm's London real estate finance practice, which includes over twenty fee earners within its ranks. The dedicated close-knit team which includes fellow partner Jo Solomon has gone from strength to strength in recent years, and is now ranked as a leading practice by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners. With 20 years of real estate and banking experience Andrew executes complex transactions, working alongside his clients to structure financing solutions on their real estate transactions. Known for his "can-do approach" and for getting the deal closed with good humour, Andrew's in-depth knowledge of the UK and European markets leads him to often act for new entrants to the market. Working out of the London office Andrew regularly acts for leading banks as well as debt funds and borrowers including high net worth individuals.
Charles Ford

Charles Ford

Described in Legal 500 as 'superb at complex contracts', Charles Ford, advises governments, funders and developers addressing the infrastructure needs of the future. Charles works on the development of public private partnership and regulatory based infrastructure models as well as acquisitions and disposals of infrastructure investments. In addition, Charles works on fund establishment and co-investments and alliancing in the sector. Particular areas of recent focus for Charles have been mega transport projects as well as renewable energy projects, water, and economically regulated infrastructure models.
Brian Foster

Brian Foster

Brian Foster is co-head of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Fund Finance Group. Brian focuses on financing, derivatives and structured products transactions involving financial institutions and investment funds. His experience covers a broad range of derivatives (including OTC trades, structured notes, options, forwards and swaps, with particular focus on equity- and fund-linked derivatives) and financing arrangements (including secondaries financing, fund of hedge fund and single manager hedge fund leverage, management company loans, dividend recapitalizations, NAV facilities, subscription lines, hybrid transactions, preferred share issuances, collateralized fund obligations, margin loans, securities lending and repo facilities and prime brokerage arrangements). Prior to joining Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, Brian worked at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in connection with the unwinding of its derivatives book in bankruptcy. He also worked as a structurer in Global Fund Derivatives at Deutsche Bank, where he arranged fund finance transactions and fund-linked structured product transactions.
Imogen Fowler

Imogen Fowler

Imogen Fowler works with brand owners to proactively protect and enforce their trademarks and designs across Europe and globally, from brand inception and strategy through to searching, filing, enforcement, anti-counterfeiting, and commercialization. Based in Alicante, Spain, the home of the European Union Intellectual Property Office, Imogen advises clients in multiple European languages and has extensive experience in successfully navigating clients through the differences in intellectual property laws across the Europe region.
James Frazier

James Frazier

Jamie Frazier, co-chair of the Financial Services Group, focuses his practice in the area of ERISA and employee benefits. A large part of his practice is devoted to advising clients with respect to the application of ERISA’s fiduciary standards and prohibited transaction provisions to their activities in transactional and regulatory matters. Jamie regularly advises financial services firms with respect to the structuring of investment vehicles and other investment products, including complex structured products and derivatives, offered to employee benefit plans and entities deemed to hold the assets of such plans. He routinely advises financial services firms in connection with the provision of services, such as investment management and brokerage services, to such plans or entities. Jamie also advises clients regarding issues that arise under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code in the context of corporate transactions. He also routinely represents clients before the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration.
Robert Fugard

Robert Fugard

Robert Fugard offers clients extensive experience of advising on big-ticket, cross-border asset finance, and Islamic finance transactions, with a particular focus on the aviation sector. As head of our Asset Finance practice, Robert is deeply immersed in the sectors his clients' operate in. Working at the forefront of the sector's search for new and innovative sources of finance, Robert has structured and advised on a wide array of pre-delivery, export credit-supported, tax-enhanced and Islamic financing, in the leasing, bank, and capital markets. Robert focuses on complex cross-border financing in the aviation sector, advising airlines, banks, and leasing companies on the acquisition and disposal of aircraft portfolios and on the financing of aircraft using a range of financing techniques. Robert's practice covers both commercial and corporate aircraft.
Andrew Gallagher

Andrew Gallagher

Andrew is a partner in the firm's Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects (IERP) team. He focuses on infrastructure finance, project finance, PPP and related M&A transactions. He advises senior lenders, sponsors/investors and borrowers on a variety of international infrastructure and project finance deals across a range of market sectors including transport (rail, roads, airports and ports), social infrastructure (hospitals and schools), power (IPPs/IWPs) and renewable energy (offshore transmission, solar and energy-from-waste).
Gonzalo F. Gállego

Gonzalo F. Gállego

Gonzalo F. Gállego is a partner in the Hogan Lovells Cadwalader Intellectual Property, Media and Technology (IPMT) practice. He is well-versed in data protection/privacy, cybersecurity, outsourcing, information technology (IT) law, copyright law, and commercial IP. Gonzalo advises on data protection and privacy, outsourcing transactions; IT and software contracts; electronic signatures; telecommunications; copyright licensing and distribution (audiovisual works, music, videogames, etc.); e-commerce; domain names and legal issues related to the internet, personality rights, and advertising.
Katie Gill

Katie Gill

Katie Gill practices primarily in the area of domestic and international banking and finance. With a particular emphasis on acquisition and cross-border finance, she has represented both borrowers and lenders on a wide range of lending transactions, including secured and unsecured lending, bilateral and syndicated loans, senior and mezzanine loans, subordinated debt and intercreditor issues. She has extensive experience in acquisition financing, corporate borrowing and real estate finance, and has advised clients in a variety of industry sectors. Katie has specific experience in acquisition finance in the Hotels, Hospitality and Lodging Industry, as well as in the Energy and Technology sectors.
Burkhart Goebel

Burkhart Goebel

Burkhart Goebel helps clients navigate the challenging seas of complex cross-border and multiple jurisdiction IP litigation. In his 20 years of experience, he has pleaded or acted as instructing counsel before senior courts in almost every jurisdiction in Europe, handling some of the largest multiple jurisdiction disputes in the history of IP litigation. He constantly draws on the experience and insights gained from these different jurisdictions to make each case a success. He knows how to avoid surprises – he’s seen where the pitfalls lie and guides clients around them. Rare among IP litigators, Burkhart has particular expertise in IP-related public international law. Working closely with offices from Spain to Russia adds to his deep understanding of a wide range of legal issues and jurisdictions.
Tim Goggin

Tim Goggin

Tim is a partner in the Financial Institutions Group. He provides corporate and regulatory advice to insurance industry clients including Part VII transfers, mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations, joint ventures, authorisations, and (re)insurance arrangements. He offers an integrated approach taking into consideration the demand for innovative financing structures. With his extensive experience dealing with insurance regulators, Tim works closely with clients to manage regulatory relationships in a constructive, timely, and coordinated way. His regulatory practice includes advising on organisational governance and the specific legal and regulatory requirements relating to the Lloyd’s market. He also helps clients navigate solvency and capital management regulation; anticipating regulatory issues before they arise. Tim joined Hogan Lovells Cadwalader in 1994 and became a partner in 2003. Since 2004 he has been recommended for non-life insurance corporate and regulatory work by the UK's legal directories. He is a regular speaker on insurance business transfers.
Richard Goss

Richard Goss

Richard Goss has a comprehensive cross-border asset finance practice with particular emphasis on aviation finance. He represents an array of industry participants including operating lessors, airlines, financial institutions, and manufacturers on a diverse range of multijurisdictional transactions. These include sale and leasebacks, operating leases, portfolio trading, export credit, and PDP financings for fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. He has also advised clients in a variety of airline restructurings, insolvencies, and aircraft repossessions. He brings a solution-focused and pragmatic approach, which reflects more than 15 years of experience in the aviation sector and his position at the heart of the industry. Richard builds deep client relationships and is a trusted advisor to whom clients return time and again for support on their most challenging transactions. Earlier in his career, Richard spent six months on secondment to Standard Chartered Bank's aviation finance team based in Dublin, gaining valuable insights from an operating lessor perspective. He is regularly seen at aviation finance conferences and has lectured to the Irish Law Society's Diploma course in Aviation Finance and Leasing. Active across a number of pro bono and community activities, Richard put his knowledge and experience in the helicopter sector to charitable use as part of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's responsible business activities. He played a key role advising London's Air Ambulance on a pro bono basis on its acquisition and financing of a second helicopter to provide crucial emergency support for the people of London.
Simon Grimshaw

Simon Grimshaw

Simon advises clients on all aspects of corporate transactions, with a particular focus on growth capital, private equity and complex and cross border mergers and acquisitions. Simon has a wealth of experience advising sponsors on growth capital and private equity investments into high-technology businesses, particularly in regulated sectors including life sciences and financial services. During 2020 and 2021 Simon spent eleven months on secondment to a leading global investment bank, advising on numerous growth capital and emerging markets transactions. Simon is one of the founding lawyers of our Birmingham office and has practiced abroad, having also spent seven months seconded to the Shanghai office of an international law firm. Simon began his career in Law, following three years working in the Loss Control and Risk Management team of a global car hire firm.
Smridhi Gulati

Smridhi Gulati

Smridhi Gulati is a partner in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Leveraged Finance & Private Credit Group and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. She advises UK and international lenders, including private credit funds, banks and other financial institutions, as well as private equity sponsors and corporates on complex lending through the capital structure primarily in relation to UK and cross-border acquisition finance transactions including private equity backed buyouts, management buy-outs, mergers and acquisitions, and refinancing and restructurings of leveraged assets.
Tim Heitling

Tim Heitling

Dr. Tim Heitling is a partner at Hogan Lovells Cadwalader' Berlin office and is a member of the Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects practice. Tim primarily focuses on regulated industries, namely the energy and infrastructure sector, including fiber networks and waste management systems. He advises domestic and foreign enterprises, sponsors, banks and financial investors with respect to M&A, joint ventures, projects and related financings. With respect to the energy sector, Tim has extensive experience advising on generation assets (gas, coal, nuclear, renewables), e-mobility, storage, as well as transmission and distribution assets. Tim’s practice also covers advice on commercial contracts and regulatory issues, such as on unbundling, third-party access regimes, exemptions from surcharges and grid fees. He also advises on all stages of project developments, from early-stage structuring through financing and share or asset deal transactions to PPAs, particularly for renewable energy facilities and power plants.
Nicholas Holman

Nicholas Holman

Nick Holman co-leads our Investment Funds team and is proud that he has spent his entire professional career at the firm. Nick has extensive experience across a broad range of alternative investment funds, and advises both fund managers and institutional investors. As well as being recognized by both the Chambers UK and Legal 500 legal directories as a Leading Individual for real estate and infrastructure funds, he is also recognized widely for his work on the launches of private equity and impact investment funds. Nick's broader experience includes advising on pledge funds, complex co-investments and secondaries transactions (including "GP-led" continuation funds), as well as carried interest schemes and employee co-investment vehicles. Nick is very focused on ensuring that both he and his team provide thoughtful advice that is tailored for each situation. He is immersed in the funds industry, and has advised fund associations in both the US and UK on a range of business-critical matters. Nick picked up the 'Funds Team of the Year' trophy at the prestigious 2015 'The Lawyer' Awards for his work advising on the launch of a truly innovative debt fund. The award was even more satisfying because the fund in question is focused on bringing off-grid power to very poor communities in the developing world; using his fund structuring skills to make a difference is something Nick is passionate about, whether working for social entrepreneurs, development banks or other impact investors.
Mark Howe

Mark Howe

Mark Howe is a partner in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's Tax Group.  Mark's practice is concentrated in partnerships, financial products, securitization, the tax aspects of capital markets, general corporate finance, securities, and commodities. His work includes emphasis on the tax structuring of domestic and offshore investment funds and in the development, structuring, and implementation of a wide variety of financial and derivative products and transactions, such as fixed income, currency, equity, and commodity linked swaps, forwards, notes, options, and similar instruments and transactions, securities and other instruments with embedded derivatives, and hybrid and synthetic products.
Megan James

Megan James

Megan James is a Counsel in our market-leading Corporate Trusts practice. She acts for trustees, custodians, and other service providers across the full range of debt capital markets and loan products. Megan advises on new money deals, post-close amendments, restructurings, and distressed debt situations. She has extensive experience advising service providers on large scale remediation and restructuring projects, including LIBOR remediation, Brexit-related business reorganisations, and sanctions due diligence. Megan gained invaluable experience from her time seconded to the legal and restructuring teams at two leading corporate trustees. She employs that experience to anticipate trustee and agent concerns and to offer up creative solutions. The Hogan Lovells Cadwalader trustee practice has dedicated trustee lawyers located across our global network, including in the UK and Continental Europe, the US and the Asia Pacific region. We are a go-to firm for some of the world's largest trustee providers with a particular focus on complex, distressed or defaulted matters.
Michael James

Michael James

Michael is a private equity real estate partner in our global Private Equity team, based in the London office. With over 15 years’ experience, he is skilled in leading complex corporate real estate transactions for major European real estate and private equity investors. Michael’s broad remit covers structured acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, real estate finance, fund investments, and hotel acquisitions and operations. With an international practice, Michael frequently advises investors on cross-border structures and transactions involving jurisdictions such as Luxembourg, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Jersey. https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/james-michael
Erik Jamieson

Erik Jamieson

For over 15 years, Erik has been helping investment managers, promoters and investors launch and invest in funds. Erik advises across a full range of alternative asset classes, and has established funds investing in private equity, infrastructure, renewables, reinsurance, real estate, emerging markets as well as hedge funds. As a partner and head of the listed funds practice at Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, Erik pioneered the London Main Market listed infrastructure fund market as well as the London listed reinsurance fund market, acting for most of the listed funds in these sectors.
Georgy Kalashnikov

Georgy Kalashnikov

Georgy Kalashnikov is a Senior Partner with the Corporate & Finance group in London. Described as "business-oriented" and "tough negotiator" with "strong experience in the private equity sector" by Chambers and Legal 500, Georgy is a go-to trusted adviser to clients, including executives and their boards, on complex, high-value international matters across the deal spectrum, strategy, high-risk issues, and crisis response and management. Georgy has represented companies, major financial institutions, private equity, other asset management firms, and high-net-worth individuals on their most significant matters and difficult challenges.
Alex Kay

Alex Kay

Alex Kay is a partner based in London, and part of the Restructuring & Special Situations team. He typically represents buy side investors and bondholder committees in complex cross border restructurings assisting his clients in all aspects of a transaction from initial contingency planning and investment analysis to implementation and management of complex work outs. Alex has particular experience of assisting creditors in challenging jurisdictions and is one of the go to lawyers for difficult emerging markets situations often using market first restructuring tools to reach a solvent solution. His work encompasses using a range of insolvency and reorganization tools and processes including restructuring plans, schemes of arrangement, pre-packaged administrations, Chapter 11 processes and a number of other European reorganization tools to achieve his clients' goals. Alex has also acted for investors on a number of complex direct lending financing transactions often using complex and bespoke debt instruments and Inter-creditor structures. Until January 2024 Alex was the independent chairman of the European Leverage Finance Association.
Jack Kelly

Jack Kelly

Jack Andrew Kelly is a special counsel in the Financial Services Group based in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s London office specialising in fund formation and impact investing. Jack’s practice involves advising sponsors and asset managers in respect of the structuring, formation and promotion of investment funds with a particular focus on funds investing in real estate, private equity, credit, renewable energy, infrastructure and emerging markets. He also provides ongoing advice in respect of secondary fundraising, fund restructures, implementation of debt facilities, mergers and acquisitions, secondaries and exits. In addition to fund formation, Jack regularly advises institutional investors, pension funds and impact investors (including many of the European development finance institutions) in respect of their investment in funds. Jack has over a decade of experience advising on complex multi-jurisdictional fund structures and has expertise in both private investment funds and publicly listed investment companies. Prior to joining Cadwalader, Jack was a senior associate at a global law firm in London, and also practised as a solicitor in Sydney.
David Leggott

David Leggott

David is a partner in the Banking practice at Hogan Lovells Cadwalader in London, focusing on trade and commodity finance. He is consistently recognised as a leading lawyer in this area by Chambers and Legal 500. He has extensive experience advising banks and trading companies on trade finance structures across the globe, particularly in emerging markets such as CIS, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. David's practice covers financings on a diverse range of commodities such as oil, steel, zinc, copper, soybeans, tobacco, and cocoa. He also supports the work of various Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) operating in the trade and commodity finance space. Additionally, David has significant experience and knowledge in relation to supply chain finance techniques and export financing (ECA-backed finance).  
Graciela Llaneza

Graciela Llaneza

Heading our Private Equity practice in Spain, Graciela Llaneza is renowned in private equity and merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions. She has a solid track record in advising both financial investors on domestic and cross-border transactions as well as Spanish and international companies on M&A transactions. Her specific areas of experience include sectors such as financial services, consumer, health care and energy. She has advised a wide variety of international funds and private equity houses and fully understands the private equity market, which enables her to provide comprehensive and innovative solutions to clients' transaction requirements.
Ivan Loncar

Ivan Loncar

Ivan Loncar, co-chair of the Financial Services Group, focuses his practice on derivatives, structured finance and municipal finance (including distressed municipal finance). Ivan represents dealers, banks, and other financial institutions in connection with (i) unfunded derivatives involving a wide range of products (e.g., interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, total return swaps, commodity swaps, etc.) and counterparty types and (ii) funded derivative products (e.g., credit linked notes and other structured notes, repackaging transactions, market access trades, etc.). He also has extensive experience with the structuring of derivatives product companies and the repackaging of swap receivables, capital relief trades (CRTs) and other structured transactions that combine securitization techniques and derivative products. Ivan also represents creditors in connection with tax-exempt and taxable financings by U.S. state and local governments and non-for-profit corporations, including the work out and restructuring of transactions with distressed municipal entities (both in and out of bankruptcy court proceedings). He has extensive experience with credit facilities, liquidity facilities, financial guarantee insurance policies, interest rate swaps, forward delivery agreements and other reinvestment contracts relating to such financings. He also has deep knowledge of secondary market municipal financial products, including municipal tender option bond programs and other securitizations of municipal debt.
Mariel Luna

Mariel Luna

Mariel is a senior associate within the debt capital markets group with a particular focus on fund finance and digital asset backed financing structures. She acts primarily for funds clients on a range of transactions including syndicated and bilateral capital call facilities, NAV facilities, hybrid facilities, as well as team management/GP support lines. She also advises alternative lending providers on digital asset offerings (including blockchain-based offerings and token structuring and issuance).
Jacqueline Mailly

Jacqueline Mailly

Widely recognised as a trusted adviser in EU food and biotechnology regulation, Jacqueline is solution-driven, pragmatic and down-to-earth. Clients appreciate her ability to tune in to their specific needs and to quickly grasp technical issues. She dove-tails with in-house resources to create the most efficient and effective advisory team. Having practised in Brussels for more than 20 years, Jacqueline is familiar with the EU administrative procedures and the roles and responsibilities of administrators, scientists, private parties, and politicians in ensuring consumer, plant, and animal health and safety.
Edward Meadowcroft

Edward Meadowcroft

Edward is a private equity real estate partner in our global Private Equity team, based in the London office. Edward focuses on all aspects of private equity real estate. He advises UK and international investors on the full spectrum of private equity real estate transactions, from acquisitions and disposals to restructurings, management agreements, and cross-border joint ventures. Edward works across all real estate asset classes but has a particular focus on the hotels and hospitality sector. https://www.hlc.com/en/meadowcroft-edward  
Jed Miller

Jed Miller

Jed Miller is a partner Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Financial Services Group and a member of the firm’s Management Committee.  With over 15 years of experience, Jed focuses his practice on novel and innovative structured financing solutions, with an emphasis on transactions that combine securitizations and derivatives. Jed is frequently called upon by clients to advise on securities law, UCC, bankruptcy, tax and other legal and regulatory issues. He is an expert on U.S. bank regulatory capital rules (Regulation Q)—in particular, as they relate to capital relief strategies that involve synthetic securitizations, credit default swaps and other financial products—as well as Dodd Frank’s risk retention rules for securitization transactions. In addition, financial institutions routinely seek Jed’s counsel on contemporary issues facing the structured finance industry. For example, at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, he guided major securities dealers through the intricacies of the Federal Reserve’s TALF program. He also advised banking institutions on issues relating to the global LIBOR transition.
William Mills

William Mills

William Mills is co-chair of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Corporate Group and a member of the Firm’s Management Committee. He represents clients in a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, public and private securities offerings, shareholder activism, proxy contests, spin-offs, leveraged buyouts, tender and exchange offers, and joint ventures. He regularly advises public companies and boards of directors on corporate governance, fiduciary duty and disclosure matters, as well as investment banks as financial advisers on M&A and other transactions. Bill also advises clients on complex transactions involving distressed companies and assets, including mergers, acquisitions, investments and financings, as well as restructurings.
Leanne Moezi

Leanne Moezi

Leanne is a partner in the London Private Equity & Funds team. Leanne regularly advises GPs and LPs (including pension funds and fund-of-funds) on a full range of secondary acquisitions and disposals, continuation funds/GP-led transactions, co-investments and minority investments in all asset classes (PE, infra, credit and real estate). Named among the top 25 up-and-coming lawyers in the European private equity space in Law.com International’s 2021 Private Equity Rising Stars list, Leanne has also been recognised as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers and is a 'go-to' and trusted figure in the London private equity team.
Alejandro Moscoso del Prado

Alejandro Moscoso del Prado

Our counsel  Moscoso del Prado provides practical advice in corporate group restructurings and cross-border transactions, taking into account not only the tax aspects that may be of importance for achieving the client's goals but also the legal and commercial objectives and constraints. Alejandro focuses his practice on international tax planning (with a special focus in the Latin American countries such as Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Argentina, Panama, Peru and Ecuador), corporate tax reorganizations and financing aspects of M&A transactions, and the international tax aspects of inbound and outbound investments. Over the last years, Alejandro has provided tax advice on a number of high-profile corporate transactions which have received wide press coverage in the Spanish market (as demonstrated by our submissions in recent years (including this year’s submission)). Alejandro has participated and advised in a wide range of projects such as mergers and demergers, joint ventures, real estate investments/divestments and debt restructurings. His experience shows an in-depth knowledge of international and corporate taxation, with a special focus on the renewable energy sector, insurance sector and the new forms of taxation applicable to the digital economy. In fact, Alejandro is the firm's main contact worldwide in connection with the new Global Minimum Tax and over the last two years he has provided advisory services to both large multinational companies and governments on the impact of this new tax and its implementation. The Legal 500 directory has recognised Alejandro as a "Rising Star" in the Tax category in 2023 and 2024.
Paul Mullen

Paul Mullen

As well as leading the firm’s Global Banking practice, Paul Mullen acts for both lenders and borrowers at the top end of mid-market sponsor-backed financings, Paul has been particularly involved with the development of the direct lending market in Europe, advising lenders on unitranche and other types of direct lending products (including first loss/second loss, second lien, and PIK) as well as banks providing working capital and other facilities alongside the funds. Paul's extensive experience and deep understanding of the market means that clients often call on him when they need advice on developing new and innovative products. As the head of our market-leading direct lending practice, he has built strong relationships with a range of major global debt funds including Ares, Barings, Permira Debt Managers, CVC Credit, EQT, Five Arrows, and Hayfin as well as banks and sponsors.
Doug Murning

Doug Murning

Douglas Murning is co-head of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Fund Finance practice, and is based in London. With over 20 years’ experience in debt finance, Doug is regarded as a market leader in complex NAV and portfolio financings, having been at the forefront in the rise of the European market over recent years, primarily advising investment bank and credit fund clients. In addition to fund financing, he focuses his practice on leveraged finance, private debt and special situations, working with credit funds and private equity sponsors. Doug has been recognized by The Legal 500 UK as a Leading Partner for fund finance for the last four years and as an “expert in fund finance, leveraged finance and private debt.” Prior to joining Cadwalader in 2025, Doug was a partner in the global loans practice of a major international firm. Previously he served with two global law firms as a partner, including six years for one firm in Hong Kong, during which Chambers Asia-Pacific ranked Doug as a leading acquisition finance attorney. Doug has extensive experience in both Europe and Asia and has been additionally seconded to the leveraged finance and special situation groups of two leading global investment banks. Doug received a First Class degree in Law from the University of Edinburgh in 2000 and his Common Professional Examination and Legal Practice Course from BPP Law school in 2002. He is admitted to practice law in England & Wales and in Hong Kong.
Faraz Naqvi

Faraz Naqvi

As a counsel in the Asset Finance practice in London, Faraz focuses on aviation and shipping, he acts for operating lessors, banks and operators on a broad range of transaction types, including sale and leasebacks, operating leases and bank financings. Faraz is an aviation enthusiast and, as a result, has also built up a practice of advising on 'power by the hour' arrangements, aircraft acquisitions and regulatory matters both in England and the United Arab Emirates. He has been recognized by leading operating lessors, banks and airlines for his ability to negotiate complex provisions relating to aircraft technical matters. Faraz spent six months on secondment with Standard Chartered Bank where he worked with their global aviation finance team in Dublin. Faraz has previously spent five years in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's Dubai office where he advised leading bank arrangers on numerous high profile syndications with a particular focus on Islamic Finance transactions. Faraz was named in the Airline Economics "40 under 40 list" 2019 and is 'recommended' for Islamic Finance transaction in Legal 500's 2015 edition.
Michael Newell

Michael Newell

Mike Newell is a partner in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Financial Services Group, resident in the London office. Mike has extensive experience in advising clients in the asset management industry and, in particular, on the establishment and reorganisation of onshore and offshore collective investment vehicles. He helps both household names and innovative startups set up new businesses and products in both the mainstream and alternative sectors, and is particularly experienced in advising in relation to hedge, private equity and real asset funds, as well as retail mutual funds, UK-listed investment companies and structured products. He also advises asset managers in relation to general corporate and regulatory matters and institutional investors on their private fund investments and secondary sales.
Andrew O’Brien

Andrew O’Brien

Andrew J. O’Brien is a partner in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Corporate group.  Andrew focuses his practice on all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits matters, with an emphasis on strategic mergers and acquisitions, complex leveraged buyouts and other significant business transactions. He regularly advises public and private companies, management teams and individual senior executives on executive employment and separation arrangements, and on the design and implementation of cash and equity incentive compensation agreements and non-qualified retirement programs.
Jennifer O\'Connell

Jennifer O\'Connell

Jennifer O'Connell is a debt capital markets partner focusing on structured products and derivatives with a particular emphasis on structured products designed for the retail marketplace. Her practice covers structured products and derivatives across a wide range of asset classes including interest rates, credit, foreign exchange, equity and inflation. She also has a depth of experience in assisting with the implementation of new regulation. Drawing on her experience of working in-house, Jennifer is noted for her commercially-focused advice with one client commenting that she is “particularly practical and business friendly”. Her clients include leading investment banks, accountancy firms, large corporates and pension funds amongst others.
Sian Owles

Sian Owles

With a career that has followed the rise of, and trends in, the indirect real estate sector, Sian Owles brings extensive experience in structuring real estate joint ventures, corporate wrapped real estate transactions and real estate funds. Much of Sian's work involves advising on joint venture and club deal terms for real estate investment and development, the acquisition and disposal of corporate real estate holding structures, fund structuring, restructuring, investments and exits. Increasingly, the real estate sector is international in focus and Sian's practice reflects this. She advises sovereign wealth funds, international fund managers, overseas pension funds, UK fund managers and REITs on their UK and pan-European investments. Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's strength and depth as a global law firm provides the competitive advantage keeping Hogan Lovells Cadwalader at the forefront of the structured real estate market.
Malcolm Parry

Malcolm Parry

Malcolm is a partner in our Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects (IERP) practice. He is an experienced transactional EPC and projects lawyer with deep experience advising public and private sector clients on major transactions and regulatory developments in the UK and around the globe. His work focuses on ‘first of a kind’ complex transactions in heavily regulated markets, and in particular global game-changing projects providing innovative solutions to overcome global challenges such as the climate crisis. Ranked by Legal 500 UK in each of the last three years, Malcolm has particular experience in the nuclear energy and defence sectors. He also has significant experience advising on energy transition and renewables projects, especially those with a major technology component. Malcolm also lectures on the prestigious Construction Law & Dispute Resolution MSc at King’s College London, is a founding member of our Business and Social Enterprise (HL BaSE) faculty, and is a key member on our ESG Alliance board.
Gregory Patti

Gregory Patti

Greg Patti is a partner in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Corporate group.  Greg represents clients in a wide variety of mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate governance matters. Greg represents foreign and domestic entities in complex business transactions and counsels clients on negotiated acquisitions, divestitures and private equity transactions. Greg also regularly advises special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) across the full range of transactions.  In addition to his transactional practice, Greg counsels clients on a broad range of business-related matters including securities law, directors’ duties and responsibilities and disclosure matters. Greg has represented public and private acquirors, targets and portfolio companies. He has advised clients on numerous significant matters, particularly in the life sciences and telecom industries.
Lisa Pauquette

Lisa Pauquette

Lisa Pauquette is a partner in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Capital Markets Group.  Lisa's practice involves the representation of banks, investment banks and other financial institutions in commercial mortgage loan securitization and a variety of mortgage banking and financing transactions. Lisa has diverse experience in securitization matters having represented major Wall Street investment banks and financial institutions in their roles as underwriters, placement agents, issuers, and mortgage loan sellers of public and private securitization transactions involving commercial and residential mortgage loans. In addition, Lisa represents clients in the purchase and sale of mortgage loans, mezzanine debt, and subordinate debt. Her client representations have also included the purchase and sale of residential first- and second-mortgage loans (including FHA, VA, conventional and reverse mortgage loans) and commercial and multifamily mortgage loans, as well as structuring and negotiating warehouse lines and repurchase agreements for commercial mortgage loans, mortgage assets and CMBS and RMBS securities.
Matthew Peters

Matthew Peters

Matthew Peters is a special counsel in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Corporate and Real Estate practices and is based in the firm's London office. Matt’s practice focuses on corporate real estate and real estate private equity, including corporate and investment property acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings and reorganizations, particularly with regard to hotel portfolios, hotel and residential and logistics sites, with a focus on developments. He has experience advising both U.K. and international clients operating across a variety of jurisdictions and regularly works on significant cross-border transactions. Prior to joining Cadwalader in 2025, Matt practiced with the London real estate group of a global law firm. Matt holds an M.A. law degree from the University of Oxford, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 2008. He also completed his Legal Practice Course at the College of Law, London.
Gregory Petrick

Gregory Petrick

Gregory M. Petrick, chair of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Financial Restructuring Group and Managing Partner of the London office, has represented debtors, official unsecured creditors’ committees, secured lenders, state regulators, and trustees in complex business reorganizations. His practice encompasses counseling secured and unsecured lenders, creditor committees, public bondholders, debtors, shareholders, and investors involved in many of the largest and most complex U.S. and international reorganizations and restructurings, financial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and litigation. Greg has played a major role in the restructuring, reorganization, sale, or acquisition of businesses in the life insurance, financial services, telecommunications, energy, real estate, shipping, and hospitality industries. He has also led cross-border restructurings across Europe, Indonesia and Australia. Greg is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. He is also a registered foreign lawyer in England and Wales.
Jeremy Pickles

Jeremy Pickles

Jeremy is a partner in our investment funds team who acts for managers and investors on a broad range of funds and transaction types. He has a focus on international alternative asset funds, both listed and private, including infrastructure, private equity/venture capital and private debt. His extensive experience includes launching closed-ended, open-ended and hybrid funds, advising on primary and secondary deals, and co-investments and continuation funds, as well as negotiating separate account and fund of one arrangements. Jeremy has a particular passion for impact investment and acts for a wide range of international and development finance institutions on their sponsoring of, and investments in, impact funds.
Alix Prentice

Alix Prentice

Alix Prentice is a partner in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Financial Services Group. She specializes in advising financial institutions and investors on the UK's financial services regulatory regime. Alix has over 20 years of experience (some gained at the regulator) of advising on regulatory requirements and relationships with regulators across a range of industries and asset classes, including family offices and private investors, hedge and other alternative fund managers, private equity, banks, broker-dealers, custodians, distributors, issuers and cryptocurrency businesses. Alix has particular expertise in alternative investment funds and the documentation of investments into these vehicles. She also has significant experience of regulated mergers and acquisitions, often involving complex changes of control and due diligence exercises.
Pierre Reuter

Pierre Reuter

Pierre Reuter discovered his true calling in life as soon as he got immersed in the exciting world of investment funds at his first job at one of the top Luxembourg firms. Now, as head of the Luxembourg Investment Fund practice at Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, Pierre remains at the forefront of the asset management industry. He prides himself on his ability to anticipate potential new challenges for his clients as well as to identify future commercial opportunities for them. Pierre assists fund promoters in setting up and restructuring Luxembourg investment funds, UCITS and AIFs. Pierre has a strong focus on real estate funds but also feels at home in other areas such as for example infrastructure funds, debt funds and fund of hedge funds. In addition, Pierre is in charge of the Luxembourg regulatory work, mainly on the financial sector regulations , but also on the space mining law. Hogan Lovells Cadwalader Luxembourg supports the LuxUnplugged podcast series focused on the space sector "Dark Matter Uncovered" https://www.luxunplugged.com/dark-matter-uncovered/. Since 2016, in his role as office managing partner, Pierre is holding high Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's flag of diverse, respectful and inclusive firm (leading our diversity and pro bono work groups). He is actively committed to Ligue HMC (for the mentally disabled inclusion), and consequently the Luxembourg office won the Charte de la Diversité award in the category Recruitment, Welcoming & Integration in 2019.
Philip Robb

Philip Robb

Philip Robb is a senior counsel in our global Infrastructure, Energy, Resources & Projects (IERP) practice. For more than 25 years, Philip's practice has grown and diversified with the market. His focus is on the financing of infrastructure, energy and major projects. Philip helps clients structure and close financings across a range of sectors and jurisdictions. These include project financings, infrastructure & energy acquisitions, re-financings, renewables financings, fund financings, corporate facilities and secondary markets work.
Jo Robinson

Jo Robinson

Banks, debt funds and borrowers turn to Jo when they need advice on a wide variety of financing structures such as senior, second lien and unitranche/super senior financing arrangements and PIK financings on acquisitions and other leveraged finance transactions. Jo is a young and dynamic partner in our banking team, where she focuses her practice on acquisition and leveraged finance transactions. Jo has been instrumental in developing our market-leading alternative lender practice and her close relationships with some of the very early debt funds in the UK market means she has been at the forefront of the development of the unitranche product, and indeed worked on one of the very first unitranche financings in the London market back in 2008. To deal with Jo is commercial, practical and user-friendly. In 2015, Jo was named in The Lawyer's 'Hot 100' list and in Financial News' '40 under 40 Rising Stars in Legal Services”.
Jeffrey Rotblat

Jeffrey Rotblat

Jeffrey Rotblat is a partner in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's Capital Markets group.  Jeffrey practices primarily in the area of commercial real estate securities representing financial institutions and real estate funds in their roles as issuers, loan sellers, underwriters and placement agents in both public and private offerings of mortgage-backed securities, CRE CLOs and other structured finance products. He also represents investment banks, specialty finance companies and investment funds structuring and negotiating mortgage loan trades, mortgage loan participations, subordinate loans and asset-backed securities. He also represents special servicers and specialty finance funds in work-outs and restructurings of non-performing commercial mortgage loans in CMBS and CRE CLO transactions. An active participant in CMBS industry trade organizations, Jeffrey often participates in panel presentations at industry conferences. He has been active on behalf of various CMBS industry trade groups in their communications with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding legislation affecting the ABS industry.
John Salmon

John Salmon

Partner John is a highly experienced IT lawyer with a market leading reputation in the financial services sector. His main focus is advising financial institutions on their strategic IT projects and he supports his clients in implementing innovative digital and technology solutions whilst managing legal and regulatory risk. John has a reputation as a lawyer in the FinTech area and has been heavily involved with leading edge developments. John has been actively involved in developing industry-wide solutions for electronic data exchange issues. He worked on both the Origo Legal Framework and TISA Exchange, which was established to facilitate the electronic re-registration of assets and portfolios between platforms.
Stephanie Saunders

Stephanie Saunders

Stephanie has extensive experience across shipping and aviation assets, both commercial and private. With a strong background in ship financing for all types of floating assets, from cruise ships to FPSOs and superyachts, Stephanie has experience in managing a wide range of transactions, from complex leveraged finance secured deals to substantial transactions involving 50 or more vessels across multiple jurisdictions. Stephanie has in-depth experience in superyacht financing, sale and purchase, and acts for many of the leading financial institutions lending in the area, as well as high net worth individuals – which is complemented by wide experience in the corporate jet and helicopter markets. Stephanie has guided airlines, lessors and financial institutions on leasing and financing arrangements of all shapes and sizes, from warehouse facilities to sale and leaseback structures as well as restructurings and part-out arrangements. Stephanie also acts for capital providers and key insurance market participants in connection with Funds at Lloyds and other insurance and reinsurance financings, advising on various capital structures to support Syndicates within Solvency II and other regulatory requirements.
Imtiaz Shah

Imtiaz Shah

Based in the Middle East for over 20 years, Imtiaz Shah has closed hundreds of deals across all the major countries of the Gulf and the wider Middle East. Widely recognised as one of the leading corporate lawyers in Dubai, Imtiaz heads the Hogan Lovells Cadwalader Corporate practice in the Middle East. Imtiaz's work is a mix of mergers and acquisitions, commercial, regulatory, and investment funds. A wealth of experience in the region allows Imtiaz to bring practical and often innovative solutions for clients undertaking corporate deals across the Middle East. He is a trusted adviser to many of the largest corporates, financial institutions, and family offices undertaking business in the region.
Andrew Shaw

Andrew Shaw

Andrew Shaw is a partner in the firm’s Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects (IERP) team, and has more than 20 years’ experience in energy law. He advises major players throughout the international energy sector on energy transition matters (e.g. hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, CCUS and DAC), renewables (e.g. wind, solar, BESS and geothermal), petrochemicals, and conventional oil, gas and LNG projects and transactions. Andrew is deeply experienced in commercial contracts across the energy value chain, advising on engineering, design, supply, transportation, installation, construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning agreements, as well as technology licensing and commodity sale and purchase agreements (including feedstock and offtake), and advises many international companies on strategy in this area. Andrew is ranked as a Leading Partner for Projects, Energy and Natural Resources: Oil and Gas, and has been quoted as having “brilliant commercial understanding, [and] is always happy to assist and able to see things from different perspectives.” (Legal 500 UK, 2025). He is also named as a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer for 2025.
Sarah Shaw

Sarah Shaw

Sarah is a seasoned M&A practitioner with an impressive range of experience advising on private acquisitions and disposals, public takeovers, joint ventures, strategic alliances, restructurings and business transfers. Sarah's clients include a wide range of corporates, private equity funds, DFIs and infrastructure funds, whom she advises on their most complex and high-profile transactions. Sarah is a member of our M&A leadership team. She has experience across a number of sectors including, in particular, oil and gas, power, renewable energy, infrastructure and real estate. Her practice is international and includes a particular focus on Africa and other emerging markets, where she has acted on some of the most significant platform M&A transactions in the energy sector in recent years. Sarah is recommended as a Leading Partner by Legal 500 (2026) for M&A (premium), and has previously been identified as one of the best and brightest up and coming female lawyers in the UK by Law.com International. She is described by clients as “outstanding” and is commended for being “very hands on, easy to reach and fully engaged on our projects” (Legal 500, UK 2026).
Nick Shiren

Nick Shiren

Nick Shiren is a partner in the Capital Markets Group, resident in the London office. His practice focuses on a broad range of capital markets and financing transactions, with a focus on structured finance. In particular, Nick has extensive experience in derivative products (including credit default swaps, credit-linked notes, total return swaps, currency and interest rate swaps, repos and other derivative instruments), structured credit transactions (including collateralised loan obligations) and securitisation transactions (including securitisations of residential and commercial mortgages and consumer assets). He represents leading investment banks, arrangers, issuers and collateral managers in transactions throughout Europe and the United States. Nick is admitted to practice in England and Wales and the State of New York.
Daniel Simons

Daniel Simons

Daniel was named in The Lawyer’s 2023 "Hot 100" list of top lawyers working in the UK and focuses his practice on corporate transactions, in particular on equity capital markets, and domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He brings extensive experience in advising on public takeovers, including P2Ps, and he has advised numerous companies, private equity houses and financial institutions in the context of these transactions. Daniel also has particular focus on IPOs, secondary fundraisings and private placements, acting for issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders on London Main Market and AIM transactions.
Jo Solomon

Jo Solomon

Jo is known for being a commercially minded real estate finance lawyer focusing on the client's objectives, having focused on real estate finance throughout her career, she has an in-depth knowledge of the market and who is active within in it. She acts for a wide variety of borrowers, including institutional investors as well as private equity on all elements of the real estate finance market including development finance. On the lending side, Jo acts for a variety of investment banks and debt funds.
Amelia Stawpert

Amelia Stawpert

Amelia advises on all kinds of investment funds matters, spanning the life of an investment vehicle and the many challenges its managers and investors can face along the way. Her practice has evolved as the funds industry explores innovative strategies and transactions. She advises on fund formation and marketing in the private and listed space as well as on co-investments, managed accounts, fund exits and investor exits (including GP-led secondaries and tender offers). Her practice is complemented by a second investment-based focus on real estate joint ventures, as well as corporate acquisitions and disposals of real estate. Amelia's experience covers a range of asset classes including real estate, private equity (including impact investment), infrastructure, hedge funds and UCITS. She advises both fund managers and fund investors. Amelia particularly enjoys the extra perspective that advising investors gives her and how this complements her advice to managers. She has a talent of balancing technical experience with practical assistance and market knowledge for complex transactions, focusing closely on what her clients want to achieve.
Edward Steward

Edward Steward

Edward is a partner in our Corporate & Finance practice with over a decade’s experience advising both life and general insurance clients. He advises clients across a broad range of transactions, including M&A, insurance and reinsurance arrangements, corporate reorganisations, insurance regulation (including Solvency II) and general corporate advice. He has particular expertise in insurance and banking business transfer schemes, having advised on some of the largest in the sector and for Brexit related purposes. Edward has also advised a number of clients in the Lloyd’s of London market.
Lary Stromfeld

Lary Stromfeld

Lary Stromfeld is a partner in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Financial Services Group. With over four decades of experience in global capital markets and key roles in some of the most consequential matters in its history, Cadwalader partner Lary Stromfeld has earned a reputation as the go-to lawyer for complex market structures, financial products, legal disputes and regulatory advice. Lary has been at the forefront of many major developments in financial markets over the past 20 years, including representing the Federal Reserve’s ARRC in navigating the cash markets through LIBOR transition, in which role he was the lead author of legislation enacted by the State of New York to address contracts relying on LIBOR and which served as the model for a similar Federal law.  He previously helped ISDA steer the derivatives markets through global regulatory reform in the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis, in which role he helped lead the development of the Dodd-Frank protocol, revamp standard credit support documentation and launch ISDA’s first on-line protocol (ISDA Amend).
Ben Sulaiman

Ben Sulaiman

Ben is the global head of our Oil, Gas & LNG group and is a member of the Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects practice in London. He is a go-to expert in the sector and operates both in the UK and internationally on projects, transactions and regulatory matters. Ben regularly advises energy companies, investors and governments on upstream projects, gas sales and transportation, LNG projects, oil & gas M&A, financing arrangements and energy trading. Ben leads the firm's work advising the BP and SOCAR led consortium on all aspects of the US$45bn Shah Deniz 2 gas project and 3,500km Southern Gas Corridor, one of the largest and most complex oil & gas projects of recent years.
Andrew Taylor

Andrew Taylor

Andrew Taylor is a banking partner based in London. He has a broad finance practice, acting for banks, national and multilateral DFIs, government, clearing houses and corporates. A significant part of Andrew’s practice is trade and commodities financing, and emerging markets lending in general. He leads our global Trade and Export Finance practice which has been consistently ranked in Band 1 by the leading UK legal directories Chambers and Legal 500 for over 15 years. Andrew is chairman of our firm's international legal opinions committee. Andrew joined Hogan Lovells Cadwalader in 1993 as a trainee solicitor, and has been a partner at the firm since 2002.
Scott Tindall

Scott Tindall

Scott is a partner in the firm’s Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Project (IERP) team. He advises on a wide range of infrastructure and energy work (including major development projects, PPP projects and project finance transactions), as well as electricity generation, transmission and supply arrangements, energy transition issues, ESG and related legal and regulatory issues in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He has 20+ years of experience advising governments, developers, investors, banks and other financial institutions on some the largest and most complex deals in the global infrastructure and energy markets and has been involved in deals in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. Scott focusses principally on transactions in the energy, energy storage and energy transition sectors, and has advised on nuclear, oil and gas, LNG, hydrogen, power and renewable energy (including onshore and offshore wind, solar, tidal, EfW, biomass, carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS)) deals. He also has experience advising on major transactions in the aviation, aerospace and defense, social infrastructure, transport, telecommunications and waste sectors. He has advised on joint ventures, M&A, financings, refinancings and restructurings and distressed projects in a variety of infrastructure and energy sectors.
Arun Velusami

Arun Velusami

Arun Velusami is a partner in the firm's Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects (IERP) team with experience in advising on energy and infrastructure projects in emerging markets, including in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the CIS region and the Caribbean.  He has particular experience in Africa and is Co-head of the firm's Africa Practice. Described as “sought after for his handling of renewable power mandates”, Arun has advised project developers, development finance institutions, public sector entities and contractors in a variety of energy and infrastructure projects. These include renewable energy projects (solar, wind, biomass, geothermal), thermal projects (fuel oil, gas, and coal) and hydropower projects. He also has experience of cross-border power trading arrangements, captive power and embedded generation projects.
Adrian Walker

Adrian Walker

Adrian Walker wants to make a difference and help his clients do the same. He works with clients to make peoples' lives better. With a focus on global game-changing projects that have the greatest impact, he combines his love of developing physical infrastructure and improving public services, driving social enterprise, and combining both with good, profitable business. Adrian is the global head of our ESG practice, co-leads our Social Impact and Business Integrity Groups and is a former member of the World Economic Forum's Social Innovation Council. He is a founder of the firm's Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects (IERP) practice, which he led for 10 years, and also served also a member of the firm's global board. Adrian has considerable experience advising both the private and public sectors in the most complex projects across a broad range of sectors. His work includes advising on risk structuring, bid submission, and negotiation, together with risk management on on-going projects and dispute resolution. Adrian has substantial experience in Africa and in the mining, road, rail, and ports sectors.
Peter Watts

Peter Watts

Innovative, insightful and practical, honed by 25 years + diverse experience. Whether helping clients broker multi-party deals, navigate the intersection of business and government or find the right business structure, Peter distils what really matters and uses creative solutions where necessary. Peter has a particular interest in managing change and in setting legal issues or transactions in the wider context, understanding the perspectives of multiple parties and how they are relevant to delivering success. He has delivered many projects in technology and media solving complex issues concerning software, rights and data. He understands the particular sensitivities of the public sector whether expressed through regulation or direct state involvement in deals. He knows how important it is not to see a supply chain or distribution network as a series of separate transactions but as a series of interdependent relationships from the source to the ultimate consumer. In addition to his work with clients, Peter has also held a number of leadership roles at the firm, including heading the Commercial team and co-leading the firm's Technology, Media & Telecoms sector work, as well as taking a prominent role in the firm's current transformation programme and serving for many years as a member of the International Operations Committee of predecessor firm Lovells. Peter has written, spoken and appeared on many platforms including Reuters TV, Sky News and PLC magazine on subjects as diverse as the trends in TMT M&A, the UK's Consumer Rights Act and preparing your business for a downturn. He is also one of the principal creators and contributors to the Hogan Lovells Cadwalader proprietary set of global contracting tools and insight.
Caitlin Weeks

Caitlin Weeks

As a partner in our international corporate practice in London, Caitlin advises clients on a wide range of corporate and other complex transactional matters, with a particular focus on helping clients to build their businesses through mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. Caitlin frequently acts on transactions which are at the intersection of business and government, whether representing clients making acquisitions in highly regulated industries, or working to build strategic partnerships between the private and public sectors. Caitlin has significant experience helping clients through complex separation or integration issues, and much of her work involves transactions which combine an acquisition or investment with a long-term commercial relationship or strategic partnership.
Neil Weidner

Neil Weidner

Neil Weidner is a partner in Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's Capital Markets Group.  Neil's practice is concentrated in the areas of securitization, structured finance, and derivative financial products. Neil represents underwriters, dealers, issuers, institutional investors, and sponsors in a wide range of matters involving the financing and securitization of traditional and non-traditional credit assets. Neil has extensive experience using cash flow, market value, and hybrid structures, and is recognized as a leading practitioner in the CLO 3.0 market.
Florian-Alexander Wesche

Florian-Alexander Wesche

Since more than 20 years, Florian-Alexander Wesche advises energy companies, businesses in the energy-intensive sectors, the real estate sector, and financial investors on all aspects of German and European energy law, with a particular focus on energy regulation and energy contract law. Specifically, Florian is experienced in energy supply business, power production and distribution projects (renewable and conventional sources, including contracting), energy procurement and trading concepts and contracts as well as BESS, data center projects and emobility charging solutions. He particularly has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating energy supply contracts, PPAs and power plant related agreements. In addition, Florian has wide-ranging expertise of the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), energy price relief schemes and energy regulatory compliance monitoring for industrials. Alongside of this he has an in-depth knowledge of the areas of German and European regulation concerning grid access to gas, power and hydrogen grids, LNG terminals and access to gas storage systems. The complementary advice in all matters related to real estate including energy efficiency in buildings and national fuel emissions trading regime (BEHG) is also part of his practice.
Bryony Widdup

Bryony Widdup

Bryony is a finance and fintech lawyer, with over 15 years' experience advising on fundraising solutions in the financial services sector. Known for her dedication to clients, Bryony is skilled in transaction structuring, in finance for funds, broader lending platforms (including blockchain-based offerings) and digital assets including token structuring and issuance. She is passionate about sustainable finance and investment solutions, including green, social and sustainability-linked instruments, transition finance and impact investing. A core team member of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Digital Assets and Blockchain practice, Bryony also supports clients in using novel structures, involving digital assets, to take advantage of the multiple efficiencies and flexibilities available. Combining her experience and passion in both areas, Bryony has a strong focus on the integration of ESG with digital assets, including in climate and broader sustainability related projects and the scaled impact investing space.
Matthew Worth

Matthew Worth

Matt Worth is a partner in the Fund Finance practice in London. Matt’s practice covers all aspects of fund finance and private credit, with a particular focus on advising on NAV financings for private equity sponsors and direct lending. Matt also has significant experience in a broad range of debt finance, including leveraged finance, project and infrastructure finance, special situations and restructuring. He has been recognized by The Legal 500 UK for his work in complex fund financing where it is noted that “his restructuring experience is invaluable to lender clients”. Prior to joining Hogan Lovells Cadwalader in 2025, Matt was a counsel in the global loans practice of a major international firm. Previously he served with two global law firms in Hong Kong, where he focused his practice on special situations. While in Hong Kong, Matt was also seconded to the principalling legal Asia team of a leading global investment bank.