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Charles Russell Speechlys LLP Offices
5 FLEET PLACE
LONDON
EC4M 7RD
England
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Chris Putt
Work Department
Energy and natural resources, technology, media and telecommunications; corporate.
Position
Chris is an experienced corporate finance lawyer working on domestic and international deals. Chris’ transactional work includes IPOs, M&A, refinancings and reconstructions, joint ventures and private equity investments. His advisory work includes advising on corporate governance matters, including requisitions to remove directors and shareholder activism. Experience: advised on £18.5m underwritten open offer by an English company with coal assets for Indonesia, including a Rule 9 whitewash; continuing advice to AIM-quoted mining companies developing assets in Nicaragua, Madagascar, Tanzania and Indonesia on asset acquisitions and secondary fundraisings from time to time; acted on a £16m financing of an event seating group by MML Capital and Sports Invest Partners and the $16m financing of a diagnostics group by Galen Partners; advised an offshore venture debt fund with over 140 portfolio companies on its new investments from time to time and the restructuring of secured loans and warrants in its existing portfolio companies.
Career
Admitted to practise in England and Wales and qualified to practise in Germany.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Family
- Employment > Immigration: personal
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Private client > Court of protection
- Private client > Family: mediation
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Residential property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- Real estate > Planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Employment > Senior executives
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition