Claire Keast-Butler > Cooley (UK) LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Claire Keast-Butler
Work Department
Capital Markets
Public Companies
Mergers & Acquisitions
Life Sciences
Aviation - Manned & Unmanned
Position
Claire Keast-Butler is a partner in Cooley’s London office. Her practice focuses on capital markets transactions. She represents issuers, investment banks and investors on initial public offerings and secondary offerings. She also regularly advises listed companies on corporate and securities law matters and corporate governance, and has considerable experience in public and private mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.
Education
University College London
LLB, Bachelors of Law
Honors, 1998
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
(Leading individuals)Cooley (UK) LLP
‘s ‘strong and very approachable’ team is praised for its ‘unique combination of US law expertise paired with extensive knowledge of the European capital markets’, particularly in cross-border mandates. The team works on a wide range of ECM transactions, representing issuers, investment banks and investors on IPOs and secondary offerings, with a growing focus on founder-led and VC-backed companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. Claire Keast-Butler and David Boles jointly head up the team: Keast-Butler represents issuers, investment banks and investors on capital markets and securities regulation matters, while Boles is praised as ‘an outstanding capital markets lawyer with deep commitment to clients, who always goes the extra mile.’
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals London > Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Equity capital markets – mid-large cap London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Industry focus > TMT
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
Firm Rankings
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)