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Luiz Aboim is a partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice of the London office. He is an experienced arbitration practitioner with deep connections to the Brazilian and Lusophone markets. He also has experience handling corporate and commercial disputes, particularly in the energy, resources and infrastructure sectors. Luiz has nearly two decades of international arbitration experience. Having started his career in Brazil, Luiz has worked in London and Paris at two leading international law firms for the past 15 years. His practice focuses on Lusophone African and Latin American jurisdictions, such as Angola, Brazil and Mozambique, where he has advised on some of the largest disputes to date. Consistent with his regional focus, most of Luiz’s work is in the oil and gas, mining, power, telecoms and infrastructure sectors. His recent experience includes a number of complex M&A disputes, FPSO construction and conversions, JOA and environment related disputes, many involving amounts in excess of US$1 billion dollars. Luiz regularly sits as arbitrator in ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL and ad hoc arbitrations, which have recently included disputes in Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique and Portugal.

Raid Abu-Manneh

Raid Abu-Manneh is global co-head of the International Arbitration group and a partner in the Construction & Engineering group. He focuses on complex cross border disputes particularly in emerging markets. Raid has extensive experience both domestically and internationally in advising various clients including banks, contractors, utilities and other clients in various industries including energy, rail and other infrastructure sectors. Raid has substantial experience of all forms of arbitrations, adjudications and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. He has acted on ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC and LCIA arbitrations and on matters before the High Court including in relation to the enforcement of International Arbitration awards.

Jawad Ahmad focuses his practice on international commercial and investment treaty arbitration and public international law. He has acted as counsel for claimants, respondents, and tribunal assistant in both commercial and investment treaty arbitrations across a wide-range of industries, including energy and resources, renewable, oil & gas, nuclear power, mining, finance, hospitality and leisure, and retail. He has handled arbitrations under the ICSID, SIAC, ICC, LCIA, HKIAC, and UNCITRAL arbitration rules.

Maria Alevras-Chen

Maria Alevras-Chen is a corporate finance associate in the Banking & Finance, Projects, and Latin America & Caribbean groups. She focuses on complex international and domestic financings, including bond and equity issuances, leveraged finance, project finance and structured finance. Maria also has experience with real estate fund formation and restructurings. Maria represents lenders (whether they be financial institutions, private equity funds, multilateral agencies or export credit agencies) in various deal roles, such as arranger, administrative agent, underwriter and/or placement agent as well as borrowers. Maria's practice focuses on Latin America, including transactions in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Panama and Uruguay. Maria has also structured and executed transactions in several other emerging markets jurisdictions including Russia, Turkey, Indonesia and Zimbabwe during her time at Mayer Brown.

Ravi Amin

Massimo Amoruso

Augusto Aras

Ludmila Arruda Braga

Ludmila Braga is a partner in the Real Estate Transactions and Investments practice of Tauil & Chequer in association with Mayer Brown.

Olivier Aubouin

Allison M. Aviki

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Tim Baines

David Bakst is a partner in Mayer Brown's New York office and a member of the Corporate & Securities practice specializing in Capital Markets. His practice focuses on a wide variety of public and private securities offerings ranging from large New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ listed IPOs and multibillion-dollar debt offerings to smaller private offerings. David has more than 20 years of capital markets experience with a particular focus on securities offerings involving non-US issuers. He has led securities offerings for a number of the most prominent issuers in Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. He advises clients from a broad range of industries, including life sciences, financial services, energy, telecommunications and technology. David regularly advises leading investment banking firms on domestic and international capital markets offerings. David also advises companies regarding Securities Act and Exchange Act compliance, NYSE and NASDAQ compliance, corporate governance, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act matters.

Kate Ball-Dodd has a wide-ranging corporate practice that encompasses corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions (including public takeovers), equity fund raisings, joint ventures, and corporate governance. She advises a number of quoted companies and financial intermediaries on the UKLA Listing Rules and Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the Prospectus Rules, the AIM Rules, the Takeover Code and general company law. Kate speaks regularly at external conferences on corporate governance and takeovers.

Julio Barboza is a senior associate in the Administrative Law, Regulatory Law and Public Finance Law practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown, in the São Paulo office.

Luisa Tortolano Barreto

Luisa Tortolano Barreto is a senior associate in the Power, Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions Practices practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the São Paulo office.

Named as a Rising Star in Private Equity by the Legal 500, James joined Mayer Brown as a trainee in 2019. Since qualifying he has concentrated on supporting private equity sponsors with their M&A transactions and on general portfolio company matters. James spent six months on secondment during his training contract at a leading FTSE 100 company, working primarily to support its venture capital arm.

George Belcher's work in the insurance sector covers insurance-related M&A, as well as regulatory issues in the insurance sector. He has a broad based practice with life & annuity and non-life experience. He also advises on matters related to Lloyd's of London. George also has a particular focus on technical and regulatory aspects of (re)insurance entities and structures, including knowledge and experience gained when he was seconded to the PRA (known then as the FSA) to assist with aspects of its implementation of Solvency II.

Bruno Belchior is a partner of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the Rio de Janeiro office and a member of the Global Energy, Corporate & Securities and M&A practice groups.

Andrew Block advises trustees and employers in relation to all types of UK pension schemes. This includes project work such as rule re-writes, scheme mergers and the pensions aspects of corporate reorganisations, as well as day to day advisory work. He also advises in relation to the pensions aspects of public and private M&A transactions and listings. Prior to joining Mayer Brown in 2012, Andrew was a partner in the pensions practice of another leading City law firm. He trained at a Magic Circle firm and qualified into its pensions department in 2001.

Jean-Maxime Blutel

Rebecca Bothamley

Carolina Bottino

Carolina M. Bottino is a partner in the Tax practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the Rio de Janeiro office.

Constance Bouchet

Stefano is an associate in the Corporate and M&A practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the São Paulo office.

Stuart Brinkworth

Miriam Bruce

Núbia Bufarah is an associate in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in the São Paulo office.

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Rupert Burrows is the Managing Partner of the firm's Tokyo office. Rupert is highly regarded in Japan for his broad experience in projects work, particularly international infrastructure projects in the energy and chemical sectors and related corporate M&A. Rupert has lived and worked in Japan for more than 25 years and is fluent in Japanese. His clients include all of the major Japanese trading houses as well as a large number of Japanese utilities and banks. He has a wealth of experience advising Japanese companies on cross-border acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and other investments. Rupert has been ranked as a Highly Regarded Lawyer in both Energy and Infrastructure (Japan) and Project Development (Japan) by IFLR 1000, a Leading Individual in Projects and Energy: International Firms and Joint Ventures (Japan) by Legal 500 Asia Pacific and recognised in both Projects & Energy: International (Japan) and Construction (Japan) by Chambers Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Mayer Brown, Rupert was the managing partner of the Tokyo office of another international law firm.

Electra Callan has a wide range of experience advising clients on M&A transactions and providing general corporate law advice with specific experience of acting for private equity investors, portfolio companies and management teams on investments, acquisitions, disposals and corporate restructurings.

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Valentina Castillo

Valentina Castillo is an associate in Mayer Brown's Washington DC office and a member of the Banking & Finance practice and Emerging Markets, Projects and Latin American groups. Valentina advises both lenders and sponsors in the areas of project finance, structured finance and acquisition financing, particularly in Latin America. Her Latin American experience includes transactions in Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama and Honduras. Valentina has experience representing commercial banks and multilateral organizations in connection with international project finance and development transactions, including power projects.

Diana Castro is Counsel at Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown Rio de Janeiro office.

Federica Castro

Federica M. Castro is a senior associate in Mayer Brown's M&A and Global Energy groups based in Houston. She maintains a broad M&A practice, representing public and private companies, in corporate and business combination transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures as well as project development in the United States and Latin America. She regularly counsels clients in a variety of industries, including energy (including conventional and renewable power, oil and gas and other infrastructure), media and entertainment and financial services. Prior to joining Mayer Brown, Federica was an associate in the Caracas office of a top-tier international law firm, concentrating her practice in general corporate and M&A transactions. Fluent in English and Spanish, Federica graduated from Emory University School of Law and Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Venezuela) and earned an LL.M in International Commercial Law from the University of Nottingham (U.K.). She is licensed to practice in the State of Texas and Venezuela.

Flávia Cavalcanti

Flávia Cavalcanti is a partner in the Tax practice of Tauil & Chequer in association with Mayer Brown in the Rio de Janeiro office.

Bruno Cerqueira

Bruno Cerqueira is a partner in the Capital Markets & Securitization practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown at the São Paulo office.

Chris advises banks, insurers, other financial institutions and their senior managers on contentious and non-contentious regulatory issues under UK and EU law, including internal and external investigations and domestic and cross-border transactions and matters involving regulatory and law enforcement authorities, such as the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. He also represents financial institutions in litigation and arbitration disputes. Chris is a global co-leader of the following practice areas: Financial Services; Financial Services Regulatory, Compliance, Policy & Government Affairs, Financial Services Litigation, Enforcement and Investigations; and Banking and Finance Litigation.

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Angelia Chia is a partner in Mayer Brown's Singapore office and a member of Mayer Brown's Global Finance Practice Group. Angelia has close to 20 years of experience in Trade and Trade Finance spanning the globe including from (i) the sale and purchase of goods (including commodities) and services across various industry segments; (ii) the financing of trade using a variety of financing products from traditional (or documentary trade) to open account (including supply chain finance techniques) and (iii) the mitigation or distribution of risks arising from trade (where her in-depth knowledge of trade finance products and processing ensures the organisation complies with its obligations set out in the distribution agreements). Angelia has a wealth of experience in different jurisdictions and how jurisdictional aspects impact industry rules (e.g., UCP600, URR725, URDG758 and ISP98), laws on assignment of financial assets, laws pertaining to negotiable instruments and enforcement over security. She has also been involved and resolved disputes (pre-litigation) deploying practical strategies in day-to-day issues faced by financial institutions.Angelia’s unique advisory capability stems from her in-house experience in Cargill, JPMorgan and most recently Standard Chartered Bank where she was global head of legal for trade, ensuring she can provide comprehensive end-to-end advice covering the myriad of issues faced by clients as they manage the interplay of laws, regulations, industry rules, systems and policies in the confines of the organisation’s operational requirements. Angelia is an active member of the ICC Legal and BAFT Committees, is internationally recognised for her trade advisory experience and speaks English and Mandarin.

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Doos Choi is a partner of Mayer Brown and has a wealth of international experience in banking and finance gained across three continents having worked in London, Sydney and Hong Kong. He has deep experience across a wide range of products including leveraged and acquisition finance, investment grade and sub-investment grade bi-lateral and syndicated loans, capital call financings, real estate finance, loan-to-own financings, margin loans, distressed portfolio sales and work-outs. Doos’ experience spans numerous sectors including healthcare, financial services, real estate, oil & gas, retail, IT, consumer services, automotive, mining, gaming and insurance. Doos advises banks, financial institutions, debt funds, private equity houses and corporates on complex multi-jurisdictional, multi-tiered, full and limited recourse financings. He speaks English and Korean.

Matthew Chow is a partner in Mayer Brown’s global Energy practice, splitting his time between Hong Kong and Singapore. As a construction lawyer by training, he has advised project sponsors, contractors and lenders on some of the largest projects across Asia and the Middle East, ranging from power plants (both thermal and renewables) to LNG-to-power, LNG import facilities (both onshore and offshore), petrochemical facilities, mining and other major infrastructure. Matthew’s core practice focuses on front-end project delivery, where he leads the drafting and negotiation of both standard form (including FIDIC) and bespoke construction contracts, tender documents, and related agreements. He also advises on other critical project documents including PPAs, concession and O&M agreements, supply and offtake agreements, FSRU construction contracts (both newbuild and conversion), and consultancy agreements. With 18 years’ experience in the construction industry in both legal and commercial roles, he has a deep-rooted understanding of the challenges that typically arise during the development phase of construction projects. This experience enables him to foresee potential risks before they materialise and to work with clients to develop effective mitigation strategies, ensuring smoother project execution and minimising costly disruptions. Almost all of the projects which Matthew has worked on involve project financing. He has worked both alongside and opposite major DFIs, MLAs and ECAs such as ADB, IFC, AIIB, MIGA, CDB, KEXIM, and KDB and is highly attuned to each of their specific bankability requirements. This expertise allows him to bridge the gap between sponsor, contractor, and lender interests, helping clients navigate the complexities of multi-source financings and achieve successful financial close. Matthew’s track record includes advising on multiple first-in-market transactions across Asia and emerging markets, including the landmark 1,500MW Quang Ninh LNG-to-power project in Vietnam, which is set to be one of the first LNG-to-power projects in Vietnam to reach financial close; Honduras’ first LNG-to-power project; the first four LNG import projects in Bangladesh developed by Summit; the development of Hong Kong’s first FSRU/LNG import project; one of Senegal’s first land-based LNG import terminals; the Lotus wind power project, Vietnam’s first and largest financing of a wind power project to utilise long-term US$ limited recourse financing without export credit agency cover; Bangladesh’s first two solar power projects to be internationally project financed; the Shweli 3 hydropower project, Myanmar's largest hydropower project to date; the Deedoke run-of-river hydropower project, Myanmar’s first internationally developed hydro-IPP selling exclusively into the Myanmar market; the Myingyan 225MW gas-fired power project, Myanmar's first internationally competitively tendered power project and first (and to date only) multi-lender multi-sourced international project financing; the CPHGC 1320MW coal fired power project, Pakistan’s first power project to be developed under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor initiative; and Mongolia’s first three solar power projects with battery storage solutions.

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Jeremy Clay is a partner in Mayer Brown's London office. He currently heads the firm's Global Real Estate Group and serves on Mayer Brown's Management Committee. Jeremy represents investors, developers, banks and corporate clients in all kinds of structured development, investment and finance transactions.

Senior associate Jonathan Cohen represents clients in a variety of corporate and commercial contexts, across a number of different industry sectors, including energy, financial services, technology, manufacturing, shipping, and food and beverage, on both litigation and arbitration matters – often with a multi-jurisdictional element. Jonny’s experience includes advising clients in relation to post-acquisition disputes, supply chain disputes, outsourcing disputes, shareholder and JV disputes, claims relating to force majeure, and product liability and safety matters.

Ian Coles serves on Mayer Brown's Partnership Board. He concentrates his practice on all aspects of bank and debt finance, ranging from projects and other structured finance to commodities financing and restructuring. He represents banks and other financial institutions, sponsors, and other participants in finance transactions throughout the world. He has particular experience in the mining finance sector. Ian is the head of the firm's finance practice in Europe. Ian is the author of numerous articles in connection with project finance.

Véronique Collin

João Cople is a partner in the Dispute Resolution practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown.

Gustavo Scheffer Da Silveira

Gustavo Scheffer ia a partner of the Arbitration practice in Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown.

Sally Davies is the Senior Partner in Mayer Brown's London office. She has extensive experience in the litigation, arbitration (domestic and international LCIA, ICC,UNCITRAL), mediation and adjudication of construction industry disputes. She advises owners, contractors, engineers and consultants, subcontractors and suppliers, as well as professionals and insurers, on all aspects of construction and engineering law. She has resolved such disputes involving airports, sports stadia, harbour facilities, nuclear facilities, waste water treatment plants, LNG plants, motorways, mines, roads, bridges, cranes and railways, dams, office facilities, distribution centres and water treatment facilities as well as traditional construction projects.

Pieter de Ridder

Pieter de Ridder is the Managing Partner of the firm’s Singapore office and a member of the Global Tax Transactions and Consulting Group. Pieter was previously based in Indonesia and Hong Kong and has over 25 years of experience in Asia advising multinational companies and institutions with interests in one or more Asian jurisdictions on their inbound and outbound work.His practice focuses on advising tax efficient structures with respect to direct investment, restructurings, financing arrangements, private equity, supply chain, intellectual property and real property structures into or from Asia.Pieter regularly advises on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, private equity, administrative actions and tax rulings, coordinating unilateral and bilateral advance pricing arrangements, tax incentive negotiations with investment authorities, maritime, structured finance, trade, contract manufacturing as well as regional property investment structuring. In Indonesia, he advises on direct investment and financing matters. He also regularly advises on investment and restructuring matters into India, including tax strategies vis-a-vis India’s General Anti Avoidance Rule, and his work involves advising on and coordinating tax matters for clients doing business in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and the Philippines. He is a member of the Think Tank of advisers to an Indian law firm in connection with the proposed Indian Draft Corporate Tax Code legislation.Chambers Global (2015) notes that “Singapore-based Pieter de Ridder advises a wide range of Asian clients on a variety of tax mandates”. He is known for his "long-standing experience" in the Asian market and is a "trusted source of advice" on local tax planning and deals and listed as one of five most highly regarded individuals in Asia by The International Who’s Who Legal: Corporate Tax (2013).

Joanne De Silva

Joseph De Simone

Rodolfo Constantino De Tella

Rodolfo Tella is a partner in the Capital Markets and Securities practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the São Paulo office.

Juliana Deguirmendjian

Juliana Deguirmendjian is a partner of the Public and Administrative Law practie in Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown.

Maximillian Del Rey

Sébastien Delaunay

Alex Dell is a senior asset-based lending (ABL) partner in the Banking & Finance practice of the London office. His practice is particularly focused on large, highly structured receivables financing and ABL transactions with a cross-border element. He also has an in-depth knowledge of supply chain finance, transit finance and vendor and title finance. Alex represents banks, financial institutions, sponsors and corporates, and advises on cross-border transactions for some of the world’s largest financial institutions and companies. He is widely-recognised as a leading ABL and receivables finance lawyer in the UK.

Elodie Deschamps

Nathan Dodd is a Partner in Mayer Brown's Singapore office and is a member of Mayer Brown's Global Projects Group. Nathan has more than seventeen years of experience on the development and finance side of projects in Asia and also regularly works on Asian investments into the Middle East and Africa. In addition to project finance, he has extensive experience on energy, natural resources and infrastructure M&A. He has worked on a number of award winning transactions, acting on the government, sponsor and lender side. Deal locations include Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Gabon, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the UAE and Vietnam.

Douglas Doetsch

Douglas Doetsch serves as head of the firm’s Latin America/Caribbean practice and is a member of the firm's Banking & Finance practice. He advises clients on infrastructure financings in the port, airport and road sectors, acquisition and other leveraged lending transactions, and structured credit transactions. He is also a leader in cross-border securitization transactions, especially future cash flow securitizations. In his cross-border work, Doug also regularly advises on emerging market debt restructuring and debt exchange offers. In addition, his transactional work involves asset and stock acquisitions, real estate investments, and cross-border joint ventures.

Alastair Dolman

Alastair advises private equity firms, investment funds, corporates and other financial investors on a broad range of corporate and funds-related matters including domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures, fund formations, fund investments, co-investments and secondary transactions. Alastair has a wide range of experience across multiple industry sectors with a particular focus on real estate and private equity real estate. He is recognised as a key lawyer by The Legal 500 UK 2024 for Real Estate. Alastair has recently served clients such as British Land Plc, Bain Capital Credit L.P., M3 Capital Partners, Arch Street Capital Advisors and Pernod Ricard S.A.

Jay Doraisamy has over 25 years experience advising trustees and employers of large complex pension arrangements, as well as many household names. Her broad sector experience includes aviation, banking, water, chemicals, and manufacturing. Jay advises on a wide range of pensions advisory work including benefit redesign projects, funding arrangements, banking reform ring-fencing requirements, the impact of US Chapter 11 proceedings on UK pension schemes, scheme closures and amendments.

Joanne Du

David Duffee is a finance partner in Mayer Brown’s New York office, and is the leader of the firm’s New York Banking & Finance practice. He advises financial institutions and borrowers in lending transactions – both for US-based borrowers and in cross-border financings. A significant part of David’s practice focuses on Latin American lending. Acquisition financings comprise a large part of David’s practice. He also works on lending transactions with insurance company borrowers. He has extensive experience with work-outs, debtor-in-possession financings and other distressed situations.

Maria Rita Dutra

Maria Rita Dutra is an associate in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in the São Paulo office.

Sam is a partner in Mayer Brown’s Litigation practice in London and a member of the Firm’s White Collar Defense & Compliance practice which represents corporations, boards of directors, board committees, executives and public officials in criminal , civil and regulatory enforcement proceedings around the world. Sam's experience includes: pursuing and defending claims arising from significant corporate acquisitions; competition litigation; advising on joint venture and shareholder disputes; fraud investigation; and seeking injunctive relief. He advises on ethics, anti-corruption and human rights issues in connection with companies’ internal compliance policies and procedures and international business transactions. Sam has significant experience in cross border corporate investigations involving complex financial and accounting issues and anti-corruption matters throughout Africa, Asia, Europe (particularly the Nordic region), Middle East and South America. He regularly conducts risk assessments, transactional due diligence and compliance program reviews.

Ben Eaton helps clients with the tax and structuring aspects of real estate transactions, joint ventures and investment funds. He has in-depth experience advising on the tax aspects of real estate investment, financing, development, and leasing, as well as the structuring of funds and joint ventures investing in real estate and real estate debt, and transactions involving real estate operating businesses. Much of Ben’s work is international in nature, and he has extensive experience helping clients making inbound investments into assets in the United Kingdom and continental Europe.

Jason Elder possesses more than 25 years’ experience advising leading financial institutions and issuers on complex and innovative corporate finance and capital markets transactions across global markets. He has deep experience managing cross‑border transactions and advising on sophisticated financing solutions for clients, and has represented clients on numerous “first-of-kind” transactions across numerous Asia jurisdictions. Jason represents issuers, underwriters and trustee and agency providers in a broad range of capital markets transactions, including global offerings of debt securities and equity securities, and he regularly advises on cross‑border restructurings and distressed liability management exercises. He counsels clients on the structuring and execution of transactions across products and jurisdictions, with a particular focus on complex, time‑sensitive matters.

James England concentrates on cross-border receivables finance and asset based lending transactions, as well as financings in emerging markets in the commodity, energy and infrastructure sectors. James advises both lenders and borrowers.

Annabel Ersser, senior associate, has experience acting for banks, financial institutions, investors and corporate clients in real estate finance and investment transactions. Annabel focuses on structured real estate finance advising both lenders and sponsors. Annabel's notable transactions in 2019 include acting for Cheyne Capital in relation to the provision of a £173,000,000 development loan facility to Quintain in connection with its continued development at Wembley Park, advising LKK/Infinitus in relation to its refinancing of the iconic Walkie Talkie building and acting for a Crosstree Real Estate Partners and AEG joint venture in connection with its refinancing of ICON the designer outlet village at the O2.

Jorge Escalante

Gonçalo Falcão

Gonçalo Falcão is a partner in the Rio de Janeiro office of Tauil & Chequer Advogados´ International Tax Matters and Corporate & Securities practices.

Liv Machado Fallet

Liv Machado is a partner in the Restructuring and Bankruptcy practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the São Paulo office.

Adam Farrell advises arrangers, managers, sponsors, issuers and investors on all types of public and private securitisations, with a particular focus on collateralised loan obligations (CLOs) where Adam counsels the leading arrangers and managers in the European market. Adam also regularly advises clients on infrastructure and commodities backed securitisations as well as broader asset classes. Adam additionally helps clients with fund leverage facilities, EU and UK risk retention matters, and ESG and sustainability matters, including all aspects of the European Green Deal.

Vincenzo Feldmann

Gustavo Fernandes

Gustavo Fernandes de Andrade is the partner responsible for the arbitration practice of Tauil & Checker Advogados in association with Mayer Brown.

Michael Fiddy is a partner in the Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Insolvency practice of the London office and co-head of the Firm's global Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Insolvency practice. He is particularly recognized for his market-leading work in portfolio and distressed real estate restructuring. He regularly acts for financial institutions, funds, debtors, creditors and office holders on both domestic and international transactions.

Aline Fidelis is the partner in charge of the Employment & Benefits practice group at Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown.

Christopher Fisher

Chris advises on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious matters. His advisory experience includes recruitment and termination of executives; team moves; restructuring programmes, including collective and individual consultation; business transfers and outsourcing; and the implications of the Business Transfer Regulations. His litigation experience includes defending discrimination and unfair dismissal claims in the employment tribunal, and defending and pursuing breach of contract claims in the High Court and the Court of Appeal. He successfully represented the employers in the restrictive covenant cases of: Arbuthnot Fund Managers v. Rawlings (2003) and TFS Derivatives v. Morgan (2005) and, more recently, in the team move case of QBE Management Services v Dymoke (2012).

Simon is a partner in the London office. He has a wide range of experience working for banks and other financial institutions across different types of syndicated and structured transactions, focusing on large leveraged and ABL facilities for cross border acquisition financings and for general corporate purposes. He has recently been involved in a number of high profile ABL transactions and has worked on a number of significant leveraged finance deals. In addition, Simon frequently acts for financial institutions in property acquisition and development financing transactions. He also acts for both corporates and financial institutions in more general syndicated and secured lending transactions.

Robert (Rob) Flanigan

Robert Flanigan is a Banking & Finance partner who regularly represents issuers and underwriters on Rule 144A/Regulation S private placements and SEC-registered offerings of a wide range of equity and debt securities, particularly in transactions involving French and Spanish issuers. He has advised on some of the largest capital markets transactions in Europe, including the €4.3 billion IPO of Aena, the €2.4 billion IPO of Inditex, the €1.2 billion IPO of Snecma; over €3.3 billion in offerings of high yield notes by Rhodia; and Barclays Bank plc in the creation and operation of its €10 billion Global Collaterlised Medium Term Note Progamme. Robert also represents foreign private issuers in connection with ongoing compliance with SEC and NYSE reporting obligations and advises clients regarding public disclosure obligations and corporate governance issues. He has advised private and public companies in M&A transactions in a variety of business sectors.

James Ford, senior associate, helps clients to navigate the complex and overlapping worlds of sanctions and export controls, anti-corruption, particularly business and human rights, and anti-money laundering. James advises corporates across a range of sectors, including energy, mining, extractives, oil and gas, retail, defence, and transport, as well as a host of financial institutions, insurers, brokers and professional services firms.

Katherine Fox advises on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters and acts for clients across a variety of sectors including insurance, financial, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and leisure.

Victor Galante is managing partner in Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown.

Tiago Garcia is a associate of the Labor & Employment practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown.

Sarah Garvey

Tyler Garvey is an associate in Mayer Brown's New York office and a member of the Banking & Finance practice and Global Projects group. He serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Committee on Finance Associates and represents lenders and investors in connection with equity investments and both international and domestic infrastructure and project finance transactions. Prior to joining the firm, Tyler was a legal fellow at the New Jersey Bureau of Securities, where he gained experience working on matters involving securities registration, regulation and enforcement.He received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from John Jay College of Criminal Justice where he was a Thurgood Marshall Scholar, Ron Brown Scholar, Steamboat Scholar, Scholarship and Service Recipient and the Graduation Commencement Speaker.

Déborah Gelblat

Adriana Giannini

Adriana Giannini is a partner in the Antitrust practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the São Paulo Office.

Lucas Giardelli

Lucas Giardelli is a Tax Transactions & Consulting associate in Mayer Brown’s New York office. His practice is focused on international tax planning (including controlled foreign corporations/Subpart F income, tax-efficient reorganizations, cross-border financing, IP planning, individual tax planning) and corporate tax matters, advising clients on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, financing arrangements and other transactions. Prior to joining Mayer Brown in 2012, Lucas practiced tax law at a leading law firm in Argentina.

Julie Gillespie

Maria Caroilina Gimenez

Maria Carolina Gimenez is a counsel in the Real Estate practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the São Paulo office.

Isabella Giorgi

Isabella Giorgi is an associate of the Antitrust & Competition practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown.

Robert Goldberg

Gedham Gomes advises and represents clients in connection with all sorts of matters involving socioenvironmental, climate change and ESG issues. When providing counsel on preventive or pre-litigation consulting, Gedham assists domestic and foreign companies in navigating the complex Brazilian regulatory frameworks applicable to their businesses and most sensitive and strategical matters, such as those involving critical environmental licenses, contamination management, human rights, carbon markets and Nature-based Solutions, supply chains and general environmental and climate compliance and liabilities. When litigating, Gedham represents companies in administrative investigations, class actions and crisis management, particularly by conducting negotiations with opposing counsel, government agencies, public prosecutors, and other stakeholders, such as NGOs and indigenous communities. Gedham also advises and represents clients in the context of transactions – both buy-side and sell-side – by providing counsel on risks assessment, liability allocation and limitation, and negotiation of relevant contractual provisions. He also holds a master’s degree in urban law, allowing him to assist clients in urban-related infrastructure matters, such as urban licensing and urban impact assessments, smart/sustainable city technologies and mobility. Companies in a variety of industries rely on Gedham’s expertise, particularly in the energy, infrastructure, and agribusiness sectors. He has a long track record of assisting and representing global companies with businesses in Brazil, including oil and gas, ports and shipping, mining, power, food processing and grain trading.

François-Régis Gonon

Airlie Goodman advises financial institutions and corporations on high-stakes, complex and cross-border commercial disputes and investigations (both internal and regulatory). In addition, her experience advising on competition disputes and enforcement actions heard in the Competition Appeal Tribunal complements the Firm’s antitrust capabilities. Airlie acts for clients in a variety of sectors, with a particular emphasis on the financial and professional services, and mining, and a significant interest in ESG related issues and disputes.

Anna Gouvea is counsel in the São Paulo office of Tauil & Chequer Advogados’ Banking & Finance practice.

Nicole Grabianowski

Alistair Graham

Alistair Graham is a Solicitor Advocate and has represented clients in litigation in the High Court, Court of Appeal, House of Lords Privy Council and Supreme Court as well as in international arbitrations. He is also experienced in ADR techniques and is an accredited mediator. With a background in financial services disputes, Alistair has particular experience in white collar work advising both corporates and individuals directly. He also regularly advises on regulatory and fraud investigations and international asset tracing. He is sought after as a speaker and adviser on compliance issues under the 2010 Bribery Act: recent clients include investment banks and listed corporates.

Dominic Griffiths

Dominic Griffiths helps financial institutions and companies to efficiently secure favorable terms across a broad spectrum of domestic and international financing transactions. Clients trust his advice on commercial and investment bank asset-based lending and structured finance. Dominic has significant experience in European and Trans-Atlantic cross-border secured loans and trade receivables financings, and in working for Italian banks and corporates.

Haukur Gudmundsson

Luiz Gustavo Bezerra

Luiz Gustavo Bezerra is a partner in the practice of Environmental and Climate Change at Tauil & Chequer Advogados, with relevant experience in litigation, consulting and transactional (M&A) matters.

Harriet Hainsworth

Harriet Hainsworth undertakes a broad range of corporate transactions with a focus on equity capital markets, public and private M&A and corporate governance. As a member of the Public Companies & Capital Markets team, she advises a number of quoted companies and financial intermediaries on the Listing Rules and Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules, the Prospectus Regulation Rules, the AIM Rules, the Takeover Code and general company law.

Robert Hamill is a partner in Mayer Brown's London office focusing on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. He has particular experience in the energy sector and co-heads the firm's global energy group. Robert joined Mayer Brown as a partner in 2002.

Neil Hamilton

Sam Harris

David M. Harrison

David Harrison is a partner of Mayer Brown’s Vietnam office. David formerly worked at a Magic Circle law firm in New York and Vietnam. He focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and on banking and finance in emerging Asian markets. He has advised foreign investors on numerous mergers and acquisitions, including Vietnamese commercial banks and corporate targets in Vietnam and other Asian jurisdictions, such as Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan and Bangladesh. David recently represented a global insurer on the first warranty and indemnity policy used in a Vietnamese corporate acquisition. He has advised multilateral and commercial lenders and agents on a broad range of project financings and secured and subordinated credit facilities extended to banks and corporations in Vietnam and other Asian jurisdictions such as Cambodia, Mongolia and Sri Lanka. David recently advised The Development Bank of Mongolia on a US$300 million syndicated credit facility guaranteed by the Mongolian Ministry of Finance. David has also advised lenders and borrowers on out-of-court workouts and insolvency and restructuring matters in both Vietnam and the US.

Chris Harvey is a partner in Mayer Brown's London office and head of the Real Estate Investment Team. Chris has extensive experience of acting for investors, funds, property companies, banks and developers in all kinds of investment, development and finance transactions. In particular, Chris has extensive experience of acting for Asian, US and European investors investing into the UK real estate market. Chris joined Mayer Brown in 2012 and was recently nominated by Times Online as one of the top ten future stars of the City.

Amita Haylock is a partner whose practice focuses on intellectual property, technology, media, telecommunications, and competition law across the Asia Pacific region. Amita advises on the full spectrum of intellectual property matters, including strategic portfolio management, licensing, commercialisation, enforcement, and prosecution. She counsels multinational clients and high growth companies on complex transactions involving the creation, exploitation, and protection of IP assets, with particular experience in structuring and negotiating technology licensing, collaboration, and distribution arrangements. In the TMT sector, Amita provides regulatory and commercial guidance on market entry, product launches, and ongoing compliance, and regularly advises on cross border technology transactions, fintech initiatives, platform governance, and emerging digital business models. Her contentious experience includes representing clients in regulatory investigations and judicial review proceedings arising from licensing, spectrum, and other sector specific decisions. Amita’s practice further encompasses data protection and privacy across the APAC region, where she assists clients in developing and implementing regional compliance frameworks, responding to data incidents, conducting privacy impact assessments, and navigating cross border data transfer requirements. She has experience advising on data governance in highly regulated industries, including financial services, telecommunications, and technology. Amita has extensive arbitration experience in disputes involving intellectual property, TMT and competition law. She has acted as counsel in arbitrations administered under the rules of HKIAC, SIAC, ICC, CIETAC and the LCIA. Her work includes applications for interim relief, jurisdictional and arbitrability challenges, complex expert evidence, and the recognition and enforcement of awards. Competition and Regulatory Amita advises on competition law issues arising from distribution and licensing strategies, dominance and market power assessments, and collaborations and joint ventures, as well as foreign investment considerations in multi jurisdictional transactions. She works closely with clients to align commercial objectives with regulatory expectations across diverse APAC regimes.

Andrew Hepner has extensive experience acting for banks, financial institutions, investors and corporate clients in structured finance and investment transactions. Andrew focuses on structured real estate finance advising both lenders and sponsors. He also acts for banks, private equity and opportunity funds and other participants in the acquisition, disposal and restructuring of performing and non-performing debt portfolios secured on real estate. In the investment arena, Andrew focuses principally on the hospitality sector advising private equity funds, investors, pension funds and lenders in the acquisition, development, financing and disposal of hotels and other leisure facilities.

James Hill concentrates on the corporate taxation aspects of mergers and acquisitions, group reorganisations, and corporate finance. He advises clients on a wide range of tax issues including the tax consequences of selling businesses, structures for business acquisitions, intra-group transfers of businesses, international structures and treaty claims, solvent and insolvent reconstructions, tax issues arising on the exploitation of IP, partnership structures, the taxation of debt and venture capital investments. James also concentrates on the employment tax consequences of share incentives, carried interest arrangements, bonus plans, and other benefits. He advises clients on various employment related tax matters including share options, long term incentive plans, flowering shares, employee benefit trusts, the taxation of termination payments, internationally mobile employees and disguised remuneration.

Brian Hirshberg

Robert Hobson

Mitchell Holzrichter

Joanna Horsnail

Jonathan Hosie is a partner in the Construction & Engineering group, who focuses on the management of risks under construction and engineering contracts. He provides clients with both front-end procurement and drafting advice on project documentation as well as dispute management representation, involving such diverse projects as power stations, petrochemical plants and process engineering, mining concessions, tunnels, transportation systems (road, rail and water), large utility contracts (in the water, energy and telecommunications sectors), city centre office developments, hospitals, schools and mixed use developments. As part of his commitment to the industry, he served on the Council of the Society of Construction Law for more than 10 years and has chaired a number of industry working groups, including within the Design Build Foundation (now Constructing Excellence) and for the Joint Contracts Tribunal on the development of a multi-disciplinary form of appointment.

Christopher Houpt

Caroline Humble

Caroline Humble is a partner in the Real Estate practice of the London office. She has extensive experience acting for clients on high profile and high value investment transactions and development projects. Caroline also represents a number of private equity real estate clients. Caroline has an excellent reputation for providing strategic advice to clients on complex transactions and development projects.

Sean Hummerstone

Jason Hungerford

Jason Hungerford is a US and UK-qualified investigations and regulatory partner based in Mayer Brown's London office. Previously based in Washington DC, Jason advises corporates and financial institutions on economic sanctions and export controls, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering in the context of investigations, complex transactions and compliance programme development and testing. Jason advises corporates across a range of sectors, in particular aerospace and defence, oil and gas, mining, shipping, transportation, engineering and heavy machinery, and FMCG. He also works closely with a range of financial institutions, insurers and brokers. Jason's investigations and compliance work has included mandates in China, Southeast Asia, Russia, Brazil, the United States, the Middle East, the Nordic region and throughout Europe.

Nishrin Hussain

Nishrin Hussain advises corporate trustees on a wide range of debt capital markets, structured finance and securitization transactions across Asia and other key global markets. With more than 18 years of experience, she is well known to the corporate trust teams of all major service providers in Asia and has supported transactions in the APAC region including, Japan and Australia. Nishrin counsels trustees and security trustees throughout the full transaction lifecycle, from new issuances and compliance exercises to liability management, restructurings and post‑default matters. In addition, Nishrin is committed to pro bono and community engagement, with a focus on matters relating to refugees and asylum seekers and on expanding educational opportunities for women and ethnic minorities in Hong Kong. She mentors interns from the Amber Foundation and Asian University for Women and serves on the AUW Support Foundation’s internship sub‑committee. She is a committee member of the Firm’s “In The Know” forum. Prior to joining the firm, she worked in the Hong Kong office of another leading global law firm and in the in‑house legal and compliance department of a leading multinational in Singapore.

Michael Hutchinson

Philip Hyde

Amy Jacks is a partner and co-head of the Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Insolvency practice of the London office. She acts for a variety of funds, investment and clearing banks, insolvency practitioners, corporates, management teams and property advisors. Amy advises on complex and often multi-jurisdictional restructurings as well as having undertaken many of the larger portfolio sales in the market recently. She has led various high-profile transactions across a breadth of sectors including, in the last few months, construction, retail, technology, waste, energy and automotive.

Nathalie Jalabert-Doury

Michelle Jewett

Michael Lennon, Jr.

Musonda Kapotwe

Gabriela Kennedy

Gabriela Kennedy is the co-leader of the IP practice at Mayer Brown, head of the Asia IP & TMT practice and co-leader of the cyber incident response team. Her broad practice spans all areas of intellectual property law, technology, data privacy and cybersecurity, AI and telecommunications law. She advises clients on complex technology transactions, data protection and cybersecurity, and disputes, with deep experience guiding multinational companies through cross‑border regulatory and operational issues. Gabriela represents corporates and investors in a broad range of mandates and has been involved in large pan-Asian digital transformation projects, mobile payments projects, the regulation of digital assets, as well as high‑profile media transactions and litigation. She has significant experience in data protection matters throughout Asia, advising on Asia wide strategies, cross‑border data transfers, data compliance programs, data breaches and cyber incident response. She has assisted companies with comprehensive data audits and has developed privacy management and governance frameworks for the Asia operations of multinational companies. In contentious and regulatory matters, Gabriela acts in disputes arising from failed technology projects and advises on telecommunications regulation and transactional issues across the region. She has extensive experience in signal piracy litigation and in disputes concerning “must‑carry” and retransmission rights under copyright legislation, and has advised collecting societies on licensing arrangements and royalty disputes. She is recognised as a leading lawyer across each of her fields of practice and serves on the editorial boards of multiple publications. A former theoretical linguist, she brings a rigorous, solutions‑oriented approach to complex and time‑sensitive matters.

Nanak Keswani

Edgar Khalatian

Thomas Kittle-Kamp

Eiji has more than 20 years of experience in representing the world’s leading industrial conglomerates, including technology, automobile, real estate, and life sciences companies and financial institutions in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate, projects, disputes and regulatory and investigation matters. His practice focuses on complex cross-border corporate and M&A matters, real estate, and other project matters. He also has wide-ranging experience representing companies and individuals in regulatory investigations matters, especially in the industrial, technology, life sciences, aviation and financial institutions industry sectors. Earlier in his career, Eiji worked at a major US M&A law firm, as co-head of the cross-border transactions group at the largest law firm in Japan, and as the chair of the corporate/M&A practice group in Japan for a global law firm. He has represented some of the world’s leading corporations.

Andy Kolacki represents lenders, private equity sponsors and borrowers in connection with domestic and international acquisition/leverage financings and restructurings. His practice includes senior and subordinated capital structures (including second lien and mezzanine facilities) with specific experience of bank/bond financings and transatlantic financings using US term loan B structures.

Thomas Kollar is a corporate partner with over 15 years of experience advising issuers and underwriters on US debt and equity capital markets transactions throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. His practice principally focuses on cross-border capital markets transactions and covers high-yield bonds, medium-term note programs, liability management exercises, hybrid securities, IPOs, equity block trades, equity placements and rights issues. He has considerable experience advising on US securities law and US listing requirements. He also has experience advising multinational corporations and financial institutions on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and a variety of corporate finance transactions.

Arsen Kourinian

Benjamin Kralstein

Jennifer Kratochvil

Sean G. Kulkarni is a senior associate in Mayer Brown’s New York office and a member of the Banking & Finance and Latin America and Global Projects groups. His practice focuses on the representation of sponsors, owners, lenders (including commercial banks, investment funds and development finance institutions), underwriters and investors in connection with the development, construction, financing, acquisition and/or sale of high-profile, capital-intensive energy and infrastructure projects. Sean's experience includes the preparation and negotiation of financing documentation for syndicated loan and capital markets transactions, project agreements (including engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), operation and maintenance (O&M), and power purchase (PPA) and other offtake agreements), and various classes of offshore and onshore collateral agreements. His recent experience has focused on Latin America, where his fluency in Spanish enables him to draft, negotiate and review documents in that language in addition to English.Sean has represented clients in several of the most innovative and noteworthy Latin American project financings in recent years, including multiple “Deal of the Year” award winners and honorees. In addition to his global projects experience, Sean has advised clients on a wide range of corporate, structured and leveraged lending transactions in Latin America and elsewhere around the globe.

Guillaume Kuperfils

Christopher Lalloz

Daniel Landim is a senior associate in the Employment & Benefits practice at Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown, based in the Rio de Janeiro office.

Allison Lee is a corporate partner in the Hong Kong office with extensive experience advising clients on cross‑border transactions across the Asia‑Pacific region. Her practice principally focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and capital raising, as well as joint ventures, strategic partnerships and other collaborations. Allison advises clients through all stages of the corporate life cycle, including initial formation, early-stage financing, growth and exit. She regularly represents multinational corporations, private equity sponsors, venture and emerging companies and other investors across various industries, including insurance, insurtech, energy, and healthcare. Prior to joining the firm, Allison served as international counsel at another international law firm.

Veronica Lee

Bárbara Leite is an associate in the Corporate and M&A, Energy and Africa practices of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the Rio de Janeiro office.

Gabrielle Levin

Eduardo Alves Lima is a partner and member of the Banking & Finance practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in the São Paulo office.

Ian Lindsay is an associate in Mayer Brown’s Chicago office and a member of the Banking & Finance practice and Latin America group. He has experience with domestic and cross-border financing transactions in the US, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Australia, and other countries. Ian advises clients in a variety of roles, including as administrative agent, lender, commercial borrower, and/or issuer.

Guiping Lu has extensive experience in advising investment banks, issuers and investors on international debt and equity capital markets and other corporate finance transactions across Asia and beyond. His practice principally focuses on cross‑border capital markets matters. He also has considerable experience advising Chinese issuers on US securities law and SEC rules compliance. Guiping represents investment banks and issuers in a broad range of debt capital market transactions, including high‑yield and investment‑grade bond offerings, convertible and exchange bonds, medium‑term notes and liability management transactions. In addition, Guiping advises multinational corporations, private equity and venture capital firms on a variety of corporate finance transactions, including strategic investments by a private equity and a sovereign wealth fund in a leading technology and e‑commerce company in China; high yield debt repurchases by a US‑listed company; cross‑border acquisitions involving Hong Kong targets; and public company mergers, including the merger of Tudou (Nasdaq) and Youku (NYSE). He has also represented special committees, private equity sponsors and founders in going‑private transactions involving US‑listed, China‑based companies, including Ninetowns, ShangPharma Corporation and Shanda Games. Prior to joining the firm, he practiced in the capital markets groups of leading international law firms focusing on debt and equity securities offerings.

Luis Inácio Lucena Adams

Luis Adams is a partner of the Litigation and Compliance practices of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the Brasília Office.

Tom MacAulay

Eduardo Maccari Telles

Eduardo Maccari Telles is a partner in the Tax Litigation and intellectual Property practices of Tauil & Chequer in association with Mayer Brown.

Tiago do Monte Macêdo is a partner in the Corporate and M&A practice at Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown.

Charles Malpass

Charles Malpass has a wide-ranging structured finance practice focused on real estate, non-performing loan transactions, securitizations, senior and mezzanine loan origination, and loans backed by consumer, residential mortgage and commercial mortgage debt. He is a leader in his field and his practice will build on existing client and cross-practice synergies within the Firm, particularly those within our real estate, construction and restructuring teams. Charles is widely recognized for his complex, multijurisdictional work, and he frequently advises on transactions in Europe, Russia, the Middle East and the US.

Myles Mantle is a partner in the Global Projects practice in Mayer Brown’s Tokyo office. He advises on project development as well as multi-sourced financings in the energy and infrastructure sectors, in a wide variety of emerging markets as well as some developed jurisdictions. He acts for both project company/sponsors and lenders and clients include trading companies, owners and operators, investors, commercial banks, export credit agencies and development finance institutions.

Andrew Marovitz

General Counsel

Ana Luiza Martins

Ana Luiza Martins is a partner in the Tax practice of Tauil & Chequer in association with Mayer Brown in the São Paulo office.

José Paulo Marzagão

José Paulo Marzagão is a partner in the Real Estate practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the São Paulo office

Matthew McConkey

Ash McDermott concentrates his practice on complex, cross-border loan financings and he has a particular command of financings in the energy sector, export and agency finance and structured trade and commodity finance. His nearly 20 years of experience includes significant time working in Hong Kong and Tokyo, in addition to London. Ash is also a relationship partner for our pro bono client Shelter (the charity that campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing in England and Scotland).

Ian McDonald is co-leader of Mayer Brown’s global Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice and a member of the firm’s global Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice, based in London. He acts for banks and funds, particularly in high value disputes relating to loan structures, structured finance and derivatives, many of which have cross-jurisdictional elements and often managing large teams and competing priorities. Most recently he has been part of a cross-office, cross-practice team advising a financial institution on a cybersecurity incident, including leading on litigation aspects in the UK. He has also advised on cases for financial institutions involving allegations of mis-selling, misconduct, misrepresentation, deceit, fraud, breach of duty, contractual interpretation and breach of transactional documentation, as well as on matters of enforcement, rectification and restitution. He is co-leader of the firm’s International Banking and Financial Litigation Action Group. Ian also acts for licensed insolvency practitioners, noteholders, lenders, creditors, directors and borrowers in contentious insolvency matters.

Chris McGarry advises arrangers, issuers and sponsors on securitisations including collateralised loan obligations, commodities securitisations, residential mortgage-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities, whole-business securitisations and esoteric asset classes. He advises clients across industry sectors with a focus on financial institutions, energy, metals and mining, agriculture and sovereigns. Chris also advises clients on ESG and sustainability matters including all aspects of the European Green Deal with a particular focus on matters relating to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, the Deforestation Regulation and the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation.

Senior associate, Kirsty McLeish, advises and assists both domestic and overseas clients to meet their commercial real estate needs. Kirsty has acted on a wide variety of commercial real estate transactions including high value investment acquisitions and disposals, the real estate aspects of corporate and financing transactions and all aspects of landlord and tenant work. Notably, Kirsty was recently involved in advising Singaporean investor Hoi Hup Realty Pte Ltd, on the acquisition of Holborn Gate, London. Driven by a commitment to build lasting relationships with clients, Kirsty strives to ensure clients receive thorough and efficient representation at all times.

Olivier Mélédo

Ronan Mellon

Francisco Mendez

Managing Partner

Paul Meyer is a partner in Mayer Brown’s Real Estate group, is one of the co-chairs of the Real Estate group’s cross border practice and former head of the Chicago Real Estate practice. In his more than 30 years of practice, Paul has obtained substantial experience in virtually every aspect of the real estate industry. Paul’s widely diversified practice includes the representation of real estate investors and developers in all types of domestic and international equity and debt real estate transactions, including complex tax structured joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions and financing involving office buildings, apartment complexes, retail centers, industrial and logistics facilities, hotels, storage facilities, condominiums, medical office buildings and assisted-living facilities as well as senior loans, construction loans, mezzanine loans and preferred equity investments. In recent years his practice has focused on cross border investments that utilize complex tax structures. Paul’s clients include US and non-US insurance companies, US and non-US fund sponsors, pension funds advisors, REITs, institutional investors, developers, asset managers and other capital providers.

Diego Miguita

George Miller, a partner in the New York office, is a member of Mayer Brown’s Global Projects, Infrastructure and Asset Finance practices. In addition, he co-leads Mayer Brown’s Japan Client Initiative, aimed at strengthening and expanding outreach to Japanese clients. At a prior firm he helped open its Tokyo and Hong Kong offices and headed its Asia project finance practice for seven years. He concentrates his practice in international and domestic finance and leasing, in particular in the infrastructure, transportation and energy sectors. He has worked on numerous “Deals of the Year” and other high-profile transactions in the projects and infrastructure space. In recent years he has represented Morgan Stanley as underwriter in the issuance of $600 million principal amount of tax-exempt private activity bonds for the benefit of the first phase of the All Aboard Florida Brightline passenger rail project, the Port Authority of Jamaica in the $600 million concession and lease of the Kingston Container Terminal to an affiliate of CMA CGM (which was named 2016 North America Port Deal of the Year by IJGlobal), and lenders in refinancings of a private bulk cargo port terminal in Florida and of a long-term concession over 23 service plazas on Interstates 95 and 395 and the Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways in Connecticut, and in the restructuring of project finance loans for four advanced proton cancer therapy centers across the United States. In 2011 he headed our lenders’ counsel engagements for Puerto Rico’s first toll road concession. In 2010, he led our Denver FasTracks Eagle P3 engagement, the 34-year concession to build and operate a portion of a commuter rail line in Denver, Colorado, in which we acted as designated financing parties’ counsel. This project was named 2010 North American Transport Deal of the Year by Project Finance Magazine and a Regional Deal of the Year by The Bond Buyer.

Eric Mitzenmacher

Luis Montes is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the São Paulo office.

Juan Pablo Moreno

Juan Pablo Moreno is a Finance and Capital Markets associate in the Leveraged Finance, Global Project Finance and Latin America groups. Juan Pablo represents lenders in various deal roles in the preparation and negotiation of complex financial documents. He also has extensive experience in capital markets, particularly in transactions involving Latin American issuers of securities under Regulation S and Rule 144A. Juan Pablo has a unique background in having been admitted to practice both in the US (Illinois) and Colombia and having practiced as a lawyer in France, Colombia and the US in a variety of financial and capital markets matters. He is recognized as an Expert in Banking & Finance based in the US for Colombian law by Chambers & Partners Global (2014).Juan Pablo joined Mayer Brown in 2010. Prior to joining Mayer Brown, Juan Pablo worked for Shearman & Sterling LLP, the Inter-American Development Bank and Brigard & Urrutia Abogados in Colombia. He is a member of the Associate Diversity Committee and the Recruiting Committee at Mayer Brown. He is fluent in Spanish and French.

James Morris is a partner in the Construction & Engineering and International Arbitration practices of the London office. His practice includes a wide range of dispute resolution, advising employers, contractors, consultants and insurers in relation to all forms of construction related disputes and EU public procurement. He regularly advises on complicated technical disputes, including claims concerning defective design and workmanship, programming, delay, disruption and quantum, which arise out of the major forms of construction and engineering contracts. He is an experienced litigator who has represented clients in complex multi-party litigation in the High Court (Technology and Construction Court), mediations, adjudications and arbitrations (both domestic and international). James has advised on disputes regarding a wide variety of projects, including jetties, defence facilities, waste management facilities, mines, railways, utilities, office facilities and hospitals. He has represented clients in a number of different jurisdictions in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. James also has experience of dealing with complex insurance issues and regularly advises insurers on professional indemnity cases.

Matthew Mortimer

Carlos Motta is the head of Capital Markets & Securitization practices in Brazil and the Mayer Brown global co-head of Corporate & Securities.

Milena Muradian

Richard Nelson

Hollie Norman, senior associate, joined Mayer Brown in September 2018, having trained at a niche commercial property firm in the City. She has acted on a variety of transactional commercial real estate matters, including investment acquisitions and disposals, corporate transactions and portfolio management. She has experience in all aspects of landlord and tenant work, including retail and office portfolio management for institutional and private investors, developers, banks and insurers. Hollie acts for British Land in relation to the management of its prime Central London mixed use campus and a large property REIT in relation to the management of both its retail and office portfolios, including dealing with lettings, licences, assignments and underlettings.

Tim Nosworthy is a partner in Mayer Brown’s private investment funds group in London. He advises managers, investors and other industry participants on a wide range of funds-related matters, including fund formations; joint ventures; co-investments; fund investments; secondary transactions; and acquisitions of fund management businesses. He has considerable experience across a number of asset classes, including real estate, private equity and infrastructure.

Alejandro López Ortiz

David O\'connor

David O’Connor is a structured finance and securitisation partner in Mayer Brown’s London office. He has represented lenders, arrangers, servicers, borrowers and investors in numerous financing transactions and restructurings involving commercial real estate debt in Europe. He works closely with hedge funds, private equity funds and investment banks on CMBS, RMBS and covered bond transactions. He also advises on whole business securitisations, trade receivables securitisations, warehouse lines and loan portfolio sale transactions (both distressed and performing).

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Ger O’Donnell

Charles Pacey helps clients to complete complex high value real estate development and construction and engineering projects. Clients turn to Charles for his experience in drafting and negotiating construction and engineering contracts. His experience includes drafting and advising on all aspects of national and international construction contracts in connection with large scale domestic and international construction and engineering projects, using both bespoke and standard forms such as FIDIC, JCT and NEC.

Richard Page is a partner in the Corporate group with a broad range of corporate finance and transactional experience, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and secondary fundraisings, private equity and joint ventures work. He acts for clients across a variety of industry sectors, most notably TMT (in which he has gained a strong reputation over a number of years), corporate real estate (working closely with colleagues in the real estate group on a variety of high value and complex transactions) and life sciences.

Bob’s practice is focused on M&A, projects, commercial contracts and disputes in the oil & gas space. He acts for clients across the globe, including international oil, gas and energy companies, national oil and energy companies, mid-caps and start-ups. He also advises service companies, lenders and governments.

Olivier Parawan

Edmund "Ed" Parker covers all aspects of derivatives at the highest levels. He has been nominated as Global Derivatives Lawyer of the Year, a reflection of his technical excellence in this field. He is a trusted thought leader for both clients and the profession, writing extensively on derivatives matters. Under his stewardship, the team was declared Global Law Firm of the Year – Overall at the GlobalCapital Derivatives Awards. The practice was previously declared European Law Firm of the Year – Transaction; and Americas Law Firm of the Year – Overall. The practice was also commended in the “Complexity and Scale” category of the FT Innovative Lawyers Report: Europe.

Gina Parlovecchio

Anthony Pastore

Tarun Patel

Peter Pears

Juliana Barbosa Pechincha

Juliana Pechincha is a counsel of the Dispute Resolution practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown.

Mauro Pedroso Gonçalves

Mauro Pedroso Goncalves is a partner of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice group in Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown.

Fabio Peixinho Gomes Correa

Fábio Peixinho Gomes Correa is a partner in Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the Dispute Resolution practice.

Ingrid Pistili

Bridget Polkinghorne

Leveraged finance senior associate Bridget Polkinghorne has experience acting for financial institutions, direct lenders, private equity sponsors and corporates on a wide range of financing transactions, including acting on cross-border leveraged financings, corporate lending, convertible instruments and restructurings. She is a trusted adviser to all her clients and rapidly becomes their first point of call on all transactions and on-going general queries. Bridget has worked in New Zealand and London, and spent extended periods on secondment at commercial banks both in the corporate lending team and mid markets financial sponsors team.

Bronwyn Pollock

Pablo Puente is an associate in the Banking & Finance practice of Mayer Brown’s Chicago office. His practice focuses primarily in the areas of securitization and structured finance. Pablo has represented issuers, sponsors and underwriters in public and private offerings of securities in domestic and cross-border transactions. He has advised clients on asset-backed securitization transactions involving various asset classes, including auto loans, equipment loans and leases and credit card receivables. Pablo has also advised borrowers in warehouse loan and asset-backed conduit facilities.Pablo was born in Bolivia and is fluent in Spanish. He also worked as an associate at a leading law firm in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Jessica Queiroz

Jessica Queiroz is a counsel in the Real Estate practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the São Paulo office.

Paulo Rage is a Partner of T&C Mayer Brown based in the Rio de Janeiro office and member of the Corporate and M&A; International Tax; and, Africa and Latin America practice groups.

Daniella Raigorodsky Monteiro

Daniella Raigorodsky Monteiro is a partner of the corporate and M&A practice in the Rio de Janeiro office of Tauil & Chequer Advogados.

Michael Regan is recognised as one of the world's leading construction and engineering lawyers and is head of the Construction & Engineering Group in London. Michael has advised clients in relation to claims arising out of the construction of power stations, nuclear facilities, bridges, dams, process plant, refineries, buildings, roads, mining projects and infrastructure projects in many different countries and in every continent, and has conducted international arbitrations subject to the rules of all the major arbitral institutions including the LCIA, the ICC and ICSID. He has many years experience of conducting complicated technical disputes arising out of construction and engineering projects, including claims involving defects in design and workmanship, programming, delays and quantum. Michael also advises clients on risk allocation, and procurement strategies, and has extensive experience of all the major forms of construction and engineering contracts, particularly FIDIC.

Remmelt Reigersman

Sam Riesenberg

Iain is a partner in the Real Estate practice of the London office. His experience covers a wide variety of commercial property work, including property development and finance, corporate transactions, property management for investment funds and general transactional work and gains praise from notable clients. He has recently assisted in a number of large investment transactions.

Victor Rodrigues

Victor Rodrigues is an associate in the Environmental practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the Rio de Janeiro office.

Andrew Rosenman

Kayal Sachi is a partner in the Singapore office of Mayer Brown's Banking & Finance practice. She has a wealth of international experience gained across three continents having worked in Australia, United Kingdom and Singapore. With more than three decades of experience, Kayal's practice spans across a wide range of products including leveraged and acquisition finance, project finance, telecoms finance and asset finance, with a recent focus on debt funds, private equity financing and leveraged finance, and corporate and event-driven financings (including restructurings) in India and Southeast Asia.

Nicole Saharsky

Gabriela Sakamoto

Gabriela Sakamoto is a partner in Mayer Brown’s Washington DC office and a member of the Banking & Finance practice and Latin America and Global Projects groups. Gabriela’s practice focuses on advising commercial banks, multilateral agencies and other financial institutions, as arrangers, lenders and agents, on cross-border project finance, structured finance, capital markets and acquisition financing transactions, particularly in Latin America. Her Latin American experience is extensive and includes transactions in more than ten countries in the region and across a wide range of sectors, including energy, oil and gas, and infrastructure. In addition, Gabriela has significant experience with financial institution financing, having represented arrangers, investors and originators on numerous future flow financing transactions (e.g. diversified payment rights, credit card merchant vouchers). Gaby was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and is fluent in Spanish.

Gabriel Salinas

Bruno is a partner in the Corporate and M&A practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown.

Aline is a senior associate in the Restructuring and Insolvency practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown, based in the São Paulo office.

Kaleb Sanchez is counsel in the Banking & Finance practice of Mayer Brown's New York office. His practice focuses on structured finance and commercial lending transactions. Kaleb has extensive experience representing financial institutions, including commercial and investment banks, monoline insurers, and leasing and finance companies, in a broad range of complex finance transactions, including US and non-US lending, securitizations, lease finance and other commercial finance transactions, and in workouts and restructurings. Kaleb also has experience in the area of project finance, having worked on various transactions involving mining and energy projects.

Michel Sancovski

Michel Sancovski is co-head of the Global Investigations & White Collar Defense practice.

Luiz Santiago is an associate in the Anti-Corruption & Compliance practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the Rio de Janeiro office.

Priscilla Santos

Priscilla Santos is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the São Paulo office.

Kwadwo Sarkodie

Kwadwo Sarkodie is a partner in the Construction & Engineering group of the London office. He has substantial experience across a broad range of dispute resolution. He regularly advises employers, insurers, contractors, subcontractors and consultants in relation to disputes concerning such matters as defective works, final accounts, extension of time and loss and expense under a variety of forms of construction contract (both standard form and bespoke). He has extensive experience with regard to litigation, mediation and adjudication. Kwadwo has wide-ranging international experience, having advised in relation to projects and disputes in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, India, Russia and the Middle East. He regularly advises in relation to international arbitrations, including under the ICC, UNCITRAL and LCIA rules. Kwadwo has written extensively regarding dispute resolution and arbitration in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Colin concentrates on the Insurance sector and has advised on many of the market leading Insurance transactions of the past two decades. He has a strong focus on cross border public transactions including takeovers, listings and secondary securities offerings. He also advises on insurance -linked security (ILS) transactions and on a variety of third party capital structures at the convergence point of the financial services industry. Colin joined Mayer Brown in September 2011 from the London office of a leading New York law firm, prior to which he qualified at a top city firm.

Hadrien Schlumberger

Susannah Schmid

Juliana Senna

Devi Shah is co-head of Mayer Brown's Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Insolvency group in London. She focuses on all aspects of restructuring and insolvency and has a particular interest in international and cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters, as well as pensions aspects of restructurings. Devi has extensive experience in insurance insolvency and restructuring matters, including advising on provisional liquidation, schemes of arrangement (including international recognition and enforcement issues), proof issues and set-off. She also handles financial disputes and fraud related claims.

Gary Silverman practices as Of Counsel in the Banking & Finance practice in the London office. He is a senior debt capital markets lawyer with a particular focus on advising corporate trust houses in their various roles, including note trustee, security trustee, paying agent, collateral agent, escrow agent, cash manager and custodian on a broad range of issues and products, including stand-alone bond offerings, medium term note programmes, repackagings, securitisations, collateralised debt obligations and other forms of asset-backed and structured finance transactions. Gary also has significant experience in advising on post-issue matters, such as restructurings, defaults and, generally, on the exercise of trustee powers, duties and discretions. In addition, Gary has advised issuers and dealers on a range of general securities work, including medium term note programmes and covered bond programmes and issues thereunder.

Elizabeth Hermann Smith

Rachel Speight represents banks and sponsors in international structured and project financings. She particularly focuses on the mining finance sector and has experience in infrastructure finance in areas including the road, rail and healthcare sectors, including work on PPP projects.

Richard Spitzer

William Stallings

Mark Stefanini is a partner in Mayer Brown's global Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice and a member of the International Arbitration group. He is also a member of the Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice and the Global Energy group. He acts for financial institutions and other large corporations in a wide range of disputes frequently involving a multi-jurisdictional element. He has acted in substantial trials in the Commercial Court and Chancery Division as well as before the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. He is also experienced in acting for clients before a wide range of arbitral institutions (including the ICC, SCC, LMAA and LCIA). Mark handles major disputes for clients in a variety of sectors including the energy, financial services, chemicals, technology, publishing, construction, shipping and automotive sectors. He regularly acts in disputes involving complex issues of contractual interpretation, misrepresentation and the existence or scope of tortious duties. He has particular experience in financing disputes, warranty claims and other post-acquisition disputes, supply chain disputes, shareholder and JV disputes, competition related claims and breach of confidence claims. He regularly advises oil and gas companies on issues arising out of JOAs, farm-out arrangements and other commercial disputes. Mark is commercially focused and is experienced in using mediation and a range of other alternative dispute resolution techniques to provide results for clients at the earliest opportunity. He regularly advises on dispute resolution agreements to be included in cross-border transactions, including transactions involving sovereign entities.

Elizabeth Espín Stern

Richard Stock is a partner in Mayer Brown's Hong Kong office. He is Head of Finance for Asia and a co-leader of Mayer Brown's Banking & Finance practice. He focuses his practice on the aviation industry, with over thirty years’ experience assisting airlines, lessors and financial institutions to document aircraft and aviation-related transactions. Richard has extensive experience advising on aircraft finance and leasing matters for both commercial and business aircraft, as well as documenting the acquisition and disposal of aircraft. He has negotiated OEM documentation for the purchase of new aircraft with a total value exceeding USD 30 billion. Richard also advises airlines, lessors and investors on the acquisition and disposal of portfolios of used aircraft and aircraft engines. Richard has a particular interest in airline operational matters, having advised airlines on long-term engine maintenance agreements and inventory technical management agreements with scheduled revenues exceeding USD 9 billion. Additionally, investors enlist Richard’s insight on strategically important projects, including the establishment of new airlines, the re-purposing of existing airlines and the establishment of aircraft and/or engine leasing platforms. Chambers Asia Pacific (2025) noted that "Richard's extensive experience in the industry is a real source of comfort in worst-case scenarios. He knows very well when he can rely on his team and when he should step in." Richard is consistently ranked in Band 1 by Chambers and is in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame.

Jonathan Stone is a partner in the Construction & Engineering practice of the London office. He advises clients (including architects, engineers, consultants, contractors and suppliers) on all aspects of construction and engineering law. A significant part of his work involves advising insurers and professionals in the defence of professional indemnity claims. Jonathan also advises insurers on policy coverage issues arising out of various types of construction policy, including professional indemnity, public liability and CAR policies. Jonathan has a broad experience of contentious litigation matters, and acts on high value and multi-party disputes arising out of civil works, sport stadia, public transport systems, waste treatment facilities, hospital PFI projects, office buildings, public car parks, road networks and wind farms. Disputes include those relating to defective works, negligent design, delays, loss and expense, contract terminations and payment issues.

Vincent Sum is a partner of Mayer Brown. He focuses on complex capital markets matters, including structured products, securitisations, derivatives (including equity derivatives, credit derivatives, corporate derivatives, fund derivatives and commodity derivatives), retail and non-retail funds (including SFC approved funds, UCITS and ETFs), secured lending and financing and debt capital markets matters. He advises underwriters, arrangers, portfolio managers, issuers, trustees and institutional investors, and is qualified to practice in Hong Kong, New York, and England and Wales. Vincent has been ranked as a leading individual in Capital Markets: Derivatives & Structured Products and Securitisation in both Chambers Asia Pacific (2013-2018) and Chambers Global (2013-2017). He was accredited as a recommended lawyer in Structured Finance and Securitisation (Hong Kong) in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2013-2018) and a highly regarded/leading Lawyer in both Capital Markets: Derivatives and Capital Markets: Structured Finance and Securitisation (Hong Kong) in IFLR1000 (2013-2019).

Angeli Sunmonu focuses on cross-border structured trade and receivables finance and emerging markets syndicated financings, particularly in the commodities sector. Angeli’s experience includes an 18-month secondment to the Commodities and Structured Trade Finance team at HSBC Bank plc, where she advised on syndicated and bilateral trade finance facilities with corporate and commodities clients, including major global trading houses.

Kitty Swanson advises on the tax aspects of a wide range of domestic and cross-border matters and transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, fund and investment structuring, domestic and international reorganisations, real estate transactions, employment-related matters, banking and structured finance, insurance matters, and supply chain structuring. Clients seek out her experience across an extensive array of industry sectors, including financial services, technology, entertainment, energy, real estate, and retail. Kitty is an International Tax Affiliate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.

Ivan Tauil is the founding partner and Head of the tax law practice of Tauil & Chequer in association with Mayer Brown and serves on Mayer Brown's Partnership Board.

Yu-Jin Tay is a partner in Mayer Brown's Singapore office and is a member of Mayer Brown's global International Arbitration practice. He specialises in international arbitration arising from a broad range of commercial disputes across a range of sectors including energy, natural resources, manufacturing, technology, construction and infrastructure, as well as hospitality and real estate. Yu-Jin has experience of most of the world’s leading arbitral seats (including Paris, London, Geneva, Zurich, New York, Washington DC, Hong Kong, Seoul and Dubai) as well as under the rules of key arbitral institutions (including the ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, CIETAC, LCIA, DIAC, AAA-ICDR, KCAB, KLRCA, BANI, VIAC, ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules). Since 2001, Yu-Jin has advised or represented investors or states in investment treaty arbitrations and, since 2013, he has been a member of ICSID's panels of arbitrators and conciliators, designated by the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. In addition to counsel work, Yu-Jin has served as presiding, sole, or co-arbitrator in ICC, SIAC, LCIA, HKIAC, VIAC and ad hoc arbitrations.In 2011, Yu-Jin was one among few Asian lawyers featured in Global Arbitration Review’s global 45 under 45 ranking. He has also been listed annually as a leading individual in global legal directories including GAR’s International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration (since 2010), Chambers Asia-Pacific and Legal 500 Asia-Pacific (since 2008; Asia-wide, Singapore, Korea and Indonesia chapters), the Euromoney Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration (since 2006) and Benchmark Litigation (Local Disputes Star, 2013). Directories report Yu-Jin as having been described by peers as “a specialist among specialists” (Chambers, South Korea, 2016), “great at resolving complex problems and explaining them simply” (Chambers, Singapore, 2017). He has been described by clients as their “first choice for arbitration matters” and “extremely sophisticated” (Chambers, South Korea, 2017), “logical and solution-oriented… tough in making points” (Chambers, Singapore, 2016), and a “very good, articulate advocate who is one of the faces of the next generation of Singaporean arbitration practitioners” (Chambers, Singapore, 2014), “noteworthy for his seasoned and creative strategic advice” (Chambers, Asia Pacific, 2015).Before Mayer Brown, Yu-Jin practiced for over 16 years in international firms and has also worked in London, Paris and Washington DC. Prior to private practice, he served as counsel and military prosecutor in the Ministry of Defense in Singapore and trained as a barrister at Fountain Court Chambers in London. He speaks English and Mandarin.

James Taylor is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice of the London office. James’ practice focuses on public and private offerings of debt and equity-linked securities, advising issuers and underwriters on the standalone issue and offering of retail and wholesale medium term notes, commercial paper, certificates of deposit, warrants, convertible and exchangeable bonds and covered bonds, as well as the establishment and update of platforms for the issuance of multiple types of securities, the structuring of liability management transactions and the provision of ongoing advice on securities laws, corporate governance and stock exchange requirements related to them. James has, in recent years, advised state-owned and privately owned companies and underwriting banks on some of the most cutting edge equity-linked instruments to come to market, including mandatory convertible bonds issued as part of recapitalisation programmes and contingent capital instruments and other forms of regulatory capital issued in compliance with the Basel III guidelines. James experience has covered a diverse range of jurisdictions, including most parts of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Russia and the former CIS, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.

Charles Thain acts for banking and finance clients and his work is particularly focused on asset based lending (ABL), receivables finance, supply chain/payables finance, and trade finance. Charles represents financial institutions, sponsors, corporates and fintechs in both domestic and cross-border transactions.

Lauren Theodoulou

Lauren Theodoulou advises financial services clients on litigation and contentious regulatory and insolvency matters. Her clients include major global banks, funds, corporates, individuals and insolvency practitioners. She has experience of advising on claims brought in the English Courts and also in other jurisdictions, and most of the matters she acts on have a significant cross-border element. Lauren has particular expertise in advising on claims involving complex financial products, including derivatives and securitisation structures. She also regularly represents clients in cases involving allegations of misrepresentation, fraud and breach of duty.

Benjamin Thompson

Benjamin Thompson is a Partner in Mayer Brown's Singapore office and is a member of Mayer Brown's Global Projects Group. He has more than ten years' experience in project financings throughout Asia and has advised both sponsors and lenders on a number of the highest profile power projects in the Indochina region, including the Nam Ngiep 1 and Nam Ngum 3 hydropower projects in Laos PDR and the Nong Saeng and Gulf U-Thai IPP projects in Thailand. Ben also has substantial experience in Indonesia, and is at the forefront of developments in the emerging Myanmar power sector, where he has advised lenders and sponsors on a number of power projects, including the Myingyan IPP, Myanmar's first internationally tendered power project.

Victoria Thompson

A partner at Morgan Lewis, Victoria Thompson assists clients in a variety of finance transactions, focusing on asset-based lending, borrowing base financings, refinancings, special situations, and distressed debt funding. She has experience with general banking and finance transactions across several industries and sectors, including retail, manufacturing, aviation and mining. Victoria acts for all classes of investors including banks, nonbank financial institutions, alternative finance providers, hedge funds, asset managers, quasi-private equity funds, and investment companies. For more information, view Victoria’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/victoriathompson.

Olivier Tordjman

Guilherme Tranquillini

Guilherme Tranquillini is a partner in the Corporate & Securities practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the São Paulo office.

Victor Trevizan

Victor is an associate in the Environmental practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in the São Paulo office.

Patricia Tubert

Jose L. Valera is a partner in the Houston office of Mayer Brown and co-head of the firm’s oil and gas practice. He focuses his practice on domestic and international energy transactions and project development, with more than 25 years of legal experience representing oil, gas and electric energy companies throughout the United States, Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. He represents oil and gas companies on exploration and production contracts, investment agreements, upstream development projects, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures. His practice also includes the representation of electric companies in the development of thermal and renewable generation projects, financing, mergers and acquisitions. Jose’s LNG practice includes liquefaction services, regasification services, development of regasification terminals, and purchase and sale of LNG. Jose has counseled the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Honduras, Peru and Iraq on energy legislative reform matters, development of shared hydrocarbon resources, and privatization transactions related to the electric and oil and gas industries.

Jackie Vallette

Nicholas Vallorano

Stephanie Vasconcellos

International clients turn to Daniel Vowden for advice on the full spectrum of EU and UK competition law matters and in relation to foreign direct investment controls, including approvals under the UK National Security and Investment Act. He has acted on complex and challenging UK merger control cases and many high-profile, cross-border deals requiring regulatory approval in Brussels and worldwide. Daniel's transactional proficiency is balanced with in-depth experience of behavioural and advisory matters, including EU and UK cartel investigations, in particular, the pharmaceuticals, financial services, mining, TMT and retail sectors. Daniel speaks regularly at antitrust conferences in Brussels and London and has been published in a range of journals, receiving nominations in the 2022 and 2023 Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards.

Stephanie Wagner

Howard Waltzman

Christophe Wassaf

Duncan Watson advises pension funds, institutional investors, family offices and asset managers on investment management work, including all structures of investment funds, liability-driven investment mandates, custody, and stock lending. He works with Mayer Brown’s Derivatives, Tax, Financial Services Regulatory and Corporate teams in London and globally to deliver a full investment service to his clients. He also advises on transfer and sale of investments, and on TCFD and other ESG-related matters, including the preparation and submission of the TCFD Report for the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme (ESPS).

Bruno Werneck is a partner in Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the Corporate and M&A, Public Law & Infrastructure practices.

James West is co-leader of the Private Equity practice and has over 20 years of experience in private equity. He joined Mayer Brown over eight years ago to build the mid-market private equity offering and has taken it from strength to strength during that time. James advises clients on matters including venture and development capital, mid-market buyouts, and corporate M&A as well as working with both investors and management teams on buy-and-build strategies. James's clients include private equity firms, hedge funds, management teams, joint ventures and both institutional and minority investors. He also regularly acts on both the buy- and sell-side of transactions. In recent years, James has advised on the acquisition of a number of technology-focused businesses, in particular in the travel industry, as well as transactions in the financial services sector, including insurance and IFAs.

Paul Whitfield-Jones

Daniel Whitmore

Dan Whitmore has an extensive finance practice as counsel at Mayer Brown. Since joining the firm in 1996, he has focused on Latin American and Caribbean finance and capital markets. His primary focus is on the representation of US and foreign banks, institutional investors and corporate borrowers in secured and unsecured syndicated facilities, acquisition finance transactions, project finance transactions, debt restructurings and cross-border securities offerings. He has extensive experience across a broad range of industries, including transportation infrastructure, construction, telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, petroleum services and power.

Daniel Williams

Daniel Williams has considerable experience in acting for private equity investors and management teams in connection with M&A transactions, corporate restructurings and reorganisations and other general portfolio company matters. Prior to joining Mayer Brown in 2022, Danny was an associate in the London office of a large US firm and has also spent time on secondment at an international mid- and downstream oil company in Geneva.

Joel Williamson

Débora Yanasse

Débora H. Yanasse is a partner in the Global Energy, Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions Practices of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown with a focus in the power, gas and, more recently, hydrogen industries.

Oliver Yaros is a partner in the Intellectual Property & IT Group as well as the Technology & IP Transactions and Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practices of the London office of Mayer Brown. He advises clients on technology and outsourcing transactions with a particular focus on artificial intelligence, fintech and digital transformation projects, as well as clients operating within a broad range of sectors on data protection matters and cybersecurity incidents, intellectual property transactions and related issues. Oliver is also co-leader of the firm’s Global Cyber Incident Response team. Oliver has a broad-based practice that includes experience advising on different types of technology and outsourcing transactions; on AI, data protection and cybersecurity matters; and on intellectual property matters and issues. Oliver joined Mayer Brown in 2004. He is the Chairman of the Digital Economy Committee of the UK International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional in Europe (CIPP/E) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Andrea Zambrano

Andrea Zambrano is an associate in Mayer Brown's Chicago office and a member of the Banking and Finance practice. Fluent in Spanish and French, Andrea grew up in Colombia and studied abroad at the Rouen Business School in France. Andrea received her BS in Finance and Marketing from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in 2012.

Carmine Zarlenga

Jennifer Zepralka