Adrian Cartwright > Clifford Chance LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Clifford Chance LLP is home to a multidisciplinary equity capital markets practice group with a deep bench of experts, covering IPOs, secondary offerings, rights issues and GDR issues. Vastly experienced acting for both banks and issuers, the team leverages a firm-wide international network to provide clients with corporate finance options available across various European and Middle East jurisdictions. A ‘senior statesman within the ECM sector’, Adrian Cartwright  co-leads the team and specialises on the issuance of shares and global depositary receipts in the international market. Fellow co-head Simon Thomas has extensive experience in IPOs, rights issues, global depositary receipts and equity placings, including those in emerging markets. Christopher Roe is a key name to note for the full-range of UK equity capital markets transactions. The highly regarded equity capital markets lawyer John Connolly retired in 2023.