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Yusuke Abe specialises in project finance, ECA finance, acquisition finance and other banking transactions, asset finance, real estate finance, derivatives and regulatory matters. Yusuke has worked in London and Hong Kong and is a member of Clifford Chance’s Worldwide Projects Group.

Robin Abraham is the Managing Partner of Clifford Chance's Middle East Region and specialises in banking and project finance. Robin's areas of practice include project finance, restructuring, Islamic finance and secured and unsecured lending. He has acted on a number of high profile banking and project finance deals in the Middle East.

Julian Acratopulo

Julian specialises in international commercial litigation and advises international corporates and global banks on a wide range of contentious matters including general commercial and financial disputes. Described by clients as an "exceptional strategist and tactician", he is a pre-eminent practitioner in the London market who is well-known for his involvement in some of the most high-profile and high-stakes complex disputes, including "bet the company" cases heard before London courts in the past decades. He has also built a market leading practice advising on cross-border disputes in the aviation sector. Due to the diverse nature of his practice and his standing as a trusted advisor to boards, he was recently appointed to co-lead the firm's Industrials, Transport and Mobility sector. He acted as President of the London Solicitors Litigation Association from 2018 until 2020.

Charles Adams is a dual qualified avvocato (Italy) and solicitor (England & Wales) who is widely recognised as one of Italy's leading banking and finance lawyers. Charles has advised banks and borrowers on some of the most significant syndicated loans, leveraged and project finance transactions in the Italian market over the past 20 years. He also advises clients on major Italian restructurings and insolvencies and is active in the Energy sector, having advised on some of Italy's landmark infrastructure and project financings and more recently on renewables transactions.

Howard Adler is Chairman of the Firm's Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Group in the Americas. Howard's practice focuses on the treatment of executive compensation and employee benefits matters in M&A transactions, designing and implementing equity-based, employment, separation, deferred compensation, change in control and similar compensation arrangements and advising boards of directors on fiduciary duties and governance matters with respect to their executive officers and directors.

Wim Aerts is a senior counsel in the banking, finance and capital markets practice. Wim is experienced in all types of bank lending and debt financing transactions. His practice has particular focus on debt capital markets (including structured finance and equity-linked transactions), where Wim has acted for both issuers and managers on a broad range of public and private transactions.

Yasser Al-Hussain

Yasser Alhussain is a Partner and Head of the Banking and Finance practice in Riyadh. Yasser has extensive experience advising on a wide range of project finance, bilateral and syndicated lending transactions as well on financial litigations. He is also an experienced litigator and has represented a large number of banks and financial institutions in their claims before Saudi Arabian courts which includes advising on what constitutes a market-first implementation of a large-scale court ordered settlement/enforcement process, under the recently adopted ‎Enforcement Law.

Ibrahim Al-Mansour

Majid Al-Sheikh

Majid Al-Sheikh is a Partner and Head of the Corporate practice in Riyadh. Majid has extensive experience in advising multinational and regional clients on a broad range of corporate and equity capital markets transactions including a number of “first of a kind” deals for the Saudi market.

Mohammed Al-Shukairy

Mo Al-Shukairy has extensive experience advising corporate, investment banking, private equity and other clients on takeovers and mergers, capital raising and stock exchange issues in London and the Middle East.

Thijs Alexander

Thijs Alexander specialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and equity capital market transactions.

Mansoor Alhagbani

Mansoor Alhagbani is a Partner and Head of the Capital Markets and Regulatory practice in Riyadh. Mansoor specialises in capital markets and regulatory and legislative drafting. Mansoor had worked for more than three years with the Saudi Capital Market Authority (CMA) where he was heavily involved in formulating and drafting various CMA rules and regulations, as well as representing the CMA before other government bodies to debate and discuss draft laws and regulations. More recently, Mansoor has been advising a number of CMA regulated entities on their compliance with CMA’s rules and regulations. Mansoor has also been advising a number of ministries and semi-government bodies (including Tadawul) to develop, formulate and draft various regulatory materials.

Jaime Almenar is the Head of the Public Law practice in Spain. He has experience in all areas related to the public and regulated sectors in Spain, specialising in energy regulation, telecommunications, financial regulation, public procurement and environmental law.

Kikun Alo

Luis Alonso is the Head of the Corporate / M&A Practice of Clifford Chance Spain. Luis specialises in all aspects of public and private M&A and acts for corporates and financial investors across a wide range of industry sectors including infrastructure, energy, financial institutions, telecoms, retail, sport, media & entertainment. His practice has particular emphasis on M&A transactions, takeovers, joint ventures and corporate finance.

Javier Amantegui

Javier Amantegui's experience includes general corporate/commercial law and corporate finance law practices. Javier specialises in domestic and international M&A and private equity practice with particular dedication to management, leveraged buy-outs and infrastructure transactions.

Lynn is a Partner in the Corporate M&A practice, based in the UAE. She has a broad corporate practice, specializing in high-profile M&A and private equity transactions across a diverse range of sectors including technology, healthcare, consumer products, as well as energy and renewables. She regularly advises leading corporate and public sector clients, including major sovereign wealth funds, on complex projects involving both strategic and financial investors. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Lynn was a partner at another top tier international law firm, where she spent 12 years in the firm’s Abu Dhabi and Paris offices. Lynn is a New York qualified lawyer and is fluent in English, Arabic and French.

Anja Pfleger Andrade

Anja Pfleger Andrade is a counsel in the São Paulo office. She is a finance lawyer with particular experience in capital markets, liability management, banking and structured finance transactions in Latin America. The clients she advises include the principal Brazilian financial institutions as well as corporates in the energy and sanitation sector. She has led the team on some of the recent high-profile privatizations in Brazil.

Jamie Andrew is experienced in negotiating strategic commercial contracts, including in the context of transactions and technology procurement, and regularly advises on contemporary and emerging technology issues, data regulation and exploitation and cyber incident preparedness and response. Jamie advises clients across a range of sectors including technology, sport, private equity and financial services.

Kate Apostolova

Kate Apostolova specialises in international arbitration and litigation. With a career spanning over a decade, she has represented a diverse array of clients, including States and private entities, in high-stakes disputes across the energy, finance, and technology sectors. Kate's expertise encompasses investment treaty arbitration, commercial arbitration, and public international law matters, with a track record of successful outcomes in complex cases. Clients from a wide range of industries, including oil & gas, mining, nuclear power, construction, finance, private equity, pharmaceuticals, and technology, seek Kate's legal advice. She has also been appointed as arbitrator in a number of institutional and ad hoc arbitrations and is an accredited mediator. As a strong pro bono advocate, Kate supplements her legal work with an active international pro bono practice, having represented clients in high profile matters before the European Court of Human Rights. Her global experience is complemented by her role as an adjunct faculty member at prestigious law schools, where she teaches international investment arbitration.

Chihiro Ashizawa

Chihiro Ashizawa specialises in capital markets, investment management and financial regulatory advice.

Lee Askenazi has extensive experience in structured capital markets, including all aspects of commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, collateralized loan obligations, collateralized debt obligations, re-REMICs, repurchase facilities and other structured products.

Lee Askenazi has extensive experience in structured capital markets, including all aspects of commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, collateralized loan obligations, collateralized debt obligations, re-REMICs, repurchase facilities and other structured products.

Jonathan Astbury

Jonathan Astbury is a Counsel in our Global Financial Markets practice, with established experience in Debt and Equity Capital Markets and Corporate Finance. He joined Clifford Chance in 2014 as an associate from an international law firm in which he trained and worked in London and Abu Dhabi. He is dual-qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and as an Avvocato in Italy. Jonathan regularly assists Italian and international investment banks and issuers in connection with complex structured finance transactions and bond issuances. In the debt capital markets area, he has gained solid experience in relation to EMTN (Euro Medium Term Notes), ECP (Euro Commercial Paper) programs, standalone issues, hybrid, equity-linked and exchangeable/convertible bonds, as well as bank and insurance capital strengthening issuance and liability management transactions, including tender and exchange offers and consent solicitation. He is also active in the field of sustainable finance, with a particular focus on ESG aspects, and regularly advises on bond issues related to M&A and private debt transactions.

Lara Attarzadeh

Peter Avery specialises in finance and banking law. His areas of practice include project finance, leverage finance, restructuring, Islamic finance, asset finance and corporate lending. In addition to Dubai, Peter has worked in the firm's London, New York and Tokyo offices and has experience of high profile transactions across the globe.

Samir is a partner in the Corporate / M&A department and a lead member of the Private Equity practice group. He specializes in cross-border M&A, private equity and infrastructure transactions. He has been consistently involved as lead partner in many of the leading, high-end transactions which have taken place in the Spanish market in the last years.

Gianluca Bacchiocchi

Gianluca Bacchiocchi is a partner in the Global Financial Markets team with a focus in the energy and infrastructure sector. Gianluca has experience representing sponsors, issuers and underwriters in cross-border capital markets transactions as well as infrastructure clients and their sponsors in a range of domestic and international securitization matters, including Rule 144A/Reg S of government receivables and revolving credit facilities, private placements, and hybrid transactions.

Scott Bache specialises in advising financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity funds, financial advisers and turnaround professionals on the full range of restructuring matters, including corporate restructuring, distressed mergers and acquisitions and special situations investing. He also advises clients on a broad range of insolvency issues, security enforcement and general banking litigation. He has over 20 years experience working in Greater China. Scott is widely recognised as a leading lawyer for Restructuring and Insolvency by independent legal directories, including The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Chambers Asia-Pacific, IFLR1000 and Best Lawyers guide book.

Daniel Badea is a founding partner of Clifford Chance Badea and has more than 26years of market leading experience, having been involved in ground breaking banking, capital markets or project finance transactions and in some of the most complex white collar/strategic risk management cases in Romania, advising global or local financial institutions, financial investors or global corporate enterprises. Daniel is a founding member of the Romanian Education Trust, a non-profit organisation designed to support the further education of Romanian graduates in the top MBA schools in the world; he is also member of the Board of Save the Children Romania and, respectively, of the Board of Aspen Institute Romania.

Nadia is one of the founding partners of Clifford Chance Badea and heads the M&A and Renewable Energy practice areas of the Clifford Chance’s office in Bucharest. Nadia has been practicing business law for 30 years in the international environment, including the City of London. Nadia has extensive track-record in coordinating and implementing some of the largest and most complex transactions in key sectors, including real estate, healthcare, private equity, renewable energy.

Julia Baedorff advises national and international companies as well as individuals on all issues of white collar crime and compliance. In particular, Julia specialises in defending companies in criminal investigation proceedings of prosecution authorities, conducting internal investigations and advising on the prevention of criminal risks. The main areas of her expertise are criminal capital-markets law and criminal tax law.

He specializes in antitrust and competition issues and has more than 15 years of experience advising Chinese and multinational corporations on business investment, regulatory matters and investigations across a range of industries. Yong has worked in the London and Brussels offices, and prior to joining the firm, he worked for the PRC's Ministry of Commerce.

Matthew is a counsel in the Clifford Chance Tokyo office, specialising in international debt and equity capital markets transactions, including, MTNs, convertible bonds, equity offerings and structured finance. Matthew also focuses on ESG products, risks and regulation and advises international companies on transactions in Japan. He has worked in London, Dubai and Tokyo advising issuers and managers in accessing and participating in international capital markets.

Paolo Ballerini

Fang BAO focuses her practice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (including foreign direct investment and outbound direct investment), private equity investments, as well as general corporate advisory. She has extensive experience advising clients in a wide range of industry sectors including energy and resources, financial services, TMT and consumer goods & retail.

Jeremy Barker works in our Global Financial Markets practice in Dubai and is a member of our Worldwide Projects Group. He acts for a wide range of clients in the energy (particularly renewables) and infrastructure sectors, including regional project finance sponsors, export credit agencies (ECAs) and banks, advising on project finance, ECA finance and general finance.

Neil Barlow is a partner in Clifford Chance's Corporate/M&A practice, based in New York. He has a particular focus on private equity transactions. Neil specializes in advising on cross-border M&A and has a wealth of experience advising on M&A in North America, Europe and Latin America and is adept at executing domestic or cross-border transactions involving those geographies. Neil has spent time on secondment with CVC Capital Partners and with 3i, and has worked in the New York, London and Dubai offices of Clifford Chance.

Begoña Barrantes

Miguel Barredo

Marc Bartholomy

Marc Bartholomy is the Head of the Corporate and Real Estate practices in Moscow. Marc Bartholomy has significant experience in all types of investment projects in Russia and the CIS, joint venture structures, acquisitions and disposals across a broad range of industries. He specialises in real estate projects, including acquisitions and disposals, construction, development, financing and leasing. He has been recognized as the most influential lawyer in the Russian real estate market by Top 100 Market Makers ranking for five years running (2012-2016).

Michael Bates specialises in banking and capital markets work, primarily in the infrastructure sector, and restructuring. He has extensive knowledge of leverage finance and corporate lending. His clients include banks, financial sponsors and corporates. Michael has worked on some of the most significant matters in the infrastructure sector including the acquisition and subsequent refinancing of BAA, Kelda Water, Opengrid Europe, Arqiva and UK Power Networks.

Thomas Baudesson

Thomas Baudesson specialises in commercial litigation and more particularly commercial contracts, corporate, product liability, labour law, domestic arbitration, white collar crimes, injunctions and conservatory measures. Thomas regularly advises on matters related to industrials, particularly aerospace & defence and automotive.

Spencer Baylin specialises in cross-border and domestic M&A, with a particular focus on private equity transactions. Spencer advises international and domestic private equity houses, financial sponsors and corporates on a wide range of transactions across the M&A lifecycle, including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and disposals, takeovers, mergers, joint ventures, strategic investments, IPOs, restructurings and refinancings. He also advises on infrastructure, growth and real estate transactions for private equity houses and financial sponsors.

Maria Bazzini

Lori Ann Bean specialises in the development and financing of infrastructure and energy projects worldwide. Lori Ann has an extensive broad-based experience in project and acquisition finance, representing export credit agencies, multilateral development institutions and other governmental and commercial lenders, as well as project sponsors and other project participants. Lori Ann advises clients in various other financing vehicles for infrastructure and energy transactions, including 144A offerings and other bond issuances, guarantee facilities, equity funds and corporate finance. Experience crosses a broad range of industry sectors, including power, oil and gas, transport infrastructure (airports, toll roads and rail), telecom and petrochemical

Marc Benzler specialises in the area of banking and capital markets, with particular emphasis on regulatory issues, recovery and resolution planning and the regulation of derivatives and financial market infrastructures. Marc also advises on M&A transactions in the financial sector, on the establishing of banks and branches (including the provision of cross-border services) and on compliance matters. He has significant experience on the Banking Union and supervision by the ECB, and has also regularly advised clients on sustainable Finance and ESG related matters for many years. With in-depth expertise in financial regulation and financial markets infrastructure, Marc is a key individual in the firm's Fintech initiatives which is strengthened by his day to day advisory and transactional experience. He supports investors of Fintech start-ups and advises on tokenisation, token offerings and innovative ways of distributing investment products.

Marie Berard leads the London International Commercial Arbitration Group. With over 20 years of experience in international arbitration, she represents multinational corporations in complex disputes across a wide range of industries, including energy, oil & gas, construction, and finance. She has acted as counsel in arbitrations under all major institutional rules (including LCIA, ICC) as well as ad hoc proceedings under the UNCITRAL Rules. Marie also sits as an arbitrator. She is a Director of the Board and a Court Member of the LCIA and serves as Vice President of the LCIA European Users' Council. She previously held positions on the ICC UK Arbitration & ADR Committee and the ICC UK Selection Subcommittee. Recognised as a Global Leader by Who’s Who Legal Arbitration, Marie has been featured in the Legal 500 International Arbitration Powerlist UK and the Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Litigators. She is ranked in Chambers UK and Legal 500. Marie frequently speaks at international arbitration conferences and delivers guest lectures at leading universities.

Jeff Berman is a partner in the firm’s US Financial Services Regulatory Group, with a practice that focuses on regulatory matters involving US and non-US investment funds, asset managers, banking organizations and bank holding companies, and includes private equity and hedge fund formation and financial institutions M&A. Jeff has over 25 years’ experience with US bank and securities regulation. He advises clients on the operations of foreign banking organizations in the United States, capital adequacy rules and prudential standards, and regulatory approvals for acquisitions and new activities, as well as on compliance matters involving investment advisers, private offerings, and fund governance. Most recently, Jeff has been advising the firm’s global clients on the strategic impact of regulatory reform under the Dodd-Frank Act and the JOBS Act, including with respect to private equity and hedge fund marketing, investment adviser registration and reporting, Volcker Rule compliance, and enhanced supervision of systemically important banks.

Joshua Berman, a seasoned trial and appellate lawyer, has over twenty years of experience handling white collar and government investigations matters both in the private sector and in government. Josh represents and provides counsel to corporate clients, Boards of Directors and individuals in government, Congressional and internal investigations, civil litigation, information security, and securities enforcement proceedings. Josh has expertise in developing global compliance and training programs for companies, and handling due diligence in connection with anti-corruption and other potential fraud matters.

Jay Bernstein is Chair of the US REIT, Specialty Finance and Permanent Capital Vehicle Practices. He has also served as Chair of the Firm’s US Corporate Finance group for more than ten years. His practice is focused on the creation of innovative permanent capital vehicles. Jay represents clients in both domestic and international markets, sponsors, investors, investment banks, specialty finance companies, REITs and clean energy and other companies in their capital raising and merger and acquisition activities. He is recognized in the US market as a true innovator and the person to turn to when any real asset company is looking to break new ground or implement new strategies or market firsts. He has a long and successful track record of guiding clients through many truly transformative transactions. Over the past 20 years, he has participated in more than $50 billion in capital raising, fund formation, strategic joint ventures, platform formations and mergers and acquisitions for clients around the globe.

Andrés Berral specialises in real estate transactions. He has worked on a number of significant transactions involving the acquisition and disposal of real estate assets, portfolios of REOs and the creation of joint ventures for the development of real estate assets. He is a qualified in both Spain and England and Wales.

Benjamin Berringer

Ben Berringer represents clients in government investigations and complex commercial litigation. He has specific experience in private fund litigation, as well as complex trading and market issues. Ben has represented individuals and corporations in connection with regulatory investigations before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the United States Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and numerous non-US regulators. Ben also has extensive experience representing and advising corporations on litigation and regulatory matters arising under US privacy and data protection laws.

Marc Besen specialises in EC and German competition law, particularly mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cartels, abuse proceedings, compliance programmes, distribution and licensing arrangements across a wide range of industry sectors. This primarily includes the pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech, food and chemicals sectors.

Anna Biała advises on financial services regulations with particular focus on licensing issues, derivatives and financial market infrastructure, e-money and payment services, asset management and funds, and consumer lending. Anna has vast experience advising clients on regulatory proceedings and disputes related to financial services.

David Bickerton

Lindsay Bickerton

Lindsay Bickerton has a broad range of experience in complex commercial and financial services litigation and high net worth disputes, which are often cross-border in nature. Her clients include financial institutions, corporates and high net worth individuals. Lindsay regularly acts for major financial institutions on high value and reputationally significant litigation matters, often involving multiple jurisdictions and regulatory sensitivities. Lindsay also acts for ultra high net worth individuals in connection with cross-border succession and inheritance disputes, involving trust structures and substantial family owned businesses. In the aviation sector, she advises manufacturers, airlines, lessors and financiers on a range of contentious issues and disputes.

Auriane Bijon specialises in capital markets and structured finance.

Miles Binney has extensive international experience in derivatives and financial markets products. He is also a key contributor to the firm's international FinTech capabilities. His expertise across a broad range of asset classes, transaction types and jurisdictions offers a unique and highly valued package. Miles regularly advises on global and local financial regulatory developments and financial market infrastructure. Miles also has extensive experience in FinTech, with a particular interest in blockchain and crypto products. He regularly advises leading DLT technology firms, crypto derivative exchanges and other innovative businesses on global regulatory, trading and product development related matters. He has worked in our London and Singapore offices. He has spent time in-house in leading financial institutions, including client secondments in London to Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Man Group, as well completing an international secondment to Zurich.

Richard Blewett

Richard Blewett is a Partner in Clifford Chance's Antitrust Practice in Brussels. He recently relocated from Asia where he was head of the China Antitrust Practice. Richard has a wide range of experience on international merger and antitrust work and has key clients across a number of sectors including TMT, energy, commodities, retail, financial services, and transport. His experience and knowledge spans across Asia and the EU from his time spent in Beijing, Hong Kong, London and Brussels.

Chad Bochan advises on energy and infrastructure financings in Asia Pacific. He also works on IBOR transition mandates for domestic and international clients, and leads Clifford Chance's Australian financial markets regulatory practice.

Maciej Bocheński

Maciej Bocheński is an advocate advising in connection with finance transactions. Maciej focuses on real estate finance. His experience covers a variety of finance transactions including project finance, corporate finance and cross-border financings. His clients include leading lenders and institutional investors mainly in the real estate sector.

Charles-Henri Boeringer

Charles-Henri Boeringer specialises in white collar crime matters. Over the last few years, he has assisted clients before criminal authorities and courts at all stages of proceedings, from investigation to final hearing, in very high profile matters involving frauds, corruption or market offences. From 2010 to 2012, he was seconded to our Hong Kong office where he was working with our Asia Anti-corruption practice. Charles-Henri has also extensive experience in commercial litigation.

Piotr Bogdanowicz

Prof. UW dr hab. Piotr Bogdanowicz focuses on public procurement and State aid. Piotr is a Professor at the University of Warsaw Faculty of Law and Administration, where he lectures on EU law, including EU public procurement law. He is an author of dozens of books and articles in leading journals, including "Common Market Law Review", "Public Procurement Law Review" and "European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review". Piotr is the co-founder of the Public Procurement Law Association.

Tereza Boguská Řehořová

Tereza Boguská Řehořová is a Czech-qualified senior associate who specialises in real estate acquisitions across all sectors - retail, hotels, office and logistics - as well as on real estate financing. Although primarily a real estate and real estate financing specialist and a key member of the Prague office's real estate practice, Tereza has also a growing track record on numerous cross-border finance transactions and broad range of banking and finance transactions.

James Bole specialises in advising UK-listed and international corporate clients on the full range of corporate transactions, with a particular focus on public M&A transactions. For the last two years, James was seconded as Secretary to the Takeover Panel, the independent regulator of takeovers and other matters to which the City code applies. During his secondment, he acted as a senior regulator of the highest profile takeovers in the UK market, including the contested £25 billion takeover battle for Sky, and in formulating Takeover Panel policy.

Lucio Bonavitacola

Lucio Bonavitacola is Head of the Italian Regulatory team and he specialises in banking and financial regulations. Lucio keeps regular contact with the regulatory bodies, the Bank of Italy and CONSOB. He is a regular speaker at symposiums and often quoted in the press on regulatory topics of interest.

François Bonteil

François Bonteil specialises in all areas of real estate work including real estate M&A (acquisitions and disposals of property-owning companies and portfolios of real estate assets), real estate private equity (joint ventures / shareholders' agreements), real estate services (including commercial leasing, development and asset management) and real estate finance (acquisition / mortgage financings , corporate and funds financings).

Victoria Bortkevicha

Victoria Bortkevicha specialises in a variety of banking transactions related to financing of Russian corporate and banking entities, secured and unsecured financing, project financing transactions, real estate financing transactions, aircraft finance and PPP projects in the Russian Federation. Victoria also specialises in regulatory work related to the Russian banking and insurance activities.

Jonathan Bray specialises in international fund formation, secondaries, and advisory work in the debt, real estate debt, real estate and private equity sectors. His experience covers blind-pool funds, separate managed accounts and funds-of-one. In addition, Jonathan advises fund sponsors and investors on a range of fund-related products and transactions including co-investments, multi-currency and leveraged structures, secondary transactions including portfolio sales of fund interests, executive carried interest and co-investment arrangements, asset manager M&A, fund financings and open-ended funds. Jonathan also advises a number of significant institutional investors in connection with proposed private fund and separate account commitments.

Edward Bretherton

Edward Bretherton specialises in advising on the procurement, construction and related aspects of complex construction projects in the UK and internationally. Edward has particular experience in connection with UK development and social infrastructure projects and energy (conventional, renewable and nuclear) and infrastructure projects in the UK and internationally. He is a member of the Firm's Africa Group, and regularly advises on complex construction projects across the African continent, as well as in other emerging markets through Latin America and elsewhere.

Graham Brewer is a partner in the firm's Banking and Finance practice of Clifford Chance, in Dubai and has many years’ experience of advising funds, borrowers, sponsors and financiers on a wide range of financing transactions. He specialises in private credit, leveraged finance, acquisition finance, structured finance, infrastructure finance, Islamic finance and restructuring.

Carme Briera is responsible for the Administrative Law Department in Barcelona and specialised in general Administrative/Public Law and regulated sectors such as telecommunications, audiovisual, energy, environmental, infrastructures and health.

David Brinton engages in a corporate and securities law practice focusing on mergers and acquisitions. David regularly represents sellers, purchasers and other parties in negotiated cross-border and domestic mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures and investment transactions as well as advising on a variety of financing transactions. David is experienced in public and private debt and equity offerings by both US and non-US companies with extensive experience advising funds and fund managers.

Sam Brown focuses on disputes in the energy, construction, engineering and technology sectors. Sam specialises in International Commercial Arbitration and has represented clients in arbitrations seated in a number of jurisdictions, conducted both under institutional rules (ICC, LCIA, SCC, LMAA) and ad hoc arbitrations under UNCITRAL rules and domestic arbitration legislation. He has also represented clients in the English High Court, Court of Appeal and UK Supreme Court. As well as acting for clients in formal dispute resolution proceedings, Sam also regularly provides advice on issues arising during the course of major construction and energy projects and assists clients with resolving disputes and claims at an early stage.

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Matthew Buchanan

Matthew Buchanan specialises in the construction aspects of infrastructure projects including in the oil and gas, power and mining sectors. Matthew acts for lenders, sponsors and contractors in relation to the full suite of construction documentation, from complex EPC turnkey arrangements through to EPCM, CM, subcontracting structures, technical services agreements and relevant security documentation.

Liesbeth Buiter

Liesbeth Buiter is Partner and leads the Amsterdam Real Estate practice specialising in real estate transactions, with a focus on pan-European real estate transactions, covering all asset classes (residential, hospitality, logistics and office space) and major (re)development projects. She co-leads the Projects group with a particular focus on (project financed) renewable energy and infrastructure deals. She joined the firm in 2008, having trained and qualified at CMS. She has spent time working in the Paris office, and is qualified in the Netherlands.

Senior Associate

Cédric Burford

Cedric Burford has a particular expertise in debt and equity-linked bond issues, debt issuance programmes, commercial paper, structured debt issues (index-linked, credit-linked) and tax-driven finance structures. Cedric also focuses on French and other European markets, as well as US transactions, acting for major investment banks and issuers.

Clare is co-head of the Worldwide Projects group and co-head of the Energy Sector, with a particular focus on offshore wind projects, renewable portfolio transactions, hydrogen and other energy transition projects. She works on project development, financings and M&A in the sector. Clare acts for a broad range of market participants including sponsors, corporates, institutional investors, banks and multilaterals. Clare is a founder member of the firm's ESG Board and is an expert in sustainable finance. Her recent work includes advising on the financing of H2 Green Steel project in Sweden, advising AIP and PFA on the sale of a stake of their holding in the Walney Extension offshore wind farm, advising Renantis on the refinancing of renewable projects across Europe, and advising on the project bond refinancing of the Benban Solar Park in Egypt.

Guy Burkitt advises clients on a broad range of complex, high-value and strategically significant commercial disputes. Guy has a varied practice, but has particular expertise in disputes in the aviation, banking and payments, private equity and insurance sectors. The Legal 500 recognises Guy as a "star of the future".

Jeff Butler has a broad range of experience litigating complex commercial cases in federal and state courts, including substantial experience coordinating cross-border litigation and other litigation in multiple jurisdictions. Jeff has particular experience representing non-US clients with respect to contentious matters in the US, including securities class actions, financial product litigation, M&A litigation and bankruptcy-related litigation.

Ewelina Bzducha

Ewelina Bzducha focuses her practice on international and domestic arbitration including complex construction, infrastructure, and real estate disputes. She advises EPC contractors, subcontractors and investors in various sectors including pipelines, power plants, oil & gas, and military facilities. She also advises on financial law issues. She has experience in representing clients in international arbitrations based on foreign substantive laws.

Alejandro E. Camacho

Alejandro E. Camacho has extensive experience in the area of cross-border capital markets transactions, particularly transactions involving issuers from emerging market countries. He has acted as counsel in connection with public and private international offerings of various types of securities including debt, equity and convertible securities of both public and private issuers. Alejandro has also been involved in several privatizations in Latin America. He has also acted as counsel in a variety of other international and domestic transactions including joint ventures, commercial lending, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital transactions.

Gareth Camp specialises in advising on public bids, private acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, group restructurings and other general corporate matters. Gareth has worked on a number of significant transactions for clients in the healthcare and consumer goods and retail sectors, many of which have had a cross-border element. During his professional career Gareth has worked in London, New York and Dubai and in 2011 was seconded to an international healthcare company headquartered in Europe.

Juan Cuerva de Cañas

Juan Cuerva specialises in intellectual property and consumer law, particularly in the field of copyright, technology, IT, software and media. He has in-depth expertise in tech M&A projects and also represents clients in complex intellectual property and commercial litigation. Juan combines legal practice with academic activity in various universities and legal institutes. He routinely publishes on copyright and tech matters.

Anthony Candido

Delphine Caramalli

Delphine Caramalli is specialised in financial restructuring, insolvency proceedings and mergers and acquisitions related to reorganisation and reversal operations. She works alongside domestic and international investors, private equity funds, hedge funds and other lenders. She also advises shareholders or buyers in their restructuring or external growth operations. Delphine is the Africa Practice Leader for Restructuring.

Donald Carden regularly advises multinational corporations, financial institutions, insurance companies and funds on issues of Federal and New York State income taxation, with a particular emphasis on corporate and partnership taxation and the tax aspects of structured finance transactions. Donald is a regular speaker on tax issues at industry events and is the author of numerous articles on tax issues. Since 2008, Donald has been recognized as a "Leading Lawyer" in Legal 500 and has been acknowledged as a leading practitioner in Chambers and the Tax Directors Handbook, and is a New York "Super Lawyer" for 2011.

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie specialises in real estate finance and arrangements, insolvency, structured finance and securitisation; also in cross border real estate transactions and hotel-related work. Andrew is the Head of Real Estate Finance in London. Andrew is widely recognised as one of the leading property finance lawyers in the market.

Paul Carrington

Paul Carrington specialises in financing, leasing, sales and complex structured transactions involving transportation assets, as well as M&A transactions in the transportation industry. Paul is the head of the firm's Global Rail Group, and has a particular focus on the rail and aviation sectors, acting for financiers, arrangers, manufacturers, leasing companies, operators and owners.

Oliver Carroll advises on a broad range of contentious matters, with a focus on administrative law and antitrust litigation. Oliver also advises on international trade contingency planning, and public policy matters.

Adrian Cartwright

Adrian Cartwright is the firm's Senior Partner and chairs its Partnership Council, providing oversight of, and working closely with, the Executive Leadership Group. He specialises in equity capital markets including issues of shares and global depositary receipts in the international markets. Adrian leads the firm's European Equity Capital Markets group.

Helen Carty is the Head of the London Litigation and Dispute Resolution team and Co-Regional Practice Area Leader Litigation & Dispute Resolution for One Europe. Helen has significant experience of dealing with multi-jurisdictional matters. She is regularly called upon by major banks and financial institutions to act on their largest disputes. Helen's matters include defending mis-selling claims, acting for clients in relation to disputes arising under swaps and other industry standard documentation and co-ordinating and managing litigation for clients in a variety of overseas jurisdictions.

Marc Casas specialises in infrastructure, public procurement, energy and public services, amongst other regulated matters. He regularly represents clients before public authorities, regulatory agencies and contentious-administrative courts.

James Cashier advises on complex and strategically significant transactions across the FIG sector specialising in M&A, corporate restructurings and (re)insurance transactional work. James is part of our Global Insurance Team and advises on the full range of corporate and regulatory matters in the insurance sector including reinsurance, portfolio transfers, the Lloyd’s market, ILS, insurance distribution arrangements, and longevity swaps.

Francesca Casini

Hana Čekalová

Hana Čekalová is a banking and finance practitioner with over 15 years' experience advising clients on the entire spectrum of finance transactions, regulatory matters and insolvency proceedings. She is Czech law qualified and holds an English Masters in Commercial and Corporate Law. As a key member of the Prague office's Banking & Finance team, Hana has gained significant industry expertise from her involvement on some of the largest financing transactions in the Czech Republic and across the wider region. Hana has also significant experience in funding and regulatory aspects of fintech business. Hana has co-written a banking and finance law book for legal practitioners and bankers called "Banking & Finance. General practice." published by C. H. Beck in 2023.

Claudio Cerabolini

Claudio Cerabolini specialises in private equity, real estate, and private and public M&A transactions, and heads the Private Equity and the Real Estate groups in Italy. Claudio has worked with some of the most important international and Italian private equity, real estate and sovereign wealth funds, as well as with other asset managers, advising them on investment and disinvestment transactions (including buy-outs, public-to-private, growth capital, mergers, IPOs and joint ventures) in Italy and other European countries. He has also advised multinational and Italian corporates and financial institutions in M&A transactions, joint ventures, IPOs, tender offers and several other corporate finance and capital market matters. He is a member of the Tax & Legal Committee of AIFI (Italian Association of Private Equity and Venture Capital) and is one of the authors of the book "Private Equity and Venture Capital, Regulation and Good Practice", published by Risk Books in 2014. Claudio has also worked in the field of IT and data protection law for over 15 years, advising important clients on compliance, litigation, and complex and innovative matters.

Angela has almost two decades of experience advising on a broad range of debt capital markets transactions, including international bond offerings, medium term note programmes, regulatory capital, hybrid securities and equity-linked products such as convertible bonds and exchangeable bonds. In recent years, Angela is particularly active in advising Chinese clients on their offshore bond issuances, including Chinese state-owned and privately owned enterprises, as well as prominent state-owned banks and other financial institutions.

Ivan Chan's experience includes single and multi-jurisdictional mergers and acquisitions, domestic and cross-border joint ventures and advisory work on corporate and commercial law matters. He is admitted as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore.

Mark is admitted in New South Wales, Australia, England and Wales and Hong Kong. He specialises in a wide range of debt and equity-linked capital markets products. Mark advises both issuers and underwriters on standalone debt issuances, medium term note, certificate of deposits and commercial paper programmes, convertible and exchangeable bonds, corporate hybrid capital and regulatory (bank and insurance) capital products, ESG-related issuances, liability management exercises (including tender and exchange offers and consent solicitations and debt restructurings) as well as bespoke private capital markets financings.

Mel Chan regularly advises sponsors, multilateral development banks, development finance institutions, export credit agencies and commercial banks on the financing of energy and infrastructure projects, with a particular emphasis on Asia Pacific. Her experience spans across the oil & gas, refining and petrochemicals, power and infrastructure sectors. She has worked on numerous first-of-a-kind projects, and has handled multiple complex multi-source financings and blended finance transactions. She also has extensive experience on ECA-backed financings. Mel is a member of the Clifford Chance Global Energy Transition Initiative. Her focus is on renewables, carbon capture, green fuels and clean hydrogen/ammonia.

Aysh Chaudhry

Luke Chen is a Counsel in the Singapore office and a member of the APAC Asset Management and Financial Regulatory Group. Luke assists clients with the formation and offering of investment funds and the regulation of investment managers. He advises fund managers and financial institutions on licensing and ongoing compliance requirements, and on the ongoing obligations for funds offered in Singapore. He is also involved in advising on the regulatory aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Alexander Chester

Alexander Chester specialises in international fund formation, secondaries, and advisory work in the private equity, debt, real estate, infrastructure and fund of funds sectors. Alex's experience covers blind pool funds, secondary transactions, general partner-led restructurings, co-investments and separate accounts. Alex's experience also includes advising on carried interest and executive co-investment arrangements, as well as various internal matters relating to fund managers. He has advised on a number of acquisitions and spin-outs of fund management businesses. He advises managers on the establishment of private funds, including in respect of structuring, marketing, fund terms, investor negotiations and closings, as well as issues arising over the life of the fund. He also advises a number of prominent institutional investors in connection with their proposed commitments to private funds.

Jennifer Chimanga

Jen is a Tech M&A partner, global Co-head of the firm’s TMT sector and the Co-Head of Clifford Chance's Africa Group. She is sought out globally by leading players across the technology value chain on their most strategic and transformational projects. Her experience spans cross-border M&A, strategic joint ventures, commercial partnerships, and growth equity. She is ranked in Mergerlinks as a top deal maker in EMEA in 2023 and 3rd Female M&A lawyer by deal value.

Ying Chiang Chong

Ying Chiang Chong specialises in debt and equity capital markets transactions for companies and real estate investment trusts in Singapore and across South East Asia, and is a member of the Global Financial Markets group. Ying Chiang has extensive experience in international debt and equity capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, high yield debt issues and tender offers and has executed transactions across a broad range of sectors throughout South East Asia. She is recognised by Chambers Asia as an Up and Coming lawyer and by the Legal 500 Asia Pacific as a Rising Star in the domestic and foreign firms categories, respectively. Ying Chiang is an active supporter of diversity and inclusion, and is a founding member of the Clifford Chance Singapore women's network.

Ahmed Choudhry specialises in finance and projects matters with significant Islamic finance experience. Ahmed has worked on a number of significant cross-border mandates and on complex multi-tranche financings. He advises on a wide range of Islamic finance products including project and infrastructure finance, real estate finance, acquisition finance and sukuk. Ahmed is the Africa Practice Leader for Islamic Finance.

Marcin Ciemiński

Marcin Ciemiński specialises in disputes before state courts and arbitral tribunals, including commercial disputes, public procurement, intellectual property, damages and healthcare cases. Marcin is also responsible for handling matters concerning white-collar crime, criminal investigations, compliance and crisis management. He advises healthcare and life sciences clients on regulatory issues. As an assistant professor, he lectures in commercial law at the Warsaw University.

Timothy Cleary specialises in structured finance and bank capital management. He has a particular focus on synthetic securitisation and other credit risk mitigation and risk transfer transactions, acting for banks and investors across Europe, North America and Asia. Timothy also has broad experience in all aspects of OTC derivatives, in particular in connection with asset-backed securitisation, whole business securitisation, project and asset finance and real estate finance, as well as the repackaging of derivative exposures and securities financing transactions. He regularly advises industry bodies such as the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and Prime Collateralised Securities (PCS) in relation to the evolving regulatory landscape for securitisation in the EU.

Leonard Cleland

Melissa Coakley

Melissa Coakley leads the London Restructuring and Insolvency team. Melissa advises a broad spectrum of stakeholders on consensual and non-consensual cross border and domestic restructurings, work outs, reorganisations and formal insolvencies. Melissa's commercialism, high level of technical knowledge and strategic thinking has seen her acting across sectors (including infrastructure, retail, transport, telecommunications, manufacturing, oil and gas, financial services, commodities), across geographies, engaging with differing regulatory environments and legal systems (including 5 years spent on secondment in the Middle East), and for a wide variety of stakeholders: corporate borrowers, funds, banks, insolvency officeholders, government, private equity sponsors and material trade creditors.

Riccardo Coassin

Katherine Coates

Remus Codreanu is a Partner with a broad and in-depth experience in advising and representing important Romanian and international companies on various types of areas such as: litigation & arbitration (he advised and represented important Romanian and international companies in more than 1,000 domestic, cross-border, as well as international litigation and arbitration cases), employment, public and administrative law, including public procurement, intellectual property (especially, trademark and copyright’s law), construction, energy, insolvencies, media law and white-collar crime matters. Remus also has extensive experience on PPP and procurement related matters, legally advising clients in all stages of processes - from pre-qualification and tender related preparation, selection and negotiation through to award or related disputes arising therefrom. He is nevertheless expert in employment-related matters since he has been actively involved inter alia in negotiations of collective labour contracts, on complex restructuring processes (e.g., collective dismissals, TUPE, etc.), as well as (re)designing internal policies and procedures and also represented numerous companies before the Romanian employment courts on a broad range of employment issues such as: labour agreements, dismissals of top and middle management employees, discrimination & harassment claims, etc.

Evan Cohen has over twenty five years of experience representing clients in the areas of acquisition and leveraged finance, project finance, syndicated lending and restructurings. His clients include commercial and investment banks, borrowers, institutional investors and project sponsors. Evan’s extensive experience spans multiple jurisdictions including the Americas, UK, Europe and Asia. He spent eight years in Asia leading the US Banking practice and heading up the Asian Distressed Debt practice

Ness Cohen is a partner in Clifford Chance's Real Estate group and is the Chairman of the Firm's Real Estate practice in the Americas, based in New York. He specializes in real estate private equity and joint ventures as well as acquisitions, dispositions and financings involving real estate. His work also includes representing REITs, investment banks, insurance companies, real estate funds and developers in real estate acquisitions, dispositions, financings, and real estate related transactions.

Bola Coker

Xavier Comaills

Xavier Comaills specialises in the formation and fundraising of private equity investment funds and in particular concerning French and European funds' managers. He has extensive experience in primary fundraising and is also leader on secondary transactions including sale of portfolio interests but also GP-led secondary transactions. Xavier also advises institutional limited partners with respect to their investments in private equity and real estate funds. Xavier is also an expert on carried interest structuring.

Chiara is a Partner in the Global Financial Markets practice, specialized in project finance, infrastructure finance, leverage and acquisition finance and syndicated lending.

Jill's practice is focused on U.S. capital markets and corporate finance transactions. Clients benefit from her experience of representing sponsors and underwriters in connection with international securities offerings. These include a number of award-winning and landmark transactions that were firsts within their respective markets. Jill also has experience of representing clients in senior and bridge acquisition facilities.

Carlos Conceicao

Cliff Cone is a Partner in the New York office of Clifford Chance and the co-head of the U.S. Funds and Investment Management Practice. He focuses primarily on the investment management sector and has a broad base of expertise advising alternative investment managers, registered investment companies, BDCs, specialty finance companies and boards of directors with respect to all aspects of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Cliff has extensive experience with the organization and ongoing representation of U.S. registered open-end and closed-end investment companies, hedge funds, private equity funds, commodity funds, exchange-traded funds and business development companies. Cliff also regularly consults with investment advisers on registration and ongoing compliance and disclosure issues, including compliance with the rules of the New York Stock Exchange and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA). Cliff served on the Committee on Investment Regulation of the New York City Bar.

Jan Conrady specialises in multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration with a focus on construction and engineering disputes as well as infrastructure disputes. Having acted for both owners and contractors Jan advises on the selection, negotiation and realization of the respective construction contracts (e.g. general contractor agreements, EPC) and additional contracts (e.g. Direct Agreement, Stock/Account Pledge Agreement). On top of that he advises on all aspects of claims management and general legal issues during the construction phase. For a period of six months, Jan had been seconded to an energy group where he drafted and negotiated a contract for the installation of an offshore wind farm consisting of 54 wind turbines.

Alex Cook is an experienced corporate, private equity and joint venture lawyer with a particular focus on M&A across the energy and infrastructure, TMT, pharmaceutical and banking sectors. He is the managing partner in Prague as well as being the head of both the corporate practice and the office's Slovak Desk. After over 17 years based in the CEE region, Alex has acted on transactions in most jurisdictions in the CEE/SEE region. He is also highly regarded for his English law expertise on cross-border transactions.

Jim Cotins is a partner in the Structured Capital Markets Group of Clifford Chance, based in New York. He has extensive experience in structured finance, including all aspects of the securitization of loans and securities backed by commercial real estate, with a primary focus on CMBS, including multi-seller conduits, single borrower securitizations, CRE CLOs, net-lease securitizations and single-family rental securitizations (including both single borrower and multi-borrower deals). Jim regularly represents all the main participants in commercial real estate-related securitizations, including issuers, underwriters, collateral managers, loan sellers and a nationally recognized statistical rating agency organization. He also represents investors in the acquisition and financing of all types of commercial real estate-related assets, including whole loans, B-Notes, participations, mezzanine loans, preferred equity, bank loans, CMBS and REIT debt.

Delphine Siino Courtin

Delphine Siino Courtin specialises in projects and project finance, particularly in Africa and Europe. Delphine has advised on projects in the power, oil & gas and mining sectors as well as on French private finance initiatives (PFI) and on acquisitions in the energy sector. Delphine is the Africa Practice Leader for Energy and Infra Transition.

Alexandre Couturier

Alexandre Couturier has over 15 years of experience in real estate transactions and financing, advising on asset and share property acquisitions, disposals and financing, cross-border and domestic portfolios, sale and leaseback schemes, and restructuring of commercial and industrial groups involving real estate assets. Additionally, Alexandre has particular expertise in the formation of real estate investment funds including French REITs (OPCI), joint ventures and private equity-type funds. He also routinely advises in leasing matters and in real estate development transactions. He has deep knowledge of the hospitality sector.

Adam Craig

Stella Cramer is the APAC Head of our Tech Group and a technology and data lawyer based in Singapore. Stella advises on technology matters across the Asia Pacific region. She specialises in complex digital and transformational technology projects, platform collaborations, and technology transactions, often involving disruptive technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence. She has deep experience advising clients on global data compliance programmes, the commercialisation of data and high-profile cyber incidents. She leads high profile cyberbreach response for clients, coordinating the management of an incident and leading the regulatory investigations across multiple jurisdictions, working closely with senior management. She also advises on significant Fintech projects and was involved in the establishment of industry sandboxes in Singapore.

Sabina Crangasu

James Cranston is a commercial litigator with a broad range of experience including in commercial contract and company law disputes. James has also worked on several arbitration and investigatory matters. James works particularly with financial investor clients, such as private equity houses and sovereign wealth funds. James also has significant experience working with clients in the sport sector, having spent time on secondment at a governing body and a global sports franchise. James co-leads the firm's Sport Industry Group in London.

Gregory Crookes

Greg Crookes specialises in leveraged buy-outs, corporate carve-outs and other complex M&A. He acts for a range of private equity and corporate clients and financial institutions, is known for being hands-on dealmaker without losing sight of the big picture, and has substantial experience on both the buy-side and sell-side.

Richard Crosby is in the London Financial Institutions Group, specialising in strategic M&A, equity capital markets, complex corporate restructurings and corporate advisory work for banks and other financial institutions. Richard is qualified in both England and Hong Kong and worked in Hong Kong between 2006 and 2012.

Simon Crown specialises in financial regulation, with a particular focus on funds and asset management, M&A and reorganisations involving financial institutions, and the fintech and payments sector. - Simon is a leading adviser on the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). As well as taking part in the UK regulator's legal experts group on AIFMD, Simon advises a large number of asset managers, fund administrators, depositaries and valuers on AIFMD issues. - Simon also regularly advises asset managers on other regulatory issues, such as fund structuring, distribution, licensing, client money and governance. - Simon has extensive experience in advising on acquisitions and disposals of regulated businesses. - Simon also regularly advises in the areas of structured finance (regulation of securitised receivables), market abuse, client money and safeguarding, and licence perimeter issues. - Simon is co-head of the firm's Fintech practice, and has a significant number of clients in the payments sector. - Simon is listed as a Leading Individual in Legal 500 UK for Financial Services: Non-Contentious Regulatory and is also ranked in Chambers.

Sophie Cunliffe

Sophie Cunliffe is a Senior Associate in Clifford Chance’s London Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice with experience in contentious financial services regulatory investigations work.

Lounia Czupper specialises in banking, finance and debt capital markets transactions. Lounia advises both borrowers and lenders on all types of finance transactions, including syndicated loans, leveraged and acquisition finance, real estate finance and restructurings. Lounia also advises issuers and managers on debt capital markets transactions, including Eurobond issues, EMTN and CP programmes and various types of structured debt transactions. As part of her regulatory practice, Lounia advises credit institutions, investment funds and various other entities on regulatory matters and product development.

Peter Dahlen is Global Co-Head of Leveraged Finance and experienced in leveraged finance, private credit, acquisition finance, corporate borrowing and structured finance, as well as restructuring. Peter acts for global and regional investment banks, alternative credit and private credit providers and financial sponsors. He also regularly advises investment grade corporate borrowers and cross-over credits on their financing needs, with a particular focus on the Nordic region.

Michael leads the firm’s global capital markets practice and has extensive experience advising private equity sponsors, issuers and underwriters on high yield debt and leveraged finance transactions in Europe, the United States and Asia.

Christopher David

Christopher David specialises in representing both companies and individuals in white collar crime matters mainly involving allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption, insider dealing, tax evasion, cartels or money laundering. These matters predominantly involve investigations undertaken by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) or the National Crime Agency (NCA), as well as overseas agencies, such as the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as well as European agencies including the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service(“FIOD”) and Italian Guardia di Finanza. In addition, Chris has considerable experience in cross-border corporate and internal investigations on behalf of multi-national corporations and major financial services clients. These investigations often involve multiple jurisdictions, as well as compliance issues and risk management. Chris also has experience working as a member of a DOJ-appointed independent Compliance Monitorship team. Christopher is the co-author of “A Practical Guide to INTERPOL and Red Notices” published by Bloomsbury Professional and advises individuals regarding the procedure for applying for the deletion of red notices. Christopher is a trustee and board member of Appeal, a charity dedicated to overturning miscarriages of justice.

Alexandra Davidson

Alexandra Davidson specialises in advising investment managers on the establishment and offering of private funds, together with the legal, regulatory and commercial issues relevant to the funds' operation. Her experience spans a broad range of products and strategies, from large global private equity funds to smaller, bespoke products. Alexandra also represents a number of prestigious institutional investors in connection with proposed private fund commitments. Alexandra is based in London but has also worked as a Foreign Legal Consultant in the firm's New York office, advising various North American clients on legal and regulatory matters.

Chris Davies specialises in the taxation of corporate and financing transactions with particular emphasis on structured finance and international taxation.

Emma Davies is a Corporate partner in our London office. She has 25 years of experience advising financial institutions, industrial groups, trading companies, and global investors on strategic investments, restructurings, and partnerships in Greater China and the wider APAC region. Emma Davies is a Corporate partner in our London office. She has 25 years of experience advising financial institutions, industrial groups, trading companies, and global investors on strategic investments, restructurings, and partnerships in Greater China and the wider APAC region. Emma's recent work includes advising clients on the restructuring of their PRC operations in response to the rapidly evolving macroeconomic and geopolitical landscape. This has involved business carve-outs, spin-off listings, and new business combinations with leading listed and unlisted enterprises in China. Emma led the China Corporate/M&A group in Shanghai from 2002–2012 and founded the Firm’s China antitrust practice.

Caroline Dawson

Caroline Dawson specialises in advising major global financial institutions and other market participants, on financial market regulation, mergers and acquisitions in the financial sector and securities and derivatives transactions. Caroline Dawson specialises in advising major global financial institutions and other market participants, on financial market regulation, mergers and acquisitions in the financial sector and securities and derivatives transactions. Caroline is a member of TheCityUK’s Switzerland MAG, a member of the International Business & Diplomatic Exchange’s Financial Services Advisory Group and regularly participates in ad hoc working groups established by the Bank of England, PRA and FCA. She was seconded to the EMEA equities team at Goldman Sachs in 2009 and to the Bank of England in 2014. Caroline has been named as one of the top Financial Services Regulatory practitioners in the UK in the Euromoney’s ‘Women in Business Law Expert’ Guide every year since 2020, and also as one of Global Banking Regulation Review’s “45 under 45” leading next generation banking regulation specialists from around the world. Caroline is listed as a 'Next Generation Partner' in the Legal 500 UK and as 'Up and Coming' in Chambers Financial Services: Non-Contentious Regulatory rankings.

Benjamin De Blegiers

Benjamin de Blegiers specialises in PE/M&A operations and has, in particular, developed an expertise in the infrastructure sector. He advises investment funds, insurance companies, pension funds and other long-term investors in their most complex corporate finance operations, in France as well as internationally. Benjamin is a recognized leader in the Infrastructure sector who has been working on the most visible PE/Infrastructure transactions in Europe over the past years. Benjamin is Clifford Chance's global co-head of the Infrastructure practice.

Pieter De Bock is a member of the Brussels bar since 1999. Pieter is specialised in all aspects of public and regulatory law, including planning and environmental law. His practice covers all three Belgian Regions. In addition to this, Pieter is also highly experienced real estate and property lawyer and works on numerous high profile real estate transactions and projects.

Pablo Serrano de Haro

Pablo Serrano's main areas of practice are international taxation, M&A, real estate, finance and tax litigation. Pablo advises high quality international investors on the structuring of their investments and is very active on the incorporation of all type of investment funds (real estate funds - specifically REITs -debt funds, equity funds, etc). He also enjoys extensive experience on large corporate restructurings and M&A cross border transactions. He and his team have developed an outstanding tax litigation practice. Pablo is the Tax professor and co-director of a Business Law Program at a prestigious Law School in Madrid.

Tjerk de Jonge specialises in corporate transactions and fund & investment management transactions. He mainly advises international and domestic private equity firms and corporates on a wide range of transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, leveraged buyouts, takeovers, mergers, joint ventures and corporate restructurings, the establishment of investment funds, fund investments, separate managed accounts, carried interest schemes, as well as day-to-day counselling of public and private companies on a wide range of matters.

Diego De Lammerville

Diego de Lammerville has litigated numerous complex commercial disputes in state courts and in a variety of arbitral forums. Diego has experience in M&A/Corporate, securities and commercial/distribution litigation. Diego is teaching commercial proceedings at the Paris Bar School and also occasionally teaches securities litigation at Sciences Po.

Giuseppe De Palma

Giuseppe De Palma is Co- Regional Practice Area Leader GFM for One Europe and specialises in acquisition finance, restructuring and project/export finance. He has advised on groundbreaking domestic and international portfolio management transactions, restructuring project financings, leveraged finance on loan management/transactions, syndicated lendings and export credit transactions.

Niek De Pauw specialises in domestic and international M&A transactions, general corporate law and equity capital markets. Niek has extensive experience in public and private acquisitions and disposals, restructurings, joint ventures, private equity transactions, IPOs, public offerings and private placements.

Jean-Baptiste Merigot De Treigny

Jean-Baptiste Merigot de Treigny advises public and private entities as well as financial institutions on all aspects of public law matters, both in advice and litigation. He specialises in public contracts (tender processes, execution and litigation regarding concessions, public procurement or public private partnerships) and regulation (transportation, energy, telecoms…) notably related to major infrastructures projects.

Folko de Vries focuses on leveraged finance. He acts for sponsors and lenders. Folko has recently worked on a significant number of direct lending transactions and public-to-private transactions. As partner made responsible for Innovation for the Amsterdam office, Folko is focused on a daily basis on new ways of working to best support our clients and their businesses.

Titus de Vries is Managing Partner of Clifford Chance Amsterdam and partner in Global Financial Markets. He has extensive experience in financing transactions with particular experience in leveraged finance, real estate and infrastructure finance and corporate lending (both syndicated and club deals, both domestic and cross border). He acts for lenders as well as borrowers.

Paul Deakins advises on Eurobonds, EMTN Programmes and other public securities offerings by both corporate and financial institution issuers. Paul leads our advisory work with the International Capital Market Association, through which we help to shape industry developments and market practice and sits on the Financial Markets Law Committee and the Bank of England's Working Group on Risk Free Rates.

Gareth Deiner is an English and New York qualified lawyer whose practice covers debt and equity capital markets transactions across the South and Southeast Asian region. Gareth advises sovereign and corporate issuers, private equity sponsors, financial investors, real estate investment trusts and investment banks on their most complex and strategic capital markets transactions and capital reorganisations. He is also a noted expert on ESG-related solutions and sustainable finance transactions, having advised on numerous award-winning and market-first transactions, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sector.

Marie-Isabelle Delleur

Marie-Isabelle works as counsel and arbitrator in commercial and investment arbitration disputes in a variety of fields including energy, mining, construction, infrastructure, public concessions, transportation, distribution, telecommunications and international investments under the ICC, ICSID, LCIA and UNCITRAL Rules, with a special focus on disputes in Latin America, Europe and Africa. She has particular experience advising clients in disputes arising in the context of internal compliance investigations and cooperation with criminal authorities in several jurisdictions and advises clients on matters of ESG compliance. Marie-Isabelle also assists clients with the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards in France. Prior to joining the firm, Marie-Isabelle practiced for five years in another Magic Circle firm in Paris.

Jennifer DeMarco

Jennifer DeMarco primarily represents financial institutions in US and international debt restructurings and financial transactions including in connection with debtor-in-possession financings. Complementary to her corporate restructuring experience, she is also an experienced bankruptcy court litigator, having appeared in bankruptcy courts throughout the US.

Pelinsu Demircan

Pelinsu Demircan focuses on banking and finance and capital markets matters. She advises clients in relation to project financing, syndicated financing and restructuring, as well as IPO processes and debt capital markets transactions.

Hannes Deusch focuses on Banking and Capital Markets law and specialises in advising on German and international structured finance transactions. His experience includes the securitisation of trade, consumer, leasing, loan receivables and interest in funds and the establishment of ABCP Conduit Programmes, portfolio sales and other structured finance transactions. Hannes Deusch also advises insurance companies and funds in tailor-made alternative investments. He also advises on the restructuring of securitisation and other structured finance transactions, on regulatory issues as well as trustees and agents in the context of securitisation transactions.

Douglas Deutsch

Douglas E Deutsch is a partner in Clifford Chance's Global Financial Markets group, based in New York. He has earned a reputation as a skilled practitioner in the bankruptcy and corporate arenas. Douglas advises lending groups, lenders, agents and indenture trustees and other financial creditors and debtors, in U.S and cross border restructuring matters.

Luciano Di Via is the Head of the Italian Antitrust Practice and is considered one of the primary specialists in antitrust in Italy. Luciano splits his time between Rome and Brussels and has more than 20 years' experience specialising in all aspects of EU and Italian antitrust law, including merger control, cartels, abuse of market power and market investigations/sector inquires. Luciano works across a wide range of sectors, including food and beverage, retail, insurance, energy and telecommunications. Luciano is also Co-Chair of the ICC Task Force on Cartels and Leniency. Before joining Clifford Chance in 2013, Luciano spent 10 years at the Italian Competition Authority — two of which he was the ICA’s seconded national expert at the European Commission's Directorate General of Competition. During his time with the ICA, amongst other activities, he led teams conducting dawn raids at company premises.

David D. DiBari is the practice area leader for US Litigation & Dispute Resolution, the US lead Partner for the Firm's Global Risk Team, and the Managing Partner of Clifford Chance’s Washington, D.C. office. He has over 25 years of experience in complex civil, regulatory and criminal matters arising under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, US economic sanctions and export controls, US securities and banking laws and regulations, and other laws and regulations affecting the conduct of international business. David has extensive experience in defending global companies in multi-jurisdictional investigations and litigation, advising companies on crisis management, and in developing and implementing cross-border risk mitigation and compliance programs. David has represented both domestic and multi-national companies before the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve, New York Department of Financial Services, Department of State, Department of Treasury, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, US Congress and other Federal and state authorities and SROs

Peter Dieners co-headed the global Healthcare & Life Sciences Sector Group at Clifford Chance until April 2024. He advises leading pharmaceutical, medical devices and chemicals companies on all their business-critical corporate, commercial and compliance matters, including investigations and related prevention counselling. He is author of the leading industry manual Compliance in the Healthcare Sector. Peter also acts for trade associations and companies vis-à-vis government agencies in relation to legislative projects and amendments. He frequently works with trade bodies to establish codes of conduct, thereby setting industry standards.

Jan Dobrý is a Czech law qualified Counsel specialising in all forms of dispute resolution, judicial review of administrative decisions and competition law. Jan has steadily built up a strong profile and gained significant expertise in the commercial, energy and construction sectors from a litigious, regulatory and competition perspective, while also playing a key role in consolidating the Prague office's restructuring and insolvency practice.

Glen Donath is in the firm's White Collar and Regulatory practice. His practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, governmental enforcement actions, internal investigations, health care fraud and abuse, corporate compliance and complex civil litigation. A highly regarded former federal prosecutor, Glen has successfully represented health care providers, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies and various other corporations in an array of complex civil and criminal proceedings, including matters arising under securities, tax, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), environmental, healthcare, False Claims Act, bribery, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), anti-money laundering and other criminal statutes. He also has successfully defended many prominent corporate officers and high-ranking public officials in similar matters. Additionally, he has conducted internal investigations for major corporations and their audit committees. Glen previously served for a number of years as a Senior Assistant US Attorney in the Fraud and Public Corruption Section of the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, where he conducted grand jury investigations and prosecuted cases involving a wide variety of white collar matters, including health care fraud, money laundering, mail and wire fraud, tax offenses, bankruptcy fraud, and government corruption. During his time as a federal prosecutor, Glen first-chaired dozens of trials involving a wide range of criminal offenses to successful verdicts. He received numerous Department of Justice Special Achievement Awards for sustained superior performance.Glen appears frequently in the media as an authority on white collar criminal defense and government investigations. Recently he has appeared on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront, and NPR's Morning Edition. He has also been quoted in various publications including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Bloomberg Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, LA Times, AP, Reuters, and many others.

Daniel Drabkin is a partner in Clifford Chance's Funds and Investment Management group, based in New York. Daniel specializes in the representation of sponsors in all aspects of fund formation, structuring, marketing and operating alternative investment funds, with significant experience in real estate, private credit, private equity and fund-of fund strategies. Daniel also represents institutional investors in negotiating LP-side investments into funds, co-investments and other managed accounts, and has significant experience with secondaries transactions (both buy-side and sell-side) involving the purchase and sale of mature fund interests. Daniel has a broad spectrum of legal experience, having previously worked in-house as corporate counsel to a public real estate and investment management firm.

Anne Drakeford specialises in derivatives and structured finance. Anne has worked on a full range of financial market products and transactional securities, including OTC fixed income and equity based derivatives, asset backed securities, credit and equity-linked notes and synthetic CDOs. Anne also has extensive experience in the derivatives related aspects of loan finance, securitisations and covered bond transactions. In addition, Anne has advised a wide range of clients on collateral arrangements and security issues. She has also managed large scale documentation reviews both for major banking clients as part of their internal risk management exercises and for corporate clients in the context of M&A transactions.

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Julia is an experienced arbitration and litigation practitioner, advising and representing clients on the full spectrum of contentious national and international disputes across a wide range of sectors including aerospace and defence, construction and infrastructure, energy and resources, government and corporates. Julia acts as both counsel and arbitrator. She also regularly advises clients on dispute avoidance, contract administration and risk minimisation at all stages of the major project lifecycle.

Dorian Drew is a solicitor-advocate and former barrister, specialising in investigations and regulatory enforcement action, as well as financial services litigation. Dorian has represented clients during investigations and disciplinary action brought by domestic and international regulators, including the FSA, SFO, various exchanges, SEC and US DOJ. Dorian has spent nine months on secondment in the Enforcement Division of the FSA. Dorian is also Co-Chair of Clifford Chance's Armed Forces Network.

Alistair Dunlop

Alistair Dunlop is a partner in the Structured Capital Markets Group of Clifford Chance, based in New York. He has extensive experience in structured capital markets, including residential mortgage-backed securities, credit risk transfers, online consumer loans, asset-backed securities, collateralized loan obligations and other structured products.

Corinne Duvnjak

Corinne specialises in international project development and project finance, particularly in Africa and Europe. Corinne has a vast experience in advising sponsors, developers and lenders in the power (including renewable energy), infrastructure, oil&gas and mining sectors as well as on acquisitions in the energy sector.

Dirk-Jan Duynstee

Dirk-Jan Duynstee heads the Litigation Department of Clifford Chance in Amsterdam. Dirk-Jan specialises in corporate and securities litigation, including directors' liability, governance issues, public take-over disputes, shareholder disputes and squeeze out proceeding. Dirk-Jan also has vast experience in banking and finance litigation. Dirk-Jan often acts before the Enterprise Chamber and is a member of our global risk leadership team.

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Henri d'Ursel is head of the Brussels real estate practice. Henri's expertise encompasses all aspects of real estate law, including acquisitions, sales, reorganisations and developments. He focuses on significant transactions for leading market players in both the domestic and international markets. Henri's work products cover all stages of the property life cycle. His client base includes large international real estate investment companies, funds, and hospitality and leisure players, as well as family investment trusts.

Thibaud d’Alès

Thibaud d'Alès specialises in commercial litigation (domestic and cross border). His areas of expertise include disputes in relation to distribution agreements, termination of contractual relationships, "private enforcement / follow-on" actions, mergers and acquisitions, product liability, misleading advertising and/or unfair competition, more specifically in matters related to the telecommunications, aviation, and sport industries.

Nikolaï Eatwell

Nikolaï Eatwell specialises in Project, Project Finance and Export Credit transactions, particularly in Africa, Russia, the former CIS and Turkey. The matters Nikolaï has advised on include projects in the mining, metals, oil & gas, power and telecommunications sectors and financings with a wide range of commercial banks, ECAs and multilaterals. He also works on commodities financing.

Francis Edwards

Francis Edwards is the head of our Derivatives and Structured Finance Practice in Greater China and a market leading derivatives and structured finance specialist. Francis specialises in all forms of derivatives, financial market products and structured finance, including repackagings, credit derivatives, equity derivatives and other OTC derivatives, structured products, securities lending and repos, as well as netting, collateral, clearing, custody and credit risk management issues. His focus is on complex transactional matters and innovative market developments in Asia Pacific. Francis also regularly advises on Hong Kong regulatory matters and on issues arising from the global OTC derivatives regulatory reforms. Francis is a regular speaker on derivatives and regulatory matters, including for ISDA and other trade associations.

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Paul specialises in advising on UK financial services regulatory matters. He advises a broad client base on a wide range of matters including the regulation of private funds, providing advice on structuring, the regulatory aspects of corporate transactions, FCA authorisations and variations of permission, the ongoing compliance obligations of FCA authorised firms and assisting firms with their response to FCA enquiries. Paul has recently been advising on the impact of changes to EU and international fund marketing rules for private fund managers, the potential impact of AIFMD 2 and UK regulatory divergence on the market and the impact of key ESG disclosure legislation on fund managers and other industry participants, including the EU's SFDR and the UK's SDR proposals. Paul also participates on industry bodies, including the BVCA regulatory committee. Paul is listed as a Leading Individual in Chambers UK for Financial Services: Non-Contentious Regulatory.

Mathias Elspaß

Mathias Elspass is head of the German Energy & Infrastructure Group. He specialises in public law, in particular public planning and environmental law as well as energy law and public commercial law. Mathias advises companies and public authorities on public permit and planning procedures as well as project developments, particularly in the energy sector. He also advises on energy regulatory topics as well as on issues deriving from the Renewable Energies Sources Act (EEG).

Filippo Emanuele

Filippo Emanuele is Co-Head of Finance & Capital Markets in Italy. He specialises in equity and debt capital markets and corporate finance.

Bruce Embley specialises in cross-border and domestic M&A for a wide range of clients with a particular focus on financial sponsors and international corporations. Bruce is an M&A partner based in London and has worked with QIA for over 15 years on a wide range of projects. He is well regarded for advising on complex and high-profile M&A transactions, including two of the five largest M&A deals of all time (AB InBev/SABMiller and Royal Dutch Shell). His experience also includes restructuring matters involving M&A, such as debt-for-equity swaps, acquisitions out of Chapter 11, and distressed M&A.

Vincent is a managing associate in the Amsterdam Financial Markets group. He specialises in asset-backed finance transactions and transactional banking and advises a broad range of (international) corporations and financial institutions, such as issuers, arrangers, agents, lenders and borrowers on both public and private transactions, including structured notes, covered bonds, securitisations, warehouse financing arrangements and lending platforms as well as acquisition finance, real estate finance and loan portfolio sales.

Dominik Engl advises clients on all aspects of national and international tax law. His work focuses on the tax structuring of national and cross-border transactions such as acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures and restructurings in particular in connection with energy, infrastructure, industrial and real estate projects. He also provides tax advice on respective financings (senior and mezzanine). Dominik’s clients are national and international (strategic) equity investors, financial investors and lenders (including mezzanine providers). He has many years of experience in connection with the structuring of M&A transactions as well as advice in connection with financings.

Thomas England has more than 15 years of experience advising financial investors, financial institutions and corporate clients on finance and restructuring transactions across Asia-Pacific. Thomas specialises in complex financing and restructuring transactions across a broad range of products including acquisition finance (including portfolio acquisitions and disposals); restructuring transactions; energy and resources financings (including reserve-based lending); asset-backed financings and other trade finance; direct lending, real estate financing, funds financing, margin lending and other structured finance, as well as syndicated lending. Tom has a broad exposure to a number of jurisdictions in the region, with a particular focus on India and Indonesia.

Andrew Epstein’s practice focuses primarily on public and private capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate finance and general corporate transactions. Andrew represents issuers, underwriters, initial purchasers/placement agents and purchasers in public and private capital markets transactions and buyers, sellers and financial advisors in M&A transactions. He has experience across a broad range of industries, including specialty finance, asset management, real estate and real estate investment trusts (REITs), hospitality and healthcare. Andrew has also advised clients in IPOs, follow-on equity and debt offerings, pre-IPO/144A offerings, Regulation S offerings and other private placements. Mr. Epstein has also advised institutional clients in the structuring of real estate opportunity funds and the continuing investment activities of these funds.

Sait Eryılmaz heads the finance practice of our Istanbul office. He is specialised in banking and finance transactions, with a particular focus on project finance, syndicated lending, restructurings and structured finance. Sait has held a key position at the forefront of Turkish infrastructure and energy transactions in the last decade, taking part in many notable projects including PPPs and other large-scale cross-border transactions. He regularly represents banks, ECAs, Islamic and conventional financial institutions, sovereigns, corporates and private equity firms in a wide array of international project finance transactions, including in PPPs, infrastructure, transportation (roads, ports, railways and airports) energy, oil and gas, utilities and privatisations in Turkey and the wider EMEA region. Sait has extensive banking and finance experience with a particular focus on syndicated lending, project finance, acquisition finance, corporate finance, restructuring, Islamic finance, securitisations and structured finance. Sait also frequently acts for issuers and underwriters in both debt and equity offerings including Eurobond, sukuk, covered bond, green bond and regulatory bank capital offerings in and outside Turkey. Sait has also worked in the Firm's London office.

Fernando Escribano

Fernando Escribano is a Counsel in the Tax practice at Clifford Chance Madrid, specialising in the tax aspects of M&A, real estate, banking and finance transactions. Fernando has extensive experience leading the tax structuring of M&A and private equity deals, as well as NPL and real estate (REO) portfolios. Fernando also advises on the tax structuring of renewable energy transactions.

Mariana Estévez

Mariana Estévez experience has focused primarily on hybrid financings and debt capital markets transactions in Latin America. Mariana’s experience includes representing domestic and international financial institutions applying innovative structures, such as securitizations and bank-bond structures, to finance energy and infrastructure projects throughout Latin America. She also has extensive experience representing issuers and financial institutions acting as initial purchasers or placement agents in high yield and investment grade debt offerings and liability management transactions by corporates, sovereigns and quasi-sovereigns in Latin America.

David Evans has been involved in energy and finance matters his entire career, including positions as Chevron's chief natural gas lawyer, Vice President and General Counsel of an independent power developer, and as a partner in two major law firms. His current practice primarily involves representing lenders to, investors in, and developers of energy and infrastructure projects. He also advises clients on energy regulatory matters in the United States, including the Federal Power Act, the Natural Gas Act, the Atomic Energy Act , and the Energy Policy Act.

Fergus Evans is a partner in Clifford Chance's aviation finance and leasing practice and has extensive experience in various types of financings, including asset and structured finance (including tax leasing), syndicated lending, export credit agency backed financing, debt trading and restructuring. He also heads both the Thailand focus group for the firm, having been Office Managing Partner of our Bangkok office for 12 years, and our Vietnam focus group. Fergus is currently based in Singapore and has worked in several offices for Clifford Chance, including in London, Hanoi, Hong Kong and Bangkok.

Richard Evans works in Clifford Chance’s Global Asset Finance Group. He acts for borrowers and financiers on a wide range of asset finance transactions, specializing in aviation. His experience covers a wide range of financing structures, including full and limited recourse operating lease financings, direct airline financings, Japanese, French and Spanish tax lease structures, PDP financings, unsecured term loans and structured capital market transactions, as well as leasing and sale transactions. Richard is currently located in London but previously worked for two years in Clifford Chance’s Singapore office, as well as spending a year on secondment at GECAS.

Hilary Evenett has experience of all aspects of corporate and commercial work, including mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures focussing on financial institutions. She specialises in non-contentious insurance matters, including UK and European regulation, new authorisations, mergers and acquisitions, portfolio transfers, demutualisations, Lloyd's transactions, but also has significant experience of transactions involving banks and asset managers.

Jake Farquharson

Jake Farquharson focuses primarily on domestic and international capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate finance and general corporate transactions. Jake represents sponsors, issuers and investment banks in their public and private capital raising activities. He advises clients across a range of industries, including real estate and real estate investment trusts (REITs), FIBRAs, specialty finance, energy, infrastructure and hospitality. Since 2010, Jake has participated in more than US$8 billion of capital raising transactions, including IPOs, follow-on equity and debt offerings, pre-IPO financings, 144A and Regulation S offerings and other private placements.

Claire Fawcett specialises in real estate finance across Europe including acquisition financings, development financings, senior and mezzanine structures and loan on loan financings in respect of all real estate asset classes ranging from housing (including build to rent) to offices, logistics, retail, ground rents and data centres.

Matthias Feldmann

Matt has extensive experience establishing private investment funds; advising on fund structuring and legal and regulatory aspects. Matt has worked on some of the largest fund launches in the region. He also acts for institutional investors on their investments in funds and separate accounts.

Miloš Felgr is managing partner of Clifford Chance Prague and head of the finance practice. He is dual-qualified in Czech and Slovak law and specialises in banking and finance law, pre-insolvency restructuring, capital markets, aircraft and energy law, with a particular focus on project and acquisition finance. Miloš is a Band 1 lawyer for Banking & Finance in the Czech Republic according to Chambers & Partners and is recognized as a leading expert in the CEE. He is renowned for his work on cross-border transactions originating in Prague.

Eugenio Fernández-Rico

Eugenio Fernández-Rico has significant experience in acquisition finance, debt restructuring, direct lending from unregulated entities and complex structured financings. He also specializes in leasing and financing structures in asset finance deals, particularly within the aviation industry. He represents financers, developers, sponsors, investors and borrowers in infrastructure, telecoms and energy project financings both in Spain and in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia and Uruguay).

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Stefanie Ferring is a Partner in the Global Financial Markets practice at Clifford Chance's Luxembourg office. Stefanie specialises in insolvency and restructuring matters, with a focus on cross-border financial restructurings and restructuring work involving financial institutions and real estate portfolios. She also has broad experience in national and cross-border banking and finance work, including in particular bank lending and real estate finance. Stefanie is also leading the ESG initiative for the Luxembourg banking practice. She is a regular conference speaker and was guest lecturer in insolvency law at the University of Luxembourg.

Anne Filzmoser specialises in EC and German competition law — in particular, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cartels, compliance programmes, distribution and licensing arrangements across a wide range of industry sectors, including pharmaceutical, automotive, energy, food and consumer goods.

Benjamin Fisher

Benjamin Fisher specializes in cross-border asset finance transactions within the aviation sector and has extensive experience advising clients on a wide range of transaction types including secured and unsecured debt financing, portfolio acquisitions and sales, securitizations, restructurings, operating leases, finance leases, export credit agency-supported financings and joint ventures. Prior to joining the New York office, Benjamin worked for a number of years in the London and Hong Kong offices. He is dually qualified to practice in New York and England and Wales.

Mark Fisher specialises in digital infrastructure. With over 15 years of experience in the industry, he advises corporates, investors and regulators on a broad range of commercial and corporate transactions, alongside complex industry issues. Having worked in private practice, in-house for some of the world’s largest telecommunications operators, and within broader commercial roles, Mark brings in-depth commercial, operational, legal and organisational understanding across a diverse range of client requirements and industry issues.

Irena Floras-Goode

Irena Floras-Goode specialises in various types of financing, including project finance, asset finance and acquisition finance. She has advised a large number of corporate enterprises, Polish and foreign financial investors and Polish and foreign banks on financing acquisitions of assets and companies (including LBO transactions), project finance transactions and issues of securities, as well as on various banking products. She also has experience assisting foreign lessors on a number of transactions concerning sale and lease-back of aircraft as well as investments in the energy and renewables sectors.

Melissa Fogarty

Melissa Fogarty specialises in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and corporate and commercial advisory work. Melissa is an experienced M&A practitioner who is particularly well regarded for her ability to lead multi-jurisdictional and cross-practice teams to support clients on complex transactions. Melissa also regularly advises clients on corporate law and corporate governance matters.

Emma Folds specialises in domestic and cross border lending. Emma is experienced in structuring, negotiating and documenting leveraged buy-outs and other acquisition finance transactions, infrastructure financings and investment grade loans. Emma also advises on high profile restructurings.

Felipe Font specializes in Restructuring and Real Estate Finance. He has extensive expertise advising companies, financial institutions and investment funds on a wide-range of complex international cross-border and domestic financing transactions. This includes corporate finance, acquisition finance and bank lending generally.

Terence Foo is a partner of Clifford Chance's Singapore Office. He heads our China Desk for South East Asia, having previously been China Co-Managing Partner for 8 years. Terence Foo has over 25 years of experience in advising on cross-border M&A and joint ventures, including advising multinational clients on inbound investments in China, as well as advising Chinese enterprises on their outbound investments. Apart from Terence's cross-border M&A experience, he also has extensive experience in advising private equity and sovereign wealth funds on investments in China. He has advised clients on a broad range of sectors and has particular expertise in the energy (including renewable energy) technology (including digital infrastructure), mining, transport and logistics sectors. Currently based in Singapore, Terence has previously worked in London, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai.

Gioacchino Foti

Gioacchino Foti is one of the leading practitioners in Italy in Debt Capital Markets. His practice covers all aspects of DCM including EMTN establishments, updates, and issuances thereunder, stand-alone Eurobonds, liability management transactions, convertible bonds, warrants, Italian retail bonds and structured products, sovereign bonds, Yankee bonds as well as covering regulatory capital matters. Gioacchino acts for a wide range of investment banks and issuers.

Steven Fox is a Partner in Clifford Chance's corporate department specialising in public and private M&A, capital raising and IPOs, joint ventures and other corporate work. Steven's clients principally comprise a mix of international corporate entities, investment banks and financial institutions across a variety of markets.

Eddie Frastai is a partner in Clifford Chance's Real Estate group, based in New York. Eddie specializes in advising real estate owners, developers, operators, managers, investors and financial institutions on a broad range of real estate transactions pertaining to large office, hotel, retail, residential and mixed-use projects, including sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial mortgage, mezzanine and construction financing, debt restructurings and discounted payoffs. Eddie has been a guest lecturer at New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate and a panelist at the Law and Business Association of New York University School of Law.

Cristina Freudenberger

Cristina advises issuers and investment banks on capital markets law. She focuses on the issue, underwriting and placement of bonds, Schuldscheine, Pfandbriefe, commercial paper and structured products of any kind, including equity linked bonds and green finance instruments. Furthermore, Cristina advises on liability management exercises such as consent solicitations and exchange offers. In addition, Cristina advises clients on the transactional as well as regulatory parts of the structuring and offering of innovative capital market products such as crypto securities as well as crypto ETPs.

John Friel is a partner in Clifford Chance's Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice, based in New York. John represents corporate and financial institution clients in complex litigation and government enforcement actions. His practice focuses on antitrust, securities, and derivatives matters, both criminal and civil, and he has particular expertise in cross-border matters. John represents clients before a number of US agencies, including the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as well as numerous enforcement agencies around the world.

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Helen has extensive experience in advising and representing multinational corporations, listed companies and financial institutions in high-value commercial litigation, complex regulatory investigations and employment matters.

Julie Fu specialises in PE investments and M&A. She regularly advises private equity funds, multinational corporates and financial institutions on cross-border buyouts, minority investments, secondary investments, PIPE, disposals and joint ventures. Her industry experience includes consumer goods and retail, technology, real estate, healthcare, manufacturing and financial institutions.

Carlo Galli has been Head of Tax in Italy since its establishment, and is part of the global Tax group. He regularly advises domestic and international clients on all aspects of tax in complex transactions and has significant experience in the structuring and financing of inbound and outbound investments.

Clément Gandibleux

Clément Gandibleux is specialised in commercial litigation. Clément advises and represents clients in a wide range of sectors, including sports, media and telecoms, retail, and aviation.

Eduardo García

Eduardo García is the Head of the Global Financial Markets Practice of Clifford Chance Spain. Eduardo has a broad experience in all types of structure debt, securitization as well as general lending, real estate finance, project finance (including project bonds) and restructurings. He acts for a broad range of market participants, including banks, investment funds, multi-laterals, sponsors and corporates. He is particularly active in the Fintech area.

Thais Garcia is co-Chair of the Clifford Chance Latin America Group. Thais specialises in cross-border M&A, restructurings and joint ventures, with a particular focus on the Latin America and US markets. Thais regularly represents corporates, private equity houses, pension funds, infrastructure funds and other investors in their investments in the region. Among the sectors she focuses on are energy and infrastructure, consumer goods & retail and TMT.

José García Cueto

José García Cueto focuses his practice on commercial and investor-state international arbitration and mediation matters in Latin America and the US. He has extensive experience advising in infrastructure (oil & gas, renewables, power plants, and construction disputes generally) post M&A disputes and investment related disputes. He has experience advising on ICSID, ICC AAA, UNCITRAL, ICDR and ad hoc arbitrations, among others.

Javier García de Enterría

Javier García de Enterría specialises in corporate matters and equity capital markets. Javier has a broad experience in all types of M&A transactions, with a special focus on takeover bids, corporate restructurings, corporate governance, regulation of listed companies and ECM transactions, as IPOs or rights issues. A former Corporate and Commercial law professor, he has participated in different committees of experts appointed by the Spanish CNMV, in matters as the corporate regulation for the issuance of securities by listed companies or the activity of the proxy advisors in the Spanish market.

Steven Gatti specializes in regulatory enforcement proceedings before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other securities regulators, and in other regulatory matters within the financial services sector, including internal investigations. Steve advises multi-national broker-dealers, asset managers, and other financial services companies with respect to financial markets and trading regulation, compliance, the development of new products, and financial institution mergers and acquisitions.

Katia Gauzès specialises in corporate law, advising domestic and foreign clients, in particular international companies and clients from the private equity and real estate industry on the structuring of complex international transactions, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions as well as the reorganization and setting up of various company structures and joint ventures in Luxembourg. Katia represents Clifford Chance on the board of directors of LPEA, the Luxembourg Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, and is also a member of its Legal Technical Committee.

Avrohom Gelber practices U.S. tax law, focusing on cross-border finance and capital markets transactions. Avrohom provides tax and structuring advice for a wide variety of international financial and business transactions, including the formation of investment funds, corporate acquisitions and restructurings and derivative financial instruments.

David advises on all aspects of real estate law. He specialises in corporate real estate, including portfolio, high-profile and complex real estate transactions, as well as real estate private equity, including the formation of real estate funds, joint-ventures and partnerships. His practice also extends to asset, property and development management, with a particular focus on the Property Technology and Energy sectors.

Emma Ghaffari focuses on advising private equity funds, sovereign wealth-backed investors and other financial sponsors and international corporations on a range of matters, including leveraged buyouts, consortium arrangements, co-investments and joint ventures, reorganizations and exits.

Carlo Felice Giampaolino

Carlo Giampaolino is an expert on corporate, insurance, bankruptcy, industrial and financial markets law. His work is performed both in and out of court for leading Italian and international financial institutions and corporations. Carlo has been appointed by the bankruptcy court for fraudulent conveyance actions, liabilities of directors, litigation in corporate law, patent law, unfair competition, legal opinion in insurance law, corporation law, banking law, drafting of corporation by-laws and contracts.

Sonia Gilbert specialises in advising companies on employee share plans, incentive arrangements and remuneration issues. She has particular expertise in incentive plans for large companies, global share plans, alternative remuneration structures including employee trusts and corporate governance issues.

Fernando Giménez-Alvear

Fernando Giménez-Alvear specialises in litigation and arbitration. He has acted in all types of judicial, mediation and arbitration proceedings before both national and international courts. Fernando is member of the insurance group of the firm and has extensive experience in conflicts in the insurance sector and disputes related to distribution and agency agreements, M&A and Real Estate transactions, Corporate Law, antitrust and unfair competition.

Philipp Girardet

Philipp Girardet is a partner in the Global Antitrust Group and has deep experience in cross-border M&A transactions, including complex carve-outs and joint ventures, as well as complex cartel defence matters. He also has an active EU and UK competition compliance and antitrust litigation practice across a wide spectrum of industry sectors, including industrials, consumer goods, digital platforms/ e commerce, financial services, telecoms, media, pharma and transport.

Anthony Giustini

Tony Giustini is the senior partner of our global energy, infrastructure and projects practices. His global practice covers investment, development and finance transactions in the power, renewables, sustainability, clean hydrogen, oil and gas, petrochemical, mining, and infrastructure sectors. He served for years as head of the firm's Worldwide Projects Group and Africa Group. Tony is also the leader of the Clean Hydrogen Taskforce (CHT), a group of Clifford Chance lawyers around the globe following the latest in clean H2 regulation, transaction structuring and market developments. Over more than three decades, Tony has represented developers, investors and lenders in many multisource, complex energy, infrastructure and industrial projects in a variety of sectors, in Europe, Africa and other emerging markets. These include oil and gas pipelines, renewables (including geothermal), gas (including renewable natural gas) and coal fired power plants, LNG, mining and transportation projects. Most recently, he has led or worked on teams assisting clients on several (including GW-scale) clean H2 matters, including in Spain, France, The Netherlands, Morocco and Namibia. As the CHT leader, Tony brainstorms with market players across the upstream, midstream and downstream of the emerging clean H2 value chain, including developers, offtakers, regulators, investors, and lenders. Tony has several notable rankings, including Chambers (Chambers & Partners) Band 1 in Project & Energy France, and Project Finance Africa-wide. He is also listed in the Legal500 (Legalease Ltd.) Hall of Fame, and IFLR (Delinian Ltd.) across several categories.

Anthony Giustini

Tony Giustini is the senior partner of our global energy, infrastructure and projects practices. His global practice covers investment, development and finance transactions in the power, renewables, sustainability, clean hydrogen, oil and gas, petrochemical, mining, and infrastructure sectors. He served for years as head of the firm's Worldwide Projects Group and Africa Group. Tony is also the leader of the Clean Hydrogen Taskforce (CHT), a group of Clifford Chance lawyers around the globe following the latest in clean H2 regulation, transaction structuring and market developments. Over more than three decades, Tony has represented developers, investors and lenders in many multisource, complex energy, infrastructure and industrial projects in a variety of sectors, in Europe, Africa and other emerging markets. These include oil and gas pipelines, renewables (including geothermal), gas (including renewable natural gas) and coal fired power plants, LNG, mining and transportation projects. Most recently, he has led or worked on teams assisting clients on several (including GW-scale) clean H2 matters, including in Spain, France, The Netherlands, Morocco and Namibia. As the CHT leader, Tony brainstorms with market players across the upstream, midstream and downstream of the emerging clean H2 value chain, including developers, offtakers, regulators, investors, and lenders. Tony has several notable rankings, including Chambers (Chambers & Partners) Band 1 in Project & Energy France, and Project Finance Africa-wide. He is also listed in the Legal500 (Legalease Ltd.) Hall of Fame, and IFLR (Delinian Ltd.) across several categories.

Jessica Gladstone

Jessica Gladstone is a partner and solicitor-advocate specialising in international arbitration, commercial and public law litigation and public international law. Widely recognised as "one of the brightest talents of her generation" (Chambers UK), she advises on international trade and investment, immunities, economic sanctions and human rights. Jessica has represented multinational corporations, financial institutions, international organisations, states and individuals before arbitral tribunals and domestic and international courts, including the Privy Council and the European Court of Human Rights. An accomplished advocate, she has acted in some of the most complex international and commercial disputes, and she is a trusted adviser on risk and reputation management, including political risk, business and human rights and wider ESG issues. A former legal adviser for the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Jessica has experience negotiating treaties, and representing the UK at the United Nations, the Council of Europe and in other international institutions. Beyond her practice as counsel, she also sits as arbitrator. Jessica is a member of the Board of Save the Children UK and a co-founder and trustee of Advocates for International Development.

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Deniz Göcük specialises in M&A, general corporate and commercial law/contracts along with litigation. She advises both international and domestic companies, private equity firms, financial institutions, corporates on sell-side and buy-side M&A transactions, joint ventures, restructurings and various other corporate matters. Deniz also advises companies on all aspects of employment law, data protection and intellectual property law. She has substantial expertise in energy, retail and healthcare sectors. *Clifford Chance works in cooperation with CE Partners in Türkiye

*Clifford Chance Asia is a Formal Law Alliance in Singapore between Clifford Chance Pte Ltd and Cavenagh Law LLP Janice Goh specialises in commercial dispute resolution, regulatory compliance matters and white collar crime including market misconduct and anti-bribery. Janice has extensive experience in a wide range of contentious and advisory matters with a particular emphasis on financial regulatory and corporate investigations and enforcement matters, including regulatory compliance and corporate governance. Her expertise in white-collar crime includes market misconduct, anti-bribery and anti-money laundering. Janice also regularly advises on employment law, particularly in employment disputes in the context of wider internal or regulatory investigations. She has been recognised by the Singapore Business Review as one of "Singapore's most influential lawyers aged 40 and under". Janice practised in Hong Kong with Clifford Chance before moving to Singapore.

Antonio Golino specialises in Regulatory Enforcement and Financial Crimes, regularly advising financial institutions and corporations on sensitive matters arising from regulatory issues and criminal investigations. Antonio is also a trial lawyer with particular focus on financial crimes, acting as criminal defence counsel for corporate entities and individuals in high-profile market abuse and fraud trials. Antonio is a lecturer in Regulatory Enforcement on the LL.M. in White Collar Crime at LUISS University School of Law in Rome.

Megan Gordon's work encompasses a broad range of regulatory matters arising under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), US anti-money laundering (AML) and economic sanctions laws and regulations, export controls, privacy and US data protection laws and regulations. She advises clients on how to manage risk exposure in a wide-variety of legal areas affecting companies and financial institutions conducting international business. She also advises multinational companies in connection with transactional risks and in designing and implementing their compliance programs.

Richard Gordon specialises in financing transactions, including leveraged acquisitions, project and infrastructure transactions, corporate lending and restructurings, acting for both lenders and borrowers. Before joining Clifford Chance, Richard was a Partner and the head of the banking & financial services sector at a leading Australian firm.

Michael Gorrie

Jim Gouwar is a partner in the Tax, Pensions & Employment group in New York. His practice concentrates on the tax aspects of structured ﬁnance transactions such as mortgage- and asset-backed transactions, collateralized loan and debt obligations (cash and synthetic) and real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs). Jim has been involved in the development of innovative securitization structures and has worked with a broad range of ﬁnancial assets. Jim has experience with private equity funds, hedge funds, regulated investment companies, and other pooled investment vehicles.

Jim Gouwar's practice concentrates on the tax aspects of structured ﬁnance transactions such as mortgage- and asset-backed transactions, collateralized loan and debt obligations (cash and synthetic) and real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs). Jim has been involved in the development of a number of innovative securitization structures and has worked with a broad range of ﬁnancial assets. Jim has experience with private equity funds, hedge funds, regulated investment companies, and other pooled investment vehicles.

Pierre Goyat specializes in the tax aspects of domestic and cross-border transactions (M&A, private equity) as well as fund and carried interest structuring. He also advises corporate executives on profit-sharing and management incentive plans.

Miłosz Gołąb

Miłosz Gołąb specialises in complex financing, refinancing and turnaround & out-of-court restructuring transactions concerning financial indebtedness, and in the issuance of debt securities. He mainly advises listed companies, Polish banks and international lending institutions on the refinancing and restructuring of existing financial debt of capital groups, involving various groups of creditors. He has been involved in many groundbreaking restructurings, acting both for banks and other financial institutions, and for corporate clients. Miłosz also has a wide range of experience in financing and refinancing various types of investment projects (financing corporate takeovers, asset and investment projects) as well as issuance of debt securities.

Clémence Graffan

Roberto Grau specialises in tax aspects of Capital Markets and Banking and Finance transactions. In particular, he has a wide experience in the tax structuring of debt and equity instruments and issuance of derivatives and securitisation transactions. Roberto also deals with the tax advice of Corporate restructuring and M&A transactions and Private Equity.

Simon Greenberg

Simon Greenberg is in Clifford Chance's international arbitration group. Simon advises on transnational dispute management and acts as both counsel and as arbitrator in international arbitrations taking place all around the world. He has over 22 years' experience in the field. Simon's experience covers numerous governing laws and seats of arbitration and a range of dispute types and business sectors. In recent years his practice has focused on mining, metals and energy, aviation (in particular helicopters) and telecoms/technology. He also has unparalleled experience of disputes involving allegations of corruption, illegality and/or the breach of anti-bribery and corruption rules. Simon is co-chair of Clifford Chance's global Mining and Metals Sector group. He is also a part time judge of the commercial division of the Supreme Court of Bahrain. Simon spent four years as Deputy Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (2008-2012) followed by six years as a Court Member (for Australia) of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration since 2007. He is the Chair of ICC Australia's arbitrator Nominations Commission since July 2022. From 2013 to 2016 Simon represented the Australian Government at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. Simon is a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science of Paris (Sciences Po) since 2008, a visiting professor of international commercial arbitration at Hong Kong University since 2010, and a regular speaker at arbitration conferences. He has published more than 30 journal articles and two books relating to international arbitration.

Paul Greenwell specialises in asset and structured finance, in particular, in relation to the PRC and Japanese markets, and has extensive experience acting for financiers (debt and equity) and lessors in all aspects of aircraft finance and leasing including limited recourse and structured financing, commercial debt financing (including syndicated lending), securitisation of receivables, export credit financing, portfolio transactions (including multi-aircraft purchases and lease novations), corporate acquisitions and disposals, sale and leasebacks, tax leases, finance leases, operating leases, leasing joint ventures and airline defaults, insolvencies and restructurings and aircraft repossession.

Kelly Gregory is a partner in the Corporate group of Clifford Chance's Shanghai Office. With 20 years of on the ground experience in Clifford Chance's Shanghai office, Kelly Gregory specialises in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, minority investments, disposals, reorganisations and general corporate advisory matters. Her clients include both multinational and Chinese corporations. Kelly has extensive experience advising international and Chinese clients across a broad range of industries, including consumer goods & retail, energy, technology and industrials (in particular aerospace, automotive and chemicals). Kelly is ranked as Band 1 in Corporate/M&A by Chambers Greater China Region Guide 2025 and Highly Regarded in Corporate & M&A and Private Equity in China by the IFLR 1000. She has also been inducted to the “Hall of Fame” in M&A in China by the Legal 500.

With over 20 years' experience in her legal career, Naomi has acted for clients across a range of sectors and industries on complex commercial litigation, class actions and regulatory investigations. She has experience litigating in the Federal Court and Supreme Courts of NSW and Victoria as well as in the Queens Bench division in the UK (being admitted as a solicitor in NSW and the High Court of Australia and in England and Wales). She has advised clients in parliamentary inquiries and follow-on litigation to such inquiries. Naomi is Co-Chair of the firm's global Class Actions and Group Litigation Group, Chair of the Innovation & Best Delivery Committee for APAC and a member of the global ESG Risk working group. Naomi previously worked for a top tier Australian firm, in-house at a global bank and in-house at a wealth manager. She has training and experience as a legal project manager and regularly integrates technology into her team's project delivery. Naomi is highly regarded by clients for her technical skills and trial experience. Legal 500 recognised Naomi as a "Next Generation Partner" in 2023. Naomi is a passionate supporter of the firm's Accelerate network promoting greater diversity and inclusion.

Mark Grime advises on high-stakes antitrust / competition law matters and investigations, including in relation to merger control, cartels and unilateral conduct. His practice focuses particularly on advising clients in respect of antitrust issues associated with, and obtaining regulatory approvals for, complex and contentious transactions. Prior to joining Clifford Chance Mark worked in the Enforcement and Mergers divisions of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission. He is dual qualified in Australia and New York. Mark has been consistently recognised as a rising star and next generation practitioner in various legal directories for competition and antitrust law in Australia and the Asia-Pacific.

Nolan Groenland

Nolan Groenland specialises in the taxation of corporate and financing transactions with particular emphasis on M&A, (structured) finance, tax controversy and international taxation. He has ample experience with the full range of financial products including lending, acquisition finance, real estate finance, asset finance, project finance, derivatives, insolvency & restructuring and structured finance, especially securitization, tax controversy & policy and (debt & equity) capital markets, as well as executive remuneration and dismissal issues.

Guillermo Guardia

Guillermo Guardia has broad experience in international mergers and acquisitions, private-equity and joint-venture transactions. Guillermo has also advised several national and international financial institutions and corporations on acquisition finance, corporate financing and project finance transactions both in the energy and in the infrastructure sector.

José Guardo's main areas of practice are Projects, Asset Finance and Export and Trade Finance. José advises all the main financial Spanish and international institutions active in Spain. José also is very active advising corporations and multilaterals abroad, and in particular in Latin America. He has vast expertise in infrastructures and energy related transactions.

Frédéric Guilloux

George Hacket currently heads the equity capital markets practice and the U.S. securities team in the Clifford Chance Frankfurt office, specializing in cross-border debt and equity transactions and advising issuers and underwriters on legal aspects of international securities offerings. George advises on IPOs, capital increases, stock exchange listings and high yield and investment grade debt issuances. George also has experience in advising on corporate governance and compliance matters for listed companies. He has further gained experience in a number of industries, including industrials and mobility, energy, infrastructure and healthcare and life sciences.

Christof Häfner

Christof Häfner specialises on structured finance transactions, in particular international project finance transactions in the infrastructure and energy sector, on real estate finance transactions as well as on asset finance transactions in the aviation and rail sector. Christof advises sponsors and lenders on all aspects, including managing and structuring, of international projects.

Rob Hagan has extensive experience in structured capital markets, focusing primarily on the acquisition, financing, management, disposition and securitization of residential and commercial mortgage assets.

Alberto Haito has extensive experience in financial markets and project financing and has represented various financial institutions, including multilateral organizations, commercial banks and sponsors in numerous energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America.

Krzysztof Hajdamowicz

Krzysztof Hajdamowicz specialises in M&A and private equity transactions, cross-border and domestic corporate reorganizations, new technologies, intellectual property, personal data protection, unfair competition, and general corporate advice. Krzysztof has vast experience in the IT, healthcare, consumer goods and the oil, gas and chemicals sectors.

Claudia Hall is a Senior Associate in Clifford Chance’s Tech//Digital practice, based in London. She advises on a range of technology, data, and privacy matters, including advising on commercial contracts, data and privacy issues and regulatory investigations across the financial, health and technology sector and partnering with clients to develop and negotiate bespoke commercial agreements for new and data-driven products and business units.

Sandy Hall is the head of our International Construction Group. Sandy specialises in the procurement of complex assets across all major industry sectors, with a particular focus on oil and gas, power (conventional and renewable) and major infrastructure projects.

Mohamed Hamra-Krouha

Mohamed Hamra-Krouha specialises in banking and projects, splitting his time between Clifford Chance in Abu Dhabi and AS&H Clifford Chance in Riyadh. Mohamed advises sponsors, financiers and governments on projects and project financings. Projects he has advised on include power and water (IWPPs), petrochemicals and infrastructure projects in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Middle East and North Africa. He is also responsible for Clifford Chance's practice in Egypt and Libya.

Elizabeth Hardacre

Senior Associate

Jack Hardman specialises in technology and financial services, having significant experience in our London and Dubai teams, focusing the majority of his work on M&A for financial institutions and technology companies. Jack also leads the financial services regulatory and fintech practices for Clifford Chance in the Middle East, having advised local and international financial services and technology companies, as well as regional regulators, for several years, including on UAE, DIFC and ADGM regulations. Jack has acted on many of the leading regional transactions in the financial and technology sector in recent years. He has also been involved in the establishment of prominent fintech platforms and operations. His broad practice spans M&A, restructuring, regulatory, licensing tech contracting, data and general advisory work across the FIG/tech sectors. Jack is the Africa Practice Leader for Tech.

David Harkness specialises in corporate and finance tax, advising on the taxation aspects of a wide variety of mergers and acquisitions, corporate, commercial and financing transactions including domestic and international joint ventures, corporate restructuring and international tax planning. David is also experienced in advising on tax disputes. He is regularly ranked in the Top Band of Tax Lawyers (Chambers, Legal 500) in the UK and is consistently seen as a leading individual.

Peter Harris has helped multiple clients navigate cross-border business disputes through litigation, arbitration, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. He regularly acts for clients in the energy, resources, construction and infrastructure sectors but also has recent experience of resolving disputes relating to tech, financial services, shipping and commodities. Peter is an experienced oral advocate who regularly appears before international tribunals. Peter also has experience sitting as an arbitrator.

Cameron Hassall

Cameron Hassall leads the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice in Asia Pacific. Maintaining a practice in both Hong Kong and Australia, Cameron specialises in commercial litigation and international arbitration arising from corporate M&A, private equity, venture capital, energy & infrastructure, aviation and banking disputes. Cameron has full rights of audience in Hong Kong and has appeared as both counsel and arbitrator in across APAC, including with seats in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Geneva, London and Ghana and under the AAA, CIETAC, HKIAC, ICC, LCIA, SCC, SIAC and UNCITRAL Rules.

Laura Hasson advises a broad range of clients on complex commercial, financial and civil fraud matters and has significant trial experience. Laura's disputes experience involves advising on high value and complex commercial matters, often involving multiple jurisdictions. Laura has particular expertise in trust litigation and is one of the key members of the private wealth and trusts disputes team.

Ben Hatton specialises in property litigation and dispute resolution and litigation risk-avoidance. Ben has expertise in all aspects of property disputes and landlord and tenant issues, with particular expertise in development issues including rights of light, rent review advice and arbitrations, property-related insolvency, professional negligence on property matters, asset management disputes including expert determinations and disputes in relation to contracts and issues arising out of Brexit. His expertise includes rent review opinion writing, service charge disputes, fit-out disputes, dilapidations, alienation disputes, forfeiture, enfranchisement issues, easements, restrictive covenants, possession actions, contract and joint venture disputes, mortgage & charge portfolio enforcement and foreclosure, property finance disputes, 1954 Act disputes, and advising lenders and developers on risks on developments. Ben is experienced in County Courts, High Court, Court of Appeal, Mediations, Expert Determinations and Arbitrations.

John Healy advises acquiring, selling and target companies and their financial advisors on both negotiated and unsolicited acquisitions for privately and publicly held corporations.

Adam Hedley specialises in environment, health & safety (EHS), carbon market and climate change regulation. His expertise spans compliance advisory, project and transactional matters, as well as environmental and climate-related litigation, regulatory investigations and enforcement actions. Adam is a member of our Global ESG 'Board, with particular focus on EHS governance, ESG-related disclosures and reporting, carbon reduction/net-zero objectives and renewable fuels/energy transition.

Tim Heerschop specialises in private and public M&A, private equity, management participation and corporate advisory work. He advises both international and domestic private equity firms and their portfolio companies, financial institutions and corporates on sell-side and buy-side M&A transactions, public offers, joint ventures, restructurings and various other corporate matters. Tim is also experienced in transactions in the energy and renewables sector.

Connie Heng is Clifford Chance's Regional Managing Partner in Asia Pacific and partner of the Greater China Capital Markets team. During her 20-plus year career, she has assisted many Hong Kong and Chinese issuers with their securities offerings in the international debt capital markets and has advised on numerous landmark transactions. She is recognised as a Leading Individual by Chambers Asia Pacific and Legal 500 and has received a Highly Regarded ranking from IFLR 1000. Chambers Asia Pacific, Legal 500 and IFLR 1000 have all ranked the capital markets (debt and equity) practice as Band 1 for five consecutive years. Connie is a member of the Firm's Group Global Executive Leadership Group and has represented the firm as part of its delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos since 2012. Connie is an active supporter of diversity and gender issues and founded the region's first women's network.

Antonio Henríquez

Antonio Henriquez specialises in international equity and debt capital markets transactions. Antonio has acted for both underwriters and issuers in international capital raisings and public offerings, exchangeable and convertible bonds issues, hybrid capital and contingent capital issues, stand-alone multijurisdictional bond issues, medium term note programmes, euro-commercial paper and certificate programmes, warrant programmes as well liability management and debt recovery work.

Javier Hermosilla

Javier Hermosilla specialises in domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures, private equity, restructurings and corporate matters. Javier acts for a broad range of clients including corporates, funds and financial services groups, particularly in the energy & infrastructures, financial, and consumer, goods & retail sectors.

Carlos Hernández-Canut

Carlos Hernández-Canut's main areas of practice are finance law, including banking and capital markets.Carlos specialises in project and structured finance. He has recently been involved in some of the most prominent refinancings and restructurings in Spain.

Philip has been a Partner since 2002 and is Global Co-Head of the Restructuring and Insolvency Group. He is a member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals, INSOL, and the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association. Philip is a past President of the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association. Philip is the co-author of the chapter entitled “Schemes of Arrangement” in Tolley's Insolvency Law and “Compromising Shareholder Claims both generally and in listed companies” in “The Law and Practice of Restructuring in the UK and US” as well as numerous articles on insolvency related topics. His practice involves general insolvency and restructuring work (as well as insurance run-off and insolvency work).

Dominik Heß advises national and international clients on takeovers, investments in listed companies, business combinations, joint ventures and private M&A transactions. He also advises on corporate, capital markets, group and reorganization law as well as ESG matters, also in the context of equity capital markets transactions.

Philip Hill has over 20 years' experience dealing with a wide range of commercial, corporate, financial services and banking disputes and regulatory issues. He has extensive experience handling complex, multiparty and frequently cross-border disputes in the courts and in arbitration. Particular areas of expertise include professional negligence and fraud, advising claimants and defendants on complex professional negligence disputes; IT disputes and issues relating to online gaming; and Insurance. Philip regularly acts for policyholders on significant coverage disputes, including in the financial services, oil and gas, energy and infrastructure sectors. Philip also advises on non-contentious aspects of risk management. This includes advising professional services firms as well as drafting and reviewing insurance programmes and wordings, including advising on regulatory issues (Basel II/III compliance). Philip co-heads Clifford Chance's contentious insurance group, which is rated Tier 1 for policyholder claims by the Legal 500.

Oliver Hipperson

Oliver Hipperson is Head of the Asset Finance Group in London. Oliver advises a wide range of clients in the transportation sector, with a primary focus on the financing, leasing, trading and repackaging of aviation and maritime assets. He also advises banks and export credit agencies on export finance transactions across a wider range of sectors. Oliver has been very active in secondary debt trading, having acted for both buyers, sellers and financiers of large secured and unsecured loan and lease receivable portfolios (including in some cases the subsequent restructuring and repackaging of those portfolios). Oliver worked for two years in a commercial role in the investment banking division of Barclays Bank plc, giving him a particular insight into the structuring and execution of capital equipment financing transactions.

Ling Ho has spent over 30 years advising clients on intellectual property related matters in the Greater China region. Her expertise covers the full spread of contentious and non-contentious IP issues. She is the head of the Hong Kong Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice and is a core member of the firm's global Tech Group with particular focus on IP, cyber, tech disputes and risk management. Ling has extensive trial, deal and strategic counselling experience, and has acted in leading cases in the fields of trademarks, patents, copyright, designs to confidential information. Ling is regularly involved in negotiating and drafting brand usage, technology transfer and other IP related collaboration agreements for clients investing into Asia markets. Ling's practice also spans arbitration, commercial litigation, cyber, data privacy, defamation as well as product liability claims. Her clients range from multinational corporations and government agencies to leading businesses and individuals in the region, across a broad spectrum of industries including healthcare, technology, media, consumer goods and retail, financial services and leisure.

Ling Ho has spent over 30 years advising clients on intellectual property related matters in the Greater China region. Her expertise covers the full spread of contentious and non-contentious IP issues. She is the head of the Hong Kong Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice and is a core member of the firm's global Tech Group with particular focus on IP, cyber, tech disputes and risk management. Ling has extensive trial, deal and strategic counselling experience, and has acted in leading cases in the fields of trademarks, patents, copyright, designs to confidential information. Ling is regularly involved in negotiating and drafting brand usage, technology transfer and other IP related collaboration agreements for clients investing into Asia markets. Ling's practice also spans arbitration, commercial litigation, cyber, data privacy, defamation as well as product liability claims. Her clients range from multinational corporations and government agencies to leading businesses and individuals in the region, across a broad spectrum of industries including healthcare, technology, media, consumer goods and retail, financial services and leisure.

Jelle Hofland is a partner in the Global Financial Markets and co-heads the Amsterdam Restructuring practice. He is one of the most experienced finance lawyers in The Netherlands and specialises in (layered) leveraged finance transactions, syndicated lending and complex restructurings. Jelle acts for a range of borrowers (including many PE houses, tech companies and corporates) and financiers. Focus areas include energy transition and innovation.

Melissa Hollenders-Brown

Melissa Hollenders-Brown specialises in international arbitration disputes in the energy and resources, construction and maritime sectors. Melissa has a particular focus on in international arbitration and has represented a clients in arbitrations seated in a number of jurisdictions and conducted under a wide range of rules (LCIA, ICC, LMAA, UNICTRAL, ICSID, AAA). Melissa has represented corporations, state-owned entities and high net worth individuals. At the post-award stage, she has advised on global enforcement strategies and coordinated proceedings involving multiple jurisdictions. Melissa has worked in Clifford Chance’s London and Paris offices. She has also previously worked (on secondment) in the In-House Legal team at an independent power producer focused on power generation projects in Africa. Melissa is admitted as a Solicitor-Advocate (Civil Proceedings) in the Courts of England and Wales.

Emil Holub is the head of Prague's real estate practice and is widely recognised as one of the top real estate lawyers in the Czech Republic and in the CEE. His extensive experience in all aspects of real estate law includes specialisation in real estate M&A, investments into real estate in general and development projects in both the Czech Republic and the CEE region as a whole. Emil's involvement in the majority of the large-scale transactions, that have taken place over the last two decades in the Czech Republic and the region, has gained him comprehensive and significant market-recognised expertise.

Marcia Hook is an energy regulatory partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Drawing on a deep understanding of complex laws, regulations, and market rules, Marcia provides clients with practical advice to navigate opaque energy regulatory requirements and complicated energy litigation. She has represented clients across the energy industry before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Department of Energy, state public utility commissions, and U.S. Courts of Appeals. Her experience representing clients across the energy industry helps Marcia provide transactional advice that extends beyond standard-issue regulatory matters such as approvals and filings to transaction strategy and deal structure, tailored to the needs and objectives of the client. Marcia also advises clients regarding the negotiation and development of commercial agreements, including agreements for the purchase and sale of power, transmission rights, hydrogen, natural gas, and LNG. Marcia was recognized as “Up and Coming” in the 2021, 2022 and 2023 editions of Chambers USA for Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation), Nationwide, and “Up and Coming” in the 2022 and 2023 editions of Chambers Global for Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation), USA.

Uwe Hornung has been a partner in the Frankfurt office since 1994. He is a member of the Commercial Litigation Group and specializes in litigation as well as national and international arbitration proceedings with industrial, corporate or transactional background. He has served as an arbitrator in ICC-, Stockholm- and DIS-Arbitration proceedings as well as pleaded before the European Court of Justice.

Jan-Hendrik Horsmeier

Jan-Hendrik Horsmeier specialises in public and private mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate advisory work. He advises international and domestic private equity houses, financial sponsors and corporates on a wide range of matters, including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and disposals, takeovers, mergers, joint ventures and public offers. Jan-Hendrik has particular experience in the infrastructure & energy and tech sectors.

Robert Houck represents clients in government investigations and complex commercial litigation with a specific focus on cross-border matters. He has specific expertise in complex trading and markets issues. Robert has represented corporations and individuals in connection with regulatory investigations before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the United States Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange, various state attorneys general and numerous non-US regulators. Robert has extensive experience representing companies, underwriters, corporate officers, and outside directors in class actions brought under the Commodity Exchange Act, the US and state antitrust laws, the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Julia House advises on a wide range of financing transactions acting for borrowers, sponsors and lenders. Julia specialises in infrastructure financing, acting for both infrastructure sponsors and funders on the acquisition, financing and refinancing of infrastructure assets. Julia is listed as a Rising Star for Acquisition Finance in Legal 500.

Ross Howard is a Partner in Clifford Chance's Global Financial Markets Team and a member of the firm's Worldwide Projects Group and our Energy and Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure Sector Groups. Ross specialises in advising sponsors and lenders in connection with the development and financing of complex and large-scale projects in the renewable energy, power, oil and gas, natural resources and infrastructure sectors. He has extensive experience advising on the structuring, negotiation and financing of large-scale international projects across Asia Pacific, Africa and Europe.

John Howitt is a partner in the US Finance and Restructuring Group of Clifford Chance specializing in asset finance. In particular, he focuses on aircraft finance, including leveraged lease transactions, operating leases (domestic and cross-border), new and used aircraft purchases (including portfolio acquisitions), sales (including portfolio sales) and sale-leasebacks, securitizations, restructurings and manufacturer support arrangements. John also has considerable experience in bank and private placement credit transactions, including asset-based financings; domestic and Latin American debt restructurings; acquisition and recapitalization financings; project financings; domestic, Eurodollar, and Eurocurrency loans; loan and note swaps; sales and participations; letter of credit facilities; and commercial paper facilities.

Nigel Howorth specialises in planning, environment, energy and public law. Nigel's expertise includes property development, energy and renewables projects including environmental and health & safety issues in respect of corporate mergers and acquisitions, as well as advising on environmental and climate change regulation, environmental disputes and litigation. Nigel is a Partner and head of the London Environment and Planning Group. He also leads the firm's Global Environment Group, Environment & Climatic Trading Group and Climate Change Group. Nigel is a member of our global Climate Change Risk team.

Clare Hoxey is a pension law and regulation specialist, advising clients on a wide range of issues. Clare specialises in all aspects of pensions law acting for UK and multinational public and private corporations, insurance companies and other pension product providers, private equity houses and trustees of occupational pension schemes.

Heiner Hugger advises on investigations, legal proceedings, compliance and fraud-prevention measures and all other issues in connection with criminal, regulatory or other penalties. Heiner has particular experience in defending against investigations against companies and their staff members, advising on internal investigations and on the prosecution of offences committed to the detriment of companies, as well as in advising companies on compliance and fraud-prevention measures.

Peter Hughes is a counsel in Clifford Chance's Americas Energy and Infrastructure Group, based in Washington, DC. He advises developers, investors, lenders and US agencies relating to energy and infrastructure projects worldwide, with a particular emphasis on the US and US federal energy regulatory issues. He has particular expertise in renewable energy financings. Peter received a J.D. from New York University School of Law, an A.B., summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College, a MES in EU Integration Studies from the University of Bonn, Germany, as a Fulbright Scholar, and a MPhil in Historical Studies from the University of Cambridge, England. He is admitted in New York and Washington, DC, is a dual American and British citizen, and speaks fluent German.

Jenine Hulsmann

Ranbir Hunjan specialises in Asset and Project finance with a particular focus on Transportation & Infrastructure, and Energy & Renewables. Ranbir has additionally been acting on India-related matters for over 20 years and is recognised by Chambers as one as the leading practitioners in this area.

Julian Hurtado Vallejo

Julián is an associate in the Americas Energy and Infrastructure Group. He has vast experience advising multilateral organizations, commercial banks, institutional investors and sponsors in all aspects of the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America.

Andrew Hutchins

Andrew Hutchins covers a wide range of bank lending areas, including syndicated lending, cross border leveraged transactions, acquisition finance, funds financing, structured lending and financing the acquisition of non performing loan portfolios.

Elisa Ielpo

Tariq Imam leads our Middle East Real Estate Practice. Tariq advises on the full range of real estate transactions in the region, with particular expertise in development projects, real estate financing and restructuring transactions, as well as hotel deals. He has been practising in the Middle East since 2009, and has experience advising clients across a wide range of sectors, including financial services, hotel and leisure, aerospace, transport and healthcare.

Christopher Ingham

Christopher Ingham has 13 years' experience of acting in a range of commercial litigation and arbitration disputes. Christopher has particular experience representing insurance policyholders on big ticket insurance coverage disputes and advising them on policy wordings and the use of insurance to support projects and transactions, with a particular focus on credit, political risk, title, property, business interruption and liability insurance. He also represents major insurers and other clients in disputes and contentious regulatory matters.

Kevin Ingram specialises in debt securitisation, principal finance, asset backed commercial paper conduits, structured repackagings, secured lending and all types of structured finance transactions.

Oana Ionascu

Belén Irissarry

Belén is Counsel in the Antitrust Department of the Madrid office. She has extensive experience and has participated in numerous infringement proceedings and merger control transactions at both EU and national level, with a special focus on the infrastructure, energy, industrial, distribution, telecommunications and information technology sectors.

Fernando Irurzun

Fernando Irurzun is the Head of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department in Spain. Fernando is a State Attorney currently on leave of absence. As State Attorney Fernando has been Deputy Director-General for Litigation Affairs (Solicitor General's Office-Directorate of the State Legal Service), Agent of the Kingdom of Spain before the European Court of Human Rights, and State Attorney before different Spanish Courts. He has been also Counsellor in the Spanish Permanent Representation before the European Union; and Seconded National Expert in the Legal Service of the European Banking Authority. Fernando has more than 25 years of experience acting before the Courts of all jurisdictions and instances. Fernando specialises in Commercial Litigation, Administrative Law, Data Protection and International Public Law.

Filippo Isacco works in the Corporate M&A practice in Milan and is specialised in Private Equity and Corporate M&A advice for a wide range of notable financial investors and corporate clients, mainly on cross-border and cutting-edge transactions.

Patrick Jackson

Patrick Jackson has extensive experience in capital markets, banking and corporate transactions, and certain US regulatory matters involving large Brazilian banks and industrial companies. His focus areas cover structured products and project financings for companies in the agribusiness, energy, infrastructure and oil and gas sectors, and energy transition generally. He also has served as Regional Pro Bono Partner in São Paulo and on the committees for several of the Firm's corporate responsibility initiatives.

Steve Jacoby is the Co-Regional Managing Partner for One Europe and he is a Partner in the Global Financial Markets practice of Clifford Chance’s Luxembourg office. He specialises in finance and capital markets matters and has a significant expertise in financial regulatory work, with a focus on digital finance and capital markets. He joined the firm in 2000 and became a partner in 2002.

Fabien Jacquemard

Fabien Jacquemard specialises in securitisation, structured finance, derivatives and regulatory.

Praveen Jagadish

Partner Praveen Jagadish specialises in infrastructure and low-carbon energy, advising developers, financial investors and lenders on the commercial and financing elements of major greenfield projects, and the refinancing and sale / acquisition of brownfield assets. He has extensive experience in infrastructure transactions in the transport, maritime and telecommunications sectors, and low-carbon energy and energy infrastructure transactions in sectors including offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, nuclear, energy-from-waste, smart metering and EV charging.

Zayed is a partner in our Tech group and leads the Complex Commercial Transactions and Outsourcing practice in London. He specialises in complex outsourcings, technology development and procurement agreements, data licensing and the separation aspects of M&A transactions. Zayed has a particular focus on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, IoT and DLT and on transactions which involve the licensing of valuable datasets. Zayed has previously worked in-house at a well-known financial index provider and as head of legal for a technology company.

Agnieszka Janicka

Agnieszka Janicka has worked for Clifford Chance since it was founded in Warsaw in 1992 and has strong corporate experience in many industry sectors, with special focus on energy & resources, TMT, financial services, consumer goods, and healthcare. In particular, she has advised on some of Poland’s largest M&A transactions, privatizations and international equity offerings. Agnieszka also has extensive experience in advising on cross-border transactions and is recommended as the first-choice lawyer in Poland by leading private equity houses.

Ben is a Partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution group in London, specialising in antitrust enforcement and litigation. He is particularly known for challenging and overturning decisions of the CMA and advising defendants and claimants in antitrust litigation, including in 8 trials before the UK courts.

Melissa Jones specialises in all types of commercial real estate transactions including complex developments, direct and indirect acquisitions and disposals, forward fundings, lettings and property financings. Melissa has a broad client base which includes international investors, funds and major UK developers. Melissa's expertise spans a variety of asset classes, including office, retail, residential and student accommodation. She also has particular experience with over station developments as well as the real estate aspects of compulsory liquidations.

Sarah Jones specialises in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, equity issues, also joint ventures and management buy-outs.

Johannes Juette

Johannes Juette is a Partner with over 20 years' experience. He is a US qualified lawyer and has extensive experience in international debt and equity capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, high yield debt issues and tender offers. Johannes has executed transactions across a broad range of sectors throughout South East Asia, including transportation and logistics, shipping, natural resources and energy, with a particular focus on Indonesia and Malaysia. He is ranked as a leading lawyer for international capital markets and is recognised as a foreign expert based in Singapore for Indonesian capital markets work.

Nelson Jung specialises in EU and UK competition law across a wide range of industry sectors. Nelson rejoined the firm from the UK's Competition and Markets Authority where he was the Director of Mergers Group. He previously held a number of senior positions at the CMA's predecessor, the Office of Fair Trading, including Director of Competition Enforcement and Head of Mergers. Nelson is a member of the core leadership team for the firm's Tech Group.

Nadia Kalic advises on M&A and Projects transactions with a particular focus on private capital in the energy and infrastructure sectors. She has worked on transactions across Europe, MENA, APAC and Australia.

Tobias Nogami Kamerling

Tobias Nogami Kamerling specialises in M&A transactions. He advises international corporations and financial investors on national and cross-border deals, in particular acquisitions, dispositions, and joint ventures, with a special focus on the energy and infrastructure sector. Tobias is Co-Head of the Japan Group Germany. He has extensive experience in advising Japanese corporations and has previously worked in Japan, including in our Firm's Tokyo Office.

Eiichi Kanda specialises in real estate including investment, finance, development, funds, asset management and securitisation. Eiichi also advises both borrowers and lenders on structured financing, joint ventures and cross-border alliances between foreign and Japanese entities.

Angela Kearns specialises in advising on complex, high value real estate developments, investments, joint ventures and financings. Angela has carved a unique place in the market advising on inbound investment from Japan, working closely with Clifford Chance's Tokyo office.

Moritz Keller is a disputes partner based in our Frankfurt office. He represents clients in commercial litigation and arbitration proceedings as well as in investment arbitration proceedings. Moritz acts for private individuals, companies and corporates, the public sector and States in arbitration proceedings under the ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, DIS, Austrian Chamber and many other arbitration rules. Many of the proceedings have a focus on Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the CEE or CIS Region. Moritz has dealt with disputes in a number of sectors, most prominently the energy, infrastructure, construction and banking sectors. While regularly representing clients in post-M&A disputes, clients also often reach out to Moritz because of his in-depth knowledge of the energy, gas or financial markets. In recent years, he has been instructed repeatedly in cases in the pharmaceutical and consumer goods industries.

Jonathan Kewley

Jonathan Kewley is the Co-Chair of the Clifford Chance Tech Group, a team of over 600 Tech lawyers globally. He was recently voted Partner of the Year at the British Legal Awards - which recognised his leadership in Tech as well as driving a more progressive workplace culture in law. He is a globally renowned expert on AI innovation and safety. Jonathan is a trusted advisor to boards and senior leaders of some of the world's largest technology companies and investors. His work spans AI, cyber security, data and digital innovation. He leads projects in the Tech regulatory and transactional space. Alongside this, his public policy work with governments and regulators around the world helps to shape the future technology landscape. He is the founder of an AI Ethics Scholarship at Oxford University to encourage people from disadvantaged backgrounds to study Computer Science. Additionally, he supports a program to ensure more girls study coding in local schools. Jonathan was invited to speak at the world's first global AI Safety Summit hosted by the UK government, and in 2023 hosted a conversation between Sam Altman (founder of OpenAI) and 500 undergraduates in London on the impact of AI on our future. In 2024 he received the honour of being asked by the City of London to deliver their Christmas lecture on AI at the Old Bailey. He speaks regularly to audiences around the world on the tech revolution, and works closely with universities and think tanks globally to help steer the development of AI policy. His views on Tech are frequently sought by BBC News, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post and China Daily.

Soo Khim Keoy is a seasoned litigator with over two decades of experience. He has represented listed companies, financial institutions and HNW individuals in complex commercial disputes. Soo Khim’s practice focuses on corporate/commercial litigation, shareholders/joint venture and M&A disputes, contentious insolvency proceedings, financial/banking litigation and property related disputes.

Veronika Kinclová

Veronika Kinclová is a Czech-qualified associate who specialises in corporate/M&A, commercial law across a wide range of sectors. Her key areas of focus are corporate, data protection and employment law. Veronika is part of the Prague office's corporate team and a leading member of its employment and data protection practice. She frequently advises on M&A and real estate transactions as well as providing day-to-day advisory on employment relationships, outsourcing, restructuring and collective matters for a number of the firm's key clients.

Nick Kinnersley

Nicholas Kinnersley specialises in domestic and cross-border finance transactions, with particular experience in leveraged finance, corporate lending, infrastructure finance and public bid finance.

Anna Kirkpatrick

Anna Kirkpatrick specialises in business and human rights, ESG risk, international law and international arbitration. Anna has acted for a variety of clients in international arbitrations conducted under the LCIA, ICC, LME and SCC Rules of Arbitration dealing with disputes in the construction, energy, and financial sector. Anna acts for corporates in disputes relating to human rights and environmental harms (including in relation to the effects of climate change) and advises on other forms of dispute resolution such as complaints to the OECD's National Contact Points. She also advises international organisations, governments and corporates on international law issues including privileges and immunities, the implementation of soft law standards, such as the UNGP and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and emerging ESG regulatory frameworks. Her BHR and ESG risk experience also encompasses governance and strategic work for companies seeking to embed human rights as well as ESG and sustainability focused elements into their policies and processes, while managing the risk of litigation, liability and reputational harm.

George Kleinfeld

George Kleinfeld has over thirty years of experience in the fields of international economic regulation and foreign trade controls. He advises leading financial institutions, industrial enterprises, trading companies and global investors on US sanctions issues and compliance with US sanctions laws and regulations. He has participated in a wide range of US sanctions investigations and enforcement actions as well as designing compliance programs and providing compliance training and risk analyses for multinational corporations and financial institutions in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Asia and the Americas. He also advises clients on compliance with US export controls and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and has obtained scores of national security clearances for foreign acquisitions of strategic US business assets from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). George works closely with the firm's global corporate, capital markets and finance practices to resolve complex due diligence and transactional issues in his areas of expertise.

Celeste Koeleveld

Celeste Koeleveld has over 25 years of experience in government enforcement, regulatory and civil litigation matters that span federal, state and local government in the United States. Over the course of her career, she has held senior positions in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) and the New York City Law Department. Celeste represents clients, both corporates and individuals, with regulatory compliance, internal investigations, and all phases of civil, criminal and regulatory litigation, from inception through the appellate process. Her significant government experience imparts a particularly insightful perspective to her advice and counsel in matters involving regulatory agencies. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Celeste served on the executive committee of DFS, joining in 2016 as General Counsel, and ultimately serving as Deputy Superintendent and Special Counsel. During her time at DFS, she handled a broad spectrum of regulatory and enforcement actions, including disciplinary and enforcement proceedings, licensing matters, implementation of legislation and promulgation of regulations. In particular, as General Counsel, Celeste was instrumental in the development and implementation of DFS cybersecurity and transaction monitoring regulations. In addition to her recent role at DFS, Celeste previously served for 16 years in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, rising to serve as the Chief of the Criminal Division. In that role, she led a team of more than 160 Assistant US Attorneys and oversaw all criminal investigations and prosecutions. She also served as the Chief Appellate Attorney of the SDNY for four years, overseeing the extensive appellate practice. During her tenure with the SDNY, she also served as the Chief of the General Crimes Unit. Prior to joining DFS, Celeste served for eight years as Executive Assistant Corporation Counsel at the New York City Law Department. In this role she oversaw several litigation and trial divisions and provided legal advice to City agencies responding to governmental investigation from a variety of federal, state and local prosecutors and investigative bodies.

Valerie Kong is Clifford Chance's Office Managing Partner in Singapore and also sits on the firm’s Asia Pacific Leadership Group. She specialises in cross-border M&A and is qualified in both Singapore and England & Wales. Well regarded among market sources for complex acquisitions, divestments and joint ventures, she has over 20 years of experience advising financial investors and multinational corporates on transactions in the consumer goods & retail, energy and transport & logistics sectors across South East Asia and other emerging markets. Part of her practice includes advising underwriters on W&I insurance policies for M&A transactions.

Bryan Koo specialises in M&A. He regularly advises private equity funds, corporates and financial institutions on public and private M&A transactions in Asia, including leveraged buyouts, takeovers, minority investments and joint ventures.

Daniel Kopania specialises in real estate, construction and infrastructure, advising institutional investors, owners, funders, contractors and professional consultants. Daniel has a wide range of expertise in retail, office, warehouse, residential, mixed-use, energy and industrial plants, as well as PPP and infrastructure projects. He also has unique expertise in negotiating construction contracts.

Paul Koppel regularly advises clients regarding a broad range of ERISA and executive compensation matters, including ERISA issues for alternative investment funds and financial institutions, advising fund sponsors on the application of ERISA to funds that include retirement plan investments and advising private equity funds and hedge funds on the issues that arise in connection with pension plan investors, and advising on compliance with ERISA’s fiduciary requirements when ERISA plan assets are being managed. Paul has represented clients before federal government agencies, including the Department of Labor, the SEC, the IRS and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

Jeremy Kosky is a Litigation Partner and Solicitor Advocate with significant experience in big ticket commercial litigation with a particular focus on financial investors and financial institutions and corporate trustee disputes and private wealth disputes for HNWIs and family offices. He leads the commercial litigation and private wealth disputes teams in London with a real focus on fiduciary risk. He has taken cases to trial in London, Paris, Luxembourg, Milan, Turin, Bermuda, Cayman, Jersey and Guernsey. And he is also well known for his ability to negotiate settlements persuasively for his clients - recently enhanced by qualifying as a mediator.

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Christian Kremer

Christian Kremer co-heads the Corporate and Capital Markets practices. He became Senior Partner of the Luxembourg office of Clifford Chance on 1st May 2019 after being Managing Partner since 2000. Christian Kremer has a broad Corporate, M&A, Private Equity, Finance and Insurance practice. He has over 30 years' experience acting for, corporates, private equity houses, banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions on corporate, finance, regulatory and capital markets matters. He is a member of expert committees of the CSSF, the Luxembourg regulator of the financial sector. He is also a member of the Haut Comité pour la Place Financière, an advisory committee to the Luxembourg government.

Oliver Kronat advises on German and international structured finance transactions, portfolio trades and alternative investments. His experience includes the securitisation of trade, consumer, leasing and loan receivables and the structuring of ABCP Conduit Programmes. He also advises on the restructuring of securitisation and other structured finance transactions as well as on securitisations by insolvent companies. He advises insurance companies and funds in tailor-made alternative investments, i.e. in loans, debt and infrastructure funds.

Bartosz Krużewski

Bartosz Krużewski's practice focuses on a wide range of arbitration and litigation matters. He specialises in complex disputes both domestic and international. His experience includes post-merger, construction, finance, investment and shareholder disputes as well as advisory work in the oil and gas, telecoms and construction sectors. Bartosz also advises and represents clients in white-collar and directors' liabilities related matters. Bartosz has represented States, governmental agencies and private parties. He regularly sits as an arbitrator under various arbitration rules and publishes in the field of arbitration. Bartosz also specialises in court and out-of-court restructurings, including involvement in high-profile contentious and non-contentious restructurings.

Karol Kulhawik focuses on M&A, corporate and commercial work , with a particular focus on the PE transactions, FMCG, healthcare and infrastructure sectors. Karol has advised on a number of sell-side and buy-side transactions for private equity funds, strategic investors and founders. Karol has extensive experience in M&A transactions and implementing corporate governance structures from a wide variety of sectors.

Charmaine Kwong

Charmaine Kwong has extensive experience in advising on intellectual property related matters covering a spectrum of contentious and non-contentious IP issues. She has acted for consumer brands, financial institutions, pharmaceutical and technology companies, and also advised various statutory bodies in Hong Kong on regulatory investigations and contractual claims.

Frédérick Lacroix

Frédérick Lacroix is head of Clifford Chance's financial services and asset management practice in Paris. He advises under EU and French laws on banking and investment services regulatory matters (including on regulatory capital), asset management and funds, insurance investment regulations, clearing and settlement, and financial/securities litigations, e-money and payment services, financial institution M&A, restructuring and resolution. He advises fintech clients on financial regulatory issues, relating to investment advice, asset management, payment services and banking. Frédérick also co-heads the structured finance/debt practice of the firm in Paris and advises financial institutions and corporates on a wide range of structured finance, capital market and derivative products. In particular, Frédérick has an extensive experience in cash and synthetic securitisations. Frédérick is an active contributor to legal reviews and publications and is also regularly consulted on the drafting of pieces of legislation in the financial sector.

Charles-Henri Laevens

Charles-Henri is a Senior Associate in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice of Clifford Chance's Luxembourg office. He specialises in intellectual property and information technology with a particular focus on data protection and privacy. Acting for banks and other professionals of the financial sector, insurance companies as well as commercial and industrial companies.

Alexandre Lagarrigue

Alexandre Lagarrigue specialises in the tax aspects of LBOs, M&A transactions and group reorganisations. Alexandre also specialises in the tax aspects of property investments, tax structuring of real estate investment funds and property portfolio restructuring. Alexandre contributes to various French and international publications.

Inaamul Laher is based in Abu Dhabi and leads our Middle East transactional Construction practice. He advises sponsors, financial investors, lenders and government entities on the development, acquisition/disposal and financing of large-scale energy, infrastructure and real estate projects across the MENA region. Inaamul has acted on, and continues to be involved in, some of the highest profile power (thermal and renewable), water and wastewater, oil & gas, transport, social infrastructure/PPP and new communities projects in the Middle East.

Leng-Fong Lai is the firm's Co-Managing Partner and the Head of Capital Markets Group in Tokyo and specialises in all forms of capital markets and structured finance instruments including receivables and other asset-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed financings, structured MTNs, equity-linked and convertible securities, securities repackaging and other forms of securitised derivatives, hybrid securities, project bonds and other infrastructure financings. Leng-Fong also advises banks and sponsors on project and real estate finance and investments in Japan.

Anita Lam practises across all areas of employment law, with a particular focus on contentious employment, discrimination and data privacy disputes. As a seasoned litigator, Anita is one of the very few solicitors in Hong Kong who has Higher Rights of Audience granted by the Higher Rights Assessment Board. Anita's clients include banks, listed companies, airlines, tertiary institutions, hospitals, theme parks, stock brokers, foreign law firms, railway corporations, tunnel operators, publishers, pharmaceutical companies and fashion retailers. Anita is a member of our global People Risk team.

Rob Lambert is a disputes Partner, specialising in the law and practice of international arbitration. Rob is recognised as a leading practitioner in the international arbitration field. He has particular experience in international engineering, energy, construction, IT and telecoms disputes, as well as considerable experience of joint venture and shareholder disputes. Rob has handled arbitration cases under ICC, LCIA, ICSID, UNCITRAL and other international rules. He has conducted arbitrations (institutional and ad hoc) in numerous jurisdictions in Europe, Asia, US, Middle East, Africa and Australia. Rob is an experienced advocate, having appeared as lead counsel before numerous international arbitral tribunals, and also sits as an arbitrator.

Jacqueline Landells

Jacqueline Landells' advisory practice is focused on international economic regulation and foreign trade controls. Ms. Landells has experience counseling on the regulation of international trade and investment transactions under US foreign trade controls, including US economic sanctions administered by the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and US export controls. She advises US and international clients on compliance with these regulations in regard to ongoing and going forward business and transactions, as well as assisting with investigations and reviews of historic practices. She also regularly advises clients on obtaining national security clearances from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) for foreign acquisitions in the United States.

Paul Landless is a financial markets lawyer specialising in structured finance, derivatives and financial markets products, including securitisations, repackagings, structured notes, securities lending and repo. He leads the financial markets team in Singapore and South East Asia. Paul has extensive experience in commodities trading and financing, structured trade finance, carbon markets products and exchanges. He regularly advises on global and local financial regulatory developments and financial market infrastructure. Also, Paul is one of the leaders of the firm's Fintech practice and a member of the Panel of Recognized International Market Experts in Finance Foundation (PRIME) based in the Hague.

Shaun Langhorne

Shaun Langhorne is a restructuring partner based in our Singapore office and has vast experience in complex, multi-stakeholder and cross-border restructuring matters covering contentious and non-contentious situations across the Asia Pacific region. Shaun focuses on out of court and court supervised restructurings, formal insolvencies, debt trading and portfolio transactions, special situations financings, enforcement and recovery litigation and contingency planning and strategic advice. He is an INSOL Fellow and is admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong and as a barrister and solicitor in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to joining Clifford Chance in May 2020, Shaun was a partner at a global law firm where he started the Singapore restructuring practice and has worked in Australia and Hong Kong.

Qudeer Latif heads our Global Islamic Finance practice and is the architect behind many of the world's pioneering and ground breaking Islamic finance transactions. Qudeer has for many years been involved in Islamic financing techniques and Islamic product development. He advises on a very wide range of Islamic financial services and products including: capital markets, project and infrastructure finance, acquisition and leveraged finance, private equity and real estate funds, financial regulation, structured products and derivatives, real estate finance and tax.

Ana Latorre is a member of the Madrid Bar Association. Joined Clifford Chance 2008 and has worked in Madrid and Brussels. Ana is focused on EU and Spanish competition law matters. She has been involved in numerous infringement and merger control proceedings in a broad range of sectors, including aviation, audiovisual and telecoms.

Renée Latour has more than 15 years of experience advising clients in international trade regulation and compliance matters, including complex cross-border and domestic issues involving export controls, economic sanctions, and national security reviews of foreign investment conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Renée has extensive experience in the development and implementation of global compliance and training programs, conducting internal investigations and representing entities in enforcement actions, and negotiating national security agreements with the US government.

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Gilles Lebreton

Gilles Lebreton specialises in LBOs, public-to-privates, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, corporate law and securities law. Gilles regularly advises on matters related to acquisition finance, debt rescheduling and private equity. He also specialises in the industrials sector and particularly in aerospace & defence.

Shimin Lee specialises in advising private equity sponsors on domestic and cross-border M&A. Shimin has extensive experience advising on all stages of the investment cycle, including acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and minority investments, management incentive arrangements, refinancings and corporate restructurings. Shimin was listed as a Private Equity Rising Star in Europe by Law.com in 2021 and 2023.

Virginia Lee advises on various corporate matters in Hong Kong, including mergers and acquisitions (both private and public), takeovers, initial public offerings, pre-IPO investments, joint ventures and equity fundraisings. Virginia also advises on matters concerning compliance with the listing rules, the Securities and Futures Ordinance and the Code on Takeovers and investigations by regulatory bodies.

Pieter Leefers specialises in private M&A, private equity, management participation and corporate advisory work. He advises both international and domestic private equity firms and their portfolio companies, financial institutions and corporates on sell-side and buy-side M&A transactions, joint ventures, restructurings and various other corporate matters. Pieter is also experienced in transactions in the TMT, infrastructure, real estate, energy and renewables sector.

Kevin Lehpamer focuses on public and private M&A transactions. He regularly advises sellers, purchasers and other parties in negotiated cross-border and domestic mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures and investment transactions. Kevin has represented a broad range of clients including Ingersoll-Rand, Blackstone, Toshiba, Tyco, Barclays, Owens –Illinois, KKR and JPMorgan.

Christian Lennig

Christian Lennig specialises in investment fund work, advising domestic and foreign clients on the regulatory, corporate, contractual and organisational aspects of investment vehicles (AIFs, SIFs, SICARs, UCIs and UCITS), such as their structuring, setting-up, registration, marketing and public offering.

Edith Leung is experienced in leveraged & acquisition finance (both sponsor and lender sides), general banking, and restructuring transactions.

Adrian Levy specialises in domestic and cross-border corporate finance transactions in the real estate market. Adrian's experience includes joint ventures, public and private M&A and strategic investments.

Carla Lewis specialises in contentious regulatory matters and financial crime, with a particular focus on EU and UK sanctions, anti-money laundering and anti-bribery and corruption. Carla represents a variety of governmental, non-governmental, corporate and individual clients, and has extensive experience advising clients on both risk and crisis management, liaising with relevant competent authorities where necessary. Carla has lived and worked in London, Paris, Dubai and New York, and was seconded for six months to the Litigation, Investigations and Enforcement Team at a global bank in Singapore.

Jonathan Lewis specialises in securitisation, structured finance, banking, derivatives and real estate finance. Since 2010, Jonathan has had a strategic role in advising EFSF / ESM in relation to the resolution of the euro area sovereign debt crisis.

Yufei Liao specialises in corporate M&A, private equity, and capital markets work, with a focus on the tech sector. Yufei regularly advises Chinese privately-owned and state-owned enterprises and investment funds on their cross-border acquisitions and investments, as well as public market transactions. He also represents international financial investors on their investments in China (including growth capital/venture capital, pre-IPO, cornerstone and PIPE) as international counsel. He has extensive experience in a wide range of industry sectors including TMT, real estate, financial services, and consumer goods & retail.

Tom Lin specialises in M&A and corporate finance with a particular focus on private equity transactions. Tom advises private equity houses, other financial investors and corporates on a wide range of matters, including buyouts, secondaries, joint ventures, MBOs, minority and co-investments, public M&A, management incentives and restructurings. His experience covers healthcare, financial services, infrastructure, renewables, consumer, education, industrials, logistics and real estate. He has been based in Singapore since 2011 and previously served as in-house counsel at the private equity arm of an international financial institution.

Rae Lindsay specialises in international law, litigation, transnational regulation and risk management. She has a particular focus on business and human rights and other aspects of ESG law. Rae is co-head of the firm's Public International Law and Business and Human Rights practices, and is a member of the Firm's ESG Board. Rae represents governments, international organisations and multinational corporations across a range of sectors. In the area of business and human rights she advises across the spectrum of issues that arise: from policies and their implementation, through risk assessment and management, due diligence, incorporation of human rights considerations into transactions and business relationships, investigations as well as dispute avoidance and resolution. She often advises clients in complex matters arising in high risk areas and conflict zones. Her work increasingly involves matters concerning the human rights impacts of climate change (and the intersections of environmental and social issues).

Jessica Littlewood

Jessica Littlewood is Global Operations and Business Transformation Partner and leads Clifford Chance's European CLO practice. She is widely regarded by banks and investors alike as the market leader in the synthetic securitisation market, in its increasingly complicated regulatory landscape. She has developed and is leading the firm's European CLO practice, and is an adviser to the CLO market representing CLO managers and investors. Jessica is recognised as a leading Structured Finance & Derivatives lawyer by Chambers Global 2024, Chambers UK 2025 and Legal 500 2025; was named Lawyer of the Year for Structured Finance & Securitisation at the IFLR Women in Business Law Awards 2025; and is recognised as one of the leading female lawyers in the world in IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2024. Jessica received the ‘Personal Contribution to the Industry’ award at the SCI Credit Risk Transfer Awards 2022

Daryl Liu is a Partner in the Singapore office and a member of the APAC Private Funds Group. He is a Singapore-qualified lawyer with more than 15 years of specialist experience and advises clients on primary fundraisings, fund secondaries and restructurings, fund investments, co-investments and advisory mandates across private equity, real estate, infrastructure, private credit and other investment strategies. Daryl is a member of the Regulatory & Tax Committee of ANREV.

Liu Fang focuses on both securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He represents issuers and global investment banks in Hong Kong IPOs, SEC-registered offerings, share placements as well as Rule 144A and Reg. S bond offerings. He also advises PRC state-owned and private companies, multinationals and private equity firms on China inbound and outbound acquisitions, investments, dispositions and related financings. His deal experience extends across a wide variety of industry sectors, including technology, new energy, healthcare/consumer goods and financial services.

Maggie Lo has over 20 years of experience and has a track record of advising both lender-side and borrower-side on cross-border financings, including project finance, acquisition finance, fund finance, receivables finance, pre-IPO finance, corporate loan transactions, non-performing loan transactions and restructuring mandates. Apart from advising international financial institutions on their transactions in Greater China, Maggie also focuses on advising Chinese financial institutions on significant outbound financings and investments, particularly in the real estate, manufacturing, energy and resources, infrastructure and industrials sectors.

Phoebe Lo specialises in non-contentious corporate insolvency and restructuring work. Phoebe has advised creditors, debtors and insolvency office holders in corporate restructuring and formal insolvency processes, including issues on enforcement of security, creditors' schemes of arrangement and loan and security assignments.

Fabricio Longhin

Fabricio Longhin is co-head of the firm's Latin America group and advises developers, commercial banks, multilateral organizations, export credit agencies, infrastructure and energy funds and institutional investors in all aspects relating to the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America and the US.

Jarosław Lorenc

Jarosław Lorenc has over 20 years of professional experience gained at international law firms and specialises in capital markets and securities law. Jarosław specialises in securities law and capital markets regulations. He advises on international public offerings of securities and acquisitions of publicly listed companies through public tenders and indirect takeovers.

Todd Lowther is a partner in the US Tax practice in Houston with extensive experience in the energy sector. Todd advises clients on the full range of oil and gas transactions including the taxation of natural resources, carbon capture tax credits, partnerships, international joint ventures, and M&A transactions common in the industry. Todd also provides general tax advice on corporate and business matters, including business formation, reorganization, and partnership and limited liability company structuring. He has experience in the structuring, organization, and capitalization of private equity funds, and frequently advises management teams from both a transactional and tax perspective.

Viola specialises on the structuring and formation of a broad range of closed-ended and open-ended private investment funds (including private equity funds, real estate funds, hedge funds and hybrid funds, set up either offshore or in the form of HK LPFs and HK OFCs). Viola is a member of AIMA Hong Kong's Executive Committee (previously a member AIMA Hong Kong's Regulatory Committee), Vice-Chairman (Legal) of the Technical Committee of the HKVCA, a core member of the PWMA Advisory Council and a committee member of the Professional Standards Committee of ANREV. She is also one of the key partners of Clifford Chance's APAC ESG Leadership Team and is very active in advising on ESG/sustainability related matters relating to the funds and investment management industry. In addition, Viola is a Steering Committee member of Accelerate>>> Hong Kong, the Firm's gender parity group.

Dr Sam Luttrell is a Partner in the International Arbitration Group at Clifford Chance, based in Perth, Australia. With a focus on disputes in the natural resources sector, Sam's globally-recognised practice covers both international commercial arbitration and investor-State arbitration. Examples of his experience in investor-State arbitration include high-profile cases against Thailand, Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Greenland and Denmark, Egypt, Kenya, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Slovakia. In addition to his work as counsel, Sam regularly publishes on international arbitration and international investment law topics and teaches at universities and arbitral institutions across the Asia-Pacific region.University of Western Australia (LLB/BA) 200 Articled Clerk, Kott Gunning Lawyers 2004 Admitted as a solicitor in Western Australia 2004 Law Lecturer, Murdoch University 2006 Murdoch University (PhD) 2009 Associate, Allens Arthur Robinson 2009 Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2011 Joined Clifford Chance 2013 Partner since 2017

Holger Lutz advises German and international companies on all aspects of information technology law, including artificial intelligence as well as intellectual property law, data protection law, telecommunications law and leasing. He particularly focuses on the legal issues related to (out-)sourcing contracts, hardware and software contracts, e-commerce and data protection.

Michael Lyons specialises in contentious regulatory matters including investigations and enforcement, commercial and financial services litigation/disputes and compliance advice. Michael has acted for clients during investigations and disciplinary action brought by domestic and international regulators. Michael's particular focus is on financial crime compliance issues, including economic sanctions, anti-money laundering and anti-bribery/corruption. He has been actively involved in providing advice to a broad range of financial institutions, corporates and individuals in this area.

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Vicky Ma advises Chinese and international investors and financiers on a wide range of cross-border financing and commercial transactions, including acquisition finance, project finance, real estate finance, margin finance and general banking transactions.

John MacLennan specialises in cross-border and complex restructuring and insolvency. He advises funds, banks, investment managers, public/governmental bodies, companies, sponsors and insolvency officeholders. John's experience covers a wide range of debt and other products as well as sectors and jurisdictions.

Charlotte Madden

Charlotte Madden specialises in advising private equity houses and infrastructure funds on domestic and cross-border M&A. Charlotte has represented financial investors through all stages of the investment cycle across a range of infrastructure sectors, including highly regulated transactions. Charlotte is listed in Law.com International's Private Equity Rising Stars list and Legal Week's 40 Under 40: The Rising Stars in Private Equity. Charlotte is Clifford Chance's global co-head of the Infrastructure practice.

Sebastian Maerker

Sebastian Maerker advises issuers and underwriters on domestic and international securities offerings, stock exchange listings and securities law.

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Florian Mahler is co-head of the Worldwide Projects Group. Florian acts for sponsors and lenders on structured finance transactions, in particular project and asset finance. Florian acts for sponsors and lenders on all aspects of projects in Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa, including infrastructure, airports and roads. He is experienced in managing and structuring international airport transactions, in particular in China, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Middle East and Africa.

Dauwood Malik has extensive experience in debt finance, including corporate credit, infrastructure financing, real estate development and investment financing.

Dayu Man specialises in antitrust and competition law. Dayu has advised multinational and domestic corporations, investment banks and private equity firms on antitrust matters in relation to global merger control filings, FDI filings as well as antitrust conduct rules across a range of sectors.

Sara Mancinelli

Sara Mancinelli is a Counsel in the Italy Tax team. She is specialised in M&A taxation, with a particular focus on real estate, taxation in relation to capital markets and tax litigation issues, particularly when criminal angles are involved. She is also a lecturer in tax law issues on postgraduate courses and the author of several publications on tax law.

Alberto Manzanares

Alberto Manzanares has over 30 years' professional experience in the banking sector and he specialises in all types of financing, including general lending, acquisition finance, project finance, asset finance and, in recent years, refinancing and restructuring.

Lily Marcel specialises in the establishment and operation of private investment funds. She has advised clients on the establishment of a wide range of funds, including buy-out, debt, infrastructure and real estate funds. Lily also advises investors on the terms of their investment into such funds. She has experience advising on the funds-related aspects of corporate transactions. Lily advises fund sponsors on their carried interest and co-investment arrangements and has experience advising on the management structures of such sponsors.

Gauthier Martin

Gauthier Martin co-heads our Paris public law team. His practice encompasses all fields of public law, both in advice and litigation. He has notably developed a recognized expertise in regulated sectors (in the energy, transportation, telecoms and defence fields in particular) as well as complex public contracts (concessions, public private partnerships, public procurement agreements) and project contracts (EPC, O&M, interface agreements, procurement agreements…) related to major infrastructures, in France and internationally. Gauthier is further active on State aid aspects, public domain, public service and state-owned undertakings related matters.

Vishal Mashru specialises in private fund formation, secondaries and advisory work across a wide range of sectors, including private equity, debt, real estate, infrastructure. Vishal’s experience covers blind pool funds, separate accounts and GP-led restructurings, as well as advising on carried interest and co-investment structures and asset manager M&A. Vishal also advises managers on ESG issues relating to their funds and investors in relation to the terms of their investment in such funds.

Ash Masrani is an associate on our Complex Commercial Transactions & Outsourcing Team. She focuses on strategic technology and commercial transactions across various industry sectors, with a keen emphasis on complex outsourcings and digital transformation initiatives. Ash excels in guiding clients through the lifecycle of a transaction, from structuring deals and provider selection to negotiations, contract execution and post-contract management. Ash holds extensive experience in advising clients on strategic information technology outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO) transactions; software-as-a-service (SaaS) agreements; core systems implementations; software licensing and development arrangements; branding agreements, reseller agreements; and other related corporate and commercial transactions.

Emma Matebalavu

Emma Matebalavu is Head of Global Financial Markets and specialises in Real Estate Finance and all types of structured debt. She specialises in real estate related senior and mezzanine debt, intercreditor arrangements, restructuring and enforcement. Emma advises on CMBS and RMBS transactions, acting for servicers, borrowers, noteholders and other stakeholders. She also has significant experience of securitisation of personal loan, credit lenders, whole businesses and residential mortgages. Emma is a member of European Securitisation Forum/Association for Financial Markets in Europe and Commercial Mortgage Securities Association and speaks regularly at conferences.

Sarah McAleer specialises in all aspects of pension law and regulation. Sarah acts for UK and multinational public and private corporations, banks, financial investors and trustees of occupational pension schemes. She has experience in employer and trustee advisory work as well as M&A and transactional related pensions issues. Sarah advises across a broad range of pension schemes (from schemes with assets in the millions, to schemes with assets in the tens of billions).

Catherine McCarthy

Catherine McCarthy is a partner in the Americas Energy & Infrastructure Group. She has extensive experience in power, mining, energy, telecoms, transportation and other infrastructure projects acting for clients including IFC, IDB, Citibank, Natixis, HSBC SMBC, Credit Agricole, CAF, , FMO, Proparco, DEG, BNP Paribas. Kate is one of firm's main relationship partners in the US for both agency lenders such as IFC, IDB and IIC and commercial banks such as Citibank, HSBC and SMBC. She has significant expertise in ECA financing, having acted for lenders in deals backed by COFACE, SACE, Hermes, US Exim, K-Sure, EKF, EKN, GIEK and CESCE. She also has expertise in multilateral guarantee and insurance products including the World Bank partial risk guarantee and the MIGA sovereign non-honoring and PRI policies.

Caireen McCluskey

Caireen McCluskey is a senior associate in the Energy & Infrastructure Group. Caireen advises procuring authorities, developers, and financiers on the commercial and financing elements of major projects in the infrastructure and energy sectors. She has worked in our London, Sao Paulo, Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices. Caireen has advised on a wide range of infrastructure transactions including in the healthcare, wastewater treatment, and district cooling sectors, and energy infrastructure transactions with experience in both conventional power and renewables (including offshore wind, solar PV and energy-from-waste).

Don McCombie has over 15 years' experience of advising clients on transactions and disputes relating to IP and technology. On transactional work, Don's sector experience allows him to understand clients' key commercial drivers, also drawing on litigation experience to judge what matters and – crucially – what doesn't. In disputes, whilst Don has advised on numerous cases in the English courts, often in parallel with proceedings in the US and the EU, Don commonly employs mediation and negotiation to avoid court, relying on his transactional experience to reach a beneficial outcome.

Angela McEwan is an English qualified Partner and heads the Global Financial Markets in Amsterdam. Angela is also a member of the global ESG Board. She specialises in banking and secured finance, with particular expertise in syndicated lending, structured finance, acquisition finance, project finance, renewables, asset based finance, commodity finance and restructurings including development finance and impact and sustainability linked loan financings. Angela is the Africa Practice Leader for Green Financing.

Christopher McIsaac

Christopher McIsaac is joint head of the Americas Energy and Projects Group, which is focused on the development and financing of complex infrastructure projects. Christopher has a broad-based finance experience including lender and sponsor representation across a range of industry sectors, particularly oil and gas, power generation and other energy projects. He is Counsel to commercial lenders, export credit agencies, multilateral development institutions, and project sponsors. Christopher has structured, drafted and negotiated credit facilities involving recourse, non-recourse, mezzanine, capital lease, and offshore trust structures, among others. He has also structured and documented a variety of equity arrangements on behalf of sponsors and developers including: the negotiation of project contracts with concession grantors, power purchasers and other offtakers, EPC contractors, equipment suppliers, and fuel suppliers; negotiated and documented financing arrangements in the public and private markets involving commercial banks, export credit agencies, multilateral development institutions, institutional lenders, and underwriters. Christopher spent nearly five years in Asia, where he was the attorney in charge of the Singapore office of a major New York law firm.

Jamie is a Partner in Clifford Chance's Asia Pacific Corporate Practice. He has a focus on private equity, private and public M&A, and joint venture transactions across India and Southeast Asia. He has advised on transactions across a range of sectors, including digital and other infrastructure, energy transition, TMT, life sciences, healthcare, financial services, real estate and consumer transactions. Jamie has been based in Singapore since 2018.

Marc Mehlen is a Partner in the Global Financial Markets practice at Clifford Chance's Luxembourg office. He specialises in national and cross-border banking and finance work, including in particular bank lending, acquisition finance, real estate finance, asset finance, securitisations and structured finance. Marc also has broad experience in insolvency and restructuring work, including on real estate transactions.

Caroline Meinertz

Caroline Meinertz is head of Clifford Chance's Financial Regulation practice in London. Caroline advises many of the world's leading financial institutions (with a particular focus on global transaction services banks) on the implications of financial services regulation and law on their businesses. Named Lawyer of the Year for Financial Regulation at the IFLR Women in Business Law Awards 2025; named one of the most influential female executives working in financial services by Financial News; recognised as one of the leading female lawyers in the world in IFLR1000 Women Leaders; and listed as a leading individual in the Legal 500 UK 'Financial Services: Non-Contentious Regulatory' rankings. Caroline is a leading voice across the full spectrum of financial regulation, and has been at the forefront of providing strategic Brexit advice to a number of key global financial institutions. Caroline is a member of the Council of the International Regulatory Strategy Group advising the City of London Corporation and TheCityUK. Caroline also sits on Clifford Chance's Global Financial Markets Strategy Group and is one of the founding members of TheCityUK's Anglo German Financial Services Dialogue.

Hans Menski advises on cross-border oil & gas, power and infrastructure projects transactions, with particular expertise in first-of-a-kind project developments and complex, multi-source financings. Based in Tokyo, Hans acts for borrowers, sponsors and financiers on their international energy and infrastructure projects investments in a range of sectors including thermal and renewable power, refining and petrochemicals, oil & gas, mining and LNG. He also advises on the acquisition and acquisition financing of power and infrastructure assets and on ECA-covered financings. Hans previously worked in London and Paris and is a member of Clifford Chance’s highly-regarded Worldwide Projects Group.

Karalyn Mildorf

Karalyn Mildorf has nearly 20 years of experience representing clients in Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and foreign ownership, control or influence (FOCI) mitigation matters. She also advises clients on the US Outbound Investment Security Program and in national security reviews before Team Telecom. Karalyn has advised clients on CFIUS issues in thousands of transactions covering a wide variety of industries and investor countries. She strategically guides clients through assessing national security risks for deals, transaction structuring and jurisdictional considerations, negotiation of deal terms, all stages of the CFIUS filing and review process, engagement with relevant government officials, CFIUS mitigation negotiation and implementation, CFIUS inquiries regarding non-notified transactions, and CFIUS enforcement actions. Karalyn also has extensive experience representing clients in FOCI mitigation matters. She has negotiated, prepared, and advised regarding compliance with, and implementation of, numerous FOCI mitigation arrangements, including Special Security Agreements, Proxy Agreements, Security Control Agreements, and FOCI Board Resolutions.

Katherine Moir specialises in advising clients on public takeovers, private acquisitions and disposals, and other general corporate matters. Katherine is a ranked lawyer by Chambers UK for Corporate/M&A. She has featured in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 Dealmakers, which celebrates the UK's top lawyers and has also been named by Legal Business as a ‘Women Deal Stars’ rising star and as a Next Generation Lawyer by Legal 500.

David Moldenhauer

David T. Moldenhauer, a partner in the US Tax, Pensions and Employment group, practices international tax law. David provides tax and structuring advice for a wide variety of international financial and business transactions, including investment funds, carried interest and management co-investment arrangements, private equity investments, corporate acquisitions and restructurings, domestic and cross-border real estate transactions, joint ventures, financing transactions, financial instruments, equipment leasing and project finance. David also regularly consults on tax compliance and other technical US tax issues. David is an Adjunct Professor of International Tax at New York Law School.

Miquel Montañá

Miquel Montañá specialises in dispute resolution (including arbitration), intellectual property and competition law. Miquel has worked on multi-jurisdictional intellectual property and commercial disputes involving patents, trademarks, unfair competition, distribution and agency agreements, copyright and breach of confidential information.

Josep Montefusco

Josep Montefusco specialises in litigation and intellectual property, unfair competition and advertising law, especially in the healthcare, TMT and automotive sectors. Josep has experience in patent and trademark litigation, including applications for preliminary injunctions and all kinds of proceedings on the merits. Josep also represents clients in damages claims following the revocation of preliminary injunctions. Josep lectures at several prestigious Spanish universities and education centres like ESADE, ISDE, the University of Alicante, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Barcelona Bar Association- ICAB.

Albert Moro heads the litigation, employment and real estate practices at Clifford Chance’s Luxembourg office. He specialises in corporate litigation, civil and commercial law, labour law, arbitration and real estate and has more than twenty-five years of experience in these areas. Albert acts for banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions, as well as for commercial and industrial companies, and public entities.

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Christopher Morvillo

Christopher J. Morvillo has extensive experience representing corporate and individual clients in white-collar government investigations, related regulatory and civil proceedings, and internal investigations. Chris' recent representations have included investigations and prosecutions of alleged insider trading, trade secret theft, securities fraud, accounting fraud, healthcare fraud, and alleged violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the Arms Export Control Act. He has also recently conducted internal investigations for corporate clients involving possible corporate espionage, violations of the Endangered Species Act, insider trading, and embezzlement. From 1999 to 2005, Chris served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he investigated, tried and handled appeals in a wide variety of criminal cases, including in the area of healthcare fraud, insurance fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, counter-terrorism, and narcotics. Among other notable prosecutions and investigations, Chris assisted in the criminal investigation arising out of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and served as one of the lead prosecutors on the successful 10-month counter-terrorism trial of defense attorney Lynne Stewart and her co-conspirators, one of the longest criminal trials in Southern District history.

Maxine Mossman has extensive experience in complex commercial and corporate litigation, large-scale litigation and class actions/group litigation, high net worth disputes and fund-related matters. Her clients include financial institutions, corporates, private equity funds, trustees and high net worth individuals. Maxine has advised on a number of high value complex matters, both in England and offshore. Maxine co-leads the London Private Wealth and Trusts Disputes team and has considerable experience of Cayman, Jersey and BVI proceedings.

Ian Moulding specialises in commercial litigation, in particular banking, finance, corporate and regulatory. Clients include the major US and European commercial and investment banks.

Mustapha Mourahib

Mustapha Mourahib is the Managing Partner of our Casablanca office and the Co-Head of Clifford Chance's Africa Group. Mustapha has extensive experience in large-scale M&A, private equity, PPP and project finance transactions. He has also a significant experience representing public, private and state-owned corporate clients in the development and financing of large projects. He focuses in the energy, infrastructure, oil & gas, mining, financial services, TMT and consumer goods industries. Mustapha is one of the key individuals in the legal environment in Morocco and in the North Africa and sub-Saharan Francophone region. He is continuously distinguished as a leading lawyer in Africa by Chambers Global, Legal 500 and IFLR 1000.

Peter Mucchetti

Peter Mucchetti is a partner in Clifford Chance's Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Antitrust practices, based in Washington, DC. Peter Mucchetti specializes in antitrust litigation and competition matters. He has more than twenty-five years of antitrust litigation, investigations, and merger clearance experience, with particular expertise in the technology, healthcare, and consumer products industries. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Peter worked at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, where he served as the Chief of its Healthcare and Consumer Products Section. In that role, he led the Antitrust Division to its successful trial victories in highly complex cases concerning the proposed Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana mergers. Peter is a Vice Chair of the Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals Committee of the ABA Antitrust Law Section and a frequent speaker on antitrust topics.

Felix Mühlhäuser

Felix Mühlhäuser is the Practice Area Leader for TPE Germany. He has been a lawyer with Clifford Chance since 2000 and partner since 2008. He is qualified as tax advisor and specialised tax lawyer. Felix advises a broad range of clients – corporates, banks and financial intermediaries, financial investors – on domestic and international tax planning and associated legal questions. He is specialised in advising on the structuring of financing and corporate structures, with a particular focus, inter alia, on mergers & acquisitions, financing transactions, financial instruments, securitizations and restructurings relating thereto. Felix also regularly acts for clients in large-scale tax disputes and advises on relating internal investigations.

Rocky Mui focuses on transactional funds and regulatory advisory practice. He specialises in fund establishment, authorisation of funds, licensing and regulatory advice, PRC investment programs (QFI/Stock Connect/Bond Connect/CIBM Direct Access), cross-border mergers & acquisitions and general corporate related work. Rocky also focuses on Tech / Fintech and has developed expertise in cryptocurrency/blockchain related matters.

Pablo Murcia is a Counsel in the Corporate / M&A department and a member of the firm’s Entertainment and Sport practice. He specialises in domestic and international M&A transactions, both for corporates and financial investors, with special focus on the Sport, Entertainment, Energy and Infrastructure sectors. In particular, he has taken an essential role in the development of the Entertainment and Sport practice in Spain, acting in all major sport-related transactions. He is a sports law, corporate law and M&A lecturer at ISDE.

Jason D. Myers' practice focuses on public and private capital markets transactions and other corporate finance and general corporate transactions in the real estate, hospitality and specialty finance sectors. He has advised sponsors, investment banks, REITs, specialty finance companies, and business development companies in their capital raising activities, including initial public offerings, follow-on equity and debt transactions, 144A offerings and other private placements and PIPEs, raising more than US$4 billion in the past few years. Jason has done extensive work in connection with REITS (both traded and non-traded) and privately held funds formed for the purpose of investing in real estate, including joint ventures. This work has included the formation and structuring of such entities, and the initial financing and investment in such entities. Jason has also advised on the structuring, acquisition and financing of investments made by such entities.

Jonny Myers specialises in domestic and cross-border public and private M&A and equity transactions. Jonny has advised private equity houses portfolios and corporate clients on a wide range of matters, including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and disposals, takeovers, mergers, joint ventures, IPOs, fund liabilities, cash confirmations, restructurings and refinancing. Jonny heads the global private equity practice, specialising in private equity and corporate finance and is recommended by IFLR, Legal 500 and Chambers for private equity and top-tier M&A.

Saskia Myners specialises in corporate law with a particular focus on private equity and real estate transactions. Saskia advises a wide range of companies, private equity and real estate sponsors, management teams, asset managers and pension funds on the structuring of cross-border transactions, acquisitions and disposals, minority investments, joint ventures and corporate reorganisations.

Sarah N. Campbell

Sarah N. Campbell is a counsel in the Global Financial Markets group of Clifford Chance, based in New York. She specializes in financial restructuring and bankruptcy. Her practice focuses on representing primarily financial institution creditors in multi-national and U.S. bankruptcy cases and in and out-of-court restructurings. Sarah also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Allan L. Gropper in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. She obtained her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and her undergraduate degree from Mills College.

Grzegorz Namiotkiewicz

Grzegorz Namiotkiewicz specialises in debt capital markets and financial regulatory. During his career Grzegorz has been involved in the majority of pioneering issuances on the Polish market setting a precedent for future financing transactions, such as the first issue of mortgage-backed securities and revenue bonds in Poland. In recent years, he has advised both the issuers and the arrangers of the largest issuance programmes, involving the issue of Eurobonds and domestic bonds by the State Treasury of the Republic of Poland, corporations or local government units. His expertise also covers regulatory matters connected with the conduct of banking activity, licensing and regulatory capital.

Catherine Naroz

Catherine Naroz mainly assists large corporate enterprises and financial investors and institutions on domestic and cross border private and public M&A transactions. She has a strong expertise in FIG M&A, in the Energy sector and in the Consumer Goods and Retail sector. She also regularly advises many clients (whether listed or not) on corporate governance issues, securities law, reorganizations and strategic equity capital markets transactions, including in the context of IPOs or financial restructuring of listed companies.

Patrice Navarro

As a partner in Clifford Chance’s TechDigital Group, Patrice Navarro focuses on data privacy, cybersecurity, tech transactions, and health data matters. He brings extensive experience and a genuine enthusiasm for technology-related issues, particularly in contract drafting and solving privacy challenges across various industries. His approach to legal matters is grounded in a solid understanding of the complexities within technology and industrial sectors. Before joining Clifford Chance, Patrice built his expertise by working alongside an IT law expert and collaborating with leading firms. Patrice’s practice reflects a deep understanding of intricate technology transactions and a practical approach to digital transformations, supporting the adoption of innovative solutions like AI, Fintech, big data, and cloud-based platforms. A committed advocate for data privacy and cybersecurity, he helps clients navigate compliance and governance projects, particularly under the GDPR framework, and is experienced in managing cross-border data transfer challenges and implementing Binding Corporate Rules. With a focus on real-world solutions, Patrice has worked on a range of tech and data transactions across sectors such as technology, energy, aerospace, and pharmaceuticals. His goal is to ensure that his clients are not only compliant with current data privacy regulations but are also prepared for future developments in the global AI and data landscape.

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Craig Nethercott

Craig Nethercott is a partner in the Global Energy & Infrastructure Group at Clifford Chance. He has experience in project finance, banking, capital markets, and Islamic finance. Craig has advised on transactions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

Matthew Newick specialises in commercial dispute resolution and regulatory enforcement, particularly complex, cross border disputes, investigations and advice in the financial sector, often involving derivatives and structured products. Matthew is a member of our global risk leadership team.

Lena Ng leads the financial regulatory practice in our Singapore office and advises on financial regulatory issues relating to financial services and market products, including banking services, securities, futures, derivatives, funds and payment services. Lena advises banks, financial institutions, corporates (including commodities houses), funds and payment service providers on licensing requirements, exemptions, conduct of business and other regulatory requirements. In addition, she advises on custody, collateral, netting and clearing issues, as well as cash and credit risk management. Lena's practice extends to advising on bank secrecy, confidentiality and data privacy. She also advises on fintech, cryptocurrency and blockchain related matters.

Melissa Ng advises on M&A, joint ventures and divestments for a range of clients, multinational companies, regional conglomerates and financial sponsors. She has particular expertise in the energy and infrastructure and technology sectors, and is regularly recognised for her work across South East Asia. She is ranked as a Band 1 lawyer for Corporate/M&A in Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand by Chambers Asia Pacific 2025. Melissa heads the firm's Indonesia focus group and has an extensive knowledge of Indonesian law and practice. She is also a member of Clifford Chance's Audit and Risk Committee.

Jiahua Ni is a partner in the Global Financial Markets Group of Clifford Chance. He specializes in PRC-related cross-border financings and focuses on advising outbound financings for major Chinese banks. He also has extensive experience in advising international banks on their financings into China and assists clients in resolving complicated issues in PRC foreign exchange, security and other financial regulatory aspects. Jiahua joined Clifford Chance in 2007 and became a partner since 2013. Jiahua is admitted in New York and also holds a PRC legal professional qualification certificate (currently not a PRC practising lawyer). Jiahua is a native Mandarin speaker and fluent in English.

Kelwin Nicholls

Kelwin Nicholls specialises in regulatory investigations/enforcement, M&A disputes, banking and financial services litigation/disputes and compliance advice. Kelwin's recent matters include bringing and defending claims arising out of acquisitions and disposals of public and private companies, defending mis-selling claims and disputes over swaps and options, and acting for corporate trustees in High Court litigation. He has represented clients in regulatory investigations and enforcement actions including cross-border investigations into rate-setting misconduct, investigations into rogue traders, investigations into suspected market abuse and several high-profile public inquiries. Kelwin also undertakes risk reviews of high-risk products and services within financial institutions and advises on anti-money laundering compliance and anti-bribery programmes for corporates and private equity firms.

Mike Niekoop is part of the Global Financial Markets group. He specializes in project finance (with a strong focus on renewable energy), digital infrastructure finance (including data centres, towers and fibre) and asset finance. Mike combines deep sector knowledge in renewables (including offshore, onshore, solar, wind, biomass, tidal wave and battery storage), aviation and infrastructure finance with legal skills and pragmatic advice. He has advised energy firms, banks, lenders, sponsors, institutional investors and aviation companies and lessors across several domestic and cross-border project & asset based transactions. He is a regular contributor to the loose-leaf publications Aircraft Liens & Detention Rights and Aircraft Finance by Sweet & Maxwell and has issued several briefings on various renewable energy related topics.

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Alex Nourry specialises in all aspects of EU and UK competition law, including the control of mergers and joint ventures, cartels and abuse of market power, State aid and subsidy control, public procurement and foreign investment controls. Alex is a member of the Brussels Bar as well as a Solicitor admitted in England and Wales and regularly represents clients before the EU and UK competition authorities as well as the European Courts across a wide range of industry sectors. Alex is a Vice-Chair of the ICC Global Commission on Competition and a member of the Editorial Boards of the European Competition Law Review (ECLR) and Competition Law Insight (CLI).

Patrick O’Reilly

Patrick O'Reilly focuses on asset finance and has broad experience advising lenders, underwriters, operating lessors, manufacturers and export credit agencies in a wide variety of aircraft finance and related matters. Patrick has expertise in the areas of secured and unsecured lending, private placements, finance leases, operating leases, leveraged leases, portfolio acquisitions and sales, securitizations, restructurings, PDP financings and export credit financings.

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Chinwe Odimba-Chapman

Chinwe Odimba-Chapman is Co-Regional Managing Partner for One Europe, and Office Managing Partner for London. She is an Employment Partner and specialises in all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law advising on a wide range of employment, labour and HR issues in the UK and on a cross border basis including: Tribunal and High Court litigation; executive recruitment, remuneration, grievance disciplinary and dismissal; restructuring/insolvency redundancies and collective matters; public and private M&A, outsourcings and employee transfers.

Miguel Odriozola

Miguel Odriozola is the Head of the Clifford Chance Antitrust team in Spain. He is a member of the Bar Associations of both Madrid and New York. Since 2000 he has been based in Madrid but splits his time between Madrid and Brussels. Miguel is a frequent speaker at courses and seminars on EU and Spanish competition law. He has also authored several competition law publications and he is the editor and co-author of the first treatise on the Spanish competition Act and its Regulation. He advises Spanish and international companies on all aspects of Competition Law, both in relation to the Spanish and the EU context. He has extensive experience in matters regarding restrictive practices and merger control operations in the telecommunications, technology, aviation, consumer goods and energy sectors. Since 2019, Miguel has been a non-governmental advisor (NGA) to DGComp (European Commission) at the International Competition Network (ICN) Unilateral Conduct Working Group.

Kayode Oladipo is a key member of the leadership team of the firm's Africa Group. He is dual qualified (Nigeria and England & Wales) and specialises in all aspects of emerging markets cross-border loan financing. Kayode is the Africa Practice Leader for Finance and Lending.

Olamide Oladosu

Partner Olamide Oladosu is based in London and specialises in energy and infrastructure project across Africa. He acts for sponsors and lenders on all aspects of international project financings (including upstream and midstream oil and gas projects, petrochemicals and power). He is admitted in England & Wales as well as in Nigeria with close to two decades' experience advising clients on transactions relating to across the energy, infrastructure and financial services. Previous experience includes Rand Merchant Bank Nigeria where he was General Counsel and one of the leading Nigerian law firms where he was an energy and projects partner. Olamide is the Africa Practice Leader for Banks and DFIs.

Gareth Old is a derivatives and structured finance lawyer in New York. His practice concentrates on risk management strategies for banks and financial investors, including cash and synthetic securitisations, derivatives and repo transactions, capital and regulatory advice. His clients include prominent fund and investment managers, banks, investors and service providers.

Anthony Oldfield

Anthony Oldfield has more than 25 years' experience focusing on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including takeovers, joint ventures and venture capital transactions, particularly in Brazil and Latin America. Anthony also acts for a variety of issuers and underwriters advising on disposals, acquisitions, joint ventures and raising debt and equity.

David Olds is a technology and telecommunications lawyer based in Hong Kong. David's practice focuses on technology and telecommunications-related matters in the Asia Pacific region, specialising in telecommunications regulation, IT contracting, outsourcing, cybersecurity and data privacy. He helps clients to enter important markets in the region and manage the risks that may arise as their businesses expand, and as legal and regulatory environments evolve.

Alexandre Ooms is head of the Brussels tax practice. He has extensive experience in the real estate sector and regularly advises clients on big ticket M&A and high-end finance tax work. Alexandre is an all-round tax expert and thought leader on the subjects of corporate and international tax, real estate tax matters and fund structuring.

Diego Ballon Ossio

Diego Ballon Ossio is one of the partners spearheading our Fintech offering out of London. His broad regulatory practice spans across the entire spectrum of non-contentious financial services regulation covering trading, custody and settlement of traditional investments and digital assets as well as strategic advice to regulatory authorities on the design and development of new regulatory frameworks. Diego is a recognised expert in respect of regulatory policy development, particularly in the context of cryptoassets and the uses of digital ledger technology in traditional financial markets. He is often invited to participate in industry and standard setting bodies working groups including the UK Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC) Working group on Fintech and the IRSG working group on Fintech. He gained significant experience in financial regulation working at the UK Financial Conduct Authority (and predecessor organisation) from 2010 to 2015.

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Barry O'Shea specialises in advising lenders (senior & mezzanine) and borrowers on the financing of real estate, both in the UK and in numerous European jurisdictions, including pan-European transactions. He also advises clients on the restructuring and enforcement of real estate debt, on loan portfolio sales & acquisitions (and loan-on-loan financing), structured debt and JV arrangements relating to real estate.

Meighan O’Reardon

Meighan O’Reardon is a leader on the global Complex Commercial Transactions & Outsourcing Team at Clifford Chance. Her practice focuses on structuring, negotiating, and managing complex services and technology deals across multiple industries, most notably in the financial services, healthcare and manufacturing sectors. She also focuses her practice on serving private equity and investor clients to maximize operational value from their investments. Meighan's practice includes work with private equity clients to identify and execute strategies to find operational efficiencies and value at both the sponsor level and within portfolio companies. Meighan is regularly called upon to lead third party contracting work associated with large corporate transactions including in connection with IT and business process Transition Service Agreements and post-deal operations integration. She regularly supports transformational initiatives at her clients as they procure new services and technologies to improve efficiency, reduce costs and implement new technology solutions. With more than 18 years of legal experience, Meighan advises clients on strategic outsourcing transactions, service procurement initiatives, software licensing, data use and protection, and she frequently supports various bespoke commercial services transactions. She works with clients on all phases of transactions from deal structuring, proposals, provider selection, negotiations, to post contract governance. Prior to practicing law, Meighan spent 10 years working in management consulting, focusing on operations process improvement, critical infrastructure protection and information technology implementation.

Pierre-Benoît Pabot du Châtelard

Pierre-Benoît Pabot du Châtelard focuses on banking and finance, particularly cross-border leveraged transaction, syndicated lending, debt restructuring and project financing. Pierre-Benoît has represented many financial institutions, including private equity firms and banks on LBO, LMBO and other financial transactions.

Dieter Paemen's practice focuses on European and Belgian antitrust law. He has over twenty five years of experience advising clients in European and Belgian merger clearance procedures, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance investigations, licensing and distribution agreements, and copyright and unfair competition issues. He acts for complainants and defendants as well as interested third parties. Dieter has particular expertise in the information technology, retail, and manufacturing industries.

Ian Painter specialises in advising developers, investors, lenders, landlords and tenants on all aspects of real estate developments and major infrastructure projects, including acquisitions, disposals, lettings, forward fundings, solvent and insolvent restructurings/CVAs, financings and joint ventures. Ian has experience acting for a wide range of clients comprising primarily of major developers, international investors, banks and sovereign wealth funds. Ian's extensive expertise spans a variety of asset classes, including office, logistics, retail, residential and student accommodation. He is also noted as a specialist in development projects which have a direct interface with operational railway, such as over-station developments and regeneration of assets in close proximity to the London underground network.

Michael Pallaras

Michael Pallaras specialises in acquisition finance, real estate finance and private credit transactions, covering the Asia Pacific region from Hong Kong. Michael has been based in our Hong Kong office for more than 10 years and regularly acts for sponsors, credit funds and financial institutions on transactions across the entire credit spectrum, from investment grade to distressed debt. He also has extensive experience in cross-border real estate and development financings, including hospitality, integrated resorts, data centres, logistics, commercial and retail assets.

Richard Parris specialises in project finance, energy and infrastructure, including involvement in a number of high-profile petrochemical and infrastructure projects in Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Middle East. Richard's projects include advising on regional petrochemicals, metals, wastewater treatment and power projects as well as cross-border gas projects in Asia.

Andrew Patterson

Andrew Patterson specialises in all legal, regulatory, tax and governance aspects of remuneration, share plans and incentives. Before joining Clifford Chance, Andrew was Head of Incentives Law at Barclays, with accountability for managing incentives legal risk on a global basis. Andrew has particular expertise in drafting and advising on the design, implementation and operation of remuneration arrangements for financial services institutions and helping clients navigate through a heavily regulated landscape. He has extensive in-house and private practice experience of advising at the highest level, during a time of unprecedented legal and regulatory change.

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Anna Pawłowska

Anna Pawłowska specialises in energy law and commercial law. Anna advises in transactions consisting in the sale of shares, sale of projects, and investment agreements in the renewable energy sector. She participates in due diligences of projects and companies from the renewable energy sector. She prepares and assesses agreements for investors, advises on corporate matters, regulatory matters, and in proceedings related to the implementation of investments in renewable energy sources.

Alis Pay advises on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions including direct and indirect acquisitions and disposals, development, forward fundings, solvent and insolvent restructurings and real estate financings both domestic and cross border. Alis’ expertise spans a range of asset classes including logistics, office, student accommodation, PRS/BTR and hospitality and leisure. Alis is referred to as a “force inside European real estate” because of her track record of leading large-scale portfolio Real Estate M&A transactions that span the entire continent. Alis' experience also extends to the hotel sector where she has advised investors and financiers on high value and trophy hotel assets. Having worked with numerous foreign investors on cross-border transactions, Alis is well-versed in guiding new entrants into the European real estate market. Alis also leads the real estate input for Clifford Chance's market leading energy practice.

Partner James Pay specialises in power, renewables, mining and metals, energy infrastructure transactions, including project and minority stake financings, commercial contracts and M&A and joint venture work. James is head of Clifford Chance's Global Renewables Group and co-head of our Mining and Metals Group.

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Michael Pearson

Michael Pearson is a Partner in the Energy and Infrastructure Group and Co-Head of the Infrastructure sector. Michael advises on major infrastructure projects in the UK and internationally, with particular experience of concession and project finance structures.

Oliver Pegden specialises in regulatory enforcement, internal investigations and related High Court litigation with a particular focus on issues relating to financial services and markets, including enforcement investigations by the FCA and PRA. He has been seconded to the Enforcement and Markets Oversight Division of the Financial Conduct Authority.

Rebecca Pereira

Rebecca Pereira has experience providing tax and structuring advice for a wide variety of domestic and international financial and business transactions, including cross-border financings, investment funds, private equity investments, real estate transactions, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. Rebecca also advises multinational financial institutions and fund managers on FATCA compliance and related matters.

Epifanio Pérez

Epifanio Pérez is a partner in the Banking & Finance Group. Epifanio has worked on a number of significant structured finance (including acquisition, project and asset finance) transactions as well as in restructurings. He has been a member of the Madrid bar association since 1997.

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Olivier Plessis

Olivier Plessis has extensive experience in US, European and international securities offerings, particularly in debt and equity capital markets. Olivier advises issuers, shareholders, private equity sponsors and underwriters on a variety of international securities offerings, including investment grade, high-yield and sovereign bond offerings and IPOs, capital increases and rights offerings. Olivier has advised on: the investment grade and high yield debt offerings of Vinci, Pernod Ricard, BUT/Conforama, TSKB, OCP, Oman, Solvay, Total, the Council of Europe Development Bank, Lazard and others. the IPOs of InPost (largest ever tech IPO in Europe), Exclusive Networks, ACWA Power, Adyen (IFLR Equity Deal of the Year), Network International (IFR EMEA IPO of the Year), Arabian Centres Company (IFLR ME Equity Deal of the Year), ALD, NLB and others the rights issues and capital increases of Euronext, Aedifica, Solvay, Nicox, Fastned, Shurgard, Fiat-Chrysler, Cofinnimo, Montea, Home Invest and others

Wojciech Polz specialises in M&A, corporate and commercial work, including acquisitions and disposals, corporate restructurings and joint ventures. Wojciech's practice focus is in the private equity, healthcare, industrials and consumer goods and retail sectors. Wojciech has extensive experience in cross-border transactions, international projects and risk management. He has also gained significant experience related to the oil & gas sector. His clients include private equity houses, corporate investors, public companies and private entrepreneurs.

Carlos Portocarrero de las Heras

Carlos Portocarrero de las Heras specialises in joint ventures, bidding process, sale of portfolios and acquisitions of real estate companies. Carlos represents institutional investors, funds, financial institutions and a variety of other international real estate investors.

Sharis Pozen is a partner and is the Co-Head of the Global Antitrust Practice at Clifford Chance, based in Washington, DC. She has extensive experience in both government and private practice. Over the course of her career, Sharis has held senior positions at GE, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and two major law firms based in New York and Washington, D.C. Sharis is one of the few antitrust practitioners who has served in high-level positions at both the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

María Pradillo

David Préat advises public and private entities as well as financial institutions on public law matters including deregulation, energy, privatisation, state aids, public domain and public services. David specialises in public contracts (concessions, public private partnerships (PPP), public procurement) in relation to major infrastructure projects including arenas, hospitals, prisons, railways, motorways and airports.

Marie works in the Private Funds Group in our Paris office. She advises a broad spectrum of clients on the formation of private funds, investor side work, regulatory advice, and transactional mandates such as secondary transactions, continuation funds, and co-investment schemes.

Ashley Prebble is head of the Financial Institutions Group in London and head of the Global Insurance Sector Group. He specialises in corporate and regulatory insurance, including start ups, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance transactions, reorganisations, distribution agreements and all compliance and regulatory matters. He has experience of advising insurers, reinsurers and intermediaries in each the Lloyd’s, London and international markets. Ashley leads the firm’s insurtech initiative and has spoken at various global conferences. Ashley is a member of the LMG working group on government affairs and a member of the LMG’s Government Affairs taskforce.

Adelina Prokop focuses on dispute resolution in commercial, financial and international law. In particular, she specialises in investment arbitration. Adelina has vast experience acting for clients in court and arbitration proceedings gained in Clifford Chance's Warsaw and London offices. She acts for foreign investors in international investment arbitration. She has acted in arbitration proceedings in Paris, London, Geneva, Brussels and Warsaw. She represents banks, financial institutions and auditors before the common courts and the Court of Justice of the EU. She has also advised clients from the energy, telecommunications, infrastructure and real estate sectors, as well as in disputes concerning unfair competition and M&A.

Paweł Puacz specialises in energy, environment and infrastructure and heads the Energy and Natural Resources Group in the Warsaw office. His main clients include a range of energy companies and investors. Paweł has advised Polish and foreign companies from the conventional and renewable energy sectors, the heating sector, the oil and gas sector, and the energy-intensive industry sector for many years. His practice is focused on renewable energy, energy transition and climate change issues. This involves M&As in the energy sector, negotiation of energy contracts, regulatory advice, due diligence on energy and environmental projects, project financing and agreements related to trading in energy and gas.

David Pudge specialises in domestic and cross-border M&A, public takeovers and stock exchange matters as well as board advisory work, including corporate governance and activism defence. He acts for a broad range of clients and in particular large corporates and financial services groups.

Patricia Puertas

Jesús Quesada is a Partner of the Global Financial Markets (GFM) department. Jesús specialises in structured finance, securitisation and financing transactions (including syndicated loans, project finance, NPLs, real estate finance and restructurings). With more than 17 years of experience, Jesús has worked on a significant number of innovative transactions in the banking and capital markets area. Jesús acts for a broad range of market participants, including banks, investment funds, institutional investors, sponsors and corporates.

Madalina Rachieru-Postolache

Madalina specialises in local and international Capital Markets transactions, as well in Banking and Finance. Madalina is the Head of the Bucharest Capital Markets Practice. Over the years, she has advised financial institutions, investment banks, local and global companies. Her expertise includes all aspects related to initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary public offerings (SPOs), domestic bond issues, corporate and sovereign Eurobonds issues, EMTN programmes, GDRs issues, and receivables securitisations, being involved in almost all major Capital Markets transactions of the last 15 years in Romania. Madalina has been involved in high profile and complex finance and project finance transactions in Romania envisaging key industries including energy, establishing herself as an expert in the field. Her international experience includes a secondment to the Clifford Chance office in London.

Anselm Raddatz advises private equity and infrastructure funds as well as corporate enterprises on complex and large-scale M&A transactions and joint ventures, both cross-border and domestically. He is regarded as an eminent practitioner in the German market with deep experience across a wide range of sectors, including regulated industries such as infrastructure, energy and healthcare. Clients value his business-oriented approach and hands-on manner.

Alice Raine has a wide range of experience across the commercial real estate sector in acquisitions, lettings and developments with a particular focus on indirect property acquisitions and real estate joint ventures. She advises on domestic property transaction as well as cross-border portfolio deals and transactions where the assets are situated outside the UK. Alice works for a broad base of international clients including real estate funds, financial institutions and corporate occupiers.

Milan Rákosník

Milan Rákosník specialises in real estate M&A, asset management and development across all product sectors - retail, office and logistics - as well as on real estate financing and secured lending. A key member of the Prague office's market-leading real estate practice, Milan has gained significant industry expertise from his involvement on a host of real estate and financing transactions in the Czech Republic and across the wider region.

Loredana brings 30 years of practice of business law and co-heads the Energy M&A practice of the Bucharest office. She is a highly experienced transactional lawyer who has advised many international investors on complex M&A transactions in Romania and pan-regionally (including English-law governed M&A deals). Her recent experience includes working with important industry players in the energy, oil & gas, financial services, consumer goods, and pharmaceuticals sectors on acquisitions of shares/ assets, corporate reorganisations, mergers or joint ventures, but also on navigating the set of challenges generated by these highly regulated sectors.

Alice Reali

Ben Redding specialises in advising developers, investors, landlords, occupiers and funders on complex development projects, acquisitions, disposals, pre-lettings and forward fundings. Ben also has extensive experience acting for corporate occupiers on global headquarters relocations. He also advises on direct and indirect acquisitions and disposals as well as advising lenders on real estate aspects of financings. Ben has a broad client base and his expertise spans a variety of asset classes, including office, retail, data centres, hospitality and residential.

Stephen Reese is Co-Chair of the Healthcare & Life Sciences sector group and Co-Head of the Intellectual Property group. He is an experienced IP specialist advising clients on both contentious and non-contentious aspects of intellectual property rights. He advises broadly on strategy and the protection, exploitation and enforcement of intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, designs, trade secrets and copyright. He is also a co-lead for our Global Healthcare & Life Sciences sector group. Stephen has significant experience advising clients within the life sciences, healthcare, technology and FMCG sectors. He also advises on the UK and EU regulatory aspects of pharmaceuticals, biologics and medical devices and their interaction with IP strategy, exploitation and enforcement.

Ulrich Reese co-headed the global Healthcare & Life Sciences Sector Group at Clifford Chance until April 2024. He advises a broad range of international co-operations on the manufacturing, marketing, distribution and reimbursement of medicinal products and devices and is a private lecturer for pharmaceutical law at the University of Marburg. Further, Ulrich Reese is a regular advisor of the leading trade associations on a national and European level.

Mathieu Remy specialises in domestic and cross-border public and private M&A, joint ventures and private equity. Mathieu is the co-head of the OHADA zone and Francophone West and Central Africa group and of the French-German group. Mathieu has extensive experience in working for major French financial institutions on M&A activity and for a broad spectrum of French and international corporations particularly in the consumer goods & retail, media, energy and telecoms sectors.

Xavier Remy is a corporate partner who handles company, commercial and regulatory matters, often in an M&A or joint venture context. Xavier has specific regulatory expertise in the areas of energy and healthcare, and also advises on employment law.

Elizabeth Richmond

Elizabeth Richmond is a globally recognised antitrust lawyer, with a practice spanning the full spectrum of antitrust work, from regulatory advice to litigation. She is consistently ranked in legal directories including Chambers, Legal 500, Who's Who Legal, and the Global Competition Review. In addition to her busy practice, Elizabeth is a frequent speaker and author.

Milena Robotham

Milena Robotham specialises in European competition law and has broad experience representing companies in proceedings before the European Commission. Milena advises a range of corporate clients, including in contentious behavioural matters, complex merger control cases and advisory and compliance matters. She has particular expertise in technology and energy markets. Milena has experience advising on high-profile cases both from the in-house and outside counsel perspective.

David Robson specialises in UK and cross-border financing focussing on leveraged financing, corporate event driven financing, investment grade lending and restructurings. David has particular expertise in UK public bid financing.

Julien Rocherieux

Julien Rocherieux specialises in international and domestic asset securitisation, factoring, derivatives and structured finance transactions, as well as real estate finance.

Christopher Roe

Christopher Roe advises both issuers and underwriters on a wide range of UK and international equity capital markets transactions, including IPOs, rights issues and other secondary capital issuances and raisings involving shares and global depositary receipts. Christopher also advises on the equity capital markets aspects of public M&A transactions and restructurings and advises listed corporates on their ongoing legal and regulatory obligations.

Jeanne Roig-Irwin

Jeanne Roig-Irwin is in our Real Estate Group and specializes in complex real estate acquisitions, financings and joint ventures. Her work also includes representing real estate developers, banks, funds and REITs in real estate dispositions, leasing and other real estate transactions.

Carla Ruggero is a partner in the Corporate/M&A practice and a member of the Clifford Chance Latin America Group and the Clifford Chance Energy and Infrastructure Group. Originally from Argentina and dual qualified in New York and Argentina, she regularly advises financial investors and corporate enterprises in complex cross-border M&A transactions. Carla has extensive practice in cross border M&A transactions, with a particular focus on energy and infrastructure.

Elizabeth Hundt Russell

Maria Sabau specialises in acquisition finance and refinancings acting both for lenders and borrowers/sponsors. She has a significant experience in corporate finance deals and is usually engaged in project finance deals, acting both for lenders and borrowers in infrastructure and energy project deals and has participated in financing structures in asset finance deals within the film industry.

Michael Sabin is a Funds & Investment Management Partner and co-leads Clifford Chance's U.S. Funds & Investment Management Group. Michael specializes in advising sponsors on the structuring and formation of private funds and accounts across all strategies, including buyout, real estate, energy, infrastructure and credit, as well as related strategic transactions and internal arrangements. He also advises sponsors and investors in connection with complex secondary transactions and fund restructurings. Michael’s recent experience includes acting for Arison Holdings, The Blackstone Group, Capital Dynamics, Credit Suisse, DigitalBridge (formerly Colony Capital), DWS, Greystone, ICONIQ, Mercer, TCW and Tikehau.

Gunnar Sachs specialises in intellectual property law, with long-standing experience in the healthcare, chemicals and consumer goods sectors. Beyond regulatory advice, he works on strategic M&A and private equity transactions, corporate reorganisations, complex litigation and commercial projects as well compliance audits. Above all, he has particular expertise in digital topics as well as IT-based business models and advises clients across all sectors on digital transformation and data protection. Gunnar is an active member of the firm's worldwide industry groups Healthcare, Life Sciences & Chemicals, Consumer Goods & Retail, Telecommunications, Media & Technology as well as the global Tech and Data Protection focus groups. Between 2012 and 2015, Gunnar consecutively stood in, as external advisor, for the heads of the German legal departments of QVC, an affiliate of Liberty Interactive Group, as well as of Genzyme, an affiliate of Sanofi Group. During his further legal education, Gunnar has also worked, inter alia, for the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, for the French Ministry of Economics, Finance and Industry in Paris, for the French Ministry of Defense in Paris, for the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Paris, for the German Institution for Arbitration in Berlin/Bonn as well as for the State Parliament North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf.

Monica is a partner in the Financial Regulation Group. Previously, she was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and Head of Legal for International Wealth Management. Monica advises global financial institutions (asset managers and sell side) on a full range of legal and regulatory issues, including: establishment of new regulated entities, regulatory reform and implementation (e.g. AIFMD, UCITSV, ALMD5, SRD2 and MiFID2/R), financial product structuring, custody issues, expanding and maintaining a multi- product and jurisdictional platform, initial margin product development, governance and financial institution M&A. She is a leading advisor on Brexit structuring issues for asset managers, banks and dealers and on FinTech, cryptoassets and cryptocustody issues for cryptoasset issuers, crypto exchanges and crypto custodians. In Legal 500 UK, Monica is rated as a 'Leading Individual' in Clifford Chance's Tier 1 Fintech Practice and Financial Services: Non-Contentious/ Regulatory Practice. Monica is rated 'Highly Regarded' in IFLR1000 for Financial Services Regulatory and is recognised as one of the leading female lawyers in the world in IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2022. She is also recognised in Who’s Who Legal as a 'Thought Leader – GBRR' and 'Global Leader, Banking – Regulatory 2023', as well as being recognised as one of the world’s leading Regulatory practitioners in their Banking Report 2022.

Reiko Sakimura specialises in international capital markets, including international debt and equity offerings, convertible bonds and other equity-linked securities, medium term note programmes, euro-commercial paper programmes, samurai bonds, regulatory capital, and corporate hybrid securities. Reiko acts for underwriter and issuer clients in respect of a wide variety of capital market transactions for Japanese issuers accessing international markets through Regulation S and Rule 144A offerings, as well as foreign issuers accessing the Japanese markets.

David Saleh advises on UK and international tax structuring and related international corporate tax matters. He regularly works with our international tax network, providing cross-border tax advice, guiding International clients into territories outside their local jurisdictions. David's clients include some of the world's leading multinationals, private equity houses, governments and sovereign funds. David has particular expertise in real estate tax and indirect taxes, including restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and tax disputes leading our UK real estate tax practice. David also advises clients on tax policy, tax disputes (particularly inter-governmental) and also heads our leading UK indirect tax practice. He is a recognised leader for Tax in the Legal 500, Chambers and SuperLawyers directories.

Umberto Penco Salvi

Umberto Penco Salvi heads the Italian Energy & Infrastructure Group and specialises in M&A, joint ventures, tender offers, restructuring, construction and project contracts with a focus on regulated sectors such as Energy & resources, Healthcare, Life Sciences & Chemicals and Telecommunications, Media & Technology. He regularly advises both senior management and boards of directors when facing sensitive situations and on all aspects of corporate governance. Umberto represents clients in court and arbitration proceedings, and has served both as an attorney and arbitrator for disputes involving M&A matters.

Jeremy Sandelson

Paul Sandosham is Managing Partner of Cavenagh Law LLP*, and heads the Energy, Infrastructure and Resources (Disputes) practice for Southeast Asia. He focuses on dispute resolution in the energy, power, oil & gas, infrastructure, construction, engineering, rail, utilities, natural resources and commodities sectors. Paul acts as counsel in court and international arbitration proceedings for various parties in disputes arising out of complex cross-border disputes and projects. Paul is a qualified Chartered Arbitrator and a fellow of CIArb and SIArb. * Clifford Chance Asia is a Formal Law Alliance in Singapore between Clifford Chance Pte Ltd and Cavenagh Law LLP

Dr Pat Saraceni is Director in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution team and is experienced in complex commercial and contractual disputes. Pat focuses predominately in the offshore and maritime, energy, mining and insurance sectors. Pat leads the Australian Maritime Team.

Marina Sarkisjan

Marina Sarkisjan specialises in financial regulatory matters (with respect to market access of financial institutions, license requirements, compliance with prudential and market conduct rules, securities trading and investment services) and debt capital markets offerings across a wide product range, including MTNs, Eurobonds, Reg S/144A, senior and subordinated debt issuances for corporates and financial institutions.

Gerard Saviola advises institutional and boutique sponsors of private investment funds including buyout funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds and debt funds. He has experience in advising global and local fund sponsors across Europe and in emerging markets, including Africa, Asia, Russia and Eastern Europe. In addition, Gerard advises on secondary transactions and spin-outs and advises institutional investors in structuring and negotiating their investments in private investment funds. Gerard is the Africa Practice Leader for Funds.

Dessislava Savova

Dessislava Savova leads our Tech Group in Europe, and is head of the Tech//Digital team in Paris. Dessislava specialises in all areas of tech and commercial law, including technology and platform regulations, AI, data privacy and data governance, cybersecurity, commercial contracts and cooperations, joint ventures, e-commerce and consumer law. She leads Clifford Chance’s AI group. Dessi is a highly regarded commentator on AI issues in the mainstream press including BBC, CNBC and Reuters. She also speaks on AI issues at a range of events including for the International Bar Association, World Litigation Forum and City & Financial. She is a lecturer at Sciences Po (Ecole de Droit) and the University of Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines on Tech & Data Law.

Stefan Sax is Managing Partner for Germany and specialises in corporate and insolvency law with a focus on cross-border financial restructuring and insolvency. He has worked at Clifford Chance’s London office and is a qualified attorney (Germany) and a qualified solicitor (England & Wales). He advises German and international financial institutions on insolvency issues and companies in financial difficulties on obligations arising in crisis situations.

Laura Scaglioni

Laura Scaglioni specialises in equity and debt capital markets and corporate finance.

Geoffrey Scardoni

Geoffrey Scardoni heads the Tax and Pensions practice of Clifford Chance’s Luxembourg office. With experience in international tax law, he specialises in international corporate structuring, cross-border financial products and fund formation. His broad spectrum of clients include corporates, private equity firms, investment houses and high-net-worth individuals across the corporate, real estate, private equity and finance sectors.

Kerstin Schaepersmann

Kerstin Schaepersmann specialises in the area of banking and capital markets, with a particular emphasis on regulatory issues and structured finance transactions. She advises on licensing and approval procedures, cross-border banking and investment services as well as the regulation of derivatives and financial market infrastructures. Her experience in respect of German and international structured finance transactions includes advising sponsors, arrangers, lenders, lead managers, issuers and originators on synthetic and cashflow securitisations (including CLOs, CMBS, repackagings and securitisations of trade and lease receivables) and secured loan transactions, as well as the restructuring thereof.

Katrin Schallenberg

Katrin Schallenberg's practice focuses on European and French antitrust and merger control. She advises clients across multiple sectors with a focus on tech, energy, and large industrials. Katrin splits her time between Paris and Brussels.

Marian Scheele specialises in the financial regulatory and legal aspects of financial institutions, with a focus on Fintechs (incl. banks, EMIs, PSPs, platforms, crypto and blockchain companies). She leads the Fintech Team and co-leads the Tech Team of Clifford Chance Amsterdam. Her expertise includes advising on licensing and registration, governance, structure and organisation and other ongoing license requirements. She is frequently involved in corporate restructurings and M&A transactions including IPOs. She contributes to the implementation of EU financial regulatory law in Dutch national law. Marian is a member of the Public Affairs Committee of INREV. She is ranked in the leading legal directories such as Chambers and Legal 500.

Daan Lunsingh Scheurleer

Daan Lunsingh Scheurleer specialises in complex international litigation and dispute resolution with a focus on class actions. He frequently represents issuers, financial institutions, audit firms and companies as defence counsel in class action and multiparty litigation, relating to securities, prospectus liability, fraud, financial products, auditor liability and cartel damage claims, including the private international law aspects of those matters.

Ada Schmitt is a Partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice of Clifford Chance's Luxembourg office. She handles both domestic and cross-border litigation and arbitration cases, ranging from contractual, tort, commercial or banking litigation to post-M&A, insolvency-related and enforcement disputes. Ada represents corporate, banking and financial investor clients, including investment funds and asset managers. She also leads on Regulatory Investigations and Financial Crime ("RIFC")-related work, assisting clients on investigations (internal and external) and with regulatory enforcement instances. Ada is a member of the board of directors of the Luxembourg Arbitration Association (LAA).

Sébastien Schmitz

Sébastien advises our clients on all areas of real estate law, including property acquisitions and sales, office and commercial lease contracts, town planning, construction law and environment law. He handles the real estate and environment aspects of corporate transactions for major international companies in the real estate, financial and industrial sectors. Sébastien provides legal support to major real estate developers and real estate investors operating in Luxembourg, as well as to public bodies. His practice also includes administrative law, legislation on business licences and dispute resolutions.

Kai-Niklas Schneider

Kai-Niklas Schneider is a member of the Private Funds Group. He maintains practices in both the Middle East and Singapore. Kai is a US qualified lawyer with over 20 years of specialist experience in the funds sector and advises clients on the formation of, and investment in a wide variety of private equity funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds and credit funds. He also counsels clients on co-investments, secondaries and spin outs. Kai is the co-chair of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Funds Industry Group (SFIG).

Diana Schoch is counsel in the Frankfurt office and specialises in restructuring and insolvency law. She works on national as well as international restructurings and also advises clients on insolvency proceedings. Diana has also been active in cross-border transactions as well as in corporate advice.

Tobias Schulten

Tobias Schulten specialises in Banking and Capital Markets Law. Tobias acts for banks and sponsors on structured finance transactions, both domestic and international, in particular asset and project finance (especially energy and infrastructure) and PPP projects. He also advises on real estate finance transactions.

Patrick advises companies, investors, sponsors and secured and unsecured creditors on financial and operational restructurings both outside and in the context of insolvency proceedings. He focuses on cross-border and multinational restructurings and distressed transactions, in particular in cases involving complex financing structures. He also advises on all aspects of German insolvency and restructuring law. Furthermore, he taught at King’s College London and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as visiting lecturer.

Kate Scott specialises in financial services and technology litigation, with particular expertise in follow-on litigation from regulatory investigations and cross-border matters. Kate's focus is advising clients (particularly Financial Services and Fintech clients) on managing their portfolio of contentious matters. She is recognised in Legal 500 as both a Next Generation Litigation Partner, and for her Fintech and Data, Privacy and Cybersecurity work. Her practice and experience spans litigation (typically defending complex claims), alongside risk management and governance advice, to help her clients prevent disputes arising in the first place. Kate's banking disputes experience encompasses a wide variety of investment banking products: credit linked notes, credit default swaps, FX derivatives, structured notes and interest rate hedging products, to name a few. Recent work includes acting on alleged LIBOR misrepresentation claims, advising several banks on coronavirus-related financing disputes and defending Quincecare claims. Kate is also a specialist in Fintech litigation, advising both financial institutions and disruptors in the financial services industry on the civil risks arising from their use of data, new payments platforms, outsourcing, cryptocurrencies, cyber and their use of artificial intelligence (as well as being published in a number of external publications on such topics). Her speciality is defending collective data actions, where she is actively working with data and privacy experts to ensure that the question of "what is personal data worth" is properly addressed by the English courts in this emerging area of law. Having previously been seconded as the EMEA Head of Litigation for a global bank, Kate also has a deep understanding of the challenges our clients' face. Kate is active in using new techniques and technology to manage large scale litigation more efficiently for her clients, such as KIRA and Technology Assisted Review, and recently developed a platform to enable a bank to manage and monitor a portfolio of litigation spanning 5 jurisdictions.

Michael Seaton is a partner in the firm's U.S. Tax, Pensions and Employment practice focusing on partnership and corporate taxation, with an emphasis on REITs and private equity and real estate investment funds. Mike represents a number of public and private REIT clients on an ongoing basis. He has been has been involved in the structuring, formation and initial public offering of a number of REITs, as well as merger and acquisition transactions involving REITs. In addition, Mike regularly advises both REITs and investment banks in connection with REIT public equity offerings. Mike has also represented a number of Mexican REITs (FIBRAs) in connection with their initial public offering and follow-on equity and debt offerings. Mike advises sponsors and investors in connection with the formation and structuring of real estate funds and private equity funds. He has provided advice to non-U.S. investors regarding the various U.S. tax consequences of private fund investments and secondary fund transactions, including the impact of FIRPTA, and has advised non-U.S. governmental investors regarding private fund investments and other investments in the United States.

Zarrar Sehgal leads Clifford Chance’s Global Asset Finance group, is Co-Head of the Global Financial Markets group in the Americas, and Co-Head of the Industrials, Transport & Mobility Sector group. He has extensive experience representing underwriters, lenders, lessors, and governmental agencies in a wide variety of asset finance transactions, including portfolio securitizations, acquisition financing, leveraged leasing, EETC transactions, secured lending, structured financing and credit enhancements. Zarrar has particular experience in financings and corporate transactions involving aircraft, rolling stock and vessels. He has worked on several of the most significant ABS and financings involving aircraft and railcars, including many transactions that have won “Deal of the Year” awards from industry publications. He has also participated in the evolution of the ABS product over the years. Another area of specialization for Zarrar is representing clients in connection with the acquisition or disposition of leasing companies and large portfolios of aircraft and other transportation assets.

Paolo Sersale is Managing Partner for Italy. With more than 20 years of practice as partner in Corporate M&A, his experience ranges from public M&A and Takeover Regulations to Private Equity and Corporate Restructurings.

Itır Sevim-Çiftçi

Itır Çiftçi heads the Corporate/M&A practice in Istanbul. She is specialised in mergers & acquisitions and restructurings and has excellent knowledge of the Turkish market and its key players. During her practice of over 30 years, she has advised key strategic and financial investors in numerous landmark transactions, various investments and major privatisation transactions. Itır has vast experience on structured equity investments, joint ventures and private equity funds mainly in the following sectors: infrastructure and energy, consumer goods and retail, financial services, food and beverage, healthcare, life sciences and chemicals, industrials and private equity.

Andrea Sgrilli

Dianna is a commercial arbitration specialist and regularly advises clients on cross-border commercial disputes in the Asia-Pacific region and particularly in Greater China. She has helped clients across a wide range of industries with a particular focus on private equity, venture capital and M&A related disputes. Dianna has lead numerous arbitrations including under the HKIAC, SIAC, ICC, CIETAC and UNCITRAL rules.

Angela Shepherd

Angela Shepherd specialises in all aspects of commercial property and affordable housing schemes.

Nish Shetty specialises in dispute resolution, with a particular focus on international arbitration, restructuring & insolvency and regulatory work. He regularly advises on complex cross-jurisdictional disputes including arbitrations and is widely recognised as a leader in the field of dispute resolution in the region.

Charlotte Shieh

Charlotte Shieh has worked on a range of contentious litigation, employment and regulatory matters. Charlotte has assisted clients including financial institutions, tertiary institutions, and insurance companies.

Masafumi Shikakura

Masafumi Shikakura is a counsel and leads Clifford Chance’s antitrust practice in Tokyo. He specialises in antitrust law and foreign investment regulations and advises domestic and international companies on Japanese anti-monopoly law as well as Japanese regulations on foreign direct investments and sanctions. He handles multi-jurisdictional merger filing analyses and foreign direct investment filing analyses and coordination with local counsel in various jurisdictions for many transactions. Masafumi has also gained extensive experience in M&A transactions, in particular cross-border acquisitions and joint ventures. He has advised clients in power and energy, technology, healthcare and various industrial sectors.

Yoshiaki Shimizu

Yoshiaki Shimizu specialises in real estate finance, real estate investment, development, structured finance, general banking and fund regulations.

Lei Shi is the Managing Partner of Clifford Chance's Mainland China offices and specialises in China-related dispute resolution matters, including international arbitration, regulatory compliance and investigation, and commercial litigation. Lei also co-leads the firm's Greater China international arbitration practice. In the arbitration area, Lei has extensive experiences in acting for clients in arbitration under HKIAC, ICC, SIAC, CIETAC, LCIA, SCC, AAA, UNCITRAL and ICSID Rules in relation to M&A, corporate governance, banking, technology, life science, mining and other commercial or investor-state disputes. He also sits as arbitrator and is on the list of arbitrators of HKIAC and SHIAC. Lei is a member of ICC's Belt and Road Commission. In the regulatory area, Lei advises client in daily compliance, due diligence, internal investigation and government investigation, with a focus on anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, sanctions and export control. Lei has worked at our Hong Kong and New York offices for many years. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, he practiced at a leading PRC firm for three years.

Benjamin Sibbett

Benjamin Sibbett's focus is on mergers and acquisitions and related securities as well as corporate law matters, representing U.S. and non-U.S. buyers, sellers and other stakeholders, including financial sponsors and strategic investors, in a broad range of negotiated domestic and cross-border transactions, including negotiated acquisitions and dispositions, leveraged buyouts, reorganizations, joint ventures and other strategic investments. Benjamin has been involved in transactions across a wide range of geographies and industries, with particular experience in healthcare and TMT sectors.

Daniel Silver focuses on regulatory enforcement and white collar criminal defense matters. Dan represents individuals, investment funds, banks and other corporate entities in matters before the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal and state enforcement agencies. Dan also counsels clients on risk mitigation strategies with respect to cybersecurity, anti-corruption, sanctions and anti-money laundering issues. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Dan spent ten years as a federal prosecutor, serving in several senior leadership positions and as Chief of the National Security and Cybercrime Section within the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. In the U.S. Attorney's Office, Dan supervised a team of more than one hundred federal prosecutors, personally led complex cross-border investigations, conducted more than a dozen jury trials, and argued numerous appeals.

Marco Simonis specialises in tax and legal advice in relation to investment funds and other asset management structures. Marco also advises clients on the structuring, implementation and operation of investment structures, including real estate funds for institutional investors and on fund-linked structured products.

Katherine Sinclair

Katherine Sinclair works in our Global Financial Markets Group in London, with a principal focus on leveraged finance. Within that, Katherine specialises in lender-side mandates advising private credit providers and investment banks lending to financial investors. Katherine was listed as a Female Rising Star by Law.com in 2024.

Simon Sinclair specialises in both debt and equity capital markets, including convertible and exchangeable bonds, regulatory capital issues, liability management transactions and Eurobonds.

Kabir Singh is a Partner in the International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution practice of Clifford Chance. He specialises in complex, cross border disputes with a focus on India, Indonesia, and South East Asia. His client roster includes large multinational corporations, international banks and financial institutions with presence across APAC. Kabir focuses on international arbitration, regulatory investigations and contentious employment disputes. He has acted as counsel on numerous international arbitrations under the rules of ICC, SIAC, LCIA, HKIAC and AAA. Kabir has been appointed as an alternate member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (the "ICC Court"), for a three-year term. He has also been involved in various teaching initiatives including with the ICC, SIAC, NUS Centre for International Law, Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA) and Chulalongkorn University (Thailand). *Clifford Chance Asia is a Formal Law Alliance in Singapore between Clifford Chance Pte Ltd and Cavenagh Law LLP

Andreea Sisman leads the Project Finance & Infrastructure, Real Estate Finance practice at Clifford Chance Badea and has more than 24 years of experience. Her expertise covers project finance, real estate and real estate finance, PPPs and concessions, providing specialist advice on public procurement regulations, concession of works and services, bankability issues, transactions with public and private assets, offtake agreements, project documentation and financing documentation. Her portfolio includes many first-of-its-kind PPPs/Concessions, infrastructure and complex projects in energy, transport and social infrastructure in Romania, Moldova and Turkey.

Laura Smallcombe

Nikki is a finance and restructuring practitioner with extensive experience advising on complex domestic and cross-border financing, debt restructuring and insolvency transactions. Nikki acts for private credit funds, private equity funds, alternative investment funds, corporates, investment banks and other financial institutions on a broad range of financing, restructuring & insolvency matters including special situations lending, structured finance, complex real estate financing transactions, securitisation, rescue finance and restructurings, and distressed loan portfolio sales. Nikki is highly experienced across a broad range of financing products and across multiple sectors, including real estate, financial services, mining, mining services, aviation, logistics, tech and healthcare, and uses this experience to help clients find innovative and bespoke financing solutions that meet the needs of their specific situations.

Jonathan Solomon

Global Head of Real Estate

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Kirsty Souter specialises in planning, environment, energy and public law. Kirsty's expertise includes property development, energy and renewables projects including. Kirsty also advises on the environmental, health & safety and energy issues in respect of corporate mergers and acquisitions as well as advising on environmental and energy regulation.

Jessica Springsteen

Jessica A. Springsteen is a member of the Americas Energy and Infrastructure Group. She regularly advises sponsors, commercial banks, multilateral organizations, and export credit agencies in all aspects of the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects worldwide, with a particular emphasis on Latin America. Jessica is a first generation Peruvian-American and is fully bilingual (English/Spanish).

Andreas Steiger

Andreas advises secured and unsecured creditors, distressed investors, debtors, shareholders and sponsors on financial and operational restructurings in both non-insolvency and insolvency situations, predominantly in a cross-border context with a focus on complex capital structures. He also advises on all matters regarding German insolvency law.

Bettina Steinhauer

Bettina Steinhauer specialises in acquisition finance and general bank lending, including restructuring. Bettina advises leading German and international banks, private equity houses and corporates on domestic as well as cross-border financings, including transactions involving mezzanine and/or high yield debt and public to private transactions. Bettina's other areas of expertise include restructuring, infrastructure finance and property finance.

Andrzej Stosio is Head of the Global Financial Markets practice in Warsaw. He specialises in banking and capital markets from both transactional and regulatory perspectives. He has advised a number of international and Polish banks, alternative lenders, sponsors and corporates on various types of financings, refinancing packages, complex debt restructurings, bond issues and other financial market products (in particular derivatives). He has advised on many of the largest financings that have taken place on the Polish and Central and Eastern European markets in the last decade, including a number of ground-breaking and “first of its kind” transactions.

Natsuko Sugihara

Natsuko Sugihara specialises in private M&A, cross-border transactions and joint ventures, acting for private equity clients as well as Japanese and foreign corporate clients on their domestic and cross-border transactions across a wide range of sectors.

Michiel Sunderman

Michiel Sunderman is Partner and head of the Amsterdam Tax practice. He is an all-round tax expert, specialising in M&A, financial restructurings, fund structuring (with a focus on private equity and carried interest structuring), corporate, cross border and structured finance transactions.

Tanja Svetina specialises in structured finance and debt capital markets, with particular regard to securitisations, covered bonds, secured lending, principal finance and real estate finance.

David Sweeney

Midori Takenaka

Midori is Senior Associate in our Tech//Digital team who specialises in commercial and technology contracts. She works with clients across multiple sectors to find strategic solutions to complex separation and integration issues, with a particular focus on global manufacturing and distribution arrangements. She also advises on technology outsourcing arrangements, software arrangements and other complex services arrangements. She is a trusted advisor who has a deep understanding of commercial and strategic goals, working alongside C-suite and business teams to deliver the client's goals.

Robert Tang is a specialist in complex commercial litigation and international arbitration across Australia and the broader Asia Pacific region, with a particular focus on construction & infrastructure, energy & resources and digital infrastructure. Robert acts as counsel and as arbitrator. Robert has extensive domestic and international experience in leading large-scale, high profile and complex commercial litigation and international arbitration, including international commercial arbitrations conducted under the ACICA, HKIAC, ICC, UNICTRAL and SIAC Rules. He is widely recognised in key legal directories including Legal500 (Rising Star for International Arbitration - 2021 to 2024, Next Generation Partner for International Arbitration - 2025 and featured on the Legal500 Arbitration Powerlist: Australia and New Zealand 2022), Best Lawyers (Alternative Dispute Resolution - 2020 to 2025 and International Arbitration - 2025), Doyle’s Guide (Leading Arbitration Lawyers – 2025) and was the recipient of the Young ADR Practitioner of the Year in the Australian ADR Awards 2018. Rob was also recognised in the Asian-Australian Leadership Awards 2024 (formerly "40 under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australian Awards").

Deniz Tas specialises in cross-border M&A, joint ventures and restructurings, advising sovereign wealth fund, private equity, financial investor, corporate and other regional and international clients. Deniz has advised on several high profile deals in the MENA region and has a particular focus on the energy & resources, infrastructure, consumer goods & retail and real estate sectors. Deniz is the Africa Practice Leader for Agribusiness.

Filippo Tassoni

David Tayar has extensive experience in handling first and second stage complex merger control investigations before both European and French antitrust agencies and in coordinating multijurisdictional filings. He regularly advises clients in restrictive arrangements and monopolization cases before European and French competition authorities and courts. David is a Member of the Board of the Association des Avocats Pratiquant le Droit de la Concurrence.

Han Teerink specialises in equity capital markets transactions, in particular IPOs, secondary share issuances and buy-back transactions, advising issuers, selling shareholders and underwriting banks. He also services listed companies, advising them on Dutch and European corporate and securities laws and he advises on M&A transactions, both public and private.

Mae Yen Teoh regularly advises banks, financial institutions and corporates on their derivatives transactions, structured note programmes and other structured market products. In addition, she advises on bank capital requirements, collateral and netting issues, and on the regulatory reform agenda, including on the European Market Infrastructure Regulation, and regional and Singapore OTC derivatives reforms. She is also involved in the FinTech sector, advising banks and financial institutions on their online banking terms of business and various online/technology initiatives.

Iwona Terlecka specialises in both Polish and European competition law. Iwona's clients include some of the largest foreign corporations operating in Poland.

Sarah Thomas specialises in all aspects of direct and indirect equity investment in real estate, including acquisitions and disposals of private companies, unit trusts, partnerships and real estate assets, development projects, joint ventures, major lettings (landlord and occupier), asset management, hotels, including acquisitions, developments and operating arrangements. Sarah's clients include investors, investment banks, developers, opportunity funds and hotel operators.

Simon Thomas is the London Head of Capital Markets at Clifford Chance. He advises issuers, sponsors and underwriters on a wide range of equity capital markets (ECM) transactions, including IPOs, rights issues, global depositary receipts, and equity placings in the UK and internationally. Recognised as one of the UK’s leading ECM specialists, Simon also frequently advises on complex, high-profile M&A transactions with equity components, and has significant experience across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Anna Thwaites specialising in complex infrastructure and energy projects across mature and emerging markets – with a notable focus on energy, particularly renewable energy, LNG and gas infrastructure. Anna has particular expertise on cross border infrastructure projects, in Europe and Africa, and brings to bear two decades of experience in advising on project development and financing.

Luke Tolaini advises companies and their Boards on matters of reputational significance. Working across sectors Luke advises on crisis incidents, investigations and material disputes, often involving government authorities. He is a co-lead of Clifford Chance's global Risk team advising clients on compliance, risk prevention, crisis management, and cultural remediation.

Anastasios Tomtsis

Anastasios Tomtsis advises major companies from a wide range of industries on global antitrust and EU law. He has particular expertise in EU and multi-jurisdictional merger control, and in state aid control.

Hein Tonnaer specialises in project finance (with a strong focus on renewable energy) and export finance. He co-leads the worldwide Clifford Chance Renewables Group and Energy & Infrastructure projects group in Amsterdam. He combines deep sector knowledge in the energy transition space primarily in renewables (including offshore, onshore, solar, hydrogen, battery storage). He also advised on TMT infrastructure, aviation, and export finance. He has extensive experience advising energy firms, lenders and sponsors across several international projects.

David Towers is an experienced restructuring partner, specialising in complex and cross-border restructuring mandates across all debt products. He regularly advises on high-profile matters throughout the investment spectrum. Alongside having a busy UK and European practice, David also focusses on large restructuring matters in Southern Africa, and is our Southern Africa Practice Leader both for restructuring and more generally.

Hugo Triaca's practice focuses on capital markets and finance transactions, primarily in Latin America. He has extensive experience on high-yield and investment grade debt offerings, equity offerings, and liability management transactions. His experience includes advising financial institutions and corporate, sovereign and sub-sovereign entities across jurisdictions, sectors and products, such as green, social and sustainable capital markets and financing transactions, acquisition and project financings, exchange offers, tender offers, consent solicitations and other transactions. Mr. Triaca also advises foreign private issuers in connection with corporate governance, US securities laws and general corporate matters.

Sachin Trikha has a particular focus on international commercial arbitration disputes arising in the energy, infrastructure and oil & gas sectors. Sachin's experience includes advising on ICC, LCIA and LMAA disputes. He has a particular interest in commercial remedies arising from complex breach of contract claims. He has written articles, and spoken at a variety of conferences, on international arbitration procedure. Sachin is also a tutor of international commercial arbitration at King's College, London.

Prachi Trivedi is an experienced international commercial arbitration and commercial litigation practitioner. Prachi advises on a wide range of complex, high-value international commercial disputes, including significant cases before the DIFC Courts. Her experience encompasses acting as counsel in arbitrations conducted under various institutional rules (including LCIA, LMAA, ICC, AAA, and ICSID). She has also been appointed as arbitrator by leading arbitral institutions. Prachi represents clients across diverse sectors, including banking and finance, professional services, oil and gas, shipbuilding, aerospace, technology and defence.

Matthew Truman is Global Co-Head of Leveraged Finance. He has over two decades of experience advising on acquisition finance, syndicated lending and restructuring transactions. Matthew regularly advises private equity sponsors, private credit funds, corporates, financial institutions, and banks across a variety of sectors including real estate, healthcare and life sciences, technology, manufacturing, and consumer. Matthew has been based in Asia since 2005, and plays a pivotal role in complex, cross-border financings across the Asia Pacific region. Matthew has practiced in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Tania Tse

Stuart Ure specialises in structured finance and conventional and Islamic debt capital markets across the GCC (including Saudi Arabia) and Turkey.

Rodrigo Uría specialises in financing operations including syndicated loans, structured financing, acquisition and project finance as well as restructurings. With more than 15 years of experience, Rodrigo is actively involved in advising both Spanish entities as well as international investors, and advises on regulatory matters linked to the complicated operation of the financial markets.

Gökçe Uzun specialises in banking and finance, including syndications, project financings, export credit financings, securitisations and other structured financings. She has advised lenders, sponsors, developers and other investors on landmark energy and infrastructure projects, including healthcare and transport PPPs and has extensive experience advising on commercial and financing elements of many projects in Turkey and the CEE region. *Clifford Chance works in cooperation with CIFTCI Attorney Partnership in Turkey

Juan Valcárcel

Juan Valcárcel is a senior associate lawyer in the Corporate and M&A practice area at Clifford Chance. He specialises in advising on M&A, corporate restructurings, and general corporate matters. Juan has developed expertise in the (re)insurance sector, working with insurance undertakings on acquisitions and divestments, bancassurance agreements, portfolio transfers, distribution and agency agreements, joint ventures, and (re)insurance regulatory law. He also works with private equity firms and corporate clients in the energy and infrastructure sectors, providing advice on portfolio acquisitions, sales, and joint ventures for asset development and operation, particularly in the renewable energy market.

Floris van de Bult

Floris van de Bult, an Amsterdam based employment Partner and the Co-head of the Global Employment practice, advises on both domestic and international companies on strategic employment matters such as board room advice, remuneration, cross-border reorganisations, investigations, diversity & inclusion, high-end litigation and the employment and benefits aspects (including incentives) of complex international M&A transactions.

Jurgen van der Meer

Jurgen van der Meer is Partner in the Global Financial Markets Group and heads the Debt Capital Markets team and the Financial Regulatory Group in Amsterdam. Jurgen's focus in Debt Capital Markets is on (international) debt capital markets offerings across a wide product range, including MTNs, Eurobonds, Reg S/144A, hybrids, senior and subordinated debt issuances for corporates, financial institutions and the (semi-) public sector. His experience includes all sorts of regulatory (AT1/RT1/T2) and resolution (TLAC/MREL) capital issuance by financial institutions.

Marijke van der Weide

Marijke van der Weide has broad and extensive experience in debt capital market and private structured finance transactions, including securitisations and asset-based transactions. Her experience encompasses various asset types, such as residential and buy-to-let mortgages, auto and equipment lease, consumer loans and trade receivables. She advises (inter)national corporate enterprises, lease companies, mortgage providers and financial institutions, including banks, financial investors and insurance companies, across a wide range of structured finance transactions.

Ilse van Gasteren

Ilse van Gasteren specialises in restructurings & insolvencies, including advice on security enforcement strategies, debt-for-equity swaps, creditor compositions (including WHOA), contingency planning, and going concern sales in insolvency scenarios. She acts for financial institutions, investors and also borrowers on complex local and cross-border restructurings.

Ashwin Van Rooijen

Ashwin focuses on contentious antitrust matters – abuse of dominance and restrictive agreements – as well as regulation in the technology sector. He has represented clients such as Nokia, GE, Samsung, Epic Games, and Oracle. Ashwin frequently acts for clients accused of abuse of dominance, having secured either wins (on six occasions, two of which after issuance of preliminary findings) or commitments (in two cases). He is equally active on the complainant side, having recently represented OLX on its successful abuse of dominance complaint against Meta, which resulted in the first ever European Commission antitrust fine for Meta. Ashwin also advises (prospective) gatekeepers as well as third parties on implications of the Digital Markets Act. Ashwin’s practice covers key issues in technology markets, including: (i) standard essential patents, (ii) standard-setting agreements, (iii) refusal to supply and refusal to license, (iv) interoperability, (v) aftermarkets, (vi) tying, (vii) data, and (viii) vertical restraints in licensing and distribution agreements. Ashwin previously worked as a software engineer in California and the Netherlands, and relies on his tech background to advise his clients and understand their business.

Jaime Velázquez

Jaime Velázquez specialises in M&A and corporate governance, mainly focused in regulated sectors such as financial, infrastructure, telecoms or energy sectors. Jaime has been the Legal Counsel for the Spanish Inland Revenue in Cataluña, Secretary of the Board of Directors and Legal Counsel for the State-owned Bank (ICO), Board member of a private equity house (Axis S.GE.C.R., S.A.) and General Secretary and Secretary of the Board of the Telecommunications Market Commission. Jaime leads the Clifford Chance Industrial and Financial Institutions groups in Spain.

Dorothée Vermeiren

Dorothée Vermeiren is head of the Brussels litigation and dispute resolution practice. She has a strong track record in banking litigation and restructurings and insolvencies. She also specialises in commercial arbitration (including acting as an arbitrator herself), competition litigation, and compliance with anti-corruption and sanctions litigation.

Evert Verwey is Counsel in the Amsterdam Litigation practice and part of the Restructuring and Insolvency team of Clifford Chance Amsterdam. He specializes in insolvency-related matters, contentious restructuring and work-out scenarios. He is active in general banking and finance litigation with a focus on security rights, directors’ liability and lender liability issues. Evert advises banks, financial institutions, and larger companies (and their (supervisory) directors). He also litigates for this group of clients in these areas of law. Evert used to be a court appointed bankruptcy receiver and has several positions in industry bodies (such as INSOL Europe).

Patrice Viaene's corporate experience extends across international and domestic M&A, energy, construction and large infrastructure projects as well as assisting entrepreneurs and venture capital investors in the tech sector. Patrice has a particular expertise in the renewable energy sector and is a leading member of our worldwide Clean Hydrogen Taskforce.

Nattawat Vilasdechanon

Nattawat Vilasdechanon specialises in asset finance, structured finance (including tax driven structures) and aircraft leasing transactions. He advises global financial institutions and international aircraft lessors on commercial and private aircraft financings, leasing and trading. Nattawat has previously worked in Clifford Chance's London and Bangkok offices.

Robert Villiani has extensive experience in structured capital markets. He has been involved in traditional and novel asset-backed and mortgaged-backed offerings as well in offerings of both traditional and novel structured credit products, investment funds and other financial instruments. Robert's experience includes representation of underwriters, issuers, credit enhancers, warehouse providers and other transaction parties in securitizations and repackagings of commercial real estate loans, leveraged loans and other corporate debt instruments, automobile and equipment loans and leases, corporate fleet leases, trade receivables, health care receivables, and securities and asset-backed securities. Many of these transactions were among the first of their type. Robert has also advised participants in the creation and maintenance of several investment funds and asset-backed commercial paper programs, particularly those focused on the acquisition of distressed assets, and has substantial experience working with derivatives and related products.

Iñigo Villoria

Iñigo Villoria leads the Insolvency & Restructuring team in Spain and has worked for both creditors and debtors in insolvency proceedings, in debt restructuring deals, and in agreements for the sale and purchase of assets of insolvent companies. He is a specialist in claw back actions and insolvency liability claims (including shadow directorship issues). He also advises on complex financial litigation, enforcement of guarantees and claims arising from the sale and purchase of portfolios. He is a lecturer in several Insolvency Law programmes (Instituto de Empresa, ICADE, Madrid Bar) and a regular contributor to specialist journals and the financial media on these matters.

Thomas Voland specialises in German, EU and international public law. He has advised national and international clients from both the private and the public sector on complex legal and compliance issues under European, international and German public law for 18 years. In particular, he has vast experience in cross-border transactions, high-stake disputes, e.g. concerning climate change or human rights risks, and strategic advice on questions of trade, sustainability and regulatory requirements. Thomas co-leads the Firm’s European ESG Board and he is a member of the Firm’s Global Tech Group. Thomas holds a Ph.D. degree in public international law. He frequently lectures and publishes on EU law and public international law. Prior to his career in private practice, Thomas gained work experience with the German Mission to the United Nations and with the European Commission.

Katharina Vollmer

Katharina Vollmer advises on all issues concerning public law, in particular environmental and planning law issues. Furthermore, she has expertise in advising projects concerning public building law.

Kolja von Bismarck

Kolja has extensive experience advising borrowers, secured and unsecured creditors, distressed investors, private equity funds as well alternative credit providers on the restructuring of financially distressed companies, predominantly in a cross border context. He also regularly advises management teams and boards of directors regarding their duties in financially distressed situations. Kolja has been involved in numerous major cross-border financial restructurings with a German COMI and is constantly rated and widely considered as one of the leading German practitioners in his area of practice.

Stavroula Vryna

Stavroula Vryna specialises in competition law. She has extensive experience advising businesses on international merger control, foreign direct investment, complex antitrust investigations and competition law compliance across a wide range of sectors. Stavroula regularly advises clients on the implications of Tech regulation, such as the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the UK Digital Markets Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC). Stavroula has spent several years working in the firm's Brussels office and is a member of the firm's Tech Group.

Kate Vyvyan advises on a broad range of debt capital markets products in the UK, Europe and internationally, including standalone bonds, EMTN issuance, green and sustainability-linked bonds, regulatory capital and hybrid instruments, private placements and commercial paper. Kate’s clients include both issuers and underwriters. Notably, Kate advises many sovereigns, supranationals and international corporates, and also all the key investment banks active in the debt capital markets. Kate advises on liability management transactions, including tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations and restructurings. Kate is an active supporter of diversity issues and a leader of Clifford Chance’s gender parity network, Accelerate. Accelerate is committed to taking bold actions to accelerate the pace of change towards gender parity and drive forward an inclusive and diverse culture.

Donna Wacker is the Head of contentious regulatory and contentious insolvency in Hong Kong, and a core partner in the Asia Regulatory Group. Admitted in Hong Kong, Australia and England & Wales, Donna has more than 20 years experience in Asia, advising on contentious and advisory regulatory matters and complex litigation with an emphasis on the financial services industry. Donna's experience extends across advising banks, alternative investment funds, brokerages and listed companies in a wide range of regulatory matters and investigations by regulators across Asia, including investigations into insider dealing and market manipulation, short selling and position reporting.

Philip Wagman advises clients on a range of domestic and international tax matters, including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures and leveraged buyouts, as well as structured finance and securitisation transactions, equipment leasing, securities offerings and other financing transactions.

Dewi Walian has extensive experience in debt capital markets and has an excellent reputation for her ability to provide tailor-made advice in high yield, convertible, investment grade and regulatory driven debt offerings and restructurings. Dewi has been involved in many international top-tier capital markets transactions and innovative structures over the years.

Christopher Walsh

Christopher Walsh has an in-depth experience of all capital market products and in particular structured finance transactions including Covered Bonds and securitisations. His experience includes working for both arrangers and originators on a wide variety of RMBS, CMBS, Covered Bonds, MTNs and real estate transactions and also on both conventional and Islamic financings and throughout the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Australasia. Chris has established a wide variety of debt programmes for various institutions including Barclays Bank, Clydesdale Bank, IPIC, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Barclays Capital, Citi and Deutsche Bank.

Thomas Walsh leads the firm's Hong Kong Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice and is the co-head of the firm's Greater China international arbitration group, with a particular focus on private capital and technology disputes. Reflecting his standing in the community, Thomas holds key leadership positions at major arbitral institutions. He serves on the HKIAC's Executive Committee, Council, and as Chair of its Appointments Committee. For the ICC, he is the elected Chair of the Hong Kong Nominations Committee and a member of the Hong Kong Executive Committee. A respected thought leader, Thomas is the General Editor of Hong Kong's leading arbitration commentary, "The White Book" (Arbitration and ADR Volume, Hong Kong Civil Procedure). He is currently an adjunct professor at Peking University and has previously taught at Hong Kong University, Seoul National University, and Yonsei University.

Anthony Wang specialises in syndicated and acquisition financing, project financing and commercial projects work. Anthony has extensive experience in advising arrangers and lenders in relation to acquisition financing and syndicated loans in Asia.

Sam is experienced in all forms of commercial litigation with an emphasis on antitrust/competition litigation, regulatory investigations (including cartel investigations) and public/administrative law. She has advised clients on investigations, enforcement and dawn raids conducted by the European Commission, FCA and CMA. She has had senior secondments to clients and regulators including the former OFT, and as acting GC at a global insurance broker. In addition, Sam is a core member of the firm's Tech Group and has advised multiple clients on complex data related issues, including supporting clients with cyber crisis management and incident response, ICO investigations/enforcement and systems/controls reviews following a cyber event.

Dominic Watts specialises in rail financing and leasing and associated transport infrastructure projects.

Yves Wehrli's practice includes general corporate and commercial matters; mergers and acquisitions, sports & media. Yves also specialises in media and sports law. He is the author of a number of published articles and conference papers on various subjects relating to corporate law, computer law, telecommunications law and sports law.

Russell Wells is the Global Head of the firm's Energy and Resources Sector and co-head of the Energy Transition Group. He has over 35 years of commercial, corporate and finance experience in the energy sector – including a large number of landmark transactions throughout the World. Russell has worked in our Hong Kong, London and Singapore offices.

Kathleen Werner

Kathleen L. Werner is a Partner in the Capital Markets practice of Clifford Chance. Kathleen primarily represents companies and investment banks in capital markets and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Kathleen's clients include public and private companies in the financial services, real estate and media industries. She acts as regular outside corporate and SEC counsel to many of her clients. In addition, Kathleen frequently represents investment banking firms acting as underwriters and initial purchasers in public and private securities offerings. Kathleen's clients include public and private companies in a variety of industries, including the financial services, real estate, healthcare and media industries.

Iain White is a versatile lawyer with broad experience of domestic and cross border restructurings and formal insolvencies. Iain acts both on the creditor-side (for banks, funds and other lending institutions) and on the debtor-side (for borrowers, issuers and private equity sponsors) as well as advising insolvency officeholders. In recent years Iain has advised clients across a number of different jurisdictions and sectors, including commodities, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and real estate.

Ying White is a partner in the Funds and Investment Management Group of Clifford Chance. Ying has advised numerous global fund managers and institutional investors on their investments in public and private markets and funds in China. She also advises Chinese clients on the structuring, establishment and operations of offshore private equity funds and hedge funds. Ying joined Clifford Chance as a Partner in 2012. Prior to that, she was a legal counsel at the World Bank in Washington, DC for seven years. Ying was admitted in the District of Columbia. Ying is a native Mandarin speaker and fluent in English.

Emily Wicker focuses on secured lending and leasing transactions with an emphasis on aircraft leasing and financing. Emily is experienced in all aspects of aircraft finance, leasing and related restructuring transactions, including pre-delivery payment facilities, aircraft and spare parts credit facilities, EETCs and similar structured finance transactions.

John Wilkins has a particular focus on the Power and Oil & Gas sectors and is the joint head of the Global Nuclear Group. John has extensive projects development & M&A experience in the energy sector with a focus on power and oil & gas. He has acted on high profile, complex world-scale projects in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia and has a particular focus on nuclear power and the shift into new energies by the oil & gas majors.

Alastair Windass

Alastair Windass specialises in all areas of employment law. He advises on a wide range of employment, labour and HR issues in the UK and on a cross border basis including: Tribunal and High Court litigation; executive recruitment, remuneration, grievances, disciplinary issues and dismissals; restructurings, redundancies and collective matters; and public and private M&A, outsourcings and employee transfers.

Will Winterton

Jonathan David ("JD") Wong represents financial institutions, large corporations and private equity firms on significant regulatory enforcement matters, litigation and arbitration, with a focus on international and Greater China matters. He is a global co-head of our Regulatory Investigations and Financial Crime (RIFC) Practice. JD's sector expertise covers banking and fintech, funds and investment management, insurance, retail and life sciences. His regulatory defence work notably includes representing clients in matters involving securities, banking, listing, competition, insurance, AML and privacy regulators; he also regularly advises clients on related regulatory compliance.

Nicholas Wong is the firm's Global Clients, Markets and Products Partner and has over 20 years’ experience advising on project development and financing. Nick acts for sponsors, investors, banks, export credit agencies, multilateral financial institutions and governments on the structuring, development and financing of major energy, oil and gas, infrastructure and mining developments in APAC, Europe, Turkey, Russia and the CIS, Middle East and Africa.

Brad specialises in large scale, complex commercial litigation, with a particular focus on strategic and reputationally significant claims, including class actions and test cases. Brad has acted on a number of the country’s largest pieces of litigation across a range of industries, including financial services, professional negligence, employment, natural disasters and product liability.

Martin Wurth is a Partner in the Global Financial Markets practice of Clifford Chance’s Luxembourg office. He specialises in structured finance, asset finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance and bank lending in cross border and local transactions, with a particular focus on financings to Luxembourg investment funds (subscription/equity bridge or NAV facilities). Martin is also a regular contributor to legal journals and is a regular speaker at Fund Finance Association conferences.

Liyong Xing is a Partner in the Hong Kong office and a member of the APAC Private Funds Group. Liyong focuses her practice on advising both established and emerging fund sponsors across different strategies, including private equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure, energy, and fund of funds, on a broad range of strategic and operational matters. Liyong also has represented sponsors and investors in secondary transactions and similar liquidity solutions, as well as other customized transactions, including joint ventures, platform formations, new business line launches, anchor investments, warehouse vehicles, co-investments, separately managed accounts, annex funds, and sponsor internal equity arrangements. Prior to joining the firm, Liyong was a partner of another international law firm.

Terry Yang specialises in derivatives, structured products and financial regulatory matters. Terry has worked on a number of significant structured finance projects in Greater China, including China Connect, Bond Connect and the establishment of OTC Clear. He regularly advises both buy-side and sell-side clients on structured note investments, margin financing transactions and cross-border acquisitions involving OTC derivatives. Terry speaks regularly at industry conferences on financial regulatory developments affecting China and Hong Kong.

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Christopher Yates

Chris Yates is a senior commercial disputes partner acting on the firm's highest profile corporate, banking and sports litigation. Like the firm's global platform, his practice is international - Chris regularly acts on cross-border disputes involving concurrent litigation in multiple jurisdictions, differing regulatory regimes and arbitration. Chris co-leads the firm's global Entertainment & Sports Group, where he represents investors, owners and stakeholders on industry defining matters. Chris is also one of the main partners in the firm’s securities litigation practice; an area where the firm leads the market. His client base is similarly broad; Chris advises private equity, FTSE 100 companies, SOEs, financial institutions, hedge funds, C-suite executives, founders and HNW clients. Chris enjoys an excellent market profile and is highly regarded for his practical and commercially strategic advice.

Deniz Yetkin focuses on corporate/M&A and general corporate advisory matters. Deniz has worked in M&As, and equity investments in energy, pharmaceutical, mining and FMCG. She advises clients in connection with corporate and commercial law matters, specifically for clients active in energy, pharmaceutical and infrastructure sectors. She also focuses on white collar crimes and employment law.

Yi Yang has over 15 years’ experience in advising multinational and Chinese companies on cross-border mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, disposals and strategic alliances across a wide range of sectors, including healthcare & life sciences, consumer goods & retail, real estate and manufacturing.

Andrew Young is a partner in Clifford Chance’s Global Financial Markets group, based in New York. Andrew advises lenders, corporates, sponsors and investors in all aspects of domestic and international financing transactions, including acquisition and leveraged loans, syndicated credits, direct loans, fund finance and private placements. He also advises clients in respect of restructurings, recapitalizations, intercreditor arrangements and bankruptcy issues. Previously with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, Mr. Young joined Clifford Chance in 2015. He earned his JD, magna cum laude, from New York Law School.

Cheng Li Yow is part of the Financial Institutions Corporate Group and specialises in financial institutions corporate transactions and insurance regulatory advice. Cheng Li has particular experience in banking and (re)insurance restructurings including through Part VII transfers and cross-border mergers, financial institutions M&A and joint ventures, reinsurance transactions and alternative risk transfer and distribution arrangements. She also provides insurance regulatory advice.

Clarice is a telecoms, media and technology lawyer based in Hong Kong with a substantial data protection practice. With over 20 years of experience, she advises clients on corporate, commercial and regulatory matters in the TMT sector.

José Luis Zamarro

José Luis Zamarro specialises in Spanish regulated sectors. This comprises infrastructure, railway, airport, utilities, PPP, concessions, privatizations, energy, renewable energy, public subsidies and EU funds granting and reimbursement procedures, and also on public sector finance, with debt issues by the Kingdom of Spain, the Spanish regions and public bodies, as well as administrative sanctions in regulated sectors, including anti-money laundering regulations and other financial sector regulations. José Luis acts for bidders, lenders, public administrations and competing entities. José Luis also engages in all public law litigation related to the previous.

Milica Zatezalo-Falatar

Milica Zatezalo-Falatar is a member of the Clifford Chance Worldwide Projects Group. Milica has extensive experience in advising on project and finance documents and structures, bankability issues, concession legal and regulatory reform and PPPs in Europe and emerging markets. She acts for governments, sponsors, project companies, commercial banks and IFIs in major energy and infrastructure transactions.

Daniel Zerbib began his career as a securitisation lawyer (CMBS, trade receivables) and now specialises in banking and finance, with a particular emphasis on infrastructure finance (both greenfield and brownfield), leveraged finance and debt restructuring.

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Jonathan Zonis concentrates in representing issuers and underwriters in cross-border equity and debt (including high-yield) offerings. Jonathan has been involved in public and private transactions in equity and debt offerings by issuers in a variety of industries including banking, energy, manufacturing, real estate, infrastructure, luxury goods, telecommunications, media and shipping.