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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.

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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.

Lara Attarzadeh

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Paget Dare Bryan

Senior Associate

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Katherine Coates

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.

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Adam Craig

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Emily Elliott

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

Elizabeth Hardacre

Senior Associate

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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 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. Ross is currently based in Singapore.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Elizabeth Morony

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.

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.

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.

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.

Global Practice Area Leader for Corporate

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).

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jeremy Sandelson

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.

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.

Angela Shepherd

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

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.

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Jonathan Solomon

Global Head of Real Estate

Head of UK Public Policy

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Maggie Zhao