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Emma Davies
Position
Emma Davies heads Clifford Chance’s Asia Pacific Healthcare & Life Sciences Sector Group. She has 25 years of experience advising clients on M&A, private equity and corporate restructuring matters. In addition, she led the China Corporate/M&A group in Shanghai from 2002–2012 and founded the firm’s China antitrust practice. Emma is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Career
Cambridge University (BA, Economics) 1988
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 1995
Joined Clifford Chance 1997
Admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong 1997
Seconded to Zheng, Liu, Yuan & Zhou law office, Beijing 1997-1998
Partner since 2004
Lawyer Rankings
Hong Kong > Corporate (including M&A)
(Leading individuals)Clifford Chance’s team exhibits expertise in a variety of matters, including inbound and outbound M&A within China, multijurisdictional transactions, and both public and private M&A. Practice head Andrew Crook assists clients across a broad range of sectors, including energy, education, and technology. Emma Davies leads the healthcare and life sciences group, advising a broad range of international clients on corporate restructuring. Virginia Lee handles an array of issues, including equity fundraisings and pre-IPO investments, and is a committee member of the SFC’s Share Registrars’ Disciplinary Committee. The team welcomed Alex Bidlake who joined from Linklaters in August 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Asset finance (including aviation and shipping finance)
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets (debt)
- Capital markets (equity)
- Dispute resolution: international arbitration
- Investment funds
- Structured finance and securitisation
- Structured finance and securitisation
- Regulatory
- Restructuring and insolvency