Dechert

Corporate

Partner

Maria Tan Pedersen, co-head of Dechert's Emerging Markets product line and leader of Dechert's EMEA Energy Initiative, focuses her practice on international and domestic corporate M&A, joint ventures, projects, capital markets and financing transactions, as well as cross-border disputes.  Ms. Pedersen has extensive experience advising private and public corporates, ultra-high net worth individuals, and governments in more than 35 countries worldwide and has practiced in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Over the course of her career, Ms. Pedersen has advised on many high-profile inbound and outbound commercial and project-related transactions throughout Asia, Europe and the United States and across a number of industries, including energy and infrastructure, consumer goods, technology and real estate.

Council Member, Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC)

Member, Finance & Administration Committee, HKIAC

Member, Belt & Road Committee, HKIAC

University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1987, cum laude

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, J.D., 1990, Associate Editor, California Law Review; Associate Editor, International Tax and Business Lawyer; Co-president, International Law Society