Clifford Chance

Ada Schmitt

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). · Litigation

Adelina Prokop

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. · Dispute Resolution

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. · Corporate / M&A

Ahmed Choudhry

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. · Banking & Finance

Albert Moro

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. · Litigation

Alberto Haito

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. · Banking & Finance

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. · Capital Markets

Alex Cook

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. · Corporate / M&A

Alexandra Diehl

Alexandra Diehl is a Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner in our Frankfurt office. She is recognised for her experience in collective redress, advising on consumer and mass-tort claims. Her practice also focuses on commercial and investment arbitration (DIS, ICC, ICSID, SCC and ad hoc). She has been developing an active arbitrator practice. Alexandra represents German and multinational clients throughout all stages of complex disputes of high reputational significance, particularly relating to post-M&A, international investment law, intellectual property and product liability. Alexandra also regularly advises clients on issues relating to private international law and cross-border taking of evidence. Her extensive experience in class actions and mass claims spans key sectors such healthcare, life sciences and technology. · Litigation

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. · Real Estate

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. · Tax

Alexandre Ooms

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. · Corporate / M&A

Alice Reali

Capital Markets

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. · Structured Finance

Ana Latorre

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. · Competition / Antitrust

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. · Antitrust

Andrea Sgrilli

Tax

Andrea Tuninetti Ferrari

Dispute Resolution

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. · Restructuring & Insolvency

Andreea Sisman

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. · Project Finance

Andrew Epstein

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. · Capital Markets

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. · Banking & Finance

Andrew Young

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. · Banking & Finance

Andrzej Stosio

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. · Banking & Finance

Andrés Berral

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. · Real Estate

Angela Chan

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. · Debt Capital Markets

Angela McEwan

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. · Banking & Finance

Anita Lam

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. · Employment Law

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. · Capital Markets

Anna Biała

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. · Financial Services Regulation

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. · Energy & Natural Resources

Anna Thwaites

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. · Energy & Natural Resources

Anne Filzmoser

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. · Competition / Antitrust

Anselm Raddatz

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. · Corporate / M&A

Anthony Candido

Litigation

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. · Energy

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. · Energy

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. · Corporate / M&A

Anthony Wang

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. · Banking & Finance

Antonio Golino

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. · Regulatory Enforcement

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. · Capital Markets: Equity

Arnaud Fromion

Banking & Finance

Ash Masrani

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. · Outsourcing

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. · Antitrust / Competition

Auriane Bijon

Auriane Bijon specialises in capital markets and structured finance. · Capital Markets

Avrohom Gelber

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. · Tax

Axel Wittmann

Axel Wittmann advises corporate clients and underwriters in international capital markets transactions, corporate law and in M&A transactions Axel has experience advising on initial public offerings, capital increases, venture financing, convertibles and also focuses on high yield bonds. His focus is also on capital markets compliance, public M&A transactions, restructuring, corporate governance and general corporate matters. · Capital Markets

Aysh Chaudhry

Corporate / M&A

Bartosz KruzEwski

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. · Litigation

Begoña Barrantes

Antitrust

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. · Antitrust / Competition

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. · Litigation

Benjamin Fisher

Ben focuses on cross-border asset finance transactions in the aviation sector. He advises financial institutions and corporate clients on a broad range of matters, including structured debt transactions, capital markets transactions, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, asset portfolio transfers, leasing, export credit agency-supported financings, secondary debt trading, and complex restructurings and workouts. Ben previously worked in our London and Hong Kong offices before relocating to New York, and he is qualified to practice in both New York and England and Wales. · Asset Finance

Benjamin Saada

Benjamin Saada is a Counsel in Clifford Chance’s Corporate/M&A practice in Paris. He specialises in M&A and private equity/infrastructure transactions for domestic and international listed and unlisted companies, in France and worldwide, as well as in corporate governance matters. He has advised on numerous high-profile private and public M&A transactions, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sectors. · Corporate / M&A

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. · Corporate / M&A

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. · Acquisition Finance

Bola Coker

Banking & Finance

Brad Woodhouse

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. · Litigation

Bryan Koo

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. · Mergers & Acquisitions

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. · Litigation