Corporate lawyers

Chris Newton

Chris Managing Partner of Maples and Calder’s British Virgin Islands office and head of the global BVI practice. He has a broad corporate and finance practice with particular expertise in restructuring as well as acquisition, asset, project and real estate finance, advising financial institutions, sponsors, investors and borrowers. Chris has substantial experience advising in distressed credit situations including both consensual work outs and contentious enforcements. In addition to his finance practice, Chris advises on debt capital markets transactions and plays an active role in the public equity group, advising companies listing on the North American exchanges as well as bidders and targets in acquisitions. Chris regularly advises a number of key clients around the ongoing requirements of public companies. Chris' clients include high profile Canadian, Chinese, UK and US financial institutions, investment funds and corporates.

Maples Group

Chris Ulfers

Partner

Jones Walker LLP

Chris Walters

Partner, Head of Middle East Corporate, Dubai

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Chris Welty

Chris Welty is a partner in the Corporate Department of the Firm’s Hong Kong office. Chris represents public and private companies, private equity sponsors, and financial advisors in connection with corporate and transactional matters, including cross-border and multi-jurisdictional mergers and acquisitions, leveraged and managed buyouts, going private transactions, growth investments, consortium transactions, exits and joint ventures.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Christian B. Elmer

Christian is partner in our Insolvency team and serves as a permanent trustee with the Bankruptcy Court of the Maritime and Commercial Court. Christian advises banks, corporate clients, and others in relation to bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings and also serves as a trustee in bankruptcy estates. In addition to his specialization in insolvency and bankruptcy law, Christian also acts as an advisor to several business clients. His solution-oriented and practical approach is valuable in handling both legal and business matters for clients. In his advisory work, Christian emphasizes to address issues in a timely manner so that clients receive the right advice before it is too late. This approach often benefits all parties and avoids costly and protracted disputes and litigation. If challenges can be resolved before reaching that stage, he puts all his efforts into it. Christian's expertise and high professional level are recognized by both Chambers Europe and Legal500 where clients particularly highlight his professionalism and efficiency.

Lund Elmer Sandager

Christian Fenner

DLA Piper

Christian Kurtz

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Christian Zschocke

Managing Morgan Lewis’s Corporate and Business Transactions (CBT) practice in Frankfurt since 1997, Christian Zschocke counsels clients on public takeovers, and on European and German antitrust law. He represents clients in large takeover transactions on the side of bidders, financial investors, or target companies. Before joining Morgan Lewis, he served clients of another international New York–based law firm in London, Brussels, and Frankfurt, and worked for law firms in Paris, Hamburg, Barcelona, and Buenos Aires. For more information, view Joachim’s biography at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/czschocke

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Christine Lazatin

Christine Lazatin is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of Proskauer’s Sports Group. Christine regularly represents professional sports teams, leagues, owners, financial institutions and private capital firms in a variety of transactional matters, with a particular emphasis on acquisition and stadium financings, working capital facilities, and league-wide and league-level credit facilities. Over the years, she has advised major sports leagues (including the the NBA, NHL and MLS), as well as a number of NBA, NHL, NFL and MLB teams, in significant multi-billion dollar financing transactions, and she is known as one of the nation’s leading sports finance attorneys. In addition to her finance work, Christine has advised on numerous expansion and ownership transactions for the NHL, NBA and MLS. She played a leading role in launching several emerging sports leagues, including MLS NEXT Pro, Major League Table Tennis, the Professional Women’s Hockey League and League One Volleyball, and she continues to represent such leagues on ongoing governance matters. Christine is a vice chair of the Firm’s Hiring Committee and a partner liason to the Proskauer Women’s Alliance.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Christoph Keimer

Managing Partner in Dubai Partner at Dortmund and Hamburg offices

SCHLÜTER GRAF Legal Consultants

Christophe Asselineau

Partner

Norton Rose Fulbright

Christophe Simonnet

Christophe is a corporate lawyer with more than 18 years of experience, including 10 years of practice in Morocco where he has been established since 2008. From Casablanca, Christophe regularly advises local and international clients on acquisitions and corporate matters in North Africa and in French-speaking African countries. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate, commercial contracts, real estate and financing.

Dentons Morocco

Christopher Atkinson

Christopher Atkinson gets deals done. He negotiates deals that allow his clients to grow and succeed. They include mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, equity financings and other transactions that require complex contracts and structures. Having started his career in the tech industry, Christopher brings a client mindset to his deal work for private equity firms, venture capital firms and businesses of all sizes. As a lawyer, Christopher retains the perspective he gained when he worked for emerging tech companies and was a client himself. From that experience, he appreciates the value of a practical approach to deal-making that puts a premium on efficiency. He adeptly cuts through issues and avoids spending needless time over-lawyering highly speculative, low-risk issues. Instead, he takes his clients through transactions as quickly and painlessly as possible. As a skilled negotiator, Christopher understands his clients' leverage (or lack thereof) and works hard to get them the best deal that he can. Christopher advises private equity firms, venture capital firms as well as businesses ranging from founder- and family-owned entities to large public companies. His experience goes well beyond the tech industry to include education, health care, business services, parking, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, restaurants and veterinary care. His work with venture capital firms often facilitates crucial financing for start-ups and other early-stage companies. At times, his deals allow his clients to expand into new areas, as when he helped a leading provider of parking services close a $275 million acquisition that allowed it to branch out into baggage delivery and other airport-related services.

Katten

Christopher Connell

Partner and Chair, Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Securities

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

Christopher Giordano

Partner; Chair of DLA Piper's New York Corporate Group; Chair of DLA Piper's US Mergers and Acquisitions Group

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Christopher Hazuka

Dr. Christopher (Chris) Hazuka advises life sciences companies on the agreements and transactions that are essential to their success at all stages of their life cycle, drawing on his experience as a scientist and former in-house counsel. Chris, based in both San Diego and the Bay Area, brings clients a scientist’s sensibility, a passion for creating synergies to bring innovation to market, and a pragmatic understanding of the full complement of business and legal issues clients face. In particular, he helps established and emerging life sciences companies by providing problem-solving advice to structure, negotiate, and execute a myriad of transactions, such as: Complex collaborations Intellectual property and technology licenses Relationships to assist in developing drug candidates and innovative technologies Manufacturing and quality agreements Commercial agreements, including profit sharing and co-promotion agreements University licenses Clinical trial agreements In the context of strategic transactions, he advises on: Due diligence and disclosure matters Venture financings, public offerings, and M&A transactions Chris earned a PhD at Stanford University in the Neurosciences Program for his work in Dr. Richard Scheller’s laboratory on the molecular mechanisms of neurotransmission. He later served as in-house counsel for Orexigen Therapeutics, an emerging company that successfully developed and commercialized a drug to treat obesity. At the La Jolla, California-based company, Chris assisted with challenging issues across the company’s full range of legal matters. He also clerked for Judge Jeremy Fogel of the United States District Court of Northern California, assisting on several high-stakes technology patent litigation matters.

Latham & Watkins

Christopher J. Cummings

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Christopher Kelly

Partner

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Christopher Michael Bezeg

Christopher Bezeg advises private equity sponsors, investment banks, and public and private companies across a broad range of capital markets and corporate transactions. Christopher draws on keen market insights to help clients, ranging from early-stage privately held companies to well-known seasoned issuers, navigate: Acquisition financings Initial public offerings Other debt and equity offerings, including high yield offerings Liability management and debt restructuring transactions Special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) IPOs and acquisition transactions Public company representation and corporate governance He forges trusted relationships with clients to anticipate issues that may arise within the context of a transaction and beyond, and develops pragmatic solutions to help them navigate complex situations.

Latham & Watkins

Christopher Paci

Partner; Chair, Capital Markets

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Christopher Plaut

Corporate Partner

Latham & Watkins

Christopher Robertson

Mr. Robertson is Co-Chair of the National Whistleblower Team and a member of the Complex Litigation, Capital Markets and Investment Management practice areas in the Boston Office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. His areas of focus include complex commercial and financial litigation, securities litigation, consumer fraud litigation, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and internal investigations. He has defended and advised corporations, broker-dealers, investment companies, investment advisers, advertisers and media companies, Internet companies, and their officers and directors in connection with class actions, derivative and private litigation, as well as audits, investigations, arbitrations and litigation commenced by federal and state authorities, self-regulatory organizations, and shareholders. He has handled matters and tried cases in the federal and state trial and appellate courts, as well as before the U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, state securities and consumer protection agencies, and self-regulatory bodies, including the NYSE, AMEX and NASD. Prior to joining Seyfarth Shaw, Mr. Robertson was Senior Counsel with the SEC’s Division of Enforcement in Washington, D.C., where he investigated and litigated, among others, accounting, insider trading, investment management, corporate misconduct, investment adviser and broker-dealer matters.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Christopher Versfelt

Counsel

Goodwin

Christopher Wells

Chris Wells has been a leading lawyer in the hedge fund industry for more than 30 years. During that time, he has assisted on hundreds of hedge fund launches, counselling and assisting hedge fund managers as they grew from often very modest beginnings to become some of the world’s largest and best known hedge funds. He advises fund managers and investors on all aspects of the hedge fund business, including fund structuring and formation, seed investments, asset manager M&A transactions, agreements among principals, employment and compensation issues, and regulatory and enforcement matters. Chris’s long and deep experience in the hedge fund industry gives him a unique ability to counsel clients dealing with some of the most challenging situations that fund managers can encounter, including complex fund restructurings, evolving hedge fund investment terms, hybrid and alternative fund structures, liquidity challenges and constraints, internal disputes, and complex enforcement matters.

Proskauer Rose LLP