Corporate lawyers

Poonam Verma

Partner

JSA Advocates & Solicitors

Primo Fontana

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Prokopis Latropoulos

Counsel

Masouros & Partners

Puja Sondhi

Partner

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

Péter Szajlai

DLA Piper Posztl, Nemescsói, Györfi-Tóth and Partners Law Firm

Qun Huang

Partner Qun heads up the China Outbound Team at Taylor Wessing Germany. As a German lawyer, he primarily advises Chinese investors in detail on M&A transactions, Greenfield projects, and crisis situations. Qun’s expertise extends to post merger integration as well as to advising clients on matters relating to compliance in German subsidiaries of Chinese group companies. He is one of the most experienced Chinese-speaking lawyers in this field in Germany. His clients include numerous Chinese state-owned enterprises, as well as large listed companies and high-tech companies. The combination of his extensive expertise, many years of experience, linguistic competence, and extensive understanding of Chinese culture make him an extremely sought-after legal advisor.

Winston Taylor

R. Sudhinder

Senior Partner

Argus Partners

Rachael Norris

Counsel

Addleshaw Goddard

Rachel Chan

Rachel Chan is a corporate lawyer based in Hong Kong. She advises on mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and privatisations, initial public offerings and other equity capital market transactions.

Norton Rose Fulbright

Radislav Bibel

DLA Piper Weiss-Tessbach Rechtsanwälte GmbH, organizacná zložka

Rafał Sieński

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig Nowakowska-Zimoch Wysokinski Sp. k

Raffaele Giarda

Raffaele Giarda co-heads the Italian Corporate/M&A practice and he is a member of the Information Technology & Communications Practice Group. Raffaele assists domestic and multinational clients in the areas of IT/C, media, mergers & acquisitions, corporate law, and commercial contracts. He focuses on regulatory matters, particularly in the information technology and communications industry, as well as in areas such as wireless networks and services, infrastructures roll-out and provision, wireline services, satellite networks, media platforms, MVNO, interconnection and access, Internet of Things, disruptive technologies, Machine-2-Machine and other internet protocol scenarios. He has contributed articles to law journals, and often moderates and speaks at Italian and international conferences and seminars on tech legal and regulatory issues. Raffaele is a lecturer at the University of Rome as well as at the Italian National School for Public Administration.

Studio Professionale Associato a Baker & McKenzie

Raghubir Menon

Raghubir is a corporate, M&A and PE partner at the firm, the regional head of M&A and PE (Mumbai region) and advises numerous corporates, sovereign wealth funds and private equity funds. Raghubir actively represents large corporate clients such as Facebook, Walmart, Flipkart, One97 Communications, Sembcorp and blue chip PE and SWF clients such as KKR, Blackstone, Softbank Vision Fund, CPPIB, General Atlantic, GIC, ADIA and Temasek. He has recently advised IndiaIdeas.com Limited on its sale of the entire share capital of the company to PayU Payments Private Limited through secondary sale of US$ 4.6 billion. He has worked on some of the largest recent M&A and PE transactions in India including advising Facebook, TPG, PIF, L-Catterton, Silver Lake, Vista Equity Partners, General Atlantic, KKR and ADIA’s investment of over US$20 billion by Reliance Jio – India’s biggest conglomerate. He also advised the investors on Reliance Retail’s fund raise of over US$6 billion and Blackstone’s acquisition of Mphasis Limited for US$ 2.8 billion in 2021. In 2018, Raghubir represented Walmart on its acquisition of Flipkart for US$16 billion, making it the largest e-commerce acquisition globally. Chambers and Partners, 2022 views Raghubir as a ‘Band 1’ lawyer for each of Private Equity and M&A and he has also been ranked as a ‘Band 1’ lawyer by each of Chambers and Partners Global and Asia-Pacific for M&A for 2021. Chambers and Partners Global 2020, quotes a source saying Raghubir is “an excellent, star partner”. He is further praised for his deep experience in complex cross-border M&A, acting recently on some of India’s most important landmark transactions. Raghubir was ranked number one lawyer by Mergermarket in 2017 and 2018 for the entire Asia – Pacific region by deal volume and has been noted as the busiest lawyer in Asia in 2018, 19 and 20, by Mergermarket. He is also Ranked #1 in the Mergermarket Individual League Table 2020 Global Rankings, with 45 deals worth US$ 24.3 billion to his credit. He was awarded “Partner of the Year” by IDEX Legal Awards 2017 and is recommended by RSG Consulting 2019 for M&A and Private Equity, and won the M&A Lawyer of the Year: Private Equity at the Asian Lawyer Emerging Markets Awards 2015. Raghubir has been consistently ranked by Who’s Who Legal as one of the Global and India Thought Leaders for M&A and Corporate Governance.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

Rahul Matthan

Partner - Corporate, Telecom, Media and Technology

Trilegal

Raimondas Kivylius

Partner, Attorney-at-Law

Averus

Rajab Abbassi

Rajab Abbassi is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a member of the Financial Institutions and Insurance Transactions & Regulatory Practice Groups. Rajab’s practice focuses on corporate transactions in the insurance industry, and he has advised on many of the most significant transactions in the industry over the last 20 years. He regularly advises on mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance transactions, joint venture transactions and strategic investments, as well as securities offerings and other corporate transactions. Rajab also frequently counsels boards of directors and senior management on strategic and governance matters.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Rajib Chanda

Hailed as a “Trailblazer” by The American Lawyer for his legal contributions to the democratization of access by ordinary investors to private markets investments, Rajib is Simpson Thacher's Global Head of Asset Management and a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. Rajib helps asset management firms design, develop and structure investment products, and regularly represents the leading asset management firms in the world. Recent representations include Apollo, Artisan Partners, BC Partners, Benefit Street, Blackstone, Blue Owl, Carlyle, Cohen & Steers, Coller Capital, Diameter Capital, First Eagle, Golub, HarbourVest, Irradiant Partners, JPMorgan Asset Management, KKR, Lexington Partners, Morgan Stanley, New Mountain, Onex Credit, Sixth Street Partners, SkyBridge Capital, Starwood Capital Group and TPG Angelo Gordon, among many others.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Ralf W. Schlößer

Ralf is Head of Tax and also a member of the corporate team in Germany. He has advised on a large number of acquisitions, including the restructuring of companies on a national and international level. He is legal counsel for a large number of companies, in particular mid-sized enterprises with headquarters both in Germany and overseas, which he advises on corporate and tax issues. Additionally, he has broad experience in criminal tax law, capital gains in particular. He has more than ten years' experience in the automotive sector, in particular with car dealers and their relationships with manufacturers and importers. Ralf has been legal adviser of the Association of Mercedes-Benz car dealers (VVMB) for many years. His deep understanding of the automotive sector, together with his broad experience in tax and corporate law, has made him the adviser on a large number of M&A deals, as well as on the restructuring of companies in this sector.

Osborne Clarke GmbH & Co. KG

Rami Sherman

Rami Sherman is a technology & IP transactions partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Rami works with the M&A practice on technology, intellectual property and complex commercial aspects of corporate transactions. He also represents clients in connection with strategic commercial agreements such as joint ventures, licenses and collaborations. Rami’s experience spans a variety of industries, particularly life sciences, software and consumer products.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Ramón Paz y Miño

Senior Associate

CorralRosales

Randall Parks

Partner, chairman of the Executive Committee, former co-chair of the firm's corporate team, former chair of the global technology and outsourcing practice group, and former co-chair of its retail and consumer products industry practice group

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Randi Lally

Ms. Lally has significant experience in private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions, having represented private equity firms and public and private companies in mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, carve-out transactions, recapitalizations, and other corporate and governance matters. She also regularly advises the Firm's investment management clients on acquisitions and dispositions of interests in hedge fund and private equity fund managers and frequently counsels industry leading public and private companies as well as private equity firms and their portfolio companies. She regularly advises clients such as AEA Investors, Dyal Capital Partners, Genesys, Goldman Sachs, Permira Advisers, among others.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Randy Friedberg

Partner

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

Randy Socol

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)