Avocats en Banking & Finance

Rahul Thakrar

Rahul advises ultra-high net worth's, family offices, entrepreneurs and businesses on a variety of corporate and banking matters including fund raisings throughout the capital stack (such as equity, senior debt and mezzanine debt transactions), joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions as well as assisting clients with day to day commercial agreements. He also has significant experience in advising on private funds in the real estate, private equity and venture capital sectors on structuring and regulatory matters. Uniquely for a lawyer, Rahul has undertaken all of his Chartered Financial Analyst examinations (a qualification typically achieved only by senior bankers) and therefore regularly assists clients with negotiating the key commercial terms of a transaction as well as then finding a structure which provides the necessary commercial outcomes.

Boodle Hatfield LLP

Raimond Dufour

Raimond Dufour joined Pels Rijcken in 2012 and is a senior associate in our Litigation & Arbitration department where his focus lies on commercial and financial litigation. He specialises in private international law and has extensive experience with civil cross-border disputes, including class actions and arbitration proceedings (ICC, NAI). Raimond frequently works with clients that operate on a multi-jurisdictional scale. He litigates on a wide variety of matters, such as prospectus liability, interest rate benchmarks (e.g. LIBOR) and diesel engine emissions. Raimond completed the highly reputed postgraduate Grotius Academy on securities law (financial law) cum laude.

Pels Rijcken

Raimondas Kivylius

Partner, Attorney-at-Law

Averus

Rainer Nowak

Director

Webber Wentzel

Raino Paron

Counsel

Ellex Raidla

Raiza Zakaria

Partner Raiza is an experienced practitioner whose practice focuses on banking and commercial litigation including disputes relating to director’s duties and money-laundering. Her experience extends to corporate insolvency, liquidation and receiverships and she also advises on capital reduction, schemes of arrangement, debt recovery and enforcement proceedings. She regularly appears to conduct hearings and trials in both the Sessions Courts and High Courts. Raiza has also appeared as counsel before the Court of Appeal on appellate matters and in matters involving injunction hearings.

Albar & Partners

Rajdeep Panda

Partner

Dua Associates

Raji Bartlett

Raji is a Partner in our Real Estate Finance department with over 30 years' experience working on transactions acting for both lenders and borrowers in matters with deal values ranging from £10 million to £500 million. Raji advises financial institutions, corporates and sponsors/funds in relation to arranging and documenting domestic and international bank facilities and structured financings. He has a broad range of finance experience, with particular expertise in advising borrowers and lenders in relation to syndicated real estate investment and development finance and acquisition/leveraged finance transactions.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Ralitsa Nedkova

Senior Associate; Finance, TMT, M&A, Corporate.

Boyanov & Co.

Ralph Geelen

It’s not the journey, but the destination that counts. This applies to many things in life, including the legal profession. Finding a pragmatic solution: that’s what it’s all about for Ralph. Not making the problem bigger than it is, but working with colleagues and business owners to reduce it to its core. Ultimately, this leads to satisfied clients. Ralph advises and litigates for shareholders, directors and companies in the areas of financing and securities, insolvency and the structuring and restructuring of companies and various types of joint ventures. As the contact person for the Food and Agri expert group, he acts as a sounding board and relationship manager for companies in that sector. Ralph works as a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee in Limburg on a regular basis. He was involved in settling the bankruptcies of Zinvest Fashion and Brabant Alucast, among others. He joined Boels Zanders in 2008 and is now a partner. Ralph completed the Grotius specialisation programme in Insolvency Law and the specialisation programme in Financial Economics for Insolvency Lawyers at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He is a member of INSOLAD, the Dutch professional association for insolvency lawyers.

Boels Zanders Advocaten

Ralph Imoberdorf

Ralph Imoberdorf is a Partner in the Corporate and M&A Team as well as the Employment Team of Altenburger's Zurich Office. He advises early stage companies, SMEs and listed companies on commercial and corporate law, M&A, corporate finance, restructuring law and employment law matters in a domestic and international context.

ALTENBURGER LTD legal + tax

Ralph Lovesy

Ralph is a consultant in our Banking & Finance team. He has a wealth of expertise in financial services regulation, including consumer credit, regulated mortgage contracts, payment services, insurance intermediation and fintech products. He has advised a wide range of clients, from established retail banks and credit card lenders to SMEs and start-ups. Ralph was previously the Head of Legal at a private bank and Lead Counsel at a high street retail bank. He also has extensive experience advising senior executives on a range of risk and compliance matters at a separate bank and a major credit card issuer. Expertise: General financial services regulatory compliance (FCA Handbook) Regulated mortgage contracts (FCA MCOB sourcebook) Consumer credit (Consumer Credit Act) Payment services (PSD2) Insurance intermediation and administration activities (ICOBS)

Acuity Law

Ralph Malacrida

Ralph Malacrida specializes in M&A and corporate finance transactions, including venture capital transactions, structured and acquisition finance as well as capital markets. He has extensive experience in complex corporate restructurings. Ralph Malacrida is co-head of the M&A practice and heads the Finance practice. He has a strong track record advising clients on domestic and international M&A and finance transactions, successfully executing deals for sellers, buyers, finance providers, borrowers and issuers. Ralph Malacrida is a member of the board of directors of several Swiss companies. He is ranked as a leading lawyer in IFLR 1000, Legal 500, Chambers Europe and Chambers Global.

Bär & Karrer Ltd.

Ralph Mazzeo

Dechert

Ralph Ubels

Ralph specializes in financial liability law. Ralph acts for banks, insurers, accounting firms and other financial service providers. His focus is on complex disputes involving duty of care, financial supervision law, general contract and liability law. Before joining Van Doorne as a partner in late 2023, Ralph was a partner in the Financial Litigation department of NautaDutilh. Ralph has represented several Dutch (major) banks in complex legal disputes. Cases on internal fraud, prospectus liability, financing discussions, ESG-related litigation, international consumer law, anti money laundering legislation, and numerous other topics are among Ralph's expertise. Clients praise Ralph for his effective handling of cases and his high success rate. Ralph regularly gives presentations and lectures on duty of care and related topics and publishes with some regularity on the areas of law in which he specializes.

Van Doorne

Ramani Muttettuwegama

Managing Partner

Tiruchelvam Associates

Ramazan Yılmaz

Partner

Bener Law Office

Ramesh Maharaj

Ramesh is a Partner in the Mourant Cayman Islands office, specialising in private equity, non-contentious restructuring and corporate finance transactions. He advises on corporate transactions relating to Cayman Islands entities (companies, partnerships, LLCs), such as take-overs/take-private, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholder/investor arrangements, injection of capital, return of funds to investors, SPACs and IPOs. In his non-contentious or consensual restructuring practice, Ramesh advises upon the myriad of options from the Cayman Islands restructuring toolkit, including: debt to equity swaps, golden share rights, participations, warrants, options, redemptions, repurchases, surrenders, contributions, amalgamations, de-mergers and anything else relevant to achieve the intended goal. On finance and security transactions, Ramesh advises upon the granting of valid security, perfection, enforcement of security, repo transactions, swap transactions and Cayman Islands legal opinions.

Mourant

Rami Al Tal

Partner

HFW

Ramiro Moreno

Founding Partner

Moreno Baldivieso Estudio De Abogados

Ramiro Rivera

Uría Menéndez

Ramiro Rodriguez

Director / Head of M&A and International Arbitration

Duane Morris & Selvam LLP

Ramiro Sandoval

Head of Real Estate practice and M&A Partner

Galicia Abogados S.C.

Ramon André Cedro

Senior Partner; Head - Litigation & Labor Group

Gorriceta Africa Cauton & Saavedra