A&O Shearman Promotes 33 Lawyers To Partnership Across 11 Countries

His practice covers a wide range of products throughout the investment cycle in the ENRI industry, covering project development, project finance, refinancing, and M&A. He advises a diverse array of clients including project developers, sponsors, financiers, development institutions, and export credit agencies. Clients have praised him for being “fantastic to collaborate with” and “always a pleasure as he looks to discuss points and resolve issues.”

2. Jackson Allen ( ENRI, Perth )

Jackson has a deep understanding of marketing and sales arrangements, in particular negotiating and drafting offtake agreements for oil, gas, LNG, condensate, hydrogen (and related vectors, such as ammonia). Jackson advises on M&A, joint venture structuring, project development and regulatory issues, with a focus on LNG, gas, hydrogen, CCUS and renewable power. Jackson’s experience also extends to sale, construction and use of infrastructure including terminals, pipelines, storage facilities and power generation.

3. Tina Barazandeh-Nejad ( M&A, London )

She spent a year in the private equity M&A team of A&O Paris and six months in the corporate team of Heathrow Holdings. She has a first class law degree from Oxford University.

4. Matthew Brown ( Tax, Washington D.C.)

He practice includes U.S. domestic and international tax planning and transactional work, including issues relating to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and hedge fund investments, controlled foreign corporations and passive foreign investment companies, and Pillar Two, as well as the taxation of financial instruments and various financing transactions. He also advises multinational corporations with respect to corporate, partnership and international tax matters and strategic restructurings. Matt represents corporate, financial institution, private equity and sovereign wealth fund clients.

5.James Bryson ( Global Financial Markets, New York )

He advises banks and the buy-side on a wide range of derivatives transactions in all the major asset classes, repos, securities lending, and structured notes. He also advises on a broad range of regulatory and strategic issues (e.g. benchmark reform and UST treasury clearing) across the derivatives and structured finance markets.

6. Tomas Bury ( M&A, Bratislava )

He has a proven track record of successfully managing both cross-border and domestic transactions, including private and competitive acquisitions, disposals, corporate

reorganisations, and joint ventures. In recent years, Tomáš has advised clients on a number of high-profile M&A transactions on Slovak and CEE market, in particular in the sectors of energy and infrastructure, technology, financial institutions, industrials, and private capital clients.

7. Mike Campbell ( ENRI, Dubai )

He has wide-ranging experience of project and infrastructure financings and refinancings in EMEA and has advised sponsors, lenders and procurers across a wide range of assets in the energy, infrastructure and industrial sectors. He has particular expertise in project development and finance of large-scale energy projects in the GCC.

8. Richard Chamberlain ( ENRI, Dubai )

Having been based in the Middle East for over a decade, he has extensive experience advising on public-private-partnerships (PPPs) and project financings across a diverse array of sectors, including energy, utilities, social infrastructure, transport, tourism, oil and gas and petrochemicals. Richard takes a highly commercial and pragmatic approach to his work and clients regularly praise Richard for his solution-oriented advice, knowledge of the Middle East and ability to get deals done.

9.Jackie Donald ( M&A, Perth )

She advises on a wide range of domestic and cross border transactional and corporate advisory matters. Jackie has experience advising bidders and target companies in respect of public M&A (takeovers and schemes of arrangement) and advising companies and investors on share sales, business sales and joint ventures.

10. Evgenia Erakhtina ( Asset Finance, London )

Evgenia advises on the whole spectrum of aviation matters including secured and unsecured facilities, sustainability-linked financings, finance leases, operating leases, tax leases, portfolio financings, warehouse facilities, pre-delivery payments financings, sale and lease back transactions, ECA supported financings, insurance-supported financings, aviation capital markets transactions (EETC, ABS), Islamic financings, aircraft and engine manufacturer contracts, airline and lessor restructurings and a range of corporate and commercial matters.

11. Temilope Esho ( Debt Finance, London )

She has extensive knowledge of the private credit, syndicated and leveraged loan markets and regularly advises on complex capital structures. Temi was named as a “Power Climber” in the 2020 Timewise Power List.

12. Vittoria Faraone ( Funds and Asset Management, Luxembourg )

She advises alternative investment fund managers and fund management companies on their establishment and licensing, as well as on their ongoing regulatory obligations and cross-border issues. Vittoria also advises sponsors, funds and fund service providers on complex regulatory issues.

13. Michael Fink ( Real Estate, Düsseldorf )

He specializes in advising on regulated and unregulated real estate funds. Michael advises his clients, particularly real estate funds, institutional investors, alternative investment fund managers, as well as fund and asset managers at the intersection of real estate law and corporate and fund law. This includes the purchase and sale of real estate portfolios and individual properties, as well as the structuring of joint ventures, acquisition structures, and related service contracts, such as in particular investment advisory, fund advisory, and asset management.

14. Paul Fortin ( Litigation and Investigations, Paris )

He has also substantial skills before the Conseil d’Etat and Cour de cassation, and has particular experience of handling major criminal cases before courts (Tribunal correctionnel, Cour d’assises). Paul is now specialized in white-collar crime, and commercial litigation.

15. James Green ( Debt Finance, London )

He has advised a number of top-tier private equity funds and financial sponsors including 3i, Brookfield and Exponent. James is regarded as a rising star in the market.

16. John Hibbard ( Tax, New York )

A significant part of John’s practice involves advising publicly traded and privately held companies, private equity firms and other investors in a wide variety of transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures. He also regularly advises clients with respect to structured finance transactions, in particular with respect to RMBS, CMBS and covered bond transactions.

17. Benjamin Lacourt ( Funds and Asset Management, Paris )

Benjamin has extensive experience advising French and international fund managers, investment firms and other financial institutions on various issues such as: investment funds formation in France or in other European jurisdictions, marketing of financial products, banking and financial regulations as well as the setting-up and restructuring of management companies. Benjamin further assists institutional investors as part of their primary investments or secondary transactions relating to French or foreign investment funds.

18. Jules Lecoeur ( M&A, Paris )

He also advises private capital investors on secondary transactions, Jules also acts for private corporates on French and multi-regional M&A transactions

19. Xin Ni Lim ( Debt Finance, London )

She has experience across a broad spectrum of capital structures including syndicated loan financings, private credit financings, band/bond financings, bridge financings and junior capital.

20.Simone Lowes ( M&A, Sydney )

She advises PE and other financial sponsor clients as well as companies on a broad range of complex and high-value private M&A transactions, including domestic and cross-border transactions, carve outs, joint ventures, co-investments and distressed acquisitions and disposals, as well as general corporate and commercial matters. She works across various sectors, including infrastructure, renewable energy and healthcare.

21. Aoife Mac Dermott ( M&A, London )

She has deep experience of private M&A, in particular navigating complex brand and product acquisitions and disposals, as well as capital raises, joint ventures, public takeovers, reorganisations and restructurings.

22.Billy Marsh ( Litigation and Investigations, Dallas )

Billy is called upon by clients for their most important legal matters. He has specific expertise in shareholder and securities litigation and mass tort matters, where he has obtained noteworthy victories for his clients.

23. Thomas McGuffie ( Markets Innovation Group, London )

Tom has been featured by the Financial Times as a leading innovative practitioner in law.

24. Tzvetomira Pacheva ( ENRI, Paris )

She advises sponsors (industrials and funds) and financial institutions (commercial lenders, institutional lenders and DFIs) in France and internationally, in the context of the development and financing of infrastructure, transition energies, transport, and telecommunication projects. She has developed a significant experience in the energy sector.

25.Alessandra Pala ( Global Financial Markets, Rome )

She has expertise in bond issues, including convertible, exchangeable and high yield bonds, as well as EMTN and ECP programmes and liability management transactions. She also advises on leveraged and acquisition finance, working with banks, private equity firms and debt funds on cross-border and domestic deals. In addition, she assists on insurance matters and securities regulation issues, such as the Prospectus Directive, the Transparency Directive and the Market Abuse Regulation. She has a strong relationship with the Italian regulators and stock exchanges, with whom she deals with regularly.

26. Emma Perrin ( Real Estate, London )

She is experienced in advising on a wide range of construction and engineering projects for relevant interested parties, with a particular focus on private sector developer, investor and retail clients across all asset classes.

27.Sebastian Remberg ( M&A, Hamburg )

Sebastian advises private equity funds and other financial sponsors on the full range of cross-border M&A transactions, including buyouts, exits, mergers, carve-outs, reorganisations, joint ventures, co-investments as well as consortium and shareholder arrangements. Sebastian has a particular expertise in the healthcare / life science sector.

28. Kayleigh Sanders ( M&A, Amsterdam )

Kayleigh regularly represents a large number of private equity investors such as 3i, Advent, Bridgepoint, Carlyle, Equistone, Exponent, IK and Providence (and a number of their respective portfolio companies, including Action and Caldic). In 2022, she worked in the private equity team in the London office.

29. Hauke Sattler ( Restructuring, Hamburg )

Hauke works with domestic and international clients across jurisdictions and from multiple sectors, such as energy, real estate and retail. He possesses particular expertise in restructurings and insolvencies within the automotive sector, bolstered by a secondment to the crisis management of a leading automotive manufacturer. He also has a strong track record in trusteeships.

30.Fatima Al-Shawaf ( M&A, London )

She regularly advises private capital investors, infrastructure funds, corporates, developers and operators on sale processes, JV arrangements, and advisory matters. Fatima is a member of our Global Infrastructure Group.

31 Pol Theisen ( M&A, Luxembourg )

Pol also advises on domestic and cross-border restructurings and insolvency law as well as director liability topics.

32.Pieter Tieskens ( Real Estate, Amsterdam )

He has broad experience in a wide variety of real estate transactions and real estate developments. Pieter acts for investors, developers and clients operating in the renewable energy sector. Pieter also advises on real estate joint ventures and (corporate) structures.

33.Charlotte Willemer ( Litigation and Investigations, Frankfurt )

She is an expert in handling complex disputes, with a particular focus on restructuring and insolvency (Restructuring Litigation). She provides comprehensive advice to both domestic and international clients on insolvency-related risks and represents clients in litigation matters during insolvency or restructuring proceedings. She also manages a wide array of disputes that arise following a crisis, with a special emphasis on liability cases.