The newly-promoted partners in London are as follows:
Elora Mukherjee – Dispute Resolution
Elora (pictured) is a commercial litigator who advises individuals and corporates on all aspects of commercial dispute resolution. Her practice focuses on large complex commercial litigation and arbitration typically involving breaches of contract, partnership and company/shareholder disputes, negligence and regulatory matters. Her work spans across industries, including telecoms, banking, pharmaceutical, hospitality and energy with a particular focus on the technology sector.
Given the continually evolving regulatory landscape and the anticipated growth of disputes in this sphere, as partner, she intends to focus on developing this area. Elora also has experience of working in the Middle East (including in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain) and, has been involved in developing (and continues to develop) the firm's MENA offering.
Andrew Chapman – Real Estate Finance
Andrew is a real estate finance lawyer specialising in advising lenders on diverse property portfolios across multiple jurisdictions, with a particular focus on the real estate aspects of complex financings.
Ashleigh Shepherd – Regulatory
Ashleigh is an experienced public lawyer specialising in investigations, particularly advising on all aspects of public inquiries, inquests and independent investigations. She currently leads two modules of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, setting the strategy for the investigation, overseeing the evidence-gathering process, and preparing for the public hearings. Additionally, she advises the Chair of the Inquiry on any legal challenges.
Caroline Rao – Private Client
Caroline has extensive experience advising on the establishment and operation of structures to hold international private wealth, business interests and family offices. Caroline's work in this area often involves jurisdiction comparisons, consideration of access to tax and investment protection treaties and analysis of appropriate vehicles: companies, trusts, foundations, private funds.
Mehmet Baysan – Dispute Resolution
Mehmet is a cross-border litigation lawyer with a focus on energy, construction and export regulation disputes. He is one of a few US-trained and licensed Turkish-speaking disputes lawyers practicing in multi-jurisdictional matters. Mehmet represents both individual and sovereign entities, and works on government investigations. His practice also includes providing general counsel assistance to global companies.
Natalie Quinlivan – Dispute Resolution
Natalie is a dual-qualified litigator (Republic of Ireland and England and Wales) focusing on international disputes and corporate investigations. She has extensive experience in dispute resolution, particularly in joint venture and shareholder dispute, directors' duties and misfeasance claims, and civil fraud, international asset recovery and enforcement cases.
In addition to her contentious practice, Natalie advises on preventative measures, such as risk assessments and compliance frameworks, for clients across the EMEA and APAC regions. Her practice is pan-sector, but she has particular interest in financial services, energy and tech.
Rebecca McKee - Dispute Resolution
Rebecca specialises in high-value commercial litigation, with a particular focus on complex fraud, and international commercial arbitration under the LCIA, ICC and SCC Rules.
She advises clients on a variety of issues including misrepresentation, directors' duties and fraud, as well as contractual, shareholder and joint venture disputes. Rebecca has significant experience obtaining injunctive relief in the English High Court in support of domestic litigation, foreign legal proceedings and arbitration. She also has particular experience in challenging arbitral awards in the Commercial Court for English-seated arbitrations.
Ruth Lewis – Corporate
Ruth is an accomplished corporate practitioner with a wealth of experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and reorganisations. She works with a wide range of clients from individuals to multinationals, many of whom she has acted for over a number of years. Her practice has a strong media and technology (TMT) focus. As a partner she will be focusing on growing the already busy corporate media practice and advising more buyers and sellers on their M&A transactions.
In Milan, Fabio Giuffre (Energy, Real Estate & Public Law) and Niccolò Massimo Gruppi (Corporate) have joined the partnership, as has Tassilo Schmid (Corporate) in the Munich office.
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