Editorial Board

Asia managing partner, Mourant

Paul Christopher is Mourant's Asia and Hong Kong managing partner, roles he has held since the firm opened offices in Singapore in 2023 and Hong Kong in 2012. Paul is also the local practice leader of the firm's corporate and investment funds team in Asia. He has over 25 years of offshore experience and is recognised as a leading offshore lawyer for M&A, private equity, and investment funds in the Asia Pacific legal directories.

Wilson Chu is a partner in the Dallas office of McDermott Will & Emery. His practice focuses on M&A, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions, as well as related corporate governance, for clients ranging from Fortune 500 serial acquirers to technology startups in the US and abroad.

Partner, White & Case

Debashis Dey is a partner in White & Case's global capital markets practice and is the global head of Islamic finance, based in Dubai and London. Widely recognised as a leading Islamic finance and capital markets lawyer, Dey has over two decades of experience in structuring complex, cross-border finance transactions in the Islamic and green finance markets, as well as the conventional bond market.

Partner, Eversheds Sutherland

Catherine Eley is a partner at Eversheds Sutherland in London. She has over two and a half decades of experience in helping businesses with a plethora of corporate matters, including acquisitions, disposals, joint venture arrangements and securing external investment, as well as providing general day-to-day corporate advice.

Partner, Khaitan & Co

Rabindra Jhunjhunwala is a partner and a senior member in the corporate & commercial practice group at Khaitan & Co in Mumbai. His practice spans a range of areas, including domestic and cross-border M&A, PE investment, transaction documentation work, and advises his clients regularly on all aspects of foreign investments and regulatory approvals.

Based in Singapore, Benita Lee is Google's APAC legal lead for data centres, and has spearheaded the company's headline infrastructure developments. Recognised as a top lawyer by Association of Corporate Counsel and Euromoney Benita is a go-to name within the space for tackling first-of-a-kind and complex infrastructure and energy projects.

Partner, Slaughter and May

Chris McGaffin is a partner at Slaughter and May in London. He advises clients on their corporate matters and M&A in Asia and globally. He was listed in The Lawyer's “Hot 100” and voted second in Financial News’s “Partner of the Year” in 2017 for his advice to the ARM Holdings Board, and he has been recognised in the legal directories of IFLR.

Partner, Mayer Brown

Anna Pinedo is a partner in Mayer Brown’s New York office. She represents issuers, investment banks and other financial intermediaries as well as investors in financing transactions, including public offerings and private placements of equity, equity-linked and debt securities. She also advises on structured products and derivatives matters.

Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft

Lary Stromfeld is a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York. He is highly-regarded for giving innovative yet practical advice involving complex market structures, financial products, legal disputes and regulatory matters. He recently represented the Federal Reserve’s ARRC in navigating the cash markets through Libor transition and, following the 2008-09 financial crisis, helped ISDA steer the derivatives markets through global regulatory reform.

Head of Asia Pacific investigations, compliance and ethics group, Baker McKenzie

Mini vandePol is the head of Baker McKenzie's Asia Pacific investigations, compliance and ethics group. Based in Hong Kong, she has more than 30 years' experience as trusted adviser to global companies to establish and enhance ESG governance programmes, assess risks in transactional opportunities and investigate transgressions involving bribery and corruption, money laundering, sanctions, fraud and other misconduct.

Associate general counsel, Bank of America

Christopher Wallace is an associate general counsel at Bank of America in London, specialising in digital assets. He chairs AFME’s UK financial market infrastructure sandbox group, has published widely in leading journals, and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Partner, Clifford Chance

Terry Yang is a partner at Clifford Chance in Hong Kong. He specialises in structured finance, OTC derivatives and financial markets regulations concerning a wide variety of structured products, including equity and credit linked structures, repackagings, fund linked derivatives, ISDA close-outs and hedging. He is particularly recognised for his expertise in margin regulations and structured credit transactions.