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Chris Ashworth to join Lovells' London Office Senior corporate finance partner, Chris Ashworth, to join Lovells' London Office
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Senior corporate finance partner, Chris Ashworth, to join Lovells' London Office
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Senior corporate finance partner, Chris Ashworth, to join Lovells' London Office
21 April 2008
Lovells shortlisted for three awards at the International Tax Review's European Tax Awards 2008Lovells has underlined its commitment to developing its corporate practice with the hire of Chris Ashworth to head the firm's corporate finance practice.
Chris, formerly head of European M&A and co-managing partner of O'Melveny & Myers' London office and previously head of corporate at Ashurst, will join Lovells on 8 May.
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Bringing in a high profile individual with the market reputation that Chris has reflects our ambition and our continued investment in the practice."
As head of the corporate finance practice, Chris will be a partner in the international corporate practice stream, which is led by Andrew Skipper.
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"Chris's track record speaks for itself and we are delighted he has decided to join us.The practice has had a strong start to the year, being ranked third in the Q1 Mergermarket tables for the UK and with two of our partners amongst the top advisers for the quarter.Building on that strong pipeline of work and continued investment in the practice we are very optimistic for the future."
Chris Ashworth said:
"I relish the opportunity to work at a firm which is ambitious for success and where I can really make a difference to the development of the practice.I was also impressed by the quality of the partners I met and the strong international platform the firm has from which I can leverage my experience."
Chris Ashworth is a corporate lawyer focussing on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, equity capital markets, corporate finance, reconstruction and insolvency.He was formerly Head of the Corporate Department at Ashurst, London, as well as previously being Head of M&A, Investment Banking and Telecoms, and for many years a Member of the Board.
Notable transactions on which he has advised include:
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