Chris McGaffin

Partner
Joined firm 2005. Partner since 2015.
Hong Kong
Phone +44 (0)20 7090 5289
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Areas of expertise
Recent work
Slaughter and May is advising The Restaurant Group plc on its recommended cash acquisition by Apollo
Slaughter and May is advising The Restaurant Group on the proposed sale of its Leisure business
Slaughter and May advised FWD on the extension of its bancassurance partnership with Siam Commercial Bank
Slaughter and May advised FWD Group on its strategic investment in Gibraltar BSN’s Malaysian life insurance business
Slaughter and May is advising FWD Group on its strategic investment in Gibraltar BSN’s Malaysian life insurance business

Chris advises clients on their corporate matters and M&A globally. 

Representative transactions include advising:

  • FWD on its US$3bn life insurance acquisition and bancassurance agreement with Siam Commercial Bank in 2019, the largest insurance M&A deal ever in Southeast Asia
  • ARM Holdings on the US$34bn takeover bid from SoftBank in 2016
  • Cadbury on the hostile US$19.5bn takeover by Kraft Foods in 2009

For his work in Asia and the UK, Chris has been recognised in the legal directories of Chambers, Legal 500 and IFLR, and was listed in The Lawyer's Hot 100 in 2017.

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