David Watkins

 

Key facts

 
  • Joined firm: 2001
  • Partner since: 2005

Practice areas

Hong Kong office practice areas

David Watkins
 

Contact details

 
  • Hong Kong 
  • 47th Floor, Jardine House, One Connaught Place, Central, Hong Kong
 

David moved to our Hong Kong office in the summer of 2011. Prior to that he was based in our London office.

David spent two years on secondment to The Panel on Takeovers and Mergers (London) from January 2006 to January 2008 as Secretary regulating some of the most high profile public merger and acquisition transactions to have taken place in recent years.

His principal areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions (of both public and private companies), general corporate finance and equity capital markets.

Recent transactions include advising:

  • Regus plc on its possible public offer for MWB Business Exchange plc
  • Cadbury plc on its defence, and subsequent recommendation, of the takeover offer by Kraft Foods Inc.
  • Standard Chartered Bank on its rights issue to raise approximately £3.2 billion net of expenses
  • Emerson Electric Co. on its public offer for Chloride plc

David is listed in the Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability section of Chambers UK, 2011.

He is a partner of our London office and is registered as a foreign lawyer to practise English law in Hong Kong.

 
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