Christopher Walton

Clifford Chance LLP

10 Upper Bank Street
Canary Wharf
London
UK
E14 5JJ
+44 20 7006 1000
christopher.walton@cliffordchance.com

Ranked In

UK
Capital Markets: Equity (Band 3)
UK
Capital Markets: Equity (Foreign Experts) ( Spotlight Table )
USA
Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Experts Based Abroad) ( Spotlight Table )

Profile

Practice Areas: Partner specialising on a wide variety of US domestic and international capital markets, merger and acquisition and other corporate transactions. He has extensive experience with SEC registered, Rule 144A and traditional private placement securities offerings. He also practices in the mergers and acquisitions area, representing acquirors and sellers in public and private acquisition and divestiture transactions.

Career: Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York and London 1990-2001; admitted to New York Bar 1991; partner Clifford Chance 2001.

Personal: Harvard Law School (JD cum laude); College of William and Mary (BA High Honors Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa).