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Christopher Diel

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Associate in our Corporate practice, based in London.

Christopher advises corporations, financial institutions and investment banking clients on securities offerings and other strategic corporate transactions. His practice focuses on equity and debt capital market offerings, including IPOs, rights issues, private placements, investment-grade debt offerings and liability management transactions. He also advises clients on complex cross-border M&A transactions and general corporate matters.

He is a native German speaker.

Capabilities
Languages
German
Languages
German

Experience highlights

Capital Markets
  • Imperial Brands on its $1 billion bond offering
  • Ferguson on its $1 billion bond offering
  • Reliance Industries Limited on its $4 billion bond offering
  • Nestlé on its $5 billion bond offering
  • Roche on four bond offerings, totaling $13.9 billion
  • A leading German automobile manufacturer on nine bond offerings, totaling $12 billion
  • Signature Aviation (formerly BBA Aviation) on its $650 million bond offering
  • Netcompany on its DKK 7.75 billion (US $1.2 billion) IPO and Nasdaq Copenhagen listing
  • ContourGlobal on its £1.7 billion IPO and London premium listing, as well as its subsequent €806 million Class 1 acquisition of Acciona Termosolar
  • The dealers in connection with the establishment of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan’s global medium-term note programme and the joint lead managers in connection with the subsequent $650 million notes offering and a prior $1.75 billion notes offering
  • The dealers on Danske Bank’s $2 billion bond offering
  • The underwriters on four SEC-registered subordinated T2 notes offerings and one AT1 notes offering by Deutsche Bank, totaling $7 billion
  • The underwriters on six SEC-registered notes offerings by Oesterreichische Kontrollbank, totaling $9 billion
  • The underwriters on bond offerings by Narragansett Electric, Brooklyn Union Gas and Boston Gas (US subsidiaries of National Grid), totaling $1.9 billion
  • The initial purchasers on Shake Shack’s $250 million convertible senior notes offering
  • Imperial Brands on its cash tender offer
  • The dealer managers and solicitation agents on Devon Energy’s debt-for-debt exchange offer
  • Reliance Industries on a consent solicitation in respect of three series of bonds
  • Roche on its cash tender offer
  • The dealer managers on ArcelorMittal’s cash tender offer
Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Reliance New Energy Solar, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, in connection with its acquisition of REC Solar Holdings from China National Bluestar for an enterprise value of $771 million
  • Outotec on its stock-for-stock combination with Metso’s minerals business
  • Reliance Industries and Reliance Holding USA on their corporate reorganization and merger
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Insights

Education
LL.M., Columbia Law School
  • James Kent Scholar
Second Legal State Exam, Higher Regional Court, Berlin (Kammergericht)
First Legal State Exam, University of Münster
Professional history
  • Davis Polk since 2017
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (London), 2016-2017
  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Munich), 2013-2016
Qualifications and admissions
  • State of New York
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