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English-law qualified Corporate/Private Equity partner joins CMS Cameron McKenna in Kyiv
Newsletters from CMS Cameron McKenna, Kyiv, Ukraine
29 November, 2011
Graham Conlon, an English-qualified Solicitor in the Corporate/International Private Equity team at CMS Cameron McKenna, has recently relocated from London to our Kyiv office. Graham joined CMS in 2010 together with six other private equity/corporate lawyers who handled Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and emerging market private equity-backed M&A transactions for Linklaters until 2007.
Graham has extensive experience in CEE and the Former Soviet Union. He spent over five years working for Linklaters, most of that as part of their CEE-SEE 'flying squad', advising on several high-profile cross-border transactions, mostly (but not exclusively) for private equity clients.
More recently, he lived and worked for over one year in Kazakhstan, where he became known as one of the leading expat lawyers, advising a range of premium emerging-market-focussed clients on a number of high profile acquisitions and disposals in the region. He has a good working knowledge of Russian, German and Romanian.
Graham was awarded The Mergermarket Young Dealmaker of the Year prize in 2011, and is also studying for his Masters in Finance at the London Business School.
Adam Mycyk, Managing Partner of CMS Cameron McKenna in Kyiv comments: 'Graham is a great addition to our corporate and private equity team and his arrival bolsters our ability to provide English-law advice on the ground here in Ukraine.'
Graham comments: 'Ukraine is an exciting country which offers a lot of potential in the medium and long term, and I am delighted to join what is already a strong and market-leading practice.'
About CMS Cameron McKenna in Kyiv: CMS Cameron McKenna opened its doors in Kyiv in September 2007 and was the first UK-headquartered law firm to open in Ukraine. The office comprises of 32 lawyers, including five partners, and represents major international and Ukrainian companies working in various sectors. We are consistently highly ranked by the major international directories such as Chambers Global, IFLR, Legal 500, PLC Which Lawyer? and others. Also recently Yurydychna Practyka awarded us (for the third year in a row) Best International Law Firm at their annual Legal Awards 2011 Ceremony.
Notes to Editors:
CMS provides a deep local understanding of legal, tax and business issues and delivers client-focused services through a joint strategy executed locally across 29 jurisdictions with 54 offices in Western and Central Europe and beyond.
The CMS nine member firms are: CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni (Italy); CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo (Spain); CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre (France); CMS Cameron McKenna LLP (UK); CMS DeBacker (Belgium); CMS Derks Star Busmann (Netherlands); CMS von Erlach Henrici Ltd. (Switzerland); CMS Hasche Sigle (Germany); and CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (Austria).
