Chris Lester is a counsel in the Abu Dhabi office of Latham & Watkins.
Mr. Lester specializes in:
- Private M&A
- Public M&A
- Joint ventures
- Restructurings
He has recently returned to Latham following a secondment to Mubadala Development Company where he worked on many high-profile acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures.
Mr. Lester's representative transactions include advising:
- Mubadala on various regional and international acquisitions and disposals
- Qatar Mining on various international acquistions
- Government of Dubai on the restructuring of Dubai World
- Credit Suisse on Qatar Holding’s £5.6 billion investment in Credit Suisse
- A major Qatari financial institution on its proposed acquisition of a major GCC financial institution
- QInvest on the acquisition of 40% of Intercat
- Spectrum Equity Investors/Global World Check on its acquisition of IntegraScreen, a due diligence business operating in the UAE and Asia
- Mumtalakat on various corporate transactions
- Xstrata on its US$1.7 billion acquisition of a one-third interest in the Cerrejon coal mining operation from Glencore International and on various other matters*
- Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy on its offer for Glenmorangie*
*matter handled while at a previous firm