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Christopher Ashworth

Christopher Ashworth

General Counsel

Mr. Ashworth joined as General Counsel with 25 years of experience as a top Corporate Finance and M&A lawyer in the City of London. He has advised companies and financial advisers on major UK and international public and private M&A transactions, financings and refinancing, restructurings and corporate governance issues. He was a partner at Ashurst for most of that time, being Head of Corporate, Head of M&A and Head of Telecoms. He was also Head of European M&A at O'Melveny & Myers and Head of Corporate Finance at Lovells. He graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Law at Southampton University and lectured in law at Manchester University.