Claire Wills
Co-Head of Financial Institutions Group, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Claire Wills is a senior corporate partner and global co-head of the firm’s Financial Institutions Group.
She regularly advises the world’s major financial institutions including insurance companies, banks and asset managers on complex restructurings, M&A, joint ventures and governance projects. Her clients include Barclays, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, the Prudential and Tesco.
Claire has worked on numerous significant transactions, including advising long-standing client Tesco on its £3.7bn merger with Booker, Aberdeen Asset Management on its £11bn all-share merger with Standard Life and HSBC on the recently announced US$17bn merger of Saudi British Bank with Alawwal Bank. Claire is also busy on Brexit planning with a number of global financial institutions.