Graham Kirk
Associate General Counsel, Group M&A, HSBC Holdings (London)
Graham Kirk is a corporate lawyer working in the Group M&A legal team at HSBC. The Group M&A legal team coordinates the provision of advice to the bank’s Group Strategy & Planning function on all of HSBC’s own-account M&A transactions globally, including acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and complex reorganisations.
Graham has worked on transactions covering the whole spectrum of HSBC businesses including retail banking, private banking, asset management, global banking and markets, and insurance. He advised on the sales of whole HSBC businesses in Kazakhstan and Lebanon and other completed deals involved parts of HSBC’s operations in Bermuda, Vietnam, Mexico, Malta, Saudi Arabia, Northern Cyprus and the UK.
Graham moved to HSBC five years ago from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Having trained at Freshfields, he went on to spend a total of 11 years at the firm, working on a broad range of corporate matters across various sectors including consumer products/retail, mining and financial services for clients including Tesco, Terra Firma, Danone and BHP Billiton. His time at Freshfields included spending two years in the firm’s Tokyo office, where he worked on a number of inbound and outbound M&A deals for Japanese and overseas clients.