
Our Team
Our legal team delivers seasoned business lawyering with an agile approach. We focus on delivering superior client outcomes with compelling efficiencies.
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Nidhi Misra Basu
Partner
Nidhi is an experienced dual qualified structured finance and banking lawyer, arbitrator and a business management expert. She is an experienced business leader with a demonstrated history of working in the legal and financial services industries providing cross border advice to international clients.
She has led international teams advising on Legal Risk Management, Investigations, Corporate & Structured Finance, Banking and Capital Markets, Derivatives, Disputes and Regulatory matters while driving business development, client relations, and operational strategy.
She is a specialist in running legal businesses and helping clients upscale their business. Nidhi is in high demand for her management and legal advice to her clients to improve business processes, information technology, strategy, planning, project management, process development and business finance and operations. Her holistic advice to clients provides cost efficiency while helping them preserve and grow their business relationships.
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Siddhartha Sivaramakrishnan
Partner
Siddhartha Sivaramakrishnan advises companies and investors on complex cross-border transactions, including M&A, strategic investments, financings and fundraisings, and regulatory and compliance matters. He has extensive experience across Europe, Asia and the US delivering large-scale projects involving diverse stakeholders and legal regimes.
Siddhartha has deep experience working with corporations, shareholders, sponsors and advisors on effective legal and commercial solutions. He has particular multi-jurisdictional sector expertise in energy and renewables, healthcare and life sciences, financial services and technology and data protection.
Siddhartha has previously been a partner, practice leader and managing partner at leading international law firms, delivering successful client outcomes for nearly three decades. He is recognised by clients and in directories for his technical expertise, commercial awareness and strategic approach.
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Jennifer Toettcher
Partner
Jennifer is a banking and structured finance lawyer with extensive experience in a number of investment, commercial and retail banks. Her expertise includes advising on financing and treasury matters and leading on transactional, regulatory and legal risk management issues for financial institutions.
As well as being the lead treasury lawyer in several retail banks, Jennifer has led on the financial markets infrastructure aspects for a challenger investment banking entity, including establishing appropriate governance pathways and legal risk review templates. She is recognised for her succcess in helping clients achieve their goals.
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Chris Woolhouse
Partner
Chris Woolhouse is a solicitor and barrister (NP) with 20+ years of experience in finance, project finance and corporate law. He started his career in private practice where he worked across a number of magic circle and international law firms for 15 + years. He has built and managed practices across many of those firms. He has extensive experience as General Counsel – most recently building the legal function of a financing and data analytics platform focussed on emerging market energy transition and including the establishment of a debt fund from inception to $50m capitalisation. He is passionate about impact investing, development finance and the low carbon transition. He is experienced in structured and project finance and fund structuring transactions and organisational board governance. He is a Non-Executive Director of the Oxford Low Carbon Hub and of DREAM (a platform established to progress the deployment of capital to emerging market renewables development) – both are in the non-profit sector.
