Christopher Smith is a Senior Associate in the London Finance, Restructuring and Special Situations Group. He focuses his practice on domestic and cross-border leveraged finance transactions, advising corporate borrowers and issuers, corporates, private equity firms, and other institutional investors.

• Advised Barings in connection with its financing of Zenchef and CoverManager
• Advised Oaktree Capital in connection with its financing of Biomedica plc
• Advised Tristan Capital Partners on the acquisition and same-day enforcement of a German mixed residential and commercial assets NPL portfolio
• Advised the financing sources in connection with the financing of a private equity firm’s bid of more than €1.2bn for a publicly listed company.*
• Advised a group of private credit funds on the more than £1.2 billion financing for a private equity firm’s cash offer to acquire a publicly listed company.*
• Advised the arrangers in connection with the implementation of a new term loan b facility and a revolving facility in aggregate exceeding €2bn for a private equity firm’s portfolio company.*
• Advised the mandated lead arrangers on the underwritten financing package supporting the bid by a consortium for a global company in a deal valuing firm at more than €2 billion*
• Acted for a publicly listed company supporting its financing of over €4bn for the acquisition of a multinational’s local subsidiary.*

*Matter handled prior to joining the firm.

Benoît Maïto focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, and private equity transactions.

Prior to joining McDermott Will & Schulte, Benoît was a corporate trainee in several international law firms in Paris.

Samantha Slater focuses her practice on corporate advisory and transactional matters.

While in law school, Sam served as an executive board member for UCLA Law Women and was an active member of the Business Law Association. Samantha also volunteered as a writing advisor, where she assisted first-year students with their legal research and writing skills.

Jordan Ohayon focuses his practice on corporate transactions, with a particular focus on private equity and mergers and acquisitions transactions.

Prior to joining McDermott Will & Schulte, Jordan was an associate at another leading international law firm.

Malte Arndt advises clients on all aspects of corporate law and M&A transactions.

Malte studied law at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Leuven, Belgium. Before joining McDermott as an associate, he worked as a research assistant in the corporate law department of a renowned commercial law firm. Malte completed his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe, with stages at medium-sized and large law firms.

Will Wright focuses his practice on corporate advisory and transactional matters.

While in law school, Will worked as a research assistant and as a summer associate at McDermott.

Carina Schützeberg focuses her practice on real estate. She advises clients comprehensively throughout the entire real estate transaction process. This includes the legal support of legal due diligence reviews as well as the drafting and negotiation of real estate purchase agreements. In addition, Carina advises on all matters of commercial landlord and tenant law, including the structuring and negotiation of commercial lease agreements and issues relating to ongoing asset management.

Before joining McDermott as an associate, Carina worked as a research assistant in the field at McDermott.

Carina completed her legal clerkship at the district court of Limburg an der Lahn.

Carina advised:

• Schoeller Group on the acquisition of the Upper West Building in Berlin
• Venator on sale from Insolvency to ICIG
• Würth Elektronik ICS on the acquisition of MRS Electronic

Gabrielle Siroonian focuses her practice on litigation matters.

While earning her law degree, Gabrielle externed at the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and was the notes editor on the Elder Law Journal.

Dexter Hamilton focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation matters.

While in law school, he was a staff editor for Law & Contemporary Problems.