Name
Will Pearce
Job Title
Partner
Company
Davis Polk
Speaker Bio
Will is a partner at Davis Polk and is head of our Europe practice and leads our M&A practice in London. He advises corporate, private equity and investment banking clients on domestic and cross-border private and public M&A, takeovers and mergers, and securities offerings and listings, as well as on corporate governance, shareholder activism and restructuring matters. With over 25 years’ experience of advising on the UK’s Takeover Code and Listing Rules, Will has been recognized as a leading lawyer for both corporate/M&A and equity capital markets, and named as a “Dealmaker of the Year” by the American Lawyer and The Deal, an “MVP of the Year” by Law360 and one of Europe’s most influential lawyers by Financial News.