Will Pearce
Partner
Davis Polk

Stuart Ord
Co-Head of UK M&A
Deutsche Bank

Michael Nicholson
Head of Advisory and M&A
Peel Hunt

David Avery-Gee
Head of European M&A and Co-Managing Partner
Weil Gotshal & Manges

Chris Emmerson
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs

Derek Shakespeare
Chairman, EMEA M&A
Deutsche Bank

James Arculus
Deputy Director General
The Takeover Panel

Matthew Yeowart
Partner
Davis Polk

Stuart Hudson
Partner
Brunswick Group

Patrick Sarch
Partner, Head of UK Public M&A
White & Case

Sonica Tolani
Partner
White & Case

Stuart Newman
Partner
PwC

Linda Main
NED, Trustee and Committee Chair, former Capital Markets Partner
KPMG

Chris Kinder
Chief Executive
The Investor Forum

Sorcha O’Carroll
Senior Director, Mergers, Competition and Markets Authority

Daniel Black
VP of Business Development for EMEA and LATAM
Ideals

Katerina Joannou
Senior Manager, Capital Markets Policy
ICAEW

John Messent
Partner
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Michael Stiasny
Head of UK Equities
M&G

Mark Rushton
Managing Director, Co-Head, European Mergers and Acquisitions
RBC Capital Markets

Tom Mercer
Partner
Ashurst

Avanthi Weerasinghe
Principal, Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy
UK Finance