Mayer Brown Adds Partner and Senior Counsel in London to Expand Cross-Border Private Placements Practice

Mayer Brown has hired Scott Ashton as partner and Brian Bates as senior counsel in its capital markets practice in London. Both focus on cross-border securities offerings, representing issuers and placement agents in transactions including private placements and other debt and equity offerings. They specialise in advising non-US entities on cross-border private placements to US and other large financial institutions and pension funds. Ashton and Bates have played central roles in developing the cross-border private placement industry's standard documentation, including Loan Market Association private placement documentation.