Our team

Amy Comer is an exceptionally accomplished, solutions-driven attorney with broad experience advising companies across the globe on all aspects of cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships. She is known particularly for helping clients plan, design and manage international expansions, understand cultural differences, and minimize operating risks. Additionally, she is skilled in corporate and project finance, tax and regulatory strategy, restructurings, and general corporate and commercial issues, including intellectual property licensing, support and service agreements, and complex ESG and employment matters.

As a trusted advisor to boards and C-suite executives, Amy has negotiated 100+ transactions worth more than $US18 billion for U.S. multinational conglomerates, private equity funds, foreign state-owned enterprises, international financial institutions, and private and publicly traded companies on four continents. Her 20+ years of experience includes deals in the U.S., U.K., Europe, Kazakhstan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Egypt, Turkey, Russia, South Africa, U.A.E., and Israel, focusing in the financial services, TMT (technology, media and telecommunications), energy and life sciences industries.

Recognized by leading legal ranking services, including Chambers, Legal 500, and Legal Media Group, Amy shares her insights and expertise as an avid writer and speaker who often is approached to present at conferences. Amy has published in Private Equity News, on what to expect with M&A, and she has hosted panels at the Global Corporate Ventures Symposium in London, including a panel on “Impact Investing & Climate Tech.”

Amy holds a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she received the Order of the Coif, and a BA in Political Science from Utah State University. At Tulane, Amy also served as Associate Editor of Tulane’s Journal of International and Comparative Law.

Sergey Kvitkin is an English corporate lawyer with a particular focus on M&A, joint ventures, VC and commercial transactions. He advises on a wide range of matters, from leading on M&A and joint venture transactions to advising on, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, planning and implementing group reorganisations, as well as on data protection and crypto assets regulation.

Selected past experience (including in past employment)

  • Lead in-house counsel on M&A and JV transactions in Brazil, Mexico, U.S. and the UK (all related to regulated targets), including drafting and negotiating key transaction documents.

  • Significant experience with legal, regulatory and tax aspects of conducting group restructuring, including drafting and implementing intercompany share / asset sale agreements, intragroup services and loan agreements.

  • Leading an in-house company secretarial function, including proposing and implementing improvements to processes and managing cosec staff.

  • Acting for Lippert Components, Inc. on its acquisition of a private company incorporated in Hong Kong, and its various subsidiaries in Hong Kong, USA and the PRC engaged in manufacturing, marketing and distribution of electronics, appliances and power generation and distribution equipment for recreational vehicles. 

  • Acting for two U.S. hedge fund clients on several private investments in pre-IPO targets in the UK and the EU. 

  • Acting for GE on several joint ventures in Russia, including:

    • Restructuring an existing gas turbine localisation joint venture with a Russian power generation major.

    • A joint venture with a Russian manufacturer of locomotive engines. 

    • A strategic cooperation agreement with a Russian oil major to develop, manufacture, and sell new cutting-edge technologies and equipment in Russia for use in the oil and gas industry.

  • Acting for BlackBerry on acquisition of a UK-based company that provides virtual SIM solutions to mobile operators.

  • Advising a U.S. insurance broker on its first referral arrangement in Russia. 

  • Acting for CITIC-Kazyna, a Kazakhstan subsidiary of a Chinese investment company, on an acquisition of a minority equity stake in one of the major power generation companies in Kazakhstan.

  • Acting for Trican Well Service in connection with the sale of its Russian and Kazakhstan fracking business to industry buyers.