Bio

Adam Levin advises international corporates, private equity groups and high net worth individuals on corporate structuring, governance, private equity and transactional matters. In the course of his practice, he also handles disputes and other contentious matters. His work typically involves structuring around complex issues under an aggressive timeframe and with a significant cross-border element. Mr. Levin spent a number of years working in Australia where he accrued extensive experience in corporate and commercial transactions, funds, e-commerce, securities laws, venture capital, finance arrangements and joint ventures. He dealt regularly with leading financial institutions such as Bankers Trust, Citicorp, Deutsche Funds Management, ABN Amro and Westpac, amongst others. Since returning to the UK in 1999, Mr. Levin has led many significant deals notable for both transactional size and industry prestige. Mr. Levin is recommended in The Legal 500 UK 2024 for M&A and has previously been recognized as a “top corporate lawyer” in Spear’s 500. He has also been recommended by The Legal 500 UK for private equity, where clients have described him as “an excellent, precise and experienced lawyer for corporate structuring advice and execution”. Mr. Levin was formerly a partner in the London office of Baker McKenzie, as well as an Australian law firm. He joined Dechert in 2005 and has completed tenures as co-head of the firm’s corporate group in London and as global head of the firm's Innovation Task Force, a cross-practice collective of partners and technology specialists, responsible for the implementation and delivery of innovation through design thinking, artificial intelligence and software systems in order to provide an efficient, seamless and cutting-edge legal offering.