Bio

Maria Tan Pedersen, co-head of Dechert's Emerging Markets product line and leader of Dechert's EMEA Energy Initiative, focuses her practice on international and domestic corporate M&A, joint ventures, projects, capital markets and financing transactions, as well as cross-border disputes. Ms. Pedersen has extensive experience advising private and public corporates, ultra-high net worth individuals, and governments in more than 35 countries worldwide and has practiced in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. Over the course of her career, Ms. Pedersen has advised on many high-profile inbound and outbound commercial and project-related transactions throughout Asia, Europe and the United States and across a number of industries, including energy and infrastructure, consumer goods, technology and real estate. Ms. Pedersen has been recognized as a top-ranking lawyer by publications such as, Chambers Global, Chambers Asia Pacific, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific and IFLR 1000. She has consistently been recognized as a “highly regarded” legal practitioner for banking and energy in Singapore by IFLR 1000. In 2021, Ms. Pedersen has been named “Equity Capital Markets Lawyer of the Year” by Euromoney/Legal Media Group in the Asia-Pacific Women in Business Law Awards. Most recently, clients recognized her work in corporate and M&A in the 2024 edition of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, noting that she provided them with 'very timely and practical advice', was 'very accessible' and was 'quick to provide solutions to issues' they were facing. Clients also praised her work in international arbitration, noting that she is 'a superstar' who is 'very engaged, motivating, and a key player'.