Carson Welsh

Practice Areas

Carson is widely acknowledged as a leading debt capital markets lawyer, advising on the full range of debt capital markets transactions, including issues of senior debt, regulatory capital, corporate hybrid debt, equity-related debt and liability management and restructuring exercises.

Carson has extensive experience of acting for issuers and underwriters on major bank recapitalisations and issues of loss-absorbing instruments by bank and insurance companies. He worked on the development of all of the post-CRD IV bank, and Solvency II insurance, capital products, often advising on the first such products in countries across Europe.  

Career

Carson is a member of the firm’s partnership board, the governance body responsible for strategic and core decisions, and led the firm’s equity and debt markets group from 2007 to 2012. Earlier in his career, Carson worked in the firm’s Hong Kong office, working on a range of emerging markets matters.