Gareth Deiner

Gareth Deiner is an English and New York qualified lawyer whose practice covers debt and equity capital markets transactions across the South and Southeast Asian region. Gareth advises sovereign and corporate issuers, private equity sponsors, financial investors, real estate investment trusts and investment banks on their most complex and strategic capital markets transactions and capital reorganisations. He is also a noted expert on ESG-related solutions and sustainable finance transactions, having advised on numerous award-winning and market-first transactions, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sector.

Gareth's product-specific experience includes high yield, sovereign, corporate investment grade and cross-over credit debt securities offerings; IPOs, placements, PIPEs and equity-linked offerings (including convertible, exchangeable and perpetual bond issues); US and European private placements; Islamic finance securities offerings; regulatory capital securities offerings and various liability management and debt capital markets restructuring exercises.

Rhodes University, South Africa (BComm) 2003

Rhodes University, South Africa (LLB) 2005

University of South Africa (Post-Graduate Certificate in Advanced Corporate and Securities Law) 2005

Admitted as an attorney and conveyancer in South Africa 2005

Associate, Edward Nathan Sonnenberg Incorporated 2006

Joined Clifford Chance as Associate 2007

Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales 2008

Senior Associate, Herbert Smith Freehills 2013 - 2015

University of London, United Kingdom (MSc) 2015

Rejoined Clifford Chance 2015

Partner since 2019

Admitted as an attorney and counsellor-at-law in New York 2022