Practice Areas
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.
Career
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
