Published by rhtlaw at June 2, 2016 RHTLaw Taylor Wessing is pleased to announce the addition of Mr Erwan Barre and Mr Mark Jacobsen as Partners (Foreign Lawyers) in our Corporate Practice with effect from 2 June 2016.
Erwan Barre joined RHTLaw Taylor Wessing after practicing for sixteen years with Sullivan & Cromwell and Paul Hastings, two leading US law firms, in Paris and New York. Focused on corporate transactions, Erwan has extensive experience representing clients across many industries, with an emphasis in the Technology and Life Science industries.
He also has management experience, being a co-founder of Vaximax, a biotech company.
Erwan has been involved in many M&A, joint venture, capital markets and financing projects in Asia, Europe and the US, including several game changing transactions. Most of these deals were cross-border. His transactional expertise is based on leading over 60 deals, representing in the aggregate more than US$20 billion.
Erwan is admitted in France (1996) and New York (1998).
Mark Jacobsen advises financial institutions, technology companies, funds (both VC and PE), and other corporate clients on private and cross-border investments and other corporate/commercial matters. He has counselled on issues as diverse as structuring, investment channels, securities, marketing and distribution, operations, and best practices.
Prior to coming to Singapore, Mark was in association with three global top 25 law firms in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, San Francisco and New York, worked at the U.S. SEC in the Office of the Chief Counsel for the Division of Corporation Finance, clerked for the presiding judge (Sir Richard May) in the Slobodan Milosevic trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and also worked for the U.S. Department of Justice.
Mark is admitted in California (2006).