Richard Crosby is in the London Financial Institutions Group, specialising in strategic M&A, equity capital markets, complex corporate restructurings and corporate advisory work for banks and other financial institutions.
Richard is qualified in both England and Hong Kong and worked in Hong Kong between 2006 and 2012.
HSBC on various M&A deals including:
- US$13.3 billion privatization of Hang Seng Bank
- acquisition of Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited (SVB UK).
- sale of HSBC Bank Malta to CrediaBank
- sale of its Russian bank to Expobank
- US$9.4 billion disposal of its stake in Ping An Insurance
- US$600 million acquisition of Bank Ekonomi in Indonesia
- US$6.3 billion proposed acquisition of Korea Exchange Bank
- various non-core business disposals including in Panama, Thailand, India, Japan, Brunei, Iraq, Jordan, Luxembourg and Malaysia
Citi on the US$1.6bn disposal of its consumer banking business in India to Axis Bank
Lloyds Bank plc on its £37 billion capital reduction in connection with its ring-fencing implementation
ICBC Standard Bank on its acquisition of the precious metals vaulting business of Barclays
HSBC on its consideration of whether to redomicile outside of the UK
HSBC on its US$18 billion rights issue
AXA SA on the A$13.3 billion acquisition by AMP Limited of AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Limited (AXA APH) and the subsequent A$9.4 billion acquisition by AXA SA of the Asian businesses of AXA APH from AMP
News and client work
Contact details
- Clifford Chance, London
- +442070066286
- Email me
- Practice area M&A corporate
Career & qualifications
- Bristol University (LLB) 1994
- Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales 1997
- Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright 2006
- Admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong 2007
- Joined Clifford Chance 2019
- Partner since October 2019