Seasoned Linklaters duo set up international finance boutique
Longstanding Linklaters finance partners Mirthe van Kesteren and Michael Bott have left the firm to set up their own practice, Bott Van Kesteren Partners.
The London-based firm will specialise in deals and advisory
mandates for commodities-backed and other international financing transactions
with offices in London and Moscow.
Bott, a US-qualified lawyer, was a partner at Linklaters’
Moscow office for nearly 20 years where he led the Russian banking team, having
previously worked for Allen & Overy in London and Milbank in New York. He
will manage the firm’s Moscow office.
Van Kesteren led Linklaters’ London-based emerging markets
banking and structured commodity trade finance practices, while also co-leading
the firm’s CIS and Ukraine desks, which boast more than 20 lawyers.
She trained and qualified at Clifford Chance in 1999,
spending six years there before joining Linklaters fifteen years ago, making
partner in 2007.
On their website, the duo say they have “worked on just
about every type of financing along the credit spectrum” with a particular
focus on Europe, but also, given their experience, Russia, Ukraine and
Kazakhstan, as well as the Middle East and Africa.
Bott is expected to focus on complex finance work in Russia,
including pandemic-related restructurings for corporates and investment
agencies.
Van Kesteren’s client base includes banks, financial
institutions, government agencies and multi-lateral organisations. She has
worked on deals involving ING Bank, Glencore, Essar Oil and the Industrial and
Commercial Bank of China.
Following their departure, Toby Grimstone has taken over
sole charge of Linklaters’ emerging markets finance team.
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