Gary McLean is a partner in the Corporate Department in the London office. Gary's wide-ranging corporate and commercial practice includes mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, joint ventures, outsourcing (particularly BPO) and reorgansations with particular focus on the financial institutions and communications, media and technology sectors. He acts for a number of major international financial institutions and corporates including Standard Chartered Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Fortis, Barclays, Capital International and BSkyB.

Gary's recent experience includes advising Fortis Investments on the proposed acquisition of a 50% stake in Fortis Investments by Ping An, Standard Chartered on the acquisitions of Cazenove Asia and Korea First Bank, Barclays on the acquisition of Walbrook and the sale of its leasing business to CIT and BSkyB on its takeover offer for Easynet. Gary's joint venture experience includes advising Barclays Asset Finance on its vehicle finance joint venture with Iveco in five European jurisdictions and HBOS on the establishment of a retail equipment financing joint venture.

Gary has lectured internally and to clients on a wide range of corporate and commercial topics. He has previously worked in both the Amsterdam (2000-2001) and Hong Kong (1990-1993) offices.