Legal Week, The Lawyer, Daily Report, City A.M., The Global Legal Post, The Law Society Gazette | Alston Launches London Office, Boosting Payments, Finance Practices

In a strategic decision to expand its European practice, Alston & Bird has opened a London office on the strength of its growing finance and payments practices. The office supports the firm’s finance and payments industry clients doing business in the U.K. and across Europe, as well as local investors and clients transacting business in the United States.

Alston & Bird is featured for its new London office and the additions of finance partners Andrew Petersen and James Spencer and payments partners James Ashe-Taylor and Rich Willis, who is quoted.

Shanell Cramer, partner and co-chair of Alston & Bird’s Finance Group, has been recognized as a "Distinguished Leader” by the New York Law Journal in its 2020 awards honoring attorneys in leadership roles who have achieved impressive results and demonstrated clear leadership skills in the past year.

James Fisher is featured as a new structured finance partner in the firm’s London office, with  Shanell Cramer quoted and partners Andrew Petersen, James Spencer, and James Ashe-Taylor mentioned.

Alston & Bird is noted for opening a London office with Andrew Petersen as head of the Finance Practice.