Dechert’s new partner hire

Hamish Walton has joined Dechert’s corporate and securities group as a partner in Dubai. He was previously a partner at another international firm.

Walton has more than twenty-five years of experience counseling domestic and cross-border clients on high-profile corporate matters, and is consistently recognized as one of the region’s top corporate and M&A attorneys by Chambers Global and The Legal 500. He advises corporates, government organisations, private equity houses and financial institutions on a wide range of public and private transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, equity capital markets, corporate governance and employee incentives.

Walton regularly represents clients on complex issues arising across a broad spectrum of industry sectors, including telecommunications, media, leisure, real estate and infrastructure. A graduate of the University of Melbourne (B.Com, LLB, and Graduate Diploma – Corporations and Securities Laws, 1991), Walton is admitted as a solicitor in Victoria, Australia and England and Wales.