Emma Clark is a Corporate partner with a sector focus on transactions for financial services businesses. Emma has advised on a number of ground-breaking and innovative transactions under new and evolving legislation, including Octopus Energy on the acquisition of Bulb via the first ever energy transfer scheme in the UK, RBS on the ringfencing of its investment and retail banking operations and the first shariah compliant bank M&A transaction in the Middle East. 

Emma advises a number of major institutions on noteworthy strategic transformational change and cross-border M&A transactions, as well as complex intra-group reorganisations, joint ventures and  corporate governance frameworks.  Her clients include banks, trading platforms and exchanges, asset managers and fintechs.

She is an expert on cross-border bank and asset management M&A, as well as strategic transformational projects driven by legislative change. She also has particular expertise in Part VII transfer schemes and the UK ring-fencing regime and regularly advises on recovery and resolution planning. 

Emma brings an international perspective to her practice, having spent four years working in the Middle East. She advised on a number of EMEA exits by Western financial institutions whilst working in the region.

Emma is a member of the Company Law Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales and co-heads the CMS Corporate D&I Committee.