Chris Grieves is a corporate lawyer based in London. He specialises in joint ventures, public and private M&A, with a particular emphasis on cross-border and emerging markets M&A and joint ventures in the energy, infrastructure, mining and industrials sectors.

Recent transactions have included acting for bp  on its global offshore wind joint venture with JERA, on the sale of its Swiss downstream operations to Oel-Pool and on its acquisition of GETEC Energie in Germany, acting for Patina Rail (a consortium comprising CDPQ and funds managed by Federated Hermes) on the merger of the Eurostar and Thalys European high-speed rail networks, , acting for Sandvik AB on its acquisition of the global DSI Underground business and subsequently the acquisition of the global mining business of the Schenck Process Group and acting for Yara International on the sale of its Salitre phosphate mining project in Brazil.