Chris Ahern
Partner
Sydney
Tel: 61.2.8272.0530
Fax: 61.2.8272.0599
Email:
cahern@jonesday.com
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Chris Ahern is a corporate lawyer who for more than 15 years has specialized in the technology sector. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and corporate finance and has been named in Chambers legal directories as a leading lawyer since 2001. He serves as Partner-in-Charge of the Sydney Office.
Chris's experience in mergers and acquisitions covers the full range of transactions, including court approved mergers by scheme of arrangement, venture and development capital, private placements, and public to private transactions as well as private company mergers and acquisitions work. In the technology area Chris has acted on numerous joint ventures and complex outsourcings (including BPO's) and is skilled at dealing with the complex intellectual property issues that arise in such transactions. In recent years Chris has regularly acted for such companies as Microsoft Corporation, First Data Corporation, and Yahoo!.
Admitted
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
Education
University of New South Wales (B.Com. 1988; LL.B. 1991); University of Sydney (LL.M. 1996)