Allen Hanen

Allen Hanen, a US-qualified partner, is the managing partner of Herbert Smith CIS LLP. He practised in New York and London with the Wall Street law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, working in capital markets and M&A. He joined JPMorgan, the NY-headquartered investment bank, in 1993, and he worked with the bank in London and Brussels. Among other responsibilities, Allen was the lead internal counsel for JPMorgan’s European mergers and acquisitions business.

Since joining Herbert Smith in 1999, he has advised financial institutions and corporations on cross-border M&A and international capital markets transactions. Allen has advised both foreign and domestic Russian corporations on investments in Russia.



Credentials

• BP on its US$1 billion investment in the IPO of Rosneft
• Renaissance Capital, JPMorgan and VTB Group on the $295.2 million offering of ordinary shares of Razgulay Group, one of the largest vertically integrated agro-industrial companies in Russian Federation, by way of public offer in reliance on Regulation S and listed on RTS and MICEX (Russia)
• Troika Dialog on the US$300 million sale of 33% of its shares to Standard Bank for consideration involving US$200 convertible loan and 100% of shares of Standard Bank's Russian subsidiary ZAO "Standard Bank". It is the first acquisition deal by a foreign lender in Russia's banking sector since the onset of the economic crisis
• Alfa Group in connection with its acquisition of a stake in Vimpelcom and the related SEC disclosure
• Bank of Scotland on its £48 billion merger with Halifax Group and previously on its £47 billion hostile takeover bids for National Westminster 
• De Beers in relation to the $19.6 billion recommended offer proposals made by a consortium comprising Central Holdings, Anglo American and the Debswana Diamond Company
• Eurotunnel on its financial restructuring, debt buy-backs and repackaging as well as share and debt issuances
• Friends Provident on its £4.2 billion demutualisation and listing on the London Stock Exchange and Rule 144A/Regulation S offering in the US and in connection with its submission to the Securities and Exchange Commission for a Section 12g3-2(b) exemption from the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934