Overview
Ennio Keyte has a broad commercial practice encompassing transactional and contentious mandates, focusing on cross-border M&A, joint ventures, general corporate law matters, litigation and investigations, with an emphasis on China outbound investment.
He advises clients across a range of industries including financial institutions, healthcare, technology, industrial and consumer goods companies on complex multi-jurisdictional transactions, restructurings and crisis management. Ennio also has experience advising high net worth individuals on complex multi-jurisdictional litigation and investigation matters.
Ennio is a fluent mandarin speaker and a regular visitor to China and has previously undertaken a secondment to Beijing. Ennio has taught seminars at Tsinghua University and the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission.
Results
- Advised a global pharmaceutical company on the proposed divestment of assets in Germany, Turkey and France*
- Advised a global pharmaceutical company on divestment of sites in France and Scotland*
- Advised a Chinese bank on its first major acquisition in Europe, a proposed acquisition of Ireland’s longest-established investment bank, in a highly competitive auction sale*
- Advised a Chinese bank on the restructuring of its EMEA business*
- Advised a Chinese bank on several regulatory and contentious matters*
- Advised a Chinese bank on a dispute with two high net worth individuals*
- Advised a Chinese majority shareholder on the administration of a mining company based in Johannesburg and London*
- Advised a Chinese insurance company in various corporate, regulatory and dispute matters*
- Advised a high net worth individual on resisting enforcement under guarantees in excess of US$ 100 million*
- Advised a high net worth individual in successfully recovering over US$ 130 million in misappropriated funds from an insolvent wealth management company*
- Advised a high net worth individual in successfully discharging account freezing orders and resulting in dismissal of the Metropolitan Police’s anti-money laundering investigation into that individual*
* Matter handled prior to joining McDermott
Credentials
Education
BPP Law School, LPC (Distinction), 2018
BPP Law School, Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), 2017
University of Durham, BA (First Class), 2016
Admissions
England and Wales
Languages
English
German
Mandarin
