About

Christopher Forrester is a partner in Willkie’s Corporate & Financial Services Department and Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group. He serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Capital Markets Practice Group and Co-Managing Partner of the Palo Alto office. 

Chris has a broad corporate finance practice, with an emphasis on capital markets and private securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions transactions and corporate governance.

Chris has advised issuers, underwriters and arrangers on numerous public and private securities offerings in the US and globally, including initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, secondary offerings, confidentially marketed offerings, PIPEs, ATMs (at the market offerings), private offerings of seed and preferred stock and convertible and bridge note offerings. 

His M&A and strategic transactions practice includes advising strategic and financial buyers and sellers in transactional matters, including public and private company mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, carve-out and other asset transactions, and joint ventures. He has worked on transactions involving buyers and sellers in numerous transactions in North America, Europe, and Asia, and also represents boards in complex related party transactions.

Additionally, he advises public and private companies on best practices in corporate governance, including Delaware corporate and fiduciary matters, ongoing compliance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and stock exchange requirements.