Overview
Ennio Keyte has a broad commercial practice encompassing contentious and transactional mandates, focusing on litigation, arbitration, investigations, restructurings, cross-border M&A, joint ventures and general corporate law matters, with an emphasis on China outbound investment.
He advises clients across a range of industries including financial institutions, healthcare, technology, industrial and consumer goods. 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
Contentious Matters
- Advised Bank of China on several regulatory and contentious matters*
- Advised Bank of China 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 China Taiping Insurance on 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*
- Advised Novartis on pursuing a multi-million USD debt claim via insolvency proceedings in Hong Kong and an arbitration in Switzerland.
Transactional Matters
- Advised Novartis on the proposed divestment of assets in Germany, Turkey and France*
- Advised Lonza on divestment of sites in France and Scotland*
- Advised S&P Global on its agreement to sell its Global Engineering Solutions Business to investment funds managed by KKR.*
- Advised Bank of China 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 Ahli United Bank on its acquisition of Citi’s entire consumer banking business in Bahrain*
- Advised AVIC Cabin System on the negotiation with leading aircraft manufacturers and airlines in relation to the administration of AIM Altitude*
- Advised Baker Hughes on the carve out sale of its Subsea drilling business into a joint venture with MH Wirth/ Akastor*
- Advised McCormick & Company on numerous corporate reorganisation matters and joint ventures.*
- Advised China Telecom on corporate and compliance matters in Europe
* 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
