Christopher J. Peters Partner MAIN OFFICE: New York Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 787 Seventh Avenue New York, N.Y. 10019-6099, U.S.A. T 212-728-8868 F 212-728-9868

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Christopher J. Peters is a partner in the Tax Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York.  Mr. Peters advises U.S. and non-U.S. clients on the tax aspects of structuring and implementing taxable and tax-free mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, leveraged buy-outs and joint ventures.  He also provides tax advice on capital markets transactions and regularly advises private equity funds and their investors on their investments and fund-related matters.

Mr. Peters is ranked as a leading practitioner of Tax Law in New York by Chambers USA (2011).

Mr. Peters is a member of the New York State Bar Association Section of Taxation.

Mr. Peters worked on the following significant matters:

• Teva Pharmaceutical’s $7.4 billion acquisition of IVAX Corp.
  
  
• Level 3 Communication’s $1.2 billion acquisition of TelCove
  
  
• Level 3 Communication’s $1.4 billion acquisition of Broadwing Corporation
  
  
• The formation of Aeolus Ltd., a Bermuda insurance company formed by an investor group led by Warburg Pincus and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity
  
  
• Teksid Aluminum in the pending $496.8 million asset sale by its parent company, TK Aluminum Ltd., to Tendora Nemak
  
  
• Stiefel Laboratories’ $930 million acquisition of Connetics Corporation
  
  
• Converium AG’s sale of its North American operations to National Indemnity Company, a Berkshire Hathaway company
  
  
• The spin-off and stock offering of Petrojarl ASA by Petroleum Geo-Services ASA
  
  
• SwissRe’s $750 million offering of perpetual subordinated step-up preferred securities