With 700 lawyers worldwide, you can tap into a huge resource. Our team has advised some of the world’s leading companies on public and private mergers and acquisitions, disposals, takeovers and mergers, joint ventures, restructurings and strategic alliances. With a strong pan-European network drawing on the best local legal talent, we can give high quality advice on cross border transactions. As with all our teams, a market driven approach takes precedence over process.
Relevant experience includes advising:
- National Grid on the disposal of four of its regional gas distribution networks for a total consideration of £5.8 billion cash plus c. £130 million of assumed liabilities
- Camelot on the establishment of the legal framework for the EuroMillions game with French and Spanish National Lotteries
- Enterprise Inns plc on its agreement to sell a portfolio of 769 pubs to Admiral Taverns, for a consideration of £318.1 million
- Informa Group plc on the £1.1 billion merger with Taylor and Francis Group plc to create T&F Informa plc
- Enterprise Inns plc on over £2.6 billion of pub acquisitions over the past two years, the most recent being an equity investment in a new company formed to acquire the Unique Pub Company and Voyager Pub Group for a consideration of £2 billion
- A large UK bank in its £951.4m acquisition and manage-back of a portfolio of 46 hotels in the UK from Whitbread PLC and Marriott International
- Nomura International on its £1.9 billion acquisition of Le Méridien portfolio spanning more than 150 hotels in 55 countries
- Talisman Energy in their agreement to sell a wholly owned subsidiary, Talisman Expro Limited, to Endeavour Energy UK Limited for $414 million
- Pfizer Inc on its agreement to acquire PowderMed Ltd, a privately held UK company specialising in the emerging science of DNA-based vaccines