Matilda Calvert-Barr

Senior Associate

About

Matilda specialises in private equity transactions, advising both sponsors and management teams on buyouts, management incentivisation and sales processes.

Matilda also has extensive experience advising on private company M&A, reorganisations and general corporate advisory work.

Most of Matilda’s work has a cross-border element and in 2018, Matilda spent six months on secondment in the Singapore office of a Magic Circle firm.

Experience

  • Advising Arcmont Asset Management on its sale to Nuveen, the investment manager of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America Fund (TIAA).
  • Advising Alchemy on the sale of the Inn Collection Group (ICG) to a newly-formed company backed by the Harris family and Kings Park Capital.
  • Advising Aberdeen on its acquisition of investing insights platform Finimize.
  • Advising the management team of integrated payment services company, Planet, on its sale to Advent International with existing investor, Eurazeo, reinvesting to share co-control of Planet going forward.
  • Advising Mayfair Equity Partners on its backing of Access Partnership’s management buyout.
  • Advising Graphite Capital on the sale of YSC Consulting.
  • Advising leading online grocery platform and solutions provider, Ocado Group, on a £10m investment in British autonomous driving software company Oxbotica.
  • Advising various management teams on primary and secondary sales to private equity houses, including in the technology, fashion and hospitality sectors.

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