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About
Tom advises on all aspects of corporate transactions, specialising in complex cross-border M&A.
His practice encompasses public and private acquisitions and disposals, private capital, carve-outs, capital markets and advisory mandates.
Tom is recognised in Chambers and Partners UK and The UK Legal 500 for premium M&A.
Experience
- Advising Evelyn Partners (backed by Permira and Warburg Pincus) on a number of transactions, including the sale of its professional services business to funds advised by Apax Partners LLP.
- Advising NortonLifeLock Inc., a NASDAQ-listed consumer cybersecurity solutions provider, on its $25bn cash and stock merger with Avast.
- Advising Visa Inc. on its €21.2bn acquisition of Visa Europe.
- Advising Terminix Global Holdings, Inc. on its $6.7bn cash and stock combination with Rentokil Initial plc.
- Advising Littelfuse, Inc. on its $540m acquisition of C&K Switches from global private equity firm Sun Capital Partners.
- Advising Smith & Williamson (now Evelyn Partners) on its £1.8bn merger with Tilney Group, including Warburg Pincus’s co-investment alongside Permira.
- Advising FirstCash Holdings, Inc. on its $466m takeover of H&T Group plc.
- Advising Siris Capital Group on its £673m public-to-private takeover of Equiniti Group plc.
- Advising Dana Inc. on its agreed $6.2bn merger with GKN plc’s Driveline business, as part of GKN’s unsuccessful defence against Melrose Industries’ hostile takeover bid.
- Advising Joshua Alliance on his £408m take-private of N Brown Group plc.
- Advising Searchlight Capital Partners on its $2bn acquisition of Mitel Networks, a global leader in business communications.