Rebecca Cousin

• T  +44 (0)20 7090 3049 (Direct line)
• E  rebecca.cousin@slaughterandmay.com

• London 
• One Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8YY

Rebecca advises on a broad range of corporate, corporate finance and restructuring matters. Her practice consists principally of advising corporate clients on domestic and international corporate finance and M&A transactions, including public takeovers, private acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and equity issues. She also advises generally on day-to-day company law and corporate governance matters. Rebecca is a contributing author to 'Annotated Companies Acts'.

Her recent work includes advising:

• Songbird Estates plc on its placing and compensatory offer and subsequent increase in the ownership of Canary Wharf Group
• RHJ International SA on the financial restructuring of the Honsel group
• BHP Billiton on its all share inter-conditional offers for Rio Tinto Limited and Rio Tinto plc
• Arsenal Holdings plc, the holding company of Arsenal Football Club, on a standstill and pre-emption agreement entered into by certain of its shareholders
• Akzo Nobel N.V. on its recommended cash offer for ICI plc
• the Department of Trade and Industry on the sale of part of its interest in British Energy Group plc through an accelerated book-built offering
• Alliance Boots plc on a recommended cash offer by AB Acquisitions Limited, a company jointly controlled by certain funds advised by KKR and Stefano Pessina