Stephen Cooke

• T  +44 (0)20 7090 3261 (Direct line)
• E  stephen.cooke@slaughterandmay.com

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

Stephen has headed our Mergers and Acquisitions practice since 2001. He has a general corporate and M&A practice, with particular experience in takeover bids and other Stock Exchange related work and acts for a number of listed companies, including Aggreko, Diageo, International Airlines Group, John Wood Group, Ultra Electronics and W.S. Atkins.

Recent work includes advising:

• Autonomy on the offer by Hewlett-Packard
• Cadbury on the hostile offer by Kraft
• British Airways on its merger with Iberia and its abortive merger with Qantas
• Emerson Electric on its offer for Chloride Group
• Associated British Ports on the competitive offers by Admiral and Britannia consortia
• Cazenove on the merger of its investment banking business with J P Morgan
• PSA on its offer for P&O
• Songbird on its offer for Canary Wharf

Stephen is named by Who’s Who Legal  as one of the top ten M&A lawyers worldwide and is listed as a leading individual in a number of other directories.

Stephen worked in our former New York office from 1989 to 1990. He is the author of 'Takeovers' (PLC Publications 1997).