Harry is co-head of our private equity practice. He advises sponsors and their portfolio companies on transactions throughout the investment life cycle, including public and private acquisitions, carve-outs, equity investments (with a particular focus on minority and downside-protected investments), reorganisations, recapitalisations, management incentivisation arrangements, governance matters and the full range of exit routes including sales, business combinations, continuation funds, IPOs and direct and indirect listings.
He is also closely involved with the firm’s social mobility and Law Springboard programmes.
Highlights include advising:
- Arrow on various matters, including:
- the carve-out and sale of its UK unsecured mortgage servicing business and related back-book to Intrum
- its investment in, and subsequent acquisition of, Eagle Street partners
- its investment in, and subsequent acquisition of, Maslow Capital
- its investment in Asertis
- its acquisition of Amitra Capital
- Blackstone on various matters, including:
- its investment in Prima Assicurazione
- its investment in, and subsequent disposal of, Beauparc
- its investment in Ki, the first fully digital and algorithmically-driven Lloyd’s syndicate, alongside Fairfax
- the formation of Indurent through the combination of the Industrials REIT and St. Modwen Logistics businesses
- Blackstone and HH Global on various matters, including:
- the acquisition by HH Global of InnerWorkings Inc.
- the acquisition by HH Global of Adare International
- Fortress on various matters, including:
- its recommended offer for WM Morrisons PLC
- its acquisition of Poundstretcher
- GHO Capital on various matters, including:
- its investment in Roslin CT
- its investment in Lykan
- its reinvestment in Sterling Pharma and disposal of a minority stake to Partners Group
- the acquisition by ELIQUENT of RApport Global
- HPS on various matters, including:
- its investment in Ardonagh
- its investment in Nucleus
- HPS and Nucleus on various matters, including:
- Nucleus’ take-private of Curtis Banks PLC
- the acquisition by Nucleus of Third Financial
- Pollen Street Capital on various matters, including:
- its recommended offer, as joint offeror with DBAY, for Proactis Holdings
- its combination with Honeycomb
- Trill Impact on its investment in Delivery Associates
In 2017, Harry spent six months on secondment to Blackstone, working closely with its Tactical Opportunities business.
Harry is a ranked as an up and coming partner in Chambers and Partners and is a recommended individual in Legal500, in each case for high value private equity deals. He has also been named as a rising star in the 2019 and 2020 editions of LegalWeek’s “40 under 40” in Private Equity and amongst MergerLinks’ 2023 top 30 young UK PE lawyers.