Recent work
Jack has a broad international corporate practice advising corporates and sponsors on transactions across a range of sectors and geographies. He specialises in private M&A, public takeovers and mergers, joint ventures and capital markets. He also advises clients on a day-to-day basis on shareholder activism, takeover defence, corporate governance, disclosure obligations and crisis management.
Highlights include advising:
- GSK on various matters including:
- its buyout of Novartis’ interest in their consumer healthcare joint venture
- the creation of its consumer healthcare joint venture with Pfizer
- the sale of its Thermacare business to Angelini S.p.A.
- the sale of its shares in Haleon, the listed consumer healthcare business demerged from GSK
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SEGRO on various matters including its entry into a joint venture with Pure DC to develop a fully-fitted data centre
- Ocean Wilsons on:
- the disposal of its majority stake in the Brazilian port and maritime logistics operator, Wilsons S.A.
- its return of £123 million to shareholders by way of tender offer
- its all-share combination with Hansa Investment Company by way of Bermudian scheme of arrangement, as well as the related Bermudian litigation relating to the scheme.
- Wilson Sons and Ultranav on the sale of their respective interestes in their Brazilian joint venture, Wilson Sons Ultratug, to Tidewater Inc.
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Harbour Energy on its participation in the Southern Energy floating liquified natural gas export project in Argentina
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BlackRock and KRR on their US$1 billion disposal of indirect interests in ADNOC Oil Pipelines LLC to the Abu Dhabi investment firm Lunate
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Rolls-Royce on various matters, including the creation of its joint venture, Rolls-Royce SMR Limited, to develop small modular nuclear reactors
- Ultra Electronics on its £2.6 billion takeover offer by Cobham
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Deutsche Börse on its €5.3 billion acquisition of Allfunds Group PLC
- Nationwide Building Society on its £2.9 billion acquisition of Virgin Money UK PLC
- Nucleus Financial Platforms together with HPS Investment Partners as major shareholder of Nucleus on the acquisition of Curtis Bank Group PLC
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Shawbrook on its acquisition of ThinCats Group
- Multiple clients on capital markets transactions, including Accsys Technologies and Young & Co’s Brewery on equity placings and Barratt Redrow, Rolls-Royce, IAG, OSB and Rotork on share buyback programmes