Find Lawyers in the United Kingdom for Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Fiona Adams is the Managing Shareholder of the London office and the Co-Chair of the Global Corporate Practice. She primarily represents corporate clients, focusing her practice on mergers and acquisitions, and other transactional matters. Her work spans a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, financial institutions, media and retail. Fiona has broad experience working on large, complex cross-border transactions. Fiona continues to be highly recommended by both of the leading indepe...

John Adebiyi focuses on corporate matters, particularly public and private mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. In addition, he advises clients on the U.K. national security aspects of transactions, including those involving companies in the defense and aerospace sectors.

Nicholas (Nick) Azis is a highly experienced corporate lawyer who advises a broad range of publicly owned and privately held clients on mergers and acquisitions transactions, principally in the commodities, energy, technology and manufacturing sectors. He has significant experience in corporate reorganisations and provides day to day corporate counsel to his clients on the application of UK regulation such as the Bribery Act, Criminal Finances Act and Modern Slavery Act on commercial activiti...

Mr. Corte has acted on a number of complex and/or contested takeover assignments and trans-Atlantic transactions, including:Adevinta ASA in its announced US$9.2 billion acquisition of eBay Classifieds Group from eBay Inc.;Intel Corporation’s US$15.3 billion acquisition of Mobileye N.V.;Konecranes’ proposed all-stock merger with Terex Corporation (NYSE) and its subsequent acquisition of a division of Terex;VimpelCom’s (now VEON) US$30 billion exchange offer for OJSC VimpelCom...

Paul Dunbar’s practice focuses on transactions for private equity clients, advising on public and private corporate M&A, asset portfolio M&A, distressed M&A, joint ventures and preferred equity investments.Paul works with clients investing in a broad range of sectors, including financial services and fintech, real estate, energy, manufacturing and industrials, infrastructure, transportation, healthcare, and retail.Paul is a member of the London Private Equity team that was r...

Giles Elliott has more than 20 years of experience advising companies, sponsors, and financial institutions on an extensive range of corporate transactions and governance matters including public and private M&A, fund-raisings, buyouts, joint ventures, and investments.

Tracy Fisher is a partner in the Firm’s Tax Practice Group. She provides complex domestic and cross-border tax structuring and transactional advice to a wide range of U.K. and international clients. Tracy’s experience includes advising on corporate M&A, public company and private equity transactions, group reorganisations and demergers, real estate and equity investments and international taxation and finance. A member of Brown Rudnick’s Family Office team, Tracy is also...

A partner in our Tax practice, Daniel Friel focuses on complex tax matters. With more than 30 years of experience, Daniel advises clients on complex multi-jurisdictional tax planning matters, including UK and cross-border mergers, disposals and acquisitions (particularly within the U.S., Europe and Asia), as well as tax-related financings and restructurings. Daniel works with many global financial institutions and corporations, including Barclays, JPMorgan, Carlyle, SABMiller, LCCG and the Qa...

LYNDSEY LAVERACK focuses her practice on cross-border M&A. Although she maintains a broad corporate practice, she has a particular interest in the real estate sector and has significant experience in this industry.Lyndsey’s clients include private equity funds, public and private companies, asset managers, and developers, and her practice spans a wide range of sectors including real estate, life sciences, and financial services. She advises on the full spectrum of corporate transact...

Paul Maher serves as a Vice Chair of Greenberg Traurig. He concentrates on corporate law, particularly cross-border public and private mergers and acquisitions. He advises a wide range of domestic and international clients in numerous sectors, including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, financial services, information services, retail and communications. Paul is highly recommended by both of the leading independent guides to the legal industry. In its 2020 edition, Chambers UK stated...

Amira Shaker focuses her practice on advising individual clients and family offices on corporate transactional and advisory matters. Amira advises on complex investment structuring and private wealth management as well as advising on the acquisition of high-value assets and financial instruments for these clients and family offices. Amira has over a decade’s experience in advising on cross-border, multi-jurisdictional acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and funding arrangements in m...

Mark Sperotto is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher and a member of the Corporate Transactional practice group. Mr. Sperotto has broad experience in both the UK and Italian markets, covering all aspects of corporate, private equity and investment banking with a focus on cross-border M&A, leveraged buy-outs, fund establishment and international corporate finance and equity capital markets transactions. Mr. Sperotto’s experience extends to advising private equ...

Tom Whelan focuses his practice on private equity, advising private equity sponsors, multi strategy funds, other private capital investors and corporates, helping them deploy capital across the world.Tom handles buyouts, including secondary buy-outs and secondaries, take privates and co-investments, general M&A, bolt-ons, management incentive plans, restructurings and refinancings through to exits. During the course of any investment, Tom advises on portfolio company work and any changes ...

JAMES WOOD has significant public and private cross-border M&A experience across many sectors, working with global client and adviser teams, leading negotiations and providing advice to senior client stakeholders on significant, complex and transformative transactions.James is experienced at delivering successful transactions involving stakeholders located in different countries and requiring the alignment of different cultural backgrounds and priorities. Teams led by James have helped cl...

Tamas Lorinczy is an English qualified solicitor in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Mr. Lorinczy has had a wide range of corporate transactional and general advisory experience, with a primary focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Lorinczy also focuses on corporate reorganisations and complex commercial contracts. Mr. Lorinczy advises public and private companies, private equity funds and banks across a broad range of business sectors. Mr. Lorinczy is recognise...