Profession
Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
Experience
Nicola is a corporate partner who specializes in public and private M&A, joint ventures and equity capital market transactions. Recent transactions include:
- Little Sheep Group on its privatisation by YUM! Brands, Inc.
- Shandong Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. on its investment in an iron ore project in Sierra Leone
- Rio Tinto in relation to its defence of the hostile pre-conditional takeover offers made by BHP Billiton
- Deloitte as administrators on the disposal of the assets of Waterford Wedgwood
- Vodafone on its acquisition of Hutchison Essar and joint venture arrangements with Essar and its stake in Bharti Airtel
- ScottishPower on the recommended offer by Iberdrola and Allied Domecq on the public recommended offer by Pernod Ricard
- Secondary issues including Liberty International, Travis Perkins, Invensys, Amlin, Standard Chartered
- IPOs including Hansen Transmissions, Sepura, Raymarine and C&C Group and Liberty International’s demerger to form Capital & Counties and Capital Shopping Centres
Professional experience
2010 to date Partner, Shanghai, Linklaters, LLP
2007 - 2010 Partner, London, Linklaters, LLP
2003 - 2007 Managing Associate, Linklaters, LLP
2003 - Secondment to Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking Division
1998 - 2003 Associate, Linklaters
1996 - 1998 Trainee Solicitor, Linklaters
Education
1991 - 1995 University of Bristol LL.B (Euro)
Languages
English, Spanish
