Profession
Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
Experience
Specialist in public and private mergers and acquisitions, demergers and reorganisations, and corporate finance.
Significant recent transactions include the following:
- advising National Grid on its Class 1 $11.8 billion acquisition of KeySpan Corporation in 2006
- advising Istithmar, the Dubai investment company, on its $285 million acquisition of Inchcape Shipping Services in 2006
- advising National Grid on its £2 billion return of cash by way of a B share issue in 2005
- advising BT Group on its $175 million acquisition of Radianz from Reuters in 2005
- advising National Grid on its $2.035 billion acquisition of Crown Castle UK in June 2004
- advising MGM MIRAGE on its £300 million public offer for Wembley plc in 2004
- advising National Grid on the auction sale of its gas distribution networks in 2003/2004
- advising BT Group on the €4 billion disposal of its stake in Cegetel in January 2003
- advising Blockbuster Video on its acquisition of Gamestation in October 2002
- advising Lattice Group plc on its merger with National Grid plc in October 2002
- advising British Telecommunications plc on the demerger of mmO2 plc in November 2001
- advising British Telecommunications plc on its £5.9 billion rights issue in May 2001
- advising BG Group plc on the demerger of Lattice Group plc in October 2000
- advising CMG plc on its acquisition of Computer Answers in July 2000
- advising Colonial on the sale of its UK life and pensions interests to Winterthur in April 2000
- advising Lehman Brothers and WestLB Panmure on the open offer and international offering of Infobank International Holdings plc in March 2000
- advising BG plc in relation to its corporate reorganisation and capital restructuring by way of scheme of arrangement in December 1999
- advising Sun Life and Provincial Holdings on its £3.4 billion break up bid for Guardian Royal Exchange in 1999
- advising Merrill Lynch on its joint ventures in India and in Malaysia
Professional experience
2001 - Partner, Linklaters
1993 - 2001 Associate, Linklaters (London, Singapore and Moscow)
1991 - 1993 Trainee, Linklaters (London and Hong Kong)
Education
1990 - 1991 College of Law, Chester (Law Society Final Examination)
1987 - 1990 New College, Oxford University (M.A. Law)
