Overview
Tom is the Managing Partner of the Americas based in our New York office. His practice focuses on achieving antitrust approval for clients’ most important and complex cross-border M&A transactions, using a pragmatic approach to realize their commercial objectives. Tom also leads the Americas.
Tom has over 25 years’ experience working with clients across a range of sectors, including life sciences, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, chemicals, engineered products, industrial gases, financial services, transportation, oil & gas and mining. He has served as co-head of Linklaters’ Global Life Sciences Group and Global Chemicals Group.
Tom advises on all aspects of antitrust law, including intellectual property licensing, cooperation with competitors and compliance. He also defends clients in criminal price-fixing investigations and private litigation. Tom regularly appears before the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission on both merger control and litigation matters.
Work highlights
Highlights of Tom’s experience include:
- Perfetti Van Melle: advising the owner of Mentos on the acquisition of Mondelez’s global Trident chewing gum business.
- Linde: advising in relation to its US$90bn merger of equals with Praxair to create the largest industrial gas group in the world. We coordinated merger control filings in more than 20 jurisdictions worldwide, including in the U.S., EU and China.
- Novartis: advising on its transformative transactions to acquire GlaxoSmithKline’s global oncology business and sell its global vaccines business, its acquisition of Spinifex Pharmaceuticals and its sale of assets to Questcor (Mallinckrodt).
- Siemens: advising on its acquisitions of Invensys Rail Business, wind turbine producer Gamesa and the Rolls-Royce Energy aero-derivative gas turbine and compressor business.
- Takeda: advising in relation to its US$62bn offer for Shire plc, the largest ever outbound M&A deal by a Japanese company.
- Bayer AG: advising on the US$7.6bn sale of its animal health business to Elanco Animal Health to create a leading global animal health company.
- Nestlé S.A.: advising on the US$10bn sale of its Nestlé Skin Health business.
- Glencore: advising on its US$29bn merger with Xstrata to create the world’s leading trading and mining company.
- Deutsche Börse AG: advising on its terminated merger with the London Stock Exchange, having previously acted on its planned merger with NYSE Euronext.
- Air France KLM: advising on the defense of the air cargo cartel investigations and follow-on litigation.
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