Overview
Alex is co-head of the firm’s global financial sponsors sector and regularly advises private equity houses and other financial sponsor clients on all types of private equity transactions, including private acquisitions, take-privates, carve-outs, co-investments, consortium deals and distressed acquisitions through to exit by way of disposals, restructurings and IPOs. He has vast experience in advising different types of financial sponsor clients across a number of business sectors.
Alex is ranked as a “Hall of Fame” leading individual by Legal 500 and a Band 1 practitioner by Chambers for Private Equity Buyouts. He has been named Private Equity Lawyer of the Year by The Deal Europe and Individual of the Year by Legal 500. He has also been named one of the Twenty Most Influential Private Equity Lawyers 2025 by Private Equity News.
Experience
- Permira and Warburg Pincus on the £2.7 bn sale of the wealth management group Evelyn Partners to NatWest Group.
- Warburg Pincus on its acquisition of a minority equity stake in United Trust Bank, a leading UK specialist bank, valuing the banking group at approximately £520m.
- Carlyle on
- the sale of Calastone, the world’s largest global funds network, to SS&C Technologies.
- its acquisition of Anthesis, a leading sustainability consultancy firm.
- the sale of PIB Group to Apax Partners.
- the £958m recommended offer for Vectura plc.
- the £1.825bn sale of PA Consulting Group to Jacobs Engineering.
- Carlyle and PAI Partners on the acquisition of Theramex, the leading global specialty pharmaceuticals company focused on women's health, from CVC Capital Partners.
- Hg on:
- the raising of significant new investment by Visma, a leading provider of mission-critical cloud software in Europe and Latin-America, valuing Visma at €19bn.
- its investments in team.blue and FEFundinfo.
- the sale of the Commify business to ECI Partners.
- its significant new investment in The Access Group, valuing the business at £9.2bn.
- Hg and team.blue on CPP Investments’ acquisition of a c.20% stake in team.blue, valuing the company at €4.8bn, making it one of the largest privately owned technology companies in Europe.
- Montagu Private Equity on its $1.3bn acquisition of Waystone, the global fund administration business and the carve-out acquisitions of Jane’s, and the Maritime Intelligence and Financial Intelligence divisions from Informa plc.
- GIC as part of a consortium with Advent on the $8 billion takeover offer for SOBI AB.
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