Cassie smith

Cassandra Smith

Corporate Managing Associate, London

"I advise corporate clients and financial sponsors on complex cross-border and domestic strategic transactions, with particular experience in private M&A. With the client’s objectives and relationship in mind, I aim to offer pragmatic solutions in an efficient and commercially focused manner."

Overview

Professional experience

Overview

Cassandra is a Managing Associate in the firm’s London office. She advises clients across a broad range of sectors on complex cross-border M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and corporate governance matters.

In 2024 and 2025, Cassandra spent nine months on secondment to the Macquarie Asset Management division of Macquarie.

Work highlights
  • Tate & Lyle PLC: advising on the acquisition of CP Kelco, a leading provider of pectin, speciality gums and other nature-based ingredients, from J.M. Huber Corporation for US$1.8bn.
  • Macquarie Asset Management: advising on the sale of its interest in the East Anglia One offshore wind farm.
  • Generali: advising on the acquisition of Conning Holdings Limited, a leading global asset manager for insurance and institutional clients, to create a long-term partnership with Cathay Life, a subsidiary of Cathay Financial Holdings.
  • Advising on the proposed sale of The Telegraph newspaper and The Spectator magazine in the UK.
  • Thermo Fisher: advising on the £2.3bn acquisition of The Binding Site group, a Birmingham-based life sciences company focussing on the research, development, production and sale of specialist medical diagnostic products which detect and monitor types of bone marrow cancer, from a group of sellers led by Nordic Capital.
  • Unilever PLC: advising on the carve-out and €4.5bn sale of the world’s leading tea business with a portfolio of 34 leading brands (including PG Tips, Pukka, T2 and TAZO), 11 factories and three tea estates in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania to CVC Capital Partners.
  • Qatar Investment Authority: advising on its joint venture partnership with Enel Green Power to build and operate renewable plants in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals International AG: advising on the €350m sale of its haemostasis product TachoSil to Corza Health, Inc.
  • Green Investment Group Limited: advising on its disposal of a 235MW onshore wind farm in central Sweden.
  • Travis Perkins: advising on its demerger and the listing of Wickes.

Professional experience

Cassandra holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from the University of Sydney, Australia.