Overview
Fionna is a Managing Associate in the Corporate M&A team in London. She advises clients on UK public takeovers and strategic M&A, with a particular focus on complex US-UK and cross-border transactions.
Fionna has particular expertise on UK Takeover Code transactions, representing bidders, targets and other stakeholders on deals ranging from recommended, hostile to distressed, cash to securities exchange and schemes to contractual offers.
She also has a broad range of experience on private M&A, shareholder activism, joint ventures and corporate governance for listed companies.
Clients value her calm judgment, responsiveness and ability to deliver pragmatic and user-friendly advice.
Experience
Fionna has advised on many high-profile corporate transactions. Highlights include advising:
- GoCardless on its €1.1bn sale to Mollie Holding B.V. via a Delaware merger.
- Rio Tinto on its US$6.7bn acquisition of Arcadium Lithium (NYSE and ASX listed).
- The bank lender group to John Wood Group plc on the £216m recommended cash offer by Sidara.
- National Grid on its £7bn rights issue (the largest UK rights issue since 2010).
- National Grid on the £9.6bn sale of its gas transmission and metering businesses (the largest UK carve out in 2022).
- Equiniti Group plc on the £673m recommended offer by Siris Capital Group, LLC.
- Anglo American on its £405m recommended offer for Sirius Minerals Plc.
- Greene King on the £2.7bn recommended offer by CK Asset Holdings.
- City Developments Limited on its £2.2bn recommended contractual offer for Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc.
- Gulf Marine Services on its successful defence to a hostile takeover approach an related shareholder activism matter from Seafox International.
- UBM on the £3.9bn recommended cash and shares takeover by Informa PLC.
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