Overview
Meila is a Managing Associate based in the firm’s London office. She has a broad range of experience in public and private M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and corporate governance, with particular experience in global carve out transactions and public M&A across the Consumer and Healthcare sectors. She also spent ten months on secondment in the corporate legal team at Unilever.
Work Highlights
- Britvic plc: advising on Carlsberg A/S’s £3.3bn takeover of Britvic.
- Barratt Developments plc: advising on the £2.5bn recommended all share offer for Redrow plc.
- Perfetti Van Melle: advising on the US$1.35bn acquisition of Mondelez’s developed-market gum business in Europe and North America.
- 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 €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, including a complex pre-acquisition carve out.
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals International AG: advising on the €350m sale of its haemostasis product TachoSil to Corza Health, Inc.
- Unilever PLC: advising on the €6.825bn sale of the global baking, cooking and spreads business to KKR.
- National Grid: advising on its £13.8bn sale of a 61% equity interest in its UK gas distribution business to a consortium of long-term infrastructure investors, including pre-acquisition reorganisations.
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