Tom Gavin | Lawyers | Linklaters

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Overview

Tom is a Managing Associate in the firm’s Private Capital practice, with experience advising financial investors on private M&A, co-investments and joint-ventures, capital solutions and structured equity investments, reorganisations, refinancings, management investment plans and portfolio company issues.

Experience

Tom’s experience includes advising:

Rhône on its acquisitions of Invacare and Direct Healthcare Group.
Metric Capital Partners on its minority investment in Adalvo alongside EQT and Aztiq.
Warburg Pincus on its minority investment in United Trust Bank, valuing the business at approximately £520m.
Carlyle on its minority investment in Sanoptis.
TPG, as part of a consortium, on the acquisition of Techem from Partners Group for €6.7bn.
Hg on its acquisition of The Content Group and the bolt-on acquisition of Acin.
Hg on the investment by CPPIB and Sofina in team.blue, valuing the business at €4.8bn and the bolt-on acquisition of Loopia from Axcel.
I Squared Capital on the acquisition of an industrial liquid storage business from Rubis SCA.
iCON Infrastructure on the £910m acquisition of Alliance Medical from Life Healthcare.
Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners on its consortium with Spirit Super in connection with the acquisition of Geelong Ports from Brookfield and State Super, reported to value the business at A$1.1bn.
Hillhouse Capital on its investment in One Stop Warehouse.
BC Partners on the acquisition of the Davies Group from HGGC, AIMCo and Permira, reported to value the business at £1.2bn.
DigitalBridge on the acquisition of Wildstone and the establishment of its European digital billboards platform.
USS, the UK’s largest private pension scheme, on its investments in G.Network and Pluto Finance.
Blackstone portfolio company Draken International on the acquisition of Advent portfolio company Cobham’s UK aviation services business.

Beyond the Office

In 2024, Tom spent six months on secondment as a senior legal counsel at Hg in London, where he assisted with managing, negotiating and executing acquisitions, disposals and reinvestments and providing ongoing advice regarding portfolio company issues, management investment plans and general legal and compliance matters.

Between 2022 and 2023, Tom spent 18 months on secondment as a senior overseas practitioner at Allens, Linklaters’ alliance partner in Sydney, Australia.

In 2017, Tom spent six months on secondment as a legal counsel at Centerbridge Partners in London, where he assisted with the management, negotiation and execution of private equity, credit and real estate transactions and general legal and compliance matters.

Prior to joining the Linklaters Private Capital team in 2016, Tom also spent time working in Linklaters’ Leveraged Finance and Investment Funds practices in London and Banking and Projects practice in Singapore.

Recognition

Tom is recognised as a key lawyer for private equity transactions (high-value deals £500m+) in the Legal500.

Education, Qualifications and Languages

Tom holds a Law degree from the University of York and completed the Accelerated Legal Practice Course at the University of Law in Moorgate.

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