Tom Gavin

Overview

Tom is a Managing Associate in the M&A team in London, with over a decade of experience advising financial sponsors on public and private M&A, co-investments and joint-ventures, structured equity investments, reorganisations, refinancings, management investment plans and portfolio company issues.

Work highlights

Tom’s experience includes advising:

• Warburg Pincus on its minority equity investment in United Trust Bank, valuing the business at approximately £520m.
• TPG on the consortium arrangements relating to the acquisition of the Techem Group from Partners Group, CDPQ and OTPP, valuing the business at approximately €6.6bn.
• 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 for €375m.
• 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.

Education and Qualifications

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