Overview
Tom is a managing associate in our Corporate practice and advises corporate and sponsor clients on a broad range of corporate M&A, equity capital markets and listing rules transactions.
He spent six months in the firm’s Hong Kong office in 2019-2020, where he advised on global corporate and investment funds transactions. Tom also spent time on secondment at Anglo American in their Legal M&A team in 2022.
Experience
Tom’s recent experience includes advising:
- CK Hutchison on the merger of Three UK and Vodafone UK, combining their respective telecommunications operations in the UK.
- Anglo American on:
- the demerger and UK listing of its platinum group metal business, Valterra Platinum;
- the defence of the c.£39bn unsolicited approach from BHP; and
- the demerger of its South African thermal coal operations and listing of Thungela Resources, and subsequent disposal of its remaining interest via an accelerated bookbuild offer.
- NatWest on the proposed retail offer by HM Treasury.
- BP on its US$5bn sale of its global aromatics and acetyls petrochemicals business to INEOS.
- Vistry Group PLC on its recommended £1.25bn cash and share offer for Countryside Partnerships PLC.
- Rothschild & Co (as sponsor) on the demerger and listing by Melrose Industries PLC of its GKN Automotive, Powder Metallurgy and Hydrogen business.
- Underwriters on the IPOs of Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Funding Circle, and the proposed IPO of London Innovation Underwriters.
- China Yangtze Power on its US$1.83 billion global offering of global depositary receipts on the Shanghai-London Stock Connect segment of the LSE.
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