Overview
Chris is a UK corporate tax specialist with emphasis on advising corporates, financial institutions and financial sponsors on public and private M&A, joint ventures, financing transactions and restructuring transactions across a broad range of sectors.
Work Highlights
Chris has advised on many substantial transactions including:
M&A
- CK Hutchison on the proposed merger of Three UK and Vodafone UK and the disposal of its European telecommunications tower assets to Cellnex
- CK Infrastructure on the disposal of a 25% interest in Northumbria Water to KKR
- bp on the US$5bn disposal of its petrochemicals business to Ineos and on the acquisition of the remaining 50.03% of Lightsource bp
- Rio Tinto on its defence of the £97bn hostile takeover offer by BHP Billiton
- the consortium of Kinetic and Globalvia on the recommended offer for The Go-Ahead Group plc
- Carlyle Group on its public to private takeover of Harwood Wealth Management
- TDR Capital on its €4.3 billion disposal of Modulaire to Brookfield
- GIC and Greystar on the acquisition of Student Roost, the UK’s third largest purpose-built student accommodation provider
Financing transactions
- IPOs and listings of Alphawave, Dr. Martens and Moonpig and rights issues by Mitie, Marks & Spencer and The Restaurant Group
- Rio Tinto on its $15.2bn rights issue, the first rights issue by a company with dual listed company structure
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