Overview
Ellie is a corporate managing associate within the London corporate practice with experience in a variety of sectors including telecoms, infrastructure, healthcare and consumer. Ellie has worked on complex cross-border M&A transactions, IPOs and advises clients on corporate governance and reorganisations. She also spent seven months on client secondment to the corporate legal team at Unilever PLC.
Experience
- Macquarie: advising on the sale of its leading Meter Asset Provider platform OnStream to Igneo Infrastructure Partners.
- Sanofi: advising on its acquisition of Vicebio for up to US$1.6bn, a biotechnology company developing an early stage combination vaccine for respiratory diseases.
- Unilever PLC: advising on the creation, separation and demerger of Unilever's global ice cream business and listings of The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. on Euronext Amsterdam, the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
- Macquarie: advising on its £900m acquisition of SP Smart Meter Assets Limited (Iberdrola’s smart metering business in the UK) from Scottish Power.
- Navig8 Limited: advising on the sale of its $1.3bn shipping business to ADNOC L&S.
- AUB Group Limited: advising on the acquisition of the Tysers insurance business from Odyssey Investment Partners for £600m.
- Vistry Group PLC: advising on its £1.25bn recommended cash and share offer for Countryside Partnerships PLC.
- HSBC: advising on the sale of HSBC Bank Canada to the Royal Bank of Canada for CA$15bn.
- Unilever PLC: advising on the sale of its €4.5bn tea business to CVC Capital Partners.
- Wise plc: advising on its £8bn direct listing onto the London Stock Exchange.
Education, Qualifications and Languages
Ellie graduated from the University of Bristol with First Class Honours in History.
Ellie obtained distinctions in her Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course from the University of Law.