Mergers and Acquisitions

Work Highlights

Our team has advised the following:

• MacLellan Group Plc (one of the UK's leading facilities providers) on its £120m recommended acquisition by Interserve Plc.
• ISC Entertainment Inc, an Antigua based owner of a number of casino and sportsbook domain names, in relation to the sale of its gaming site marketing business to Sportingbet Plc, one of the world's leading online betting and gaming groups for an initial US$33m - paid half in cash and half in shares in Sportingbet Plc and up to US$6m by way of earn out.
• Refined Holdings Limited on their acquisition of Kuwait Petroleum (G.B) Limited from Kuwait Petroleum (U.K Holdings) Limited, constituting the UK retail filling stations and the associated on-site retail services and direct fuels operation of Kuwait Petroleum. This acquisition, from an auction sale by the vendors, saw the Firm's M&A, commercial, employment, banking and property groups working closely together on this substantial transaction.
• One of the selling shareholders in the £400m sale of the leading cinema chain, the Odeon Group to Terra Firma, having also acted on the acquisition from Cinven the previous year.
• Godrej Consumer Products Limited, one of India's most rapidly growing Fast Moving Consumer Goods companies, on its acquisition of 100% ownership of Keyline Brands Limited.
• Earls Court & Olympia Group on the £55m acquisition of the business and assets of The Brewery, Chiswell Street.
• UBM Limited in the £47.5m sale of their entire issued share capital to XKO Group Plc.
• Pace Petroleum Limited, one of the UK's largest independent forecourt operators, fuel distributors and dealer networks, on the acquisition of up to 60 service stations as assets and property from Texaco Limited.