M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m

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Nick is a partner in the corporate department, where his practice focuses on cross-border M&A, predominantly in the commodities, energy/natural resources, IPMT and general engineering sectors. Visit our website for more: https://www.mwe.com/people/azis-nicholas/

Partner, Head of Japan Desk. Nigel is a senior corporate lawyer with extensive experience and a deep cultural knowledge of Japan and Japanese business. Focusing on a broad range of work including acquisitions, disposals, investments, joint ventures, restructuring and general corporate, Nigel advises a wide range of leading Japanese corporates across multiple sectors and geographies.  He is fluent in Japanese and maintains a wide ranging and extensive network of contacts both in the UK and Japan.

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Partner and Head of Corporate. Karen Hendy is an insightful and pragmatic Partner and leads RPC's Corporate practice. Regularly acting for both public (listed) and privately held companies, Karen supports clients undertaking a broad range of corporate transactions, including public and private M&A, and equity capital markets work. She also provides advice on corporate law and governance issues. Karen has particular expertise in the retail sector. Karen was also featured in The Lawyer Hot 100 list for 2018. Karen has been recognised as Leading Individual for Retail and Consumer by The Legal 500 UK (2021).

Partner, CorporateAs a partner in our International Corporate Group based in London, I head up the International Capital Markets Practice across the firm.I coordinate the capital markets practice worldwide and facilitate teams in the various offices where we have capital markets lawyers, to work closely together, share know how and look out for opportunities for each other and clients.My own securities practice involves acting for institutions and issuers in respect of listings in London and elsewhere. I have extensive experience advising clients in a variety of sectors, with a particular emphasis on energy and utilities and technology and communications.

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Kevin is a Partner and Chair of the Corporate department. With over 20 years' experience in M&A and private equity, he has built a strong reputation in both UK and international transactional work.  Kevin's clients include business owners, equity investors, family offices, corporates and management teams. His practice spans a wide range of sectors including technology/software; hospitality & retail; sport & leisure; media & entertainment and financial services. On joining the Firm in 2005 Kevin established the Firm's Private Equity Group and guided it to its current position as a leading, mid-market, management advisory practice. The Legal 500 identifies Kevin as a leading Private Equity lawyer, describing him as "responsive, very capable and solution focused". Clients look to Kevin for strategic counsel and tactical input on a wide range of commercial and legal matters including transaction negotiations and related disputes. Much of his activity is international in its nature, in relation to which he has particular experience in the Asia Pacific and South East Asia regions. He advises overseas clients on UK matters as well as UK parties on their international investment strategy and activity. Kevin is a Notary Public and also currently sits as a director of Union Chapel, a leading live events organisation which funds and supports associated social and charitable programmes.

Corporate partner at Addleshaw Goddard LLP in London. Nick specialises in private and public M&A and other corporate transactional work, such as joint ventures and reorganisations.

Specialises in domestic and international M&A transactions and reorganisations for both public and private companies with a particular focus on both the financial services, telecoms and retail and consumer sectors. Chris s main clients include RBS, Diageo, AIG, Kajima and British American Tobacco. Jointly responsible for leading Addleshaw Goddard s Africa initiative with specific responsibility for East Africa.

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Isabella is a partner in the corporate group in London. She has experience in a wide range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and public and private fundraisings, including in particular advising funds and asset managers on infrastructure investments. Recent work includes: advising Caisse de d��pôt et placement du Québec on its £644m acquisition of a 25% interest in the London Array, the largest offshore wind farm in the world, from Dong Energy; advising Veolia Water UK plc on its £1.2bn disposal of its UK regulated water business to Rift Acquisitions, a company formed by the Infracapital and Morgan Stanley infrastructure funds; advising Gottex Fund Management Holdings Limited on its US$1.9bn IPO on SWX Swiss Exchange; and advising Telefónica O2 on its £1.9bn disposal of Airwave, the UK’s emergency telecommunications provider, to two Macquarie infrastructure funds; advising CFIG on the co-investment arrangements in relation to KKR’s acquisition of Cambridge and South Staffs Water.

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Corporate partner at Addleshaw Goddard LLP in London.

Stephanie is a Managing Associate in the firm’s Corporate group. She specialises in M&A, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and fundraisings. Her particular expertise is in complex cross-border M&A.

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