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Anthony McGurk
Work Department
Corporate.
Position
A partner in the corporate practice, Anthony specialises in M&A, private equity and fundraising work, acting primarily for public companies, private and owner-managed businesses, and management teams of private equity-backed businesses, with a particular focus on the food and drink sector. Transactions in recent years in which Anthony has led the relevant legal teams include the £1.4bn sale of Weetabix to US based Post Holdings (acting for management), the acquisition by US based Factset Research Systems Inc of Cymba Technologies Limited and of Vemilion Holdings Limited, the sale of Sentec Limited to US based Sensus Inc, the sale of Avro Holdings Limited to Faerch Plast Manufacturing Limited, the sale of JDR Cables to Tele-Fonika Kable (acting for management), and the acquisition by Canadian based Richardson International of European Oat Millers.
Career
Trained and qualified with Eversheds 1987-89; becoming a partner in 1995; Head of corporate in Eversheds Cambridge 2005-11; joined Mills & Reeve as a partner 2011.
Education
Downside School; University of Hull LLB (Hons), Law Society Finals (Hons) 1st Class.
Leisure
Memberships of MCC, the Gog Magog golf club, RFU (Twickenham Debenture holder), Cambridge Rugby club, Norwich City Football club.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge
(Hall of Fame)Mills & Reeve LLP has a deep bench of lawyers in its Cambridge corporate M&A practice, which frequently handles high-value regional and national transactions. Head of corporate Tom Pickthorn
, head of commercial Kevin Calder and head of life sciences James Fry oversee ‘a very strong practice, with excellent depth of understanding of UK Corporate law, and great ability to distill it down to a practical approach‘. Private equity partner Anthony McGurk ‘has a very good sense of market practice‘. Claire Clarke has particular expertise in education work and formation of investment funds, and Jonathan Greenwood focuses on mid-market M&A and PE investment. Senior associate Charlotte Bull also plays a key role in the team.
Lawyer Rankings
- Corporate and commercial: Cambridge East Anglia > Corporate and commercial
- Hall of Fame East Anglia > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Norwich
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Family
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Employment > Immigration
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Employment > Pensions
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector