Simmons & Simmons

Corporate.

Arthur is head of the firm’s UK private equity group in London. He focuses on transactions in a range of industry sectors often with a significant international or cross-border element. He has extensive experience in representing UK and international private equity sponsors and other financial institutions, corporations and investment banks on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial agreements, securities offerings and corporate restructurings. His recent work includes advising Veolia Water UK plc on the £1.2bn disposal of its UK regulated water business to Rift Acquisitions, a company formed by the Infra Capital and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Funds; Intertrust Group Holding S.A. on the acquisition of Close Brothers’ Cayman Island operations and on its acquisition of Walkers Management Services; Credit Agricole on the proposed internal reorganisation and merger of the UK regulated brokerage business of CA Cheuvreux and CLSA and Anacap Financial Partners on the merger of Apex Credit Management with Cabot Financial; the related corporate reorganisation and refinancing of Apex and Veolia Water UK plc in relation to the sale of certain PFI interests in a competitive auction and Henderson and Gartmore on the sale of Gartmore’s retained stake in Hermes Private Equity to Hermes.

Qualified 1995; Ashurst for six years; international counsel Debevoise and Plimpton, London (played a significant part in developing their London-based private equity and M&A practice); secondments to Merrill Lynch, Royal & Sun Alliance and IBM; private equity partner Simmons & Simmons 2006.