Vedder Price

Finance & Transactions

Partner

Mr. Harris focuses on private equity and private M&A transactions. He has considerable experience in share and asset purchases, disposals/exits, MBOs, MBIs, buy and builds, joint ventures and restructurings and acts for private equity firms, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals, as well as portfolio companies, other corporates and management teams.

Mr. Harris has been “highly rated” by Legal 500 UK in “Private Equity: Transactions” from 2017 to 2019, and was recognised as a leading practitioner in Chambers UK, who comment that he receives “effusive praise” for his “deft touch in negotiations” and that he is “extremely talented, thoughtful and knowledgeable.”

A number of the transactions where Mr. Harris was lead adviser have been recognised, over many years, by being awarded or nominated for industry accolades. The latest of these is the disposal of QA by EMK Capital and Bregal Capital to CVC which won the Real Deals “Grand Prix Deal of the Year 2018” and “UK Mid-Cap Deal of the Year 2018.”

Prior to joining Vedder Price, Mr. Harris served as London Managing Partner and a private equity and M&A partner at an Am Law 100 firm in London and as the EMEA Head of Private Equity at a Top 10 global law firm.

Queens' College, University of Cambridge, M.A., (Honors, First Class)