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Georgie is a Partner and UK & EMEA International Business Reorganisations Leader.
England - London • Corporate and commercial
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PwC LLP fields a large international business reorganisations team, with Georgie Blyth and Cynthia Chan at the helm. It is well versed in carve-outs, separations, spin-offs and post-deal integrations for high-profile domestic and international clients. Blyth is recommended for cross-border restructurings and compliance, and Chan has 25 years’ experience of advising FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies on global reorganisations. Kevin King is a name for restructuring and transactional matters in the financial services sector, and Latika Sharma is a key name for IP matters relating to international reorganisations. Laura Freestone is qualified in Scotland and is experienced in debt and share restructurings, and cross-border M&A, while Harry Wilkins deals with pre-deal carve-outs and post-deal integrations. Rebecca Boyers often acts for US and Asian clients on cross-border reorganisations and rationalisations. In April 2022, Jessica Bell joined as senior manager from Baker McKenzie and in May, Keith Bottomley left for an in-house role.
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Testimonials
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- 'International reach combined with local expertise and integration with other PwC advisory services.'
- 'The team are able to grasp difficult concepts from multiple jurisdictions and work through how they interact, presenting a single coherent position to the client, providing clarity and guidance in often very short time frames.'
- 'Georgie Blythe heads up the team that I work with and is outstanding. He is responsive, very down to earth and just a pleasure to work with.'
- 'It's an impressively diverse team, led by strong partners, highly responsive and with excellent technical knowledge.'
- 'The ability to draw on skills from the wider firm's tax, regulatory and finance expertise is a real plus.'
- 'Laura Freestone - practical, sharp and with comprehensive technical knowledge. Efficient and easy to deal with.'
- 'Have the ability to pull together complex multinational transactions with strong coordination between lawyers and tax specialists.'
- 'Georgie Blyth and Rebecca Boyers have a very good understanding of the structure of our complex business and work in a practical way to resolve issues.'
Key clients
- Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance CO., LTD
- Brookfield Asset Management
- ESAB Corporation
- Honeywell International Inc.
- Hyve Group plc
- Light & Wonder, Inc
- Livent Corporation
- Mott MacDonald Group Limited
- Punch Tavern Limited
- Resideo Technologies, Inc.
- TD SYNNEX Corporation
- Tesco Plc
- The Blackstone Group
Work highlights
- Appointed as lead EMEA corporate restructuring legal advisers for Honeywell International, advising on numerous international business reorganisation projects and related matters.
- Acting for US-listed company Light & Wonder on a range of cross-border and international corporate legal transactions.
- Designed and implemented an innovative market-leading legal entity rationalisation solution for Punch Tavern.
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Cynthia is a Corporate partner in PwC’s international business reorganisations team in the UK. She has dual-qualifications in England and Wales and Hong Kong. Since joining PwC in 2001, she has led a significant number of cross-border corporate reorganisaton projects for US multinational corporations and FTSE 100 groups, often working alongside other specialists in tax and accounting on such projects.She has acted for clients across a wide range of industries ranging from manufacturing, technology, pharmaceuticals, health care, retail, financial services, property development; more recently, Cynthia has been working with a number of financial services groups on their Brexit-related reorganisations.In addition to acting on general intra group reorganisations and refinancings, Cynthia has a special focus on deal related structuring helping groups to carve out pre deal and integrate post deal. She has significant experience in acting for clients in this area. She has also worked on multiple legal entity rationalisation programmes alongside the specialists in Tax, Accounting and PMO, to help her clients rationalise their entity structure and create cost savings.Cynthia heads up the China Business Group at Legal in PwC and has worked with a significant number of Chinese clients in investing and setting up in the UK, including Bank of Communications, GF Securities, China Publishing and China Shipping.Cynthia and her team have been ranked Tier 1 by Legal 500 in International Business Reorganisations, and Cynthia is one of the Leading Individuals in this category.
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Laura is a Director and corporate lawyer (qualified in Scotland) in PwC’s International Business Reorganisations legal practice. Laura specialises in strategic global corporate reorganisation projects for international groups. Laura has recently acted on a number of highly technical projects, including those requiring cross-border merger and/or Societas Europaea for Brexit related restructuring projects.Laura joined PwC in 2010 from Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP, where she was a member of the corporate team in London, specialising in M&A and AIM listed work. Laura spent three years (2012 - 2015) on secondment to PwC’s corporate team in Sydney, Australia.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Georgie Blyth, Cynthia Chan