DLA Piper‘s international corporate reorganisations group advises a range of multinational clients on large reorganisations and restructurings, including pre-merger structuring, significant carve-outs, spin-offs, and internal corporate reorganisations/rationalisations. The team is headed by Ben Forgiel-Jenkins whose practice covers a range of international transactions, including M&A, joint ventures, equity issuances in addition to international reorganisations. Promoted to the partnership in May 2024, Anna Lewis frequently advises on reorganization planning and implementation projects. With experience in corporate, commercial and tax, Clare McLaren is well-versed in business transfers, mergers, distributions, and capital reductions.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- ‘Strong subject matter expertise with global presence for cross-border transactions. Strong project management capability.’
‘Quiet professionalism, attention to detail, fore-thought, organization, patience, clarity of explanation and incredibly calm (and calming!) demeanor has been second to none.’
Key clients
- BASF
- The General Electric Company (GE)
Work highlights
- Acted as Global Coordinating Counsel for General Electric Company in the historic separation of its health care business and subsequent launch of GE HealthCare Technologies Inc.
- Acting as Global Coordinating counsel for the General Electric Company in the separation of is portfolio of Energy businesses and the subsequent spin-off of the portfolio as an independently listed company (trading under the GE Vernova brand).