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Mayer Brown International LLP

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Operating across various sectors, the ‘super-efficient, unflappable’ and ’great’ lawyers at Mayer Brown International LLP have experience handling a range of M&A transactions including asset and share sales and purchases, joint ventures and leveraged buyouts. Heading up the practice is the ‘responsive, creative, solution focused and very commercial,’ Kate Ball-Dodd, who is regularly engaged by public companies and financial intermediaries for corporate governance, transactional, listing rules and Takeover Code expertise, and Perry Yam, who works with investors, management teams and investee companies. Corporate finance and transactional lawyer Richard Page and Rebecca Bothamley, who focuses on cross-border M&A and equity capital market transactions, are also recommended.

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Testimonials

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  • 'Kate Ball-Dodd is very responsive, creative, solution focused and very commercial.'
  • 'The firm strives to have a fundamental understanding of your business and how it operates. This makes for a much better relationship and avoids unnecessary advice.'
  • 'As a cohort, the team I have dealt with are all super-efficient, unflappable and a pleasure to deal with. They are great lawyers while remaining human.'

Key clients

  • ARM Limited
  • The British Land Company plc
  • Klesch Group
  • Unilever plc
  • Mitie Group plc
  • Shearwater Group
  • M3 Capital Partners/Evergreen Extra MSA
  • VAALCO Energy, Inc,
  • Beazley plc
  • PETRONAS

Work highlights

  • Advised VAALCO Energy, an independent energy company, in its $307million stock-for-stock strategic business combination with TransGlobe Energy Corporation.
  • Advised Petronas on a proposed sale of assets in South Sudan for $1.25 billion.
  • Advised British Landon on the sale of a 75%  interest in its Paddington Central assets to Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC for £694 million, representing a gross asset value of £936 million.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Kate Ball-Dodd

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Kate Ball-Dodd has a wide-ranging corporate practice that encompasses corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions (including public takeovers), equity fund raisings, joint ventures, and corporate governance. She advises a number of quoted companies and financial intermediaries on the UKLA Listing Rules and Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the Prospectus Rules, the AIM Rules, the Takeover Code and general company law. Kate speaks regularly at external conferences on corporate governance and takeovers.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Kate Ball-Dodd

Other key lawyers

Perry Yam, Richard Page, Rebecca Bothamley