Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP
Client SatisfactionSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP is trusted by major financial institutions, new market entrants and investors to handle a range of work, including major acquisitions, series fundings and corporate reorganisations. Practice head Simon Toms counts cross-border public and private M&A work and joint ventures among his practice strengths. Joseph Kamyar, who joined from A&O Shearman in October 2023, is active across mandates such as exits, fundraisings and governance matters. Danny Tricot, Bruce Embley and Richard Youle are further names to note.
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Key clients
- Convera
- Visa
- Hg
- Telegram Group Inc.
- BlockFi
- Sage plc
- Citi Ventures
- Reward Gateway and Castik Capital
- MTN Group
- Trustquay
- Enoda
- Silver Lake Partners
- Permira
- HQLAx Consortium
- Valar Ventures
- Qiwi plc
Work highlights
- Advised Visa Inc. in its $1bn acquisition of Pismo, a cloud-native issuer processing and core banking platform.
- Advised Goldfinch Partners and the Baupost Group on the $910m acquisition of Western Union Business Solutions, which successfully closed in July.
- Advising a consortium of investors (comprising Goldman Sachs, Citi, JP Morgan, BNP Paribas, BNY Mellon and Deutsche Boerse) on their participation in a Series C funding round into HQLAx, a distributed ledger platform for securities trading.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Simon Toms