Skadden, 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 and Richard Youle are further names to note.
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Auszeichnungen

Mandantenzufriedenheit

Kernmandanten

  • Convera
  • Visa
  • Hg
  • Telegram Group Inc.
  • BlockFi
  • Sage plc
  • Citi Ventures
  • Reward Gateway and Castik Capital
  • MTN Group
  • Trustquay

Highlight-Mandate

  • 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.

Anwält*innen

Praxisleitung

Simon Toms

Weitere Kernanwält*innen

Joseph Kamyar; Danny Tricot; Richard Youle