Corporate and M&A

Eversheds Sutherland’s global Corporate and M&A practice advises a range of clients, from some of the world’s largest corporations to growing and start-up businesses. Our team can advise you on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), initial public offerings (IPOs), takeovers, private equity, venture capital, debt and equity issues, fund formation, corporate reorganization, corporate governance and company secretarial. Our recent experience includes advising:

• a multinational, multi-industry specialty solutions company on the sale of its US-based nutrition and biosciences business to a global flavors, fragrances, and cosmetic manufacturer for $26bn
• shareholders of a leading global contract research organization on the £15bn sale of the company to an American scientific instrumentation supplier
• a Canadian insurance firm on the sale, by reinsurance, of its US individual life insurance and annuity business to a US financial services company for consideration of approximately $1 billion
• an American multinational food processing and commodities trading corporation on an agribusiness joint venture with a Singaporean food processing company
• a British multinational financial services and asset management company on its £162 million joint venture with one of the UK's most active privately owned developers
• a UK based sports fashion retailer on its £171m AIM IPO
• the management on the £900m IPO of a specialty chemicals company
• a leading Real Estate Investment Trust on its £25m IPO and over £500m of subsequent fundraisings
• a Swedish-American automotive safety supplier on the reorganization of two of its business segments to create a new global electronics brand
• one of the UK's leading investment platforms on a complex pre-IPO share capital reorganization involving shareholders in multiple jurisdictions (including the UK, US, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, France, the Channel Islands and Italy)