Areas of expertise
Recent work
Jack has a broad international corporate practice advising corporate clients and private capital sponsors on both domestic and international transactions. He specialises in acquisitions and disposals, public takeovers and mergers, joint ventures and equity capital markets. He also advises clients on shareholder activism, corporate governance and disclosure obligations.
Highlights include advising:
- GSK on various matters including:
- its buyout of Novartis’ interest in their consumer healthcare joint venture
- the creation of its consumer healthcare joint venture with Pfizer
- the sale of its Thermacare business to Angelini S.p.A.
- the sale of its shares in Haleon, the listed consumer healthcare business demerged from GSK
- Nationwide Building Society on its £2.9 billion acquisition of Virgin Money UK PLC
- Nucleus Financial Platforms together with HPS Investment Partners as major shareholder of Nucleus on the acquisition of Curtis Bank Group PLC
- HPS Investment Partners on its acquisition of Falko Regional Aircraft
- BlackRock and KRR on the disposal of their interests in the ADNOC Oil Pipelines project
- Ocean Wilsons on the disposal of its majority stake in its Brazilian listed subsidiary, Wilsons Sons S.A.
- Rolls-Royce on various matters, including the creation of a joint venture, Rolls-Royce SMR Limited, to develop small modular nuclear reactors
- Ultra Electronics on its £2.6 billion takeover offer by Cobham
- Multiple clients on capital markets transactions, including Accsys Technologies and Young & Co’s Brewery on equity placings and Barratt Redrow, Rolls-Royce, IAG, OSB and Rotork on share buyback programmes