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Lee Harris

Principal Associate

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Lee is a principal associate in our corporate group, based in London. He works closely with our global network of offices to deliver strategic and complex M&A projects for our clients.

As a member of our Health and Life Sciences sector group, Lee has a particular focus on advising health and life sciences business alongside his broader focus on cross-border M&A.  Lee has further deepened his understanding of international M&A strategy by spending time seconded in-house to both a FTSE 250 international business and also to a global commodities merchant based in Switzerland.

Examples of Lee’s successes include:

  • Advising Owens & Minor, Inc on the strategic disposal of the global Movianto business to EHDH Holding Group;
  • Advising the shareholders of Albumedix on the sale of the business to Sartorius for c.£415million;
  • Acting on a global reorganisation of a major pharmaceuticals company across twenty jurisdictions;
  • Advising a Listed HCIT provider on a multijurisdictional acquisition of a laboratory information management services group;
  • Advising the shareholders of the Southern Dental group on their sale to Jacobs;
  • Advising Johnson Matthey plc on various strategic M&A matters;
  • Acting on the recommended £504million takeover of Lookers plc by Global Auto Holdings by way of scheme of arrangement; and
  • Advising the sellers on the £687m sale of John Guest group to Reliance Worldwide Corporation. 
 

Examples of Lee's recent successes include:

  • advising the family sellers on the £687m sale of their global plumbing business to an Australian listed corporate
  • supporting one of the world's largest commodities merchants on the sale of its pan-African fertilizers and inputs business to private equity
  • advising a private equity house on the lifetime of their investment in a UK based tech consulting business, from the buyout and subsequent bolt on acquisitions/portfolio management to eventual 9-figure exit and record returns for the house
  • advising the shareholders of a UK industrials business on a significant investment by one of the World's largest privately-held US businesses, valuing the investee group at >US$1.5bn
  • supporting a leading engineering and construction groups on its formation and acquisition of a majority stake in a $340m substation technology JV
  • acting on the divestment by a listed aviation services provider of its aircraft servicing and refueling business for $202m in a transaction spanning jurisdictions including the USA, the UK and Asia
  • advising a consortium of investment funds on their £423million acquisition of three UK onshore and offshore wind farms from an energy and services company, being the first transaction of this nature in the UK
  • First-class BA (Hons) in English Literature, University of Newcastle, 2004 - 2007
  • Graduate Diploma in Law, Nottingham Law School, 2007 - 2008
  • LLB (Hons), Nottingham Law School, 2007 - 2009
Lee Harris

Principal Associate

Lee Harris

Principal Associate

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