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Stephen Nash

Partner

Steve is a Partner in the Corporate group in our London office and Head of our UK PLC Advisory Team.

Steve is a Partner in the Corporate group in our London office and Head of our UK PLC Advisory Team. He advises corporate clients and investment banks on corporate finance transactions, principally mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies, and on IPOs and secondary fundraisings, as well as advising listed companies on their ongoing regulatory obligations and corporate governance matters.

Steve spent two years on secondment at the Takeover Panel early in his career where he advised on numerous high-profile offers both recommended and hostile. In addition to advising bidders, targets and investment banks on public company takeovers and other transactions subject to the Takeover Code, he now regularly presents and writes articles on the subject of public company takeovers in the UK and sits on the ICAEW corporate finance faculty committee which reviews proposed amendments to the Takeover Code.

Steve's recent experience includes acting for:

  • Apollo Group on its £304 million acquisition of BPP Holdings plc
  • Dimension Data Holdings plc on its takeover by NTT for £2.1 billion
  • Greencore on its £113 million takeover of Uniq and associated £80 million rights issue
  • Greene King on its takeover of Capital Pubs for £70 million
  • JLT on the £166 million partial offer from Jardine Matheson
  • Sulzer AG on its takeover of Castle Support Services plc for £127 million
  • Waterlogic plc on its AIM IPO, raising £45 million and valuing Waterlogic at £112 million
  • May Gurney on the competing offers from Costain Group and Kier Group, valuing May Gurney at £221 million
  • Daisy Group on its £165 million acquisition of Alternative Networks plc
  • Daisy Group on its £494 million take private
  • Empire Cinemas on the disposal of five cinemas to Cineworld for £100 million
  • Waterlogic on its £122 million take private
  • Lakehouse Group plc on its Main Market IPO raising £60m and valuing Lakehouse at £140m
  • Teledyne Technologies, Inc. on its £620 million acquisition of e2v technologies plc
  • Altrad Investment Authority S.A.S. on its £330 million acquisition of Cape plc
  • IntegraFin Holdings plc on its Main Market IPO raising £178 million and valuing IntegraFin at £650 million
  • Dairy Crest Group plc on its £975m acquisition by Saputo Inc.
  • Altrad Investment Authority S.A.S. on its acquisition of RMD Kwikform from Interserve Group Limited
  • Ranked in Chambers UK 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
  • LL.B Law University College London 1994
Stephen Nash

Partner

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