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I am a Partner in the UK Corporate Group of Simmons & Simmons. I specialise in private equity, special situations, international M&A and transactions with a focus on the diversified industrial sector.My transactional experience includes:- acting for Livingbridge on their investments in Simply Conveyancing, Veramed and AJM Healthcare; - acting for Baird Capital Partners on their investments in Prescient Healthcare, Bfinance, Aura Futures and JMAN; - acting for Inflexion Private Equity Partners on their investments in Prolabs, Alcumus Group and Systal; - acting for CBPE Capital on the buyout of Rodericks Dental Holdings and the carve out of OH Assist from ATOS; - acting for Endless on the acquisition of KTC Edibles and subsequent bolt-ons of Cardowan Creameries and Trilby Trading; - acting for Elaghmore on the acquisition of Formaplex; - acting for Inspirit Capital on the acquisition of Pelta Medial Supplies; - acting for H2 Equity Partners on the buyout of BA Kitchen Components and the investment in Primacy Healthcare 21 and its subsequent merger with Aquilant; - acting for Accel-KKR on its investment in one.com and on the £100m secondary buy-out of Kerridge Commercial Systems Limited; - acting for Juggernaut Capital Partners on its investment in Ceuta Healthcare Limited and for Ceuta on its pan-European acquisition strategy; - acting for Advantage Sales & Marketing on the acquisitions of REL Field Marketing, Flixmedia, Intermarketing Group and GIG Retail; - acting for Aurelius on the carve out of £2bn turnover business Office Depot Europe from Office Depot Inc; - acting for Alimentation Couche-Tard on the $2.8billion purchase of Statoil Fuel & Retail from Statoil; - acting for SPX Corporation on the £750million acquisition of Clyde Union Pumps; - acting for Siemens Energy, Inc on its joint venture with John Wood Group plc; - acting for Doncasters on the disposal of its UK fabrications business and its UK forgings business to Arlington Capital Partners, the disposal of its precision forgings business to IFA and the disposal of Paralloy to Nimbus; - acting for Apollo owned Celeros on the sale of its filtration business to Px3 Partners; - acting for Next plc on its investments in Reiss and Joules.

Listed skills include Private Equity, Mergers And Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Corporate Governance, and 6 others.