Robert Hamill Email & Phone Number

I am a partner in Mayer Brown's London office focusing on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. I have particular experience acting for listed companies and their boards pursuing "buy and build" strategies across various industry sectors including energy, petro chemicals/downstream, mining, industrials and TMT. Recent experience includes advising:Energy• Eland Oil & Gas plc on its recommended all cash acquisition by Seplat Petroleum for £382million to be effected by means of a Scheme of Arrangement under Companies Act 2006• North Sea oil & gas operator ATP Oil & Gas (UK) Limited on its $1.2billion restructuring by way of a UK Insolvency Act creditors voluntary arrangement and subsequent $133million sale (authorised by the United States Bankruptcy Court (Texas Division)) to Alpha Petroleum (UK) Holdings Limited• Genel Energy on its $4.2billion merger with Vallares plc to create a FTSE 250 upstream oil & gas company operating in Kurdistan (northern Iraq)Petro Chemicals / downstream• Velocys plc on c£130million of placings to fund the ongoing developments of its technology for advanced renewable fuel plants in the UK and US• BP on the $4.5billion development and project financing of two ethane cracker plants in Saudi Arabia• BP on the sale of various downstream businesses to CINVen for $425millionMining• Toro Gold, the privately held gold producer with its main asset in Senegal, on the sale of its entire share capital to Resolute Mining for cUS$300million• Sumitomo Mines & Metals (in consortium with Sumitomo Corporation) on the acquisition of a 30% stake in the Quebrada Blanco phase 2 Copper development in Chile for US$1.2billion• listing in London of Wolf Minerals Limited, the developer of a tungsten and tin project in Devon, UKIndustrials• Melrose plc on the sale of its Brush Traction UK rail services businesses to NYSE listed Wabtec Corporation• Midland Resources Holding on the acquisition of the Jordan Formula 1 Grand Prix team• Royal Bank on the merger of Ambion Brick with CINVen's Chelwood Brick TMT• Entertainment One on its proposed acquisition by Hasbro Inc. for cUS$4billion• Entertainment One on the acquisition of Audio Networks for £178million including a £130million equity placing underwritten by JP Morgan• Marwyn Neptune Fund on the acquisition of the Entertainment One Group (a listed Canadian income fund) and its subsequent full listing in London and various acquisitions • Village Roadshow on the development and sale of Village Entertainment Park, the largest cinema/retail park in Greece