Tim Lake is highly regarded for his extensive transactional mergers and acquisitions and private equity experience, acting for corporate, institutional and private clients across Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the US. He regularly acts for founder shareholders, large corporate vendors/purchasers, private equity and debt funders/institutions and management teams on a wide range of domestic and cross-border corporate transactions. Tim is Head of the Corporate Team in Birmingham, the UK Head of Industrials and Global Co-chair of DLA Piper's Manufacturing Sub-sector. His main areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, disposals, management buyouts, secondary buyouts, development capital investments, exits and corporate reorganisations/restructurings/refinancings. Tim advises global corporates including Alstom; Altrad; BorgWarner; Bridgestone; Bromford Industries; CoreLogic; GKN; H&M; Hill & Smith; Huber + Suhner; Jaguar Land Rover; Kelda Group; KTM; Lotus Bakeries; MKS Instruments; Mondelez; National Grid; Norton Motorcycles; Sertec Corporation; Swissport; Suez Water Technologies & Solutions and Watkin Jones Group and international institutions including Barclays Bank; LDC; Livingbridge; Lloyds Bank; NFT Ventures; Permira; Sovereign Capital Partners; The Royal Bank of Scotland and Vespa Capital.Personal work highlights include advising:• MKS Instruments on its US$6.5 billion multi-jurisdictional acquisition of Atotech;• the founder shareholders of Carnell Support Services Group on the disposal to Renew Holdings; • the institutional shareholders of Stadco Automotive on the £80m plus disposal to Magna;• the management shareholders of Veritas Petroleum Services on the £144m buy-out by Fremman Capital;• the management shareholders on the disposal of Bromford Holdings to Bromford Acquisitions backed by Liberty Hall Capital Partners;• the founder shareholders of Leeson Chemicals on the disposal to ICP Building Solutions Group backed by Audax Private Equity;• the founder shareholders on the disposal of Adam Equipment to Indutrade;• Sovereign Capital Partners and the management shareholders on the £250m plus disposal of Outcomes First Group to SSCP Spring Bidco backed by Sterling Square Capital Partners;• Tattershall Castle Group on the £100m plus disposal of its business and assets to Stonegate Pub Company backed by TDR Capital;• the founder shareholders on the disposal of the Newell Palmer Group to Ascot Lloyd backed by Oaktree Capital.