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Laurence
Levy
Partner
Education
Cambridge University, M.A. (Hons), 1983
Practice
Laurence Levy is co-head of the Corporate Group of the London office of Shearman & Sterling. He has more than 20 years’ experience advising on corporate finance transactions and other corporate matters, including public and private company mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, restructurings, privatisations, equity capital markets and general corporate advisory work. He is cited as a Leading Lawyer in IFLR1000 (2011) and is also cited in Legal Experts and The Legal 500 UK 2011.
Experience
- Tata Steel on its $469 million sale of Teesside Cast Products to Sahaviriya Steel Industries of Thailand and related joint venture to operate Redcar Wharf
- Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corp on its 50:50 joint venture with BSkyB to set up and operate a 24-hour Arabic language news and current affairs channel under the Sky News brand across MENA
- New England Sports Ventures on its acquisition of Liverpool Football Club
- African Barrick Gold plc on its £2.3 billion IPO on the main market of the London Stock Exchange
- Senior agent and senior lenders represented by a senior steering committee made up of Royal Bank of Scotland, GE Commercial Finance, Erste Group Bank, Raiffeisen Bank, K&H and led by the coordinator, Unicredit Bank AG, on the financial restructuring of European chemicals producer BorsodChem
- Vector Capital on its takeover of Trafficmaster plc
- Aabar Investments on Aabar’s and Daimler’s acquisition of a 75.1% stake in Brawn GP, winner of the 2009 Formula 1 constructors’ and drivers’ championships
- Qatar Investment Authority on its participation in the £1 billion recapitalisation of Songbird Estates plc, the majority owner of Canary Wharf Group plc
- AngloGold Ashanti Ltd on its joint acquisition with Randgold Resources Ltd of Canadian listed company, Moto Goldmines Ltd, for $568 million
- International Petroleum Investment Company on its disposal of a 13.5% stake in Barclays PLC and of £1.25 billion of Reserve Capital Investments of Barclays Bank PLC
- Scandent on the acquisition by Xchanging plc of a 75% stake in Indian listed company, Cambridge Solutions Ltd
- International Petroleum Investment Company on its £3.25 billion participation in the £7 billion capital raising of Barclays PLC
- A leading international private equity firm on the proposed sale by Myriad International Holdings and Teletypos Cyprus of NetMed and Intervision, the Greek and Cypriot pay-TV operations of Naspers Group
- Abu Dhabi United Group on the acquisition of Manchester City Football Club
- Credit Suisse Group and other institutions as majority equity owners in the restructuring of the Danoptra Gaming Group
- Deutsche Bank AG, Merrill Lynch International and UBS Limited on the £1.2 billion offer by a private equity consortium for Biffa plc
- Merrill Lynch International and UBS Limited on the £4.9 billion offer by Standard Life for Resolution plc
- Borsa Italiana S.p.A. on the £1.1 billion offer by London Stock Exchange Group plc
- Credit Suisse International, ABN AMRO and Eos Partners as majority investors in the restructuring of the Ethel Austin Retail Group
- Corus Group plc on the £6.7 billion recommended revised cash acquisition by Tata Steel
- Institutional investors in the £503 million consortium offer for Peermont Global Ltd of South Africa
- Drax Group plc on its £2 billion listing on the London Stock Exchange, which followed a complex capital restructuring and a dual-track M&A process
- Stelmar Shipping Ltd on its merger with Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc.
- A financial consortium on the possible acquisition of ABB’s structured finance division
- AXA on the £3.4bn takeover of Guardian Royal Exchange
- Dah Sing Bank on the sale of part of its interest in Hongkong Industrial and Commercial Bank to The People’s Construction Bank of China
Bar Admissions/Qualifications
England and Wales
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