Richard Porter is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice.

He advises on a wide range of cross-border corporate transactions, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity issues and restructurings. He is also a member of Shearman & Sterling's Technology, Media & Telecommunications, Energy and Private Capital industry groups.

• Chipita S.A. on the sale of its business to Mondelēz International, Inc. for approximately $2 billion.
• Canada Pension Plan Investment Board on its Series C investment in 10x Future Technologies Holdings Limited.
• Fenway Sports Group, LLC (FSG) on the investment in FSG by RedBird Capital Partners, valuing FSG at $7.35 billion.
• ViacomCBS on the $500 million sale of CNET Media Group to Red Ventures.
• CVC Capital Partners Fund VII on its investment in Skroutz, Greece's leading e-commerce platform.
• SS&C Technologies on its acquisition of Capita's life insurance and pensions servicing business in Ireland.
• Intercontinental Exchange on its partnership with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and nine of the world’s largest energy traders to establish ICE Futures Abu Dhabi, a new Murban oil exchange.
• AlbaCore Capital on its arrangements with TDR Capital for the £1.9 billion takeover of BCA Marketplace plc.
• Marlin Equity Partners on the acquisition of Wax Digital and its merger with Medius (a Marlin portfolio company).
• Discovery, Inc. on its agreement with BBC Studios to separate their 50/50 UKTV joint venture following which the parties hold UKTV's former lifestyle and entertainment businesses respectively.
• GE on the $3.25 billion sale of its Distributed Power business to Advent International.
• Liberty Global plc on the sale of its European assets to Vodafone for $22.7 billion.
• Liberty Global plc on its split-off of Liberty Latin America Ltd., with an enterprise value of approximately $9.3 billion.
• Etraveli AB, a portfolio company of CVC Capital Partners Fund VI, on its acquisition of e-Travel SA.
• CVC Capital Partners Fund VI on its acquisition of Metropolitan Hospital Group.
• IFM Investors on its acquisition of a minority stake in VTTI B.V.
• Attica Bank S.A. on the sale of its non-performing loan portfolio to Aldridge EDC Specialty Finance.
• The Dow Chemical Company on its intra-group reorganization in connection with its merger with DuPont.
• Viacom on its $345 million acquisition of Televisión Federal S.A. from Telefónica S.A.
• Investcorp International Limited on its £300 million sale of the Tyrrells group to Amplify Snack Brands, Inc.
• Liberty Global plc on the takeover of Cable & Wireless Communications plc at an enterprise value of $8.2 billion.
• Irish Residential Properties REIT plc on its €215 Million Capital Raise.
• Fairfax on its £1.2 billion takeover of Brit plc.
• Qatar Investment Authority on its £2.6 billion takeover of Songbird Estates plc and the follow-on £4.1 billion takeover of Canary Wharf Group plc.
• Citi Holdings on the sale of various mortgage portfolios by Future Mortgages Limited and Canada Square Operations Limited and on the sale of Future Mortgages Limited.
• GE on various potential acquisitions in the oil & gas sector.
• Hague & London Oil B.V. on its share for share exchange with Wessex Exploration PLC.
• Vitruvian Partners LP on its acquisition of a majority stake in JAC Group (Holdings) Limited.
• ICE Benchmark Administration Limited on the acquisition of the ISDAFIX Benchmark from International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.
• IntercontinentalExchange and Euronext on their intra-group reorganization and €1.3 Billion Initial Public Offering of Euronext.
• IntercontinentalExchange on various internal corporate matters.
• Viacom on its £450 million acquisition of Channel 5 Broadcasting.
• Intuit Inc. on its acquisition of Acrede Technology Group Holdings Limited.
• New England Sports Ventures on its acquisition of Liverpool Football Club.
• 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.
• Aabar Investments PJSC on its $280 million acquisition of a 32% stake in Galactic Ventures, LLC, the holding company of the world’s first commercial spaceline, Virgin Galactic.
• Symphony Technology Group on its purchase of the Bernard Hodes business in the UK.
• Irish Residential Properties REIT plc on its €200 Million Initial Public Offering.
• Morgan Stanley Private Equity on the disposal of its majority stake in Zenith Vehicle Contracts Limited.
• Electra Private Equity on its £150 million acquisition of a majority stake in Hotter Shoes.
• Investcorp International Limited on its £100 million acquisition of a majority stake in Tyrrells Group Holdings Limited.
• Barry Callebaut AG on its $950 million acquisition of the cocoa ingredients business of Petra Foods Limited.
• American Sugar Refining, Inc. on its investment in Belize Sugar Industries Limited.
• Lecta S.A. on its corporate reorganization and €670 million refinancing.
• Lecta S.A. on its €45 million acquisition of PaperlinX's Italian Operations.
• BE Aerospace, Inc on its $398 million acquisition of UFC Aerospace Corp.
• Bakkavör on its £350 million high yield bond offering and £380 million senior credit facility.
• Towergate Finance Plc on its £520 million bond offering and £410 million loan facilities.
• Advent International on the financing of the acquisition of The Priory Group from The Royal Bank of Scotland plc.
• Stanhope Plc on its joint acquisition, with private equity firm Benson Elliot Capital Management, of a majority interest in Reading's Station Hill development project.
• Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corp on its 50:50 joint venture with Sky to set up and operate a 24-hour Arabic language news and current affairs channel under the Sky News brand across the MENA region.
• BE Aerospace, Inc on its $162 million acquisition of Satair A/S's OEM distribution business.
• Vector Capital on its takeover of Trafficmaster plc.
• Citigroup Global Markets Limited, HSBC Bank plc, ING N.V., London Branch and Lloyds TSB Bank plc as mandated lead arrangers on the financing of the Care UK group, comprising a £80 million senior secured revolving credit facility and £250 million senior secured notes.
• BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole and Merrill Lynch International as joint bookrunners, and a syndicate of banks as managers on the issue by CDP Financial Inc. of its €750 million 3.50 percent fixed rate guaranteed notes due June 2020 guaranteed by The Caisse de dépôt et placement de Québec.
• The underwriters (led by HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.) on HSBC Bank plc’s global offering of $4.2 billion bonds.
• Banco Santander (Brazil) on English law in its issuance of $500 million 4.5% notes due 2015.
• China Development Bank and Bank of China as lenders to the $1 billion Salalah Independent Water and Power Project in Oman.
• Scandent Holdings on the acquisition by Xchanging plc of a 75% stake in Indian-listed Cambridge Solutions Limited, in which Scandent is the largest shareholder.
• ICE Clear Europe on the setting up of its credit default swap (CDS) clearing service, one of the first European CDS clearing houses.

Awards & Accolades

• Recommended by Legal 500 UK  in M&A: Upper Mid-Market and Premium deals, £250m+
• Recommended by Legal 500 UK  in Private Equity: Transactions