Karla is a senior lawyer in our London Mergers & Acquisitions practice. She has undertaken a wide range of corporate work including public and private mergers and acquisitions, public fundraisings, joint ventures, restructurings and re-financings.

She regularly works for multinationals on cross border transactions.

• Ingredion on its public takeover of PureCircle.*
• The British Council on the sale of its IELTS business in India to IDP Education.*
• Barclays on its acquisition (subject to regulatory approval) of Kensington Mortgage Company Limited, Kensington Mortgage Services Limited and a portfolio of UK mortgages.*
• For a specialist lender in wind-down on the sale of its UK first charge and second charge mortgage portfolio (approx. £500m) to a challenger bank.*
• PerkinElmer Inc. on its takeovers of Oxford Immunotec Global plc, Horizon Discovery Group plc and Immunodiagnostic Systems Holdings plc.*
• Ford Credit Europe on the sale of Forso Nordic AB, its Nordic captive auto finance business to Santander.*
• Ford Credit Europe on its exit from the provision of retail auto financing in 12 European jurisdictions and entry into forward co-operation agreements with BNPP, Santander, Bank Now and UniCredit.*
• ExxonMobil on the sale of its North Sea assets to Apache North Sea Ltd.*
• Citi Infrastructure Investors on its acquisition of a majority stake in DP World’s Australian shipping terminal operator business.*
• West of England P&I Club on its investment in Astaara (a Guernsey insurance services business).*
• Mylan N.V. on their sale of a portfolio of European pharmaceutical products to Actavis Group PTC ehf (part of the Teva group).*
• Listed UK financial services company on the auction disposal of a significant underwriting subsidiary.*
• Lynwood Investments on the sale of the retail bookseller business, Waterstones, to a Bidco Elliott Advisers UK Private Equity Fund.*
• Barclays on the divestment (by way of auction) of three separate mortgage and loan portfolios in Italy: a salary secured loan portfolio; a SME secured loans and mortgages portfolio; and an unsecured personal loans, credit cards and overdraft facilities portfolio.*
• Canaccord Genuity (as nomad and financial adviser) on the AIM IPO of GBGI Limited (an insurance distributor and underwriter).*
• Lloyds Banking Group and Scottish Widows on the acquisition of Zurich's UK workplace pensions and savings business.*
• Paysafe on its EUR1.1bn acquisition of Skrill, £450m rights issue and step-up to the main market.*

*Denotes prior firm experience