Mike is a Corporate Partner in our Private Capital team, based in London.
Mike advises on a wide range of UK and cross border M&A transactions, with a particular focus on private equity.
Mike has extensive experience advising institutional investors and portfolio companies on investments and disposals across sectors including financial services, technology, business services, and healthcare.
Mike is also highly regarded for work supporting private equity backed management teams, regularly advising on buyouts and equity incentive arrangements.
Latest Insights
- legal updatesEversheds Sutherland advises H2 Equity Partners on its investment in Buttress Group
- legal updatesWe are pleased to have advised the senior management team of 7IM, a technology-driven wealth and investment manager, on their recent acquisition by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. This acquisition will help provide 7IM’s management team with access to both the capital and expertise to help execute its growth plans over the next decade.
Recent transactions include advising:
- Searchlight Capital backed Gresham House, a specialist sustainable investment manager, on its agreement to acquire SUSI Partners AG, a Switzerland headquartered investment manager focused on energy transition infrastructure
- W.W. Grainger, Inc., a leading global supplier of maintenance, repair and operating products, on the sale of its UK based Cromwell business to Aurelius, a global private equity investor
- The senior management team of Green Group AG, a Swiss based digital infrastructure platform operating hyperscale and enterprise data centres, on its acquisition by IFM Investors
- The senior management team of Beaufort (part of the Survitec Group) on the carve out and acquisition of the Beaufort aerospace and defence survival equipment business by Capitol Meridian Partners and Stellex Capital Management
- The senior management team of Aquavista Watersides & Marinas, the UK’s largest marina infrastructure provider, on its acquisition by Antin Infrastructure Partners
- Bowmark Capital on its investment into DeHavilland (now Helio Intelligence), a Bridgepoint backed political data and insight business, and advising Helio on the subsequent acquisition of Dods’ EU business
- Rinkelberg Capital on its acquisition of the Jus Rol ready to bake chilled and frozen dough business in the UK and Ireland
- H2 Equity Partners on investments into Buttress Group and Coach Travel Group
- The senior management team of Specialist Risk Group on its sale to Warburg Pincus and Temasek
- The senior management team of 7IM on its acquisition by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board
- The shareholders of TrustQuay, including pan European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital, on its sale to Hg Capital
- LGT and the management team on the disposal of Rhubarb Hospitality Collection to OVG (backed by Silver Lake), and the management team’s reinvestment