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IFLR 1000 2020

Notable practitioner: Capital markets; Equity, M&A (UK)

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Will is an experienced equity capital markets and M&A lawyer.

Will primarily advises listed companies and investment banks on equity capital markets and M&A transactions, and on all regulatory and governance issues affecting listed companies. He has experience across a wide range of sectors, but with an emphasis on advising real estate investment trusts on their IPOs, secondary fundraisings and corporate transactions.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Corporate/M&A & capital markets
Structured real estate
Equity capital markets
M&A

Sectors

Financial institutions & insurance
Life sciences & healthcare
Real estate

CV

Since 2008 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2006 - 2008 Associate, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
1999 - 2006 Associate, Ashurst
1997 - 1999 Trainee, Ashurst Morris Crisp
1999 Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales
1997 Guildford Law School
1995 Bachelors, Durham University

Career

Since 2008 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2006 - 2008 Associate, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
1999 - 2006 Associate, Ashurst
1997 - 1999 Trainee, Ashurst Morris Crisp

Education

1999 Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales
1997 Guildford Law School
1995 Bachelors, Durham University

Awards

IFLR 1000 2020

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Notable practitioner: Capital markets; Equity, M&A (UK)

Legal 500 UK 2016

Recommended individual - Legal Business

Experience

Hilton Food Group

Hilton Food Group plc on its class 1 acquisition of Icelandic SeaChill, funded by a underwritten placing and senior debt package.

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Tritax Big Box REIT plc on the GBP370m acquisition of db Symmetry

Tritax Big Box REIT on its acquisition of db Symmetry, which owns one of the UK’s largest strategic land portfolios for the development of Big Box real estate assets and related logistics facilities. The acquisition attributed an enterprise value of GBP370 million to db Symmetry.

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News Corporation and News Corp UK & Ireland

News Corporation and News Corp UK & Ireland on its recommended cash offer for talkSPORT owner Wireless Group plc for GBP220.3 million.

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Blackstone

Blackstone on a corporate disposal of an industrial warehouse portfolio.

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Intel Capital

Intel Capital on a GBP50 million block trade of shares in Imagination Technologies.

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Triple Point Social Housing REIT plc

Triple Point Social Housing REIT plc on its IPO and subsequent C share issue and move to the main market.

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