Adam Levitt

Adam Levitt is a corporate lawyer with wide experience of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, re-organisations and demutualisations. He has particular expertise advising clients in the financial services industry.

Credentials

• The Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland on its €3.5 billion recapitalisation involving the Irish State
• Bradford & Bingley throughout its recent fundraising: including its original rights issue, restructured rights issue with investment by TPG, Resolution's alternative fundraising proposal and TPG's withdrawal and enlarged rights issue; and then on its nationalisation and the related transfer of its savings business and branches to Abbey National
• Bank of Ireland on its internal reorganisation, involving a transfer of the banking business from Bristol & West
• Viridian Group on its £1.62 billion recommended takeover offer from Bahrain-based private equity firm Arcapita Bank
• Friends Provident on the ground-breaking £380 million securitisation of a book of life business by Friends Provident Life and Pensions
• Canada Life on its acquisition from Phoenix (a Resolution group company) of a £2.1 billion book of annuities in payment, by way of reinsurance, together with a related security, followed by an insurance business transfer scheme
• Pool Re, the Government backed mutual reinsurer, on the restructuring of its terrorism cover