Caroline Goodall

Consultant

London

e: caroline.goodall@herbertsmith.com
t: +44 20 7466 2147

Caroline Goodall

Caroline's practice spans a broad range of corporate work with a particular emphasis on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. She has been involved, as adviser to both companies and to investment banks, in numerous takeovers, international mergers and acquisitions, international share issues, initial public offerings, flotations, rights issues and placings. She has also advised on a number of cross-border transactions and complicated international joint ventures as well as providing strategic advice to company boards on corporate governance issues. She has also acted as an adviser to HM Government.

Caroline advises Herbert Smith's mergers & acquisitions practice having previously led the corporate division for five years.

Caroline has for many years been recommended by Chambers UK Directory as a leading lawyer for corporate finance (larger deals) and by Chambers Europe and Global as a leading lawyer for Corporate/M&A.

Caroline is a member of the Law Society's Company Law Committee and has been involved in that capacity in discussions with the Department of Trade and Industry in relation to the drafting and implementation of the Companies Act 2006. Caroline is also a member of the CBI Companies Committee.

From 2005 to 2008, Caroline has also been an Associate Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and a member of the College's Governing Body.

Credentials

  • Grupo Ferrovial on its £448 million acquisition of Swissport from Candover
  • Her Majesty's Government on the £48 billion nuclear clean-up programme
  • Her Majesty's Government on the commercialisation of the Post Office and on on-going issues in relation to Royal Mail including its debt and equity refinancing and restructuring in 2007
  • HP Bulmer on the £278 million recommended takeover by Scottish & Newcastle
  • BSkyB on its £800 million IPO and subsequent £560 million secondary offering of shares and on its US$800 million Guaranteed Debt Securities Programme
  • Allied Colloids on contested hostile bids from Hercules Inc (£1.2 billion) and Ciba Speciality Chemicals (£1.4 billion)
  • Friends Provident on its £774 million offer for London and Manchester Group
  • BSkyB on its £623 million offer for Manchester United
  • Koninklijke Hoogovens in connection with its £3 billion merger with British Steel plc to create Corus
  • Standard Life on the £771 million secondary offering of its holding in Bank of Scotland
  • Lazard Brothers & Co, financial adviser to Electra Investment , on a £1.25 billion hostile bid for Electra by 3i Group and alternative proposals by Electra for a share buy-back and related restructuring
  • numerous sales and purchases and joint ventures for a number of corporate clients including Arrow Electronics, Pilkington, HP Bulmer and Danone
  • numerous corporate finance deals for various investment banks including Credit Suisse, Citigroup, Salomon Smith Barney, UBS, Lazards, DLJ, DKB and Lehman

 

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