Gillian specialises in corporate finance work, in particular, public mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and primary and secondary offerings.
Credentials
- Tata Motors on its acquisition through a competitive auction process of the Jaguar and Land Rover businesses from Ford
- Pearson on its US$950 million acquisition of the Harcourt Education and Assessment businesses of Reed Elsevier
- British American Tobacco on its Rule 9 whitewash and related arrangements
- BAA on its £15.6 billion takeover offer from Ferrovial
- QinetiQ Group on its £0.7 billion IPO on the London Stock Exchange
- RAC on its recommended takeover by Aviva for £1.1 billion
- Lazard on its US$800 million IPO
- Brascan Corporation on its unrecommended £1.6 billion offer for Canary Wharf Group plc
- EMI Group in relation to the proposed purchase of Time Warner's music business
- Invensys in relation to the sale of non-core divisions
- Harsco Corporation on its unrecommended offer for SGB Group plc
- Morgan Stanley on its recommended offer for Acorn Group plc
- Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley on the IPO of Burberry Group
- Deutsche Bank on the IPO of nCipher plc