Malcolm Lombers
Malcolm's practice extends across a wide variety of corporate, corporate finance and M&A work, with significant experience of contested public bids, consortium bids and break up transactions, as well as structuring and restructuring international partnerships and LLP transactions (including the conversion of Herbert Smith to LLP status). He is a former Secretary of the City of London Law Society's Company Law Sub-Committee and a member of the Auditing Practices Board Investment Circulars Sub-Committee.
Credentials
- Greg Coffey on his move from GLG
- TNS on WPP’s £1.1bn offer for TNS
- Credit Suisse as financial adviser to Aon on its £844 million bid for Benfield, the Bermuda reinsurance group
- Halliburton on its £1.8 billion contested bid for Expro
- Fortune Brands on the £4.5 billion auction of Vin & Sprit (maker of Absolut vodka) by the Kingdom of Sweden
- Resolution Life on its proposed £8.6 billion merger with Friends Provident; competing £4.9 billion bid, subsequently recommended, by a consortium of Standard Life and Swiss Re and competing £5 billion bid, subsequently recommended, by a consortium of Pearl and Royal London
- Hammonds on its restructuring and conversion to LLP
- UBS on the £4.2 billion consortium acquisition of Southern Water
- Lehman Brothers as financial adviser to Eurotunnel on the restructuring of its €9 billion debt and equity swap
- Qatar Investment Authority and UBS Infrastructure Funds Management on their £8 billion consortium bid for RWE Thames Water
- Tata Steel on its contested £6.2 billion takeover of Corus and subsequent refinancing
- Fortune Brands on its participation in the £7.4 billion contested consortium bid with Pernod Ricard and break up of Allied Domecq
- Carnival Corporation on its contested $6.8 billion dual listed company combination with P&O Princess Cruises plc and partial share offer
- Selling shareholders on the £125 million disposal of the Prebon Group to Collins Stewart Tullet
- awg on its £1.8 billion restructuring and return of cash to shareholders
- the establishment of PricewaterhouseCoopers and on various transactions, including its acquisition of Andersen's Hong Kong and China operations
- PwC Consulting on the separation of the worldwide management consulting business, aborted IPO and subsequent $3.5 billion sale to IBM
- London Stock Exchange on its demutualisation; proposed merger with Deutsche Börse; and on its successful defence of the bid by OM Gruppen
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