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Overview
Sophie Entwisle is an associate in the London office of Paul Hastings. Sophie has a broad range of experience advising on U.K., EU and international competition laws, including complex multijurisdictional merger control, anticompetitive conduct, competition compliance and dominance matters. She also regularly advises clients on foreign direct investment filings and the U.K.’s national security and investment regime. Sophie has advised clients across a variety of sectors, including defence, financial services, life sciences, energy, industrials, consumer goods, digital gaming and real estate.
Education
- BPP University, Legal Practice Course
- BPP University, Graduate Diploma in Law
- University of Oxford, Philosophy, Politics and Economics (BA Hons), 2016
Representations
- Numerous clients in relation to U.K. and international foreign investment filings and national security related reviews, including advising clients on potential applicability of the U.K. National Security and Investment Act to Series A and Seed Funding processes.
- Teleflex Inc, a global provider of medical technologies, on its €760 million acquisition of the vascular intervention business of Biotronik SE & Co. KG.*
- TA Associates on several matters, including:
- Together with Fortissimo, on their agreement to sell a majority stake in Priority Software, a provider of cloud business management solutions, to Blackstone.*
- On its strategic growth investment alongside Carlyle in SER, a global Intelligent Content Automation software vendor;*
- In a consortium with Stirling Square and Macquarie, on their recommended public offer to acquire Byggfakta, a provider of data, insights and software solutions for the construction industry.*
- Together with Warburg Pincus on their on their investment in Epassi, a digital payments provider for employee benefits, from Bregal Milestone and subsequent combination with the Exercite Group, a B2B fitness platform previously owned by Waterland.*
- Arlington Capital and its portfolio company BlueHalo on its $4.1 billion all-stock acquisition by AeroVironment.*
- The Telegraph Media Group and the independent directors on its board in connection with the public interest review of its proposed acquisition by Redbird IMI.*
- iRobot Corporation in its proposed acquisition by Amazon.com, Inc. for approximately $1.7 billion.*
- Thoma Bravo and its portfolio company Flexera in the acquisition of IT asset management firm Snow Software.*
- Globus Medical, a leading musculoskeletal solutions company, on its definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock transaction with NuVasive.*
- SunMed Group on its definitive agreement to acquire the respiratory health business of Avanos Medical, Inc.*
- Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers in its $7.3 billion acquisition of IAA, Inc.*
- A consortium of investors comprised of IK Partners, Keensight Capital, Parquest Capital and GIC in the signing of an exclusivity agreement regarding the acquisition of the Unither group, a European pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization.*
- Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC on its acquisition of Student Roost, the U.K.’s third largest purpose-built student accommodation provider.*
- Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC in the £388 million acquisition of four purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) assets and one build-to-rent (BTR) asset from Downing.*
- SHV Energy N.V. in its joint venture with UGI Corporation to advance production and use of Renewable Dimethyl Ether (rDME), a low-carbon sustainable liquid gas, to accelerate renewable solutions for the LPG industry.
Matters may have been completed before joining Paul Hastings