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Overview
Mark Zerdin is a London-based partner in Paul Hastings’ M&A practice.
Mark advises on a wide range of transactions for sports teams, sporting regulatory bodies, corporates, private equity clients and family offices. His principal areas of work are public takeovers, private acquisitions and disposals, private equity investment and joint ventures. He also has extensive experience of internal investigations and whistleblowing matters.
Accolades
- Corporate (including M&A), Chambers UK
- Corporate and Regulatory, The Lawyer’s The Hot 100
Education
- Brasenose College, Oxford, Jurisprudence (1993)
Representations
- The Football Association Premier League Limited in respect of various high-profile and complex matters arising out of the application of the Premier League Rules
- TWG Motorsports and General Motors on their successful application to compete in the FIA Formula One World Championship under the name of Cadillac Formula 1 Team
- Investors and potential investors in a number of Premier League and Championship clubs
- A large U.S. sports governing body on corporate transactions and strategic issues
- Liverpool Football Club on its sale to New England Sports Ventures
- A large multinational commodity trading and mining company on various M&A transactions across Latin America and Africa
- The founders of one of the world’s leading AI companies on various corporate, governance and strategic issues
- A leading university-linked venture fund on various governance matters
- A U.S. private equity investor on the sale of a large portfolio of care homes to a U.S.-listed REIT
- Ladbrokes on its merger with Gala Coral
- Frieze on its strategic partnership with WME/IMG
- Copersucar on an agreement with Cargill to combine their global sugar trading activities into a new 50:50 joint venture that will originate, commercialize and trade raw and white sugar
- The Westfield Group on its plans to develop one of Europe’s largest shopping malls in Milan
Matters may have been handled prior to joining Paul Hastings.