Recent highlights include advising:

• Astorg, a leading European private equity firm with over €8 billion of assets under management, on the acquisition of a significant minority stake in Acturis Group, a leading supplier of insurance software, from Summit Partners;
• Cabot Financial, a market-leading acquirer and manager of consumer debt, on the acquisitions of Hillesden Securities Limited, Orbit Debt Collection Limited, and Wescot Credit Services Limited;
• COSCO, the Chinese shipping and port company, on the acquisition of a 67% stake in Piraeus Port as part of the Hellenic Republic's high profile privatisation programme in a transaction valued in excess of US$1 billion; 
• Dong-A Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a leading Korean pharmaceutical company, on the English law aspects of its long-term strategic collaboration partnership with Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd (Meiji), a Japanese pharmaceutical company, with respect to biosimilars;
• Haitong International Securities Group, on its recommended cash acquisition of Tokyo-listed Japaninvest Group PLC, which was effected by means of a UK Scheme of Arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006;
• iSmash, the UK's leading tech repair specialists, on a number of equity fundraising rounds;
• Iwoca, a provider of working capital to small businesses, on a number of equity fundraising rounds and on a number of private bond placements;
• Management on the US$480 million sale of Xtralis International Holdings Limited to Honeywell Inc.
• Monaco Telecom International on the €260 million acquisition of MTN Cyprus Limited, a leading Cypriot mobile phone operator;
• Monaco Telecom on the €250 million acquisition of Vodafone Malta from Vodafone Group;
• NJJ Capital, on the €322 million acquisition of a controlling stake in Monaco Telecom from Cable and Wireless Communications;
• NJJ Telecom Europe on the €3.2 billion acquisition of eir, the leading Irish telecommunications company, and the associated co-investment arrangements entered into between NJJ, Iliad SA, Anchorage Capital, and Davidson Kemper;
• Salt Mobile SA, on the CHF 0.8 billion (€0.7 billion) sale of a 90% equity interest in the company owning Salt’s passive mobile infrastructure in Switzerland to Spanish tower operator Cellnex Telecom SA.;
• Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., on its US$310 million acquisition of the handset connectivity and location development operations from London-listed Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited and the related subscription by Samsung for a 4.9% equity stake in CSR plc;
• Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., on its acquisition of Nanoradio AB, a Swedish developer of ultra-low-power Wireless LAN chipsets for high-speed wireless access in mobile phones;
• Shuanghui International Holdings Limited, the owner of China’s largest publicly-traded meat processing enterprise, in a US$7.1 billion agreement to acquire Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE: SFD), the largest U.S. publicly-traded pork processor and hog producer;
• SICP Investments SPC, on its investments into Magma Global Limited, M-Flow Technologies, Central American Resources Limited, Woodserv Energy Services, and Sendero Drilling Company LLC;
• SilverTree Equity on its acquisition of Agility CIS, a New Zealand based provider of utility customer information and billing systems software for energy retailers;
• Singha, on the acquisition of a 50% stake in Valensina Holding, a leading German fruit juice company;
• SPIE SA, on its acquisitions of Electricity Network Solutions and Scotshield Limited;
• Starwood Capital, on the acquisitions of The Town House Collection Holdings Limited, owner of the Bonham Hotel (Edinburgh) and Blythswood Square Hotel (Glasgow); and
• Strategic Industrial Capital Partners, on the establishment of SICP Investments SPC, an investment platform established as a Cayman segregated portfolio company which provides growth capital to energy companies.

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• Trustee, Ireland Funds Great Britain