Alan Burke is a corporate Partner in the firm’s London office. Alan has a wide range of experience in corporate transactions, including international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, reorganisations and restructurings, representing public and private corporations, governments and banks.

Examples of recent representations include:

• Assisting PetroSaudi International and its subsidiaries on the purchase of the drillship "Neptune Discoverer" from the Neptune group of companies and the related assignment to PetroSaudi of a drilling contract with Petroleós de Venezuela SA, for a total consideration of US $150m;
• Assisting in the representation of the En+ group in connection with a US $750m syndicated corporate financing;
• Acting for the Tiberina Group in relation to its acquisition of Wagon Automotive Spol s.r.o. (Czech Republic) and its strategic partnership and investment in Wagon Automotive Nagold GmbH (Germany);
• Advising Nordea Bank in relation to the sale through a controlled auction process of its institutional global custody business to JPMorgan;
• Acting for Fidelity on the sale of a financial services and IT consultancy business;
• Representing International Power and Endesa in relation to the formation of the joint venture, ElecGas SA, to develop a combined-cycle gas fired power project in Portugal;
• Acting for Intergum, the largest manufacturer of chewing gum in Turkey, in its sale to Cadbury Schweppes for US $450m;
• Acting for Deutsche Bank in relation to the €530m public to private financing for the acquisition of Richmond Foods plc, which was listed on the London Stock Exchange;
• Representing Nordea Bank on the sale of its holding in ZAO International Moscow Bank for US $395m and the US $313.7m acquisition of Russian bank Orgresbank;
• Acting for Weather Investments SpA in its acquisition of Greek mobile operator TIM Hellas Telecommunications SA, a deal worth €3.4 billion;
• Acting for Deutsche Börse on an acquisition and joint venture in the UK;
• Advising a multinational pharmaceutical company on its acquisition of a target in Asia;
• Acting for PetroKazakhstan as purchaser of significant oil and gas interests in Kazakhstan;
• Representing Medex Petroleum Limited on the US $230m auction sale of oil interests in Tunisia;
• Acting for a leading German bank on a major group restructuring;
• Acting for ABB on a management buy-out of one of its UK divisions; and
• Advising a major US fund on an international joint venture in the financial services sector.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, 1999

Education
LPC, College of Law, London, 1997
LLM, University College Dublin, Hons, 1996
Bachelor of Civil Law, University College Dublin, Hons, 1994

Awards and Recognition
Alan is highly rated as a deal executioner in the latest edition of The Legal 500 directory for legal services

Languages
English

Citizenship
Ireland