Tom Matthews
Biography
Overview
Tom Matthews is a partner in the Firm's M&A and Corporate Practice in the London Office. He has over 15 years' experience advising corporates, investment banks and private equity and hedge funds on international public and private M&A transactions, primary and secondary equity raisings and sell-downs, joint ventures and listed company advisory and corporate governance matters.
Tom also advises a number of companies, activist funds, founder shareholders and other active shareholders on their shareholder engagement campaigns and responses.
Experience
Recent experience includes acting for:
- Standard Chartered Bank as financial adviser to Medco Energi Internasional on its £408 million offer for Ophir Energy plc
- Barclays as financial adviser to Boston Scientific on its £3.3 billion offer for BTG plc
- Bright Scholar Education Holdings on its £150 million acquisition of CATS Colleges, an international school network with a platform of campuses located across the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and China
- The management of commodities trader Noble Group Limited on its successful USD$3.5billion debt-for-equity restructuring
- EN+ on its securities exchange agreement with certain subsidiaries of Swiss commodity trader Glencore
- Fleetcor Technologies on its acquisition of a UK-based software business
Recent experience before joining White & Case includes acting for:
- HarbourVest Partners on its £1 billion hostile takeover offer for SVG Capital plc
- Temasek on its acquisition of a significant minority stake in a global software logistics business
- Goldwin Inc on its acquisition of a significant minority stake in the Woolrich International sportswear business
- The Hanover Insurance Group on its sale of Chaucer to China Re
- Argenta on the sale of Syndicate 2121 at Lloyd's and the Argenta members' agency to Hannover Re
- Helios Investment Partners on its Round B investment in MallforAfrica
- Atkore (a CD&R portfolio company) on its acquisition of Flexicon
- Park Square Capital on the formation of a joint venture with Goldman Sachs and KKR as part of a restructuring of the mezzanine portfolio investment in the Northgate Group
- HarbourVest Partners on its direct co-investments into a Polish non-performing loans business and a French pharmaceuticals business
- CD&R on its acquisition of Carestream's Dental Digital business in the UK
- Oaktree in connection with its investment in an SME loans business
- A Russian asset manager in connection with its sale of a 25% stake in a UK premium listed mining company
- Polyus Gold International on its sale of a $1.4 billion stake in PJSC Polyus to Fosun International
- Johnson & Johnson on the sale of its UK intimate health business as part of the worldwide transaction
- NorthWestern Mutual on its warrant subscription and shareholders agreement in connection with an acquisition financing for CapVest Partners
United Kingdom chapter, Getting the Deal Through – Technology M&A, 2020
Trends in UK Public M&A 2019 H1, LexisNexis Market Tracker Trend Report
Trends in UK Public M&A 2018, LexisNexis Market Tracker Trend Report
