Oliver Currall

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Oliver Currall co-heads Sidley’s Tax group in Europe. Oliver advises on UK and international tax planning, with a particular focus on UK and cross-border private equity and M&A transactions, fund formation work and restructuring mandates. Oliver has advised a number of major private equity sponsors on the tax aspects of their deals, as well as on the structuring of their fund, management company and executive carry and co-invest arrangements.

Oliver is a UK Chartered Tax Adviser, as well as a lawyer, and regularly works with local experts to deliver cross-border transaction and structuring tax advice.

Recent representative matters for current clients include acting for:

• Apollo on its agreement to acquire Miller Homes, one of the UK’s leading homebuilders.

• EQT Private Equity and its portfolio company PRO Unlimited on its acquisition of Geometric Result from Bain Capital.

• TowerBrook Capital Partners on its investment in Stonebridge Companies

• KKR on its majority acquisition of Biosynth Carbosynth, a Swiss life sciences reagents and custom synthesis and manufacturing services company.

• Partners Group, a leading global private markets firm, on expanding the shareholder base of International Schools Partnership, a leading international group of K-12 schools.

• EQT Private Equity in the merger of its portfolio company, FocusVision, with Confirmit, a portfolio company of Verdane, and subsequent sale of the combined business.

• Queen’s Park Equity LLP on its debut private equity fund, Queen’s Park Equity Partners I, L.P.

• Synthesis Capital on its debut fund, focused on food technology.

• KKR on its acquisition of Argenta, a leading animal pharmaceutical research and manufacturing company.

• GIC in connection with a US$1.0 billion investment in Convex Group Limited led by GIC and Onex Partners.

• Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company on its acquisition of a shareholding in Rothesay Life.

• TowerBrook Capital Partners in its sale of and re-investment in Independent Clinical Services Group to Onex Corporation.

• TowerBrook Capital Partners on the acquisition of the Azzurri Group.