Corporate/M&A: £5 million and above

gunnercooke's Corporate team comprises 54 senior lawyers advising on a range of corporate and M&A matters, including some of the largest in the North West.

Type of work handled:

• ​Contingency planning
• Debt restructuring
• Distressed financing and rescheduling
• Distressed company acquisitions and sales
• Formal insolvency procedures
• Insolvency litigation

Work highlights:

• Advising Dansk Supermarket Group in respect of the sale of the Netto UK to Wal-Mart for £778 million
• Advising Northern Foods plc on the disposal of its speciality breads, cakes, chilled pastry and flour milling businesses to a French private equity house for £160 million
• Advising a major European retail and investment bank on disposals and restructurings of its private equity investments in various UK retailers and manufacturing companies and disposals of its holdings in private equity funds
• Advising a consortium of Kuwaiti investors on their equity and subordinated debt investment in a holding company formed to acquire a portfolio of student accommodation assets from administrators and funded using a c. £200 million bond listed on the Dublin Stock Exchange
• Advising Euro Media Group on the acquisition of Telegenic, a major player in the UK and European Outside Broadcasting Market
• Providing ongoing M&A advice to an IT systems business.