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Mayer Brown LLP

Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million

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Mayer Brown LLP

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Mayer Brown’s M&A practice is among the largest and most sophisticated in the world, with extensive experience advising clients on a variety of complex, cross-border and high-profile strategic transactions. We offer an integrated global team poised to support the international needs of our clients:

  • We have more than 300 Corporate/M&A lawyers across the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.​
  • Many of our M&A lawyers’ practices involve providing cross-border advice on regional or global transactions—they are as comfortable advising on cross-border deals as they are on single-jurisdiction transactions.
  • Our broad geographic coverage enables us to manage many of our M&A engagements (including local due diligence support) with lawyers from our offices around the globe.

Our firm has participated in M&A transactions worldwide in virtually every industry, and we have extensive experience managing transatlantic, Asia-Pacific, pan-European and global transactions.

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Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million - London (Firms)

Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Mayer Brown regularly works with well-known names from the media, chemicals, energy, healthcare and real estate arenas. Its areas of expertise include acquisitions, joint ventures and take-private transactions. Mayer Brown offers considerable skill in cross-border matters, with particular strength in deals involving North America and Asia.

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Work Highlights

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  • Mayer Brown advised Unilever on its acquisition of Wild.

Strengths

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  • Mayer Brown provided us with strong senior level support. There is consistently a strong service orientation with quick responses and clear expectation management.

    Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million respondentUK

  • Mayer Brown has experts for almost every matter. They are definitely outstanding in terms of the responsiveness and level of service we receive.

    Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million respondentUK

  • Mayer Brown provides a very efficient service that is tailored to our exact needs. Mayer Brown goes above and beyond to give us what we need in the way we want it.

    Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million respondentUK

Notable Practitioners

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  • Richard Page
    Richard Page

    Richard Page

    Richard Page ably handles complex M&A, joint ventures and private equity deals as part of a broader transactional offering. His clients operate across many industry sectors, including technology and real estate.

    • Richard Page is thoughtful in his approach and is very good at working through all of the 'what-ifs' that you need to consider when putting together deals.

      Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million respondentUK

    • Richard is a deeply thoughtful and experienced lawyer.

      Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million respondentUK
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  • Kate Ball-Dodd
    Kate Ball-Dodd

    Kate Ball-Dodd

    Kate Ball-Dodd has a strong practice advising a broad range of clients, including quoted companies and financial intermediaries. She is routinely engaged on equity fund raisings, joint ventures, corporate finance mandates and mergers and acquisitions.

    • Kate is an experienced and competent partner.

      Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million respondentUK

    • Kate Ball-Dodd is very good.

      Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million respondentUK

    • Kate is a superstar. She is full of energy and drive to plough through, no matter what came up along the journey. Kate is very smart and spot on with her advice. Kate gets deals done.

      Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million respondentUK

    • Kate is a fantastic lawyer.

      Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million respondentUK
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