About
Provided by Mishcon de Reya LLP
Corporate act for both public and private companies and institutional investors, with a particular strength in acting for sources of wealth - entrepreneurial/business owners, HNW/UHNWI, private equity and family offices. The work we do is bespoke, focussing on the space where business, corporate and private affairs collide.
We work across a broad range of sectors, advising on matters including company sales and purchases; recommended takeovers; private equity transactions and restructurings. Some of our recent experience includes:
- Advising online gambling operator JPJ Group plc on the completion of its c. £490m acquisition of Reunited Target Newco Limited, the holding company of the Gamesys group.
- Advising DraftKings on its three-way business combination with SBTech and Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp. resulting in a combined entity with in excess of $3billion market capitalisation.
- Advising Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc, a subsidiary of Sompo Holdings, on the sale of its specialist UK insurance subsidiary Sompo Canopius to private equity firm Centerbridge Partners for $952m.
- Advising Capital & Counties Properties on the sale of the Empress State Building for £250m to The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.
- Advising Hydra Industries Acquisition Corporation (now known as Inspired Entertainment Inc.) on the £200m acquisition of London based Inspired Gaming Group and its affiliates from funds managed by Vitruvian Partners LLP and its co-investors.
