Anton Goldstein

Practice Areas

Anton Goldstein is a Partner in the Corporate department in the British Virgin Islands office of Conyers Dill & Pearman. Anton joined Conyers in 2009 and became a partner in 2013.

Anton has a broad corporate practice with particular expertise in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity, capital markets and corporate finance. He consistently advises on the largest and most prominent transactions in the BVI and is recognised as one of the leading M&A and capital markets lawyers in the jurisdiction.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

British Virgin Islands, Solicitor, 2009

England & Wales, Solicitor, 2005 (not currently practising)

Work Highlights

Anton has extended his long-standing track record of advising on the largest and most prominent deals in the BVI. In particular, Anton advised Marwyn Acquisition Company II Limited on the launch of its £500 million placing programme, the US$2 billion business combination between Perimeter Solutions and EverArc, the US$575 million acquisition of Finaro by Shift4, and advised AdvancedAdvT Limited (formerly Marwyn Acquisition Company I Limited) on its proposed US$364 million acquisition of M&C Saatchi.

In past years, Anton has worked on a series of high-profile transactions, including:

• the US$55 billion sale of TNK-BP to Rosneft (believed to be the largest BVI private M&A transaction of all time)

• the US$2 billion Fix Price IPO (the largest ever BVI IPO)

• DSV’s US$1.35 billion acquisition of UTi Worldwide (the third largest BVI public M&A transaction of all time)

• the initial public offering of Lenta (which created the largest publicly listed BVI company)

• the initial US$2 billion initial public offering of Despegar on the New York Stock Exchange

• the US$1.4 billion business combination of Burger King and Justice Holdings

• the US$3.4 billion sale of General Electric’s water business

• the US$1 billion investment by ChemChina in Mercuria

• the US$600 million acquisition of Airports Worldwide by Vinci

• the US$3.8 billion refinancing by Premier Oil

• the £237 million refinancing of Camden Market, and

• the take privates of OpenTV, MDM Engineering and Rio Verde Minerals