Louise Wallace

Work Highlights

Vertiq Advisers on the acquisition of Bankside, an Autograph Hotel in excess of GBP 100m

Punch Taverns acting for management on the acquisition of Punch by Fortress Investment Group

advising Logistics Capital Partners Limited on numerous transactions including its joint venture with Invesco and joint ventures with Oxford Properties in relation to the logistics centre at Heathrow and West Midlands Interchange

advising Eaton Corporation on all the EMEA aspects, over 21 jurisdictions on the disposal of its hydraulics business to Danfoss for USD 3bn

DTGO Corporation on the acquisition of Marathon’s portfolio of 17 UK Hotel portfolio for a sum not exceeding GBP 500m

Invesco on the acquisition of a leading hotel in Europe for a price in excess of EUR 120m

Lone Star on the sale of 5 Hilton Hotels to LRC

Lone Star on the sale of a portfolio of 47 hotels in the Atlas Hotels portfolio for an undisclosed sum in excess of GBP 500m to London & Regional

Advance Publications on the acquisition of Stage Entertainment on the cross Europe theatres business for an undisclosed amount in the region of EUR 1bn

LRG on the new management and franchise agreements for 65 Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn Hotels and the sale of 21 hotels to Kew Green, then owned by Goldman Sachs and TPG and the sale of a further 18 to Cerberus Investments for GBP 221m

Patron Capital on its Generator platform including the investment by Invesco and subsequent sale to Queensgate for approximately EUR 450m

Diageo on the UK aspects on the sale of its global wine business for USD 600m

Patron Capital and West Register Hotel Holdings Limited on the sale of 26 hotels to FICO Holdings Limited and Singha Estates for GBP 160m

Royal Bank of Scotland on its GBP 420m sale of its tenanted pub business to Scottish & Newcastle, a subsidiary of Heineken

Delhaize Group on the acquisition of Serbian retail Delta Maxi Group with operations in Serbia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Albania for EUR 932.5m

Royal Bank of Scotland on the acquisition and subsequent GBP 1.1bn disposal of a portfolio of 47 UK Marriott hotels

Accor on the GBP 440m sale and leaseback of 30 Hotels to Land Securities Trillium

NSB Retail Systems on its flotation on AIM, its move to the official list, various and numerous corporate acquisitions and disposals and corporate advice to include advising on its recommended takeover by Epicor Software and disposal of the UK business to BT

Gama Aviation on the matters for an acquisition and joint venture

Accenture on the acquisition of Media Audits

management and the chairman on the sale and reinvestment into Radley Group

Finsbury Food Group plc the AIM listed food producer on its joint venture with Genius Foods and subsequent disposal of its Free From business to Genius Foods Limited

the shareholders of Aurum Group, the UK’s leading luxury jewellery retailer owning Watches of Scotland, Mappin & Webb and Goldsmiths to Apollo

Camelot Group plc on very high profile matters including: ticketing for the Millennium Dome, the buy back of the shareholding of GTECH following the GTECH libel action, the sale of shares to the Post office Limited and acting for Camelot on its sale to Ontario Teachers Pension Plan

the management of Simple Health and Beauty on the sale of Simple to Alberto Cuylver for GBP 240m WT Foods on the sale of Noon Group Ltd to Kerry Foods Ltd, Bart Spices Ltd and advising Bridgepoint on the sale of WT to Grace Kennedy

Practice Areas

Louise is the Head of the CMS International Corporate/M&A Group, a global group of over 1400 Corporate lawyers throughout Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa and South America. Louise undertakes this role with co-head Malte Bruhns.

Louise has been with CMS for over 30 years working on some of the largest, cross-border international transactions which CMS undertakes. She regularly works with colleagues in our CMS offices on global mandates. Her indepth knowledge enables her to provide the highest quality, seamless service that clients value.

Louise specialises in the hotels & leisure, consumer and retail sectors, specialising in M&A and all matters of corporate advisory matters for clients.

Louise’s client relationship partners are several multi-national clients, and regularly speaks at conferences on a wide variety of sector, corporate and D&I issues.

Louise has recently been appointed as a Trustee to Look Good Feel Better Charity, a charity specialising in the physical and emotional wellbeing of cancer patients.

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