Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• English
• French
• German

Lawyer Overview

Leon Ferera advises companies involved in a wide range of industries on M&A transactions. His experience includes acquisitions, disposals, private equity transactions, joint ventures, and equity subscriptions. He also has experience on capital markets transactions.

Representative transactions on which he has advised include: the sale by Procter & Gamble of its European tissue and paper towel business, the takeover offer for Viridian Plc, the contested takeover offer for domnick hunter group, Harsco Corporation's acquisition of the Northern hemisphere steel mills services business of Brambles, and various transactions for WL Ross and Co. and France Telecom.

Leon has particular experience in public takeovers, having been seconded for two years to the U.K.'s Takeover Panel Executive. During his time there he was responsible for regulating many takeovers of U.K. public companies, including the competitive dual listed holding company proposals relating to P&O Princess Cruises; the unsolicited offers for Bryant Group, Beazer Group, Esporta, and JAZZ FM; the offer by E.ON (U.K.) for Powergen undertaken by way of a scheme of arrangement; the offers for Harvey Nichols Group and LIFFE (Holdings); and various MBOs and take privates, including Lynx Group, Delancey Estates, Dewhirst Group, and Dixon Motors. While at the Panel he was secretary to the Code Committee, the body responsible for considering amendments to the Takeover Code.

Areas of Practice

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A
• Capital Markets

Representative Cases

• Aberdeen Property Investment and Management Business Acquisition
• Acquisition by Angus Newco Limited
• Acquisition by Galliford Try
• Acquisition by TMN Group
• Acquisition of Altrix Healthcare
• Acquisition of Coats
• Acquisition of Collins & Aikman's European Operations
• Acquisition of Hitchens Global
• Acquisition of Jarvis Hotels
• Acquisition of Steel Mill Services Business
• Acquisition of Technical Absorbents
• Admission of Mineral Securities Limited to trading on AIM
• Convertible Loan
• Disposal of the Johnston Engineering Group of Companies
• Infrastructure Acquisition Financing
• Joint Venture with PPF , (2009)
• Mandatory Tender Offer for Enneurope
• Merger with Reno De Medici , (2007)
• Merger with Tribeca Property Holdings
• Merger with Wagon Plc
• Offer by ElectricInvest for Viridian
• Offer by ElectricInvest for Viridian
• Offer for Coutts Holdings
• Placing of Ordinary Shares
• Rights Issue , (2009)
• Sale of European tissue and towel business
• Sale to CopperCo Limited
• Tender Offer
• Tender offer by Parker Hannifin
• Tender Offer for Johnston Group
• Tender offer for Xenova
• The Two Cities Challenge , (2008)

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Joint Ventures, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Trade Associations

Bar Admissions

• Law Society of England and Wales

Education

• College Law - London

Published Works

• Comment la crise financeière affecte-t-elle les contrats de fusions-acquisitions?, Tribune Capital Finance, 2009
• Scheming to get around the Takeover Code: does it work? The Court decision upholding the Takeover Code timetable in the contested takeover for Expro International Group PLC, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, 2008
• Takeover Offers for English Companies With U.S. Shareholders: Some Considerations for Bidders, 2007
• Some Differences in Law and Practice Between U.K. and U.S. Stock Purchase Agreements, 2007
• How committed is a 'Committed Facility'? – issues to look out for when reviewing a credit facility for the purpose of providing a cash confirmation statement, In Practice, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, 2007
• Shareholder Activism: Takeover Code Consequences, 2003

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