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Type of work handled: Our experienced lawyers handle a wide range of corporate transactions, including mergers, tender offers, stock and asset acquisitions, corporate restructurings, spin-offs, recapitalizations, and other deal structures. We excel in negotiating and establishing alliances, joint ventures, and tailored commercial relationships.


Categories of clients: Our Corporate practice specializes in serving multinational corporations with global operations. Leveraging our extensive global office network and specialist expertise, we navigate complex transactions effectively.


Recent work highlights:

  • Advising Rolls Royce on the sale of ITP Aero for €1.7bn
  • Advised DuPont on the sale of its resins unit to The Jordan Company
  • Advised British car dealership giant Lookers plc on its £504m recommended takeover by privately owned Canadian car dealer group AAG
  • Eutelsat on its $550m investment in OneWeb, a global communications network


Specialisations:

  • Sector Knowledge: Our lawyers possess deep industry insights, tailoring guidance to specific challenges and opportunities.
  • Cross-Border Expertise: We excel in navigating international transactions, addressing foreign direct investment, trade regulations, tax implications, competition law, and data protection.

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What the Team is Known For

Eversheds Sutherland is a nationally prominent firm with a corporate practice that has a reputation for excellence in transactional work and an enviable spread of high-profile clients across the public and private sectors. It demonstrates excellent credentials in energy-related work and is also noted for its expertise in financial services. Its Cardiff office houses UK-wide expertise, while its capabilities in cross-border work are bolstered by its network of international offices across Europe and Asia.

Work Highlights

  • Eversheds Sutherland advised Specialist Risk Group on all M&A components of its acquisition of insurance broker CBC Partnership.

Strengths

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Eversheds has a broad knowledge base on corporate law. The team is always quick to respond and is not only technically strong, but also very pragmatic.

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Eversheds Sutherland is highly commercial, responsive and sensitive to client's needs to get matters resolved quickly.

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The whole team is very quick to acknowledge contact and provide advice to our timescales, often at short notice. It has a very strong range of advisers across all levels too.

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There's a huge range of specialists and the corporate team itself is large and incredibly efficient.

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Notable Practitioners

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Paul T Pugh
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Paul Pugh is head of the corporate team in Wales. He is frequently sought out by financial services sector clients for a variety of corporate and commercial concerns. He handles joint venture partnerships, M&A and wider transformative and restructuring projects.

We have thrown some very challenging issues his way and he handled them with aplomb. I'd have no hesitation working with Paul on the most complex of matters.

Paul is excellent to work with. He is technically strong, very responsive and very pragmatic.

Paul is a brilliant lawyer; he's highly practical and commercial.

Paul is a very good lawyer. He is very good at maintaining client relationships and always thinks about them to make sure they are up to date in his field.

Paul Pugh is very strong in his field. He's calm, cool, collected, but equally fierce when needed. He really knows his way around an M&A deal and can also be a real diplomat.

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