Advising:

• Amanda Staveley, her investment vehicle PCP Capital Partners, and a consortium led by the Public Investment Fund on the acquisition of Newcastle United Football Club.
• Various English Premier League football clubs on a range of corporate and regulatory matters.
• Mumtalakat, the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Bahrain, on the successful reorganisation of McLaren, the global luxury automotive and elite motorsports group.
• DAZN, a leading global sports platform, on various mandates including its purchase of Eleven Sports Network Limited, a global sports media business, from Aser Ventures, and its disposal of the Perform Content business to Vistra Capital Partners, following a 30+ jurisdiction carve-out.
• Entain, one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming groups, on the acquisition of Angstrom Sports, a specialist provider of next generation sports modelling, forecasting and data analytics.
• Compass Group on a cashbox placing to institutional investors alongside an offer to retail investors to raise approximately £2 billion, as well as Aston Martin Lagonda, Mitchells & Butlers, Auto Trader and HSS Hire on secondary capital raises undertaken by each.
• General Dynamics Corporation on the sale of its General Dynamics Mission Systems – Italy division to Maticmind S.p.A., a CVC portfolio company.
• JAB on its acquisition of Pret A Manger from Bridgepoint and other minority shareholders.
• Comcast on its £30bn acquisition of Sky.
• Michelin on its £1.2bn recommended take-private of London-listed Fenner plc.
• A consortium comprising FountainVest Partners and ANTA Sports on the acquisition of Helsinki-listed, Amer Sports for EUR4.6bn.