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About Piers Prichard Jones
Piers is a corporate partner in our global transactions group in London. He is also Chair of the firm’s Board.
He acts for a variety of clients across a range of sectors and is particularly well known for his work on transformational, cross border M&A transactions.
Piers combines his transactional work with advice to company boards on activism, capital raisings, governance and risk and crisis management.
Piers is relationship partner for a number of the firm’s FTSE and international clients and is ranked Band 1 in Chambers UK for Corporate/M&A.
Recent work
- ABB on the sale of its power grids division to Hitachi and on the sale of its high voltage cable business to NKT
- BAE Systems on various matters, including its proposed merger with EADS and the IPO of Air Astana
- Barrick Gold on its merger with Randgold Resources
- Berry Global on its acquisition of RPC
- BT on various matters, including the share acquisitions by Altice
- Charlotte Tilbury on its acquisition by Puig
- DWS on its acquisition of Stagecoach
- Entain on its defences against the approach by MGM and the approach by DraftKings
- GXO on its acquisition of Clipper Logistics
- IHG on various matters, including its defence against the campaign by Marcato, the activist
- Klepierre on its approach to Hammerson
- Laird on its acquisition by Advent
- Mars on various matters, including the disposal of its coffee business to Lavazza, its acquisitions of AniCura and Linnaeus and its acquisition of Hotel Chocolat
- Parker-Hannifin on its acquisition of Meggitt
- Smiths on the dual track spin/sale of its medical division
- Sysco on its acquisition of Brakes
- Smurfit Kappa on its pproposed merger with WestRock
- Xstrata on its merger with Glencore
- ZPG on its acquisition by Silver Lake
- A number of take private offers and possible offers for financial sponsors including CVC, Permira and Apollo
Qualifications
Education
- Oxford University, UK