Jarlath McGurran
Biography
Overview
Jarlath McGurran is a partner in White & Case's M&A practice, based in New York. Jarlath serves as Head of the Americas M&A Practice.
Jarlath's practice focuses on advising corporate and private equity clients on a wide range of corporate transactions, international public and private M&A (including private equity transactions), joint ventures and corporate advisory work.
Jarlath is highly valued for his domestic and cross-border transaction expertise. In particular, he is able to provide clients with a unique perspective on global transactions, having split his working career between London, Chicago and New York and two client secondments.
Experience
Schneider Electric Industries SAS, a global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, on the sale of its industrial sensors business, Telemecanique Sensors, to YAGEO Corporation, a global electronic component and service provider based in Taiwan.
Primo Brands:
- on the sale of its European business to a member of the Culligan group.
- on the sale of its Russian business to local management.
- on its acquisition of Eden Springs (a leading European direct-to-consumer services provider that specializes in home and office delivery water, office coffee services and filtration) from Rhone Capital.
Hartree Partners, a global energy and commodities trading company, on its acquisition of the majority of ED&F Man's outstanding A2 and B1 senior secured legacy debt and the acquisition of ED&F Man Commodities' three business units Volcafe (coffee), ED&F Man Liquid Products (molasses, animal feeds and fish oil) and ED&F Man Sugar.
Ecobat, a world leader in the production of lead, lead alloys and the recycling of lead batteries:
- on the sale of its lead smelter and battery recycling activities located in Stolberg, Germany, to Trafigura.
- on the acquisition of Promesa, a battery recycling business in Germany near the first German Tesla factory and Germany's biggest lithium battery factory.
- divestiture of Zimco Group, its lead and industrial operations in southern Africa, to AutoX.
Anchorage Capital Group LLC, GIC and Davidson Kempner in the sale of their interests in Eir, the principal provider of fixed-line and mobile telecoms services in Ireland, to Toohil Telecom Holdings Limited (a company controlled by NJJ) for an enterprise value of €3.5 billion.
Quad-C Management, Inc. and MNX Logistics, in the acquisition of Easy Flyers, a global transportation company specializing in premium freight transport services and time-critical shipping solutions.
AIT Worldwide Logistics (a Quad-C portfolio company) on its acquisition of Panther Logistics, a U.K. firm with expertise in e-Commerce residential transportation logistics, specializing in white glove and two-man delivery.
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company:
- on the disposal of its European and Australian consumer operations to Exponent Private Equity LLP.
- on the disposal of its Global Professional Business to ICL.
Johnson Matthey on the sale of its UK automotive battery systems business, a subsidiary that specializes in high-voltage automotive grade battery systems for electric and hybrid vehicles, to Cummins Inc.
Bridgepoint on the SEK8.5 billion (US$930 million) disposal of the Nordic Cinema Group, the largest cinema operator in the Nordic region, to AMC Entertainment.
Avast Software on its agreement to acquire AVG Technologies N.V., a developer of business, mobile and PC device security software applications, for US$1.3 billion.
CVC Capital Partners in its acquisition of Mediaocean, the leading global omnichannel advertising platform.
ICR, LLC, a global leader in strategic communications and advisory services, on a significant investment in ICR by Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ). CDPQ will join with existing shareholders Investcorp International, Inc. and the ICR management team.
Global investment consortium on its acquisition of The Porterbrook Partnership (one of the UK's three major rolling stock leasing businesses).
Novartis on its asset swap with GSK, where Novartis sold its vaccines business to GSK for US$7.1 billion, Novartis acquired GSK's oncology business for US$16 billion and the parties entered into a joint venture in respect of the parties consumer business.
PwC on the acquisition of Booz & Co.
BP on the US$27 billion sale of its 50 percent interest in TNK-BP to Rosneft and BP's acquisition of 20 percent stake in Rosneft.
Rio Tinto on disposal of part of its aluminium fabrication business to Apollo and the FSI.
JPMorgan on the disposal of its shares in the Formula 1 holding company to CVC and reinvestment with CVC.
Independent directors of KazMunaiGas Exploration Production JSC on an approach from its majority shareholders.
China Investment Corporation on the acquisition of a minority stake in Polyus Gold.
Anglo American on the US$5 billion demerger and dual listing on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges of Mondi.
Leading Lawyer for M&A in the United States, Euromoney's Expert Guide, 2021
