Tony Brown

Partner, London
tony.brown@whitecase.com

Biography

Overview

Tony Brown is a partner in our global M&A and Corporate practice based in London.

Tony has extensive experience advising private equity houses, financial sponsor clients and management teams on a range of complex cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts and public offerings. He advises across all sectors but has particular experience in advising financial investors on transactions in the healthcare, financial services, technology and business services sectors. Tony has previously been on secondment at two leading private equity houses.

Bars and Courts
New Zealand
Education
BCA
Victoria University of Wellington
LLB
Victoria University of Wellington
Languages
English

Experience

Mergers & Acquisitions
Private Equity
Technology
Life Sciences and Healthcare
  • Representation of CVC in connection with the investment by Hellman & Friedman in Mehiläinen.
  • Representation of Nordic Capital on:
    • the acquisition of Surgical Information Systems;
    • the sale of Consilium Safety Group to Antin Infrastructure Partners;
    • the sale of Macrobond to Francisco Partners;
    • the acquisition of CARE Fertility;
    • the sale of Itiviti to Broadridge Financial Solutions; and
    • the acquisition of a majority stake in Duco Technology.
  • Representation of Summit Partners on the sale of CluePoints to EQT.
  • Representation of Ares Management and other shareholders on the sale of a majority stake in Titan Wealth to Parthenon Capital.
  • Representation of Titan Wealth and its majority shareholder Parthenon Capital on:
    • the acquisition of Independent Wealth Planners; and
    • the acquisition of AHR Group.
  • Representation of Sortera, a portfolio company of Nordic Capital, on:
    • the acquisition of GBN Services; and
    • the acquisition of O'Donovan Group.
  • Representation of ICR Communications, a portfolio company of InvestCorp, on the acquisition of Consilium Strategic Communications.
  • Representation of Focus Entertainment, which is listed on Euronext Paris, on the acquisition of Dovetail Games.
  • Representation of Regnology Group, a portfolio company of Nordic Capital on:
    • the acquisition of K-Helix from KPMG; and
    • the acquisition of PwC Tax Information Reporting from PwC.
  • Representation of Verallia on its £315 million acquisition of Allied Glass.
  • Representation of One Equity Partners on the carve-out and sale of the Power Generator division of the Brush Group to Baker Hughes.
  • Representation of Trustly, a portfolio company of Nordic Capital, on the acquisition of Ecospend Technologies.
  • Representation of Iconix on the acquisition of the global rights to the PONY brand (excluding China and Taiwan).
  • Representation of Lightrock on its US$75 million Series C co-investment in Group14 Technology, Inc.
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