Tony Brown

Partner, London

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 also focuses on real estate M&A, having acted for large institutional real estate funds on a number of major transactions in the sector.

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

Experience

Representation of Summit Partners and other shareholders, including management, on the sale of CluePoints SA to EQT.

Representation of Nordic Capital on its sale of Consilium Safety Group to Antin Infrastructure Partners.

Representation of Nordic Capital on its sale of Macrobond to Franscisco Partners.

Representation of Ares, Management, Perdix (formerly Hambleden), Maven Capital Partners and the senior management team on the sale of a majority stake in Titan Wealth Holdings to Parthenon Capital, a leading US private equity firm.

Representation of Duco Technology, a Nordic Capital portfolio company, on its acquisition of Metamaze BV, a Belgian document creation software company.

Representation of Reuse Holdings, an affiliate of Sortera Group and portfolio company of Nordic Capital, on its acquisition of G.B.N. Services Limited, a waste services provider operating across North London, UK.

Representation of ICR Communications, a portfolio company of InvestCorp, on the acquisition of Consilium Strategic Communications, a global leader in strategic healthcare communications and investor relations.

Representation of Focus Entertainment, one of Europe's leading video game publishers and developers, which is listed on Euronext Paris, on its acquisition of 100% of Railsimulator.com, the parent company of Dovetail Games' group (DTG), a UK-based developer/gaming studio in the train simulation genre, alongside senior management.

Representation of Regnology Group GmbH, a portfolio company of Nordic Capital, on a bolt-on acquisition of the K-Helix business from KPMG LLP.

Representation of Care Fertility Group Limited, a Nordic Capital portfolio company, on its first expansion into the US market with the acquisition of REACH Fertility, PLC, a fertility practice in North Carolina.

Representation of Verallia, the leading European and the world's third largest producer of glass containers for food and beverages, on its £315 million acquisition of 100% of Allied Glass, a market leader in the UK premium glass packaging segment.

Representation of Lightrock LLP and Lightrock Impact Climate Fund on its US$75 million Series C co-investment in Group14 Technology, Inc., a global manufacturer and supplier of advanced silicon-carbon technology for lithium-silicon batteries based in Woodinville, Washington.

Representation of One Equity Partners on its sale of the Power Generator division of the Brush Group to Baker Hughes as part of a carve-out transaction.

Representation of Regnology, a Nordic Capital portfolio company, on its acquisition of PwC Tax Information Reporting Limited, a provider of tax reporting software solutions, from PwC Holdings (UK) Limited.

Representation of Sortera Group AB, a Nordic Capital portfolio company, on its acquisition of O'Donovan Group Limited, a waste management business based in the UK.

Representation of Trustly, a Swedish open banking company and portfolio company of Nordic Capital, on its acquisition of Ecospend Technologies, a provider of 'pay-by-bank' services.

Representation of brand management company Iconix International Inc. on its acquisition of the global rights across all product categories to the PONY brand (excluding China and Taiwan), from Hong Kong-based Symphony Holdings Ltd.

Representation of Nordic Capital on its acquisition of the CARE Fertility group, one of the UK's leading providers of fertility and IVF services.