Magnus P Swanson
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Work Department
Corporate.
Position
Corporate partner, specialising in corporate and corporate finance work; led the team on the MBI of Phillips International Auctioneers and its subsequent sale to the LVMH group; led the team acting for Redwood group in the taking private of Clyde Blowers Plc, the first significant take private completed in Scotland in recent times with £61m of funding provided by 3i and the Bank of Scotland and acted for Bank of Scotland in relation to the funding of the £500m hostile and subsequently recommended bid for Sears Group Plc by January Investments Ltd; acted for the MBO team in the acquisition of Pelikan Hardcopy, a Swiss based multinational group of companies from their US parent NuCote which was in Chapter II insolvency, acted in the £60m sale of Inver House Distillers, the £84m sale of Stiell to McAlpine, the £80m sale of Ben Sherman to Oxford Industries and the £45m reverse takeover of Lightbody by Finsbury.
Career
Articled Steedman Ramage & Co WS; qualified 1982; assistant, company department, Maclay Murray & Spens, Glasgow, 1982-86; foreign lawyer, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, New York, 1986-87; partner, company department, Maclay Murray & Spens, Glasgow, since 1987.
Education
Thurso High School and Edinburgh Academy; Edinburgh University (1980 LLB Hons).
Leisure
Golf, skiing; member Prestwick and Nairn golf clubs.
Practice Areas
Corporate finance; M&A; Private equity
