Guy Norfolk
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Work Department
Financial services/corporate.
Position
Corporate finance and investment funds, working with main market listed companies and fund managers and their funds, advising on M&A, public company and financial services law. Main clients: Aberdeen Asset Management; Weir Group; Optos; Edinburgh Investment Trust; Cayenne Trust. Recent deals: purchase by Optos of Australian company Optos Global, by way of private offer (Nov 10); purchase by AAM of RBS’s fund of hedge fund business for c£85m institutional and, placing of £120m of AAM shares (Jan 2010); sale of Thornhill Holdings to Cazenove Capital Management (Dec 09); AAM’s £90m convertible bond issue (Dec 09); purchase by AAM of Credit Suisse’s global traditional fund management business for £250m in AAM shares (08-09); sale by Weir Group of Strachan and Henshaw division to Babcock for c£65m(April 08); and of Weir Pumps, Glasgow to Clyde Blowers for c£45m (May 07).
Career
Trained Maclay Murray & Spens; qualified 2001; remained with Maclay Murray & Spens except for year on secondment to Sokolow, Dunaud, Mercadier & Carreras, Paris 2002-03; partner 2008.
Languages
French.
Education
Stewart’s Melville, Edinburgh; Oriel College, Oxford (BA Hons, maths (first class)); University of Edinburgh (1997 LLB (ORD)).
Leisure
Tennis, golf, skiing, watching cricket, reading, food and wine, film.
Practice Areas
Corporate finance; Financial services; Investment funds
