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Guy Lewin-smith
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Work Department
Corporate/mergers and acquisitions.
Position
Corporate partner whose practice covers a full range of M&A, equity capital market and corporate finance advisory matters and who has gained experience across various industrial sectors.
Career
Assistant solicitor Linklaters, Hong Kong 1989; partner London 1994; partner Singapore, responsible for founding and developing the corporate practice 1995; partner London 1999; partner Debevoise & Plimpton 2008. Recent representations include: KazakhGold Group Ltd in a reverse takeover of Polyus Gold valued at approximately $10bn; OJSC Polyus Gold in its public offer for 50.1% of KazakhGold Group Ltd; Ripplewood Holdings in its €532m sale of AEG Power Solutions BV to Germany1 Acquisitions Ltd; a consortium led by Ripplewood Holdings in the sale of a 9.9% interest in Commercial International Bank; Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of Bodycote Testing Group (now Exova); United BioSource Corporation, a global pharmaceutical services organisation, on its acquisition of Envision Pharma; Hewitt Associates, a global human resources services company, on its acquisition of New Bridge Street Consultants; Catlin Group on its £200m equity capital raising by way of underwritten rights issue.
Education
New College, Oxford (1982 BA Hons jurisprudence); University of Virginia (1983 LLM).
