Sean Watson
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Work Department
Corporate.
Position
Partner in corporate group; head of corporate finance; advises corporate, investment banking and private equity clients, specialising in corporate finance and reconstructions; flotations and domestic and international equity offerings; general corporate including takeovers, mergers and acquisitions; National Grid’s £14.8bn recommended merger with Lattice Group plc; its £5.8bn restructuring and disposal of four of National Grid’s gas distribution networks; Enterprise Inns £2.3bn acquisition of Voyager and Unique pub estates; Informa, £1.1bn merger of Informa Group plc and Taylor & Francis Group plc; Informa $1.4bn acquisition of IIR.
Career
Articled Slaughter and May; qualified 1972; joined McKenna & Co 1979.
Member
Law Society; City of London Solicitors Company.
Education
The Leys School, Cambridge; Manchester University (1969 LLB Hons).
Leisure
Tennis – St. Georges Hill LTC, golf, skiing.
Practice Areas
Corporate finance; Flotations (small and mid-cap); M&A
