Richard Moulton, co-head of global corporate, Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Richard has extensive experience of all areas of mergers and acquisitions and Private Equity.
He is Co-Head of the Global Corporate and M&A Team and is a member of the TMT and Healthcare Groups.

Richard’s experience includes;

• advising Tinopolis plc on its £45m acquisition by way of scheme of arrangement by Vitruvian Partners;
• acting for Gresham LLP and newco on the £110m acquisition of Betts Global Limited, a manufacturer of toothpaste tubes with operations in 11 jurisdictions (including the US, Brazil, Mexico, China, Indonesia, Russia, Poland, Switzerland and South Africa);
• acting for Hutton Collins on the £260m secondary buyout of Healthcare at Home;
• acting for management and newco on the £410m secondary buyout of Apollo Group funded by BOSIF;
• acting for management in connection with the £100m public to private of SHL Group plc;
• the acquisition of Airclaims Ltd – a business operating in nine jurisdictions acting for LDC and newco; acting for H&T Group plc in relation to the exit by Rutland Partners by way of £54m IPO on AIM market;
• acting for Hutton Collins in its co-investment in the £155m Electra led secondary buyout of Travelsphere;
  acting for Baird Capital Partners Europe on the buyouts of Aston Carter and Paddock Fabrications;
• acting for management and newco on the acquisition of IDIS Ltd – a medical distribution business operating principally in the UK, France and Germany.

Samantha Thompson, head of legal global m&, Anglo American PLC

Samantha (Sam) is currently Head of Legal global M&A at Anglo American, having joined in November 2018, where she is on the Legal Leadership Team and co-led the group legal transformation and innovation programme. Prior to that Sam spent three years at PwC in London, latterly as co-head of Corporate Affairs which included responsibility for reputation and regulation, and prior to that Sam was based in Hong Kong for 10 years where she was a corporate partner at Linklaters, with a broad corporate practice including governance, corporate advisory and all types of M&A as well as being a TMT sector leader. She started her career at Slaughter and May in London.

Sam holds an MSc in International Strategy from the London School of Economics and Politics, an MA in Chemistry from Oxford University, and is a qualified lawyer in England and Wales, and in Hong Kong. She has completed the Harvard Kennedy School Climate Change Policy (Economics and Politics) programme, the Whitehall and Industry Group Senior Leaders Programme and has recently been guest speaking at the Oxford University Said Business School. She has just started an MSt at the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership.

Marcus Taylor, managing director, Lazard

Marcus Taylor leads Lazard’s Retail, Consumer & Leisure team in London.

Marcus has extensive experience in public and private M&A transactions and corporate capital structure activity across Europe, North and South America, and Asia, including:

• AB InBev’s $108bn acquisition of SABMiller plc
  The acquisition of a minority stake in Selfridges alongside Central Group and Signa Holding
• Richemont’s acquisition of Delvaux and the sale of its controlling interest in Yoox Net-A-Porter to Farfetch
  The £720m financial restructuring and subsequent sale in parts of Debenhams plc
• The $575m sale of Unilever’s AdeS subsidiary to The Coca-Cola Company
  Entain plc’s acquisition of Enlabs AB

Outside of the Retail, Consumer & Leisure sectors, Marcus has advised companies such as Intertek plc, the London Stock Exchange Group plc, Rentokil Initial plc, Sykes, Kinder Morgan and Becker Underwood.

Marcus joined Lazard in 2015 from Greenhill, where he spent ten years in the firm’s London and New York offices.

Richard Booth, head of industrials, Inflexion

Richard is co-head of the Industrials sector at Inflexion. He is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and leading minority and majority investment opportunities across Europe in this sector. He is part of the team that invested in Aspen Pumps, Marley Huws Gray and led the investment in Detectortesters and Astrak. He also has board responsibility for the investment in Xtrac.

Prior to joining Inflexion, Richard spent ten years at Arle Capital Partners where he was involved in several transactions covering industrial manufacturing and energy services. During this time, he co-led the buyout of Innovia Group and its subsequent sale to CCL Industries, as well the IPO of Technogym on the Italian stock exchange.

Richard started his career at L.E.K. Consulting and worked in the London, Milan and Melbourne offices.