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Tom Lewis

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07730 597 883 tom.x.lewis@pwc.com

Work Department

International Business Reorganisations.

Position

Tom is a Director in PwC’s International Business Reorganisations legal team, and is based in London in the UK.

He has over 13 years’ experience of reorganisation work. Tom specialises in advising multinational clients on complex cross-border reorganisation projects in connection with pre and post M&A activities (including IPOs), group simplification, inbound investment, intra-group financing and more general legal structuring advice, such as legal entity formation, reserves planning and dividend facilitation.

Tom began his career at a US law firm (Shearman & Sterling), before moving to KPMG and then PwC. He regularly works alongside tax, accounting and other professionals at PwC to deliver seamless multidisciplinary solutions for our clients.

Tom focuses on the PLS sector and his recent experience includes leading the legal implementation of a global pre IPO reorganisation for Eli Lilly, a project that involved PwC providing legal advice in more than 70 countries worldwide.

Tom is PwC’s legal representative on the firm’s Japanese Business Network, and regularly advises Japanese headquartered multinational looking to undertake investment and transactions in the UK.

In addition to his client facing role, Tom has recently been appointed as the firm’s Trainee Director with responsibility for supervising the Trainee programme, from hiring of graduates to the Trainee experience and qualification process.

Career

Tom began his career at a US law firm (Shearman & Sterling), before moving to KPMG and then PwC.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m

The London hub at Osborne Clarke LLP is helmed by the Bristol-based David Ferris and Simon Smith, who leads the media group and offers significant experience in M&A, restructuring and private equity transactions for management teams, corporates, and banks. the team’s recent workload includes acquisitions and sales of businesses in the healthcare, automotive retail, and energy space. The team also has a strong offering for clients in the marketing and real estate industries. Other key lawyers include M&A and venture capital expert Mathias Loertscher, who particularly focuses on the technology sector, and Edward Persse, who focuses on M&A and investments in a range of sectors. The team has been bolstered by the arrival of Matt Lewy from Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP in September 2022, whose work is concentrated in the energy and infrastructure sector. Other new arrivals include the new head of corporate reorganisation and simplification Tom Lewis, who joined from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in November 2022. Former practice head Mark Spinner has left the firm.

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