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Toby Parkinson
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Toby Parkinson is as a corporate partner in the London office Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He advises financial investors on domestic and cross-border M&A, with a particular focus on energy and infrastructure transactions.
Career
2023 to present Kirkland & Ellis International LLP; 2019-2022, 2012-2016 Clifford Chance; 2016-2019 OMERS Infrastructure
Education
BPP Law School (Legal Practice Course 2005); BPP Law School (Graduate Diploma in Law 2004); University College London (B.A., Geography (Hons) 2003)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
(Leading individuals: Corporate and M&A)Kirkland & Ellis International LLP made a significant impression in the City infrastructure market with the hire of Sara Pickersgill from Allen & Overy LLP and James Boswell and Toby Parkinson from Clifford Chance LLP at the start of 2023, a move which allows the firm to act for an ever-expanding portfolio of national and global clients in the energy and infrastructure sectors. The sponsor-focused team advises a number of private equity funds investing in this space, and its offering is further strengthened by the global firm’s ESG practice. While still a developing practice, the team has been engaged in a number of premium M&A deals, fund formations, joint ventures and corporate restructurings, with strong expertise in utility, digital infrastructure, and energy transition mandates. Pickersgill is a leading M&A partner who regularly advises top-end sponsors on high profile mandates, while Boswell leverages more than 20 years’ debt finance experience to advise sponsors and borrowers on financing a broad array of acquisitions, including multi-sourced platform financings, holdco financings and equity bridge loans. Parkinson is a highly-regarded M&A practitioner, with his industry experience working as a director at OMERS an extra selling point for clients. The firm also added James McGivern and Emma Shelston from Linklaters LLP and Allen & Overy LLP as partners in 2023, with the former largely focusing on debt finance and regulatory work, and the latter on M&A.
Lawyer Rankings
- Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing London > Projects, energy and natural resources
- Leading individuals: Corporate and M&A London > Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Finance > High yield
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Real estate > Property finance
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium