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Nicholas Plant
Work Department
Corporate.
Position
Nicholas is co-leader of Dentons’ global private equity practice.
He has more than 20 years’ experience advising on both domestic and cross-border leveraged buyouts and has led over £10 billion of LBOs in the last five years.
Nicholas has worked extensively for some of the leading private equity houses, including Apax, Blackstone, Centerbridge, CVC Capital Partners, Duke Street Capital, European Capital, Graphite Capital, Investcorp, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners and ZQ Capital.
Career
Trained SJ Berwin 1998, qualified 2002. Partner in present firm since 2013. Secondee, Goldman Sachs London 2002; Associate, Hogan Lovells London 2002-04; Partner and Associate, SJ Berwin London 2004-13; Partner, Dentons UKMEA LLP London 2013 to date.
Education
Kings Secondary School, Canterbury; University of Southampton (1992 BA); American University in Washington DC (1993 MA).
Leisure
Grade 8 piano; Glyndebourne member; keen skier.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
(Leading individuals)Dentons continues to be highly active in cross-border PE transactions, where it leverages its network of offices around the world to act for both sponsors and portfolio companies. Clients value the PE group, which acts across a broad range of sectors, for its ‘practical advice in terms of moving deals towards completion’. Nicholas Plant and Stephen Levy are key names to note in the department, with experience acting for buyout houses including KKR, KPS and LeapFrog. Plant co-heads the firm’s global private equity group and is praised as having ‘industry expertise and a fresh business-oriented approach’.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals - London > Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m) - London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Finance > Islamic finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: lower mid-market deals, £50m-£500m
- Transport > Rail
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Real estate > Environment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Trade finance
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Employment > Health and safety
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property finance
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment (including media finance)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport