Corporate and commercial
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP offers a comprehensive M&A service, enabling the team to advise on both public and private transactions, across buy- and sell-side mandates, at both domestic and international levels. The group has extensive experience assisting multinational clients on acquisitions and disposals, mergers, and tender offers, as well as stock and asset acquisitions, restructuring, and spin-offs. Its breadth of capabilities continue to attract new clients to its roster, which consists of impressive names from the aviation, energy, and financial service sectors, to name a few. Co-leading the department are global M&A specialist Antony Walsh and energy expert Stephen Hill; Walsh stands out for the scope of his practice which encompasses traditional M&A, alongside spin-offs, carve-outs, and reorganisations, with a particular focus on the industrials and technology industries. Focusing on US transactions within Europe and the UK is Robin Johnson, while Lee Harris concentrates on deals within the life sciences sector. Other key practitioners in the team include energy specialist Jubilee Easo, takeover expert Chris Halliday, and financial services authority Ankit Chhabra.
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Robin is Co Chair of Eversheds Cross Border M&A Team and runs a team across 30 jurisdictions of over 100 lawyers. He is also Sector Chair of the Diversified Industrial Sector Group.
Mergermarket has placed Robin regularly in the top 10 of their Rainmaker leagues in the last 8 years.
Legal Business in the UK recently voted Robin as one of the top ten M&A lawyers in the UK.
In 2010-2011, Robin had a secondment to Parker Hannifin to assist in a major European restructure and in 2013 spent 4 months as Interim European and Asian GC for Archer Daniels Midland. In 2012, Robin spent 4 months researching and writing Eversheds award winning “M&A Blueprint : Inception to Integration” report.
Robin has authored many articles including being published in the Baird Monthly M&A Monitor, International Financial Law Review, The Journal of Private Equity and the Metropolitan Corporate Counsel and European Private Equity Journal. He recently spoke on an ACC webcast on Top 10 Tips in M&A and Robin has also spoken on similar topics for the American Bar Association, National Directors' Institute of Chicago and the Manufacturer's Alliance. He was asked by Wall Street Journal to write an “opinion piece” in January 2010.
He wrote the chapter on international joint ventures in the UK in the ABA International Joint Ventures the Transactional Guide for US Lawyers.
Robin is a member of the ABA International M&A Task Force and a member of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
Married with two children, he is a keen golfer and when he can, follows the English cricket team.
He is a non-executive director of the University of Leeds, one of the largest universities in England and Wales.
Robin is on the consulting editorial board for Lexis PLS for corporate M&A.
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‘Hyper-responsive.’
Key clients
- Nisbets
- Edwards Lifesciences
Work highlights
Advised Nisbets on its majority sale to Bunzl plc.