Justin Stock is a corporate partner in our London office. Mr. Stock focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and private equity. His clients include public and private companies, private equity houses, investment managers, venture capitalists and banks. He has particular experience of advising companies in the technology and internet sector.
On the strategic side Mr. Stock has acted on acquisitions and disposals (primarily cross border) for trade buyers and portfolio companies acquiring and disposing of both controlling and non-controlling interests. He is experienced in both public to private transactions and private mergers. He has acted on securities transactions including large IPOs, placings, secondary issues and convertible debt issues.
Notable recent transactions include:
- Advised GIC (Government of Singapore) as lead investor into Glencore $2.2 billion convertible debt issue.
- Advised Coller Capital on the acquisition of the healthcare and technology venture capital portfolio owned by 3i Group plc.
- Formation and joint venture arrangements of J. Rothschild Creat Partners, a first of its kind joint venture fund management company allowing Chinese investors to invest in private equity transactions internationally.
- Advised Discovery Holdings Limited on its joint venture with the Prudential plc pursuant to which the joint venture will write all life insurance and other protection insurance products. Several follow-on transactions including the acquisition from Prudential of a further 25% stake in the joint venture.
- Advised Coller Capital on the formation of a secondaries fund and acquisition of a portfolio of companies from a global bank into the fund.
- Investment (by means of subscription) into Smart Voucher Limited, an FSA registered electronic money deposit taking institution and formation of multi-party joint venture with three main shareholders (and 50 minorities).
- Advised Colony Capital on its bid for a large European ETF operation.
- Advised Sir Ronald Cohen (former head of Apax) on setting up a European property hedge fund.
- Advised major consortium member on a bid for Thames Water.
- Advised Compass Partners on the sale of Elixia fitness chain to Norvestor (Dual track Accelerated IPO and sale process).
- Advised Brascan-led private equity consortium on its hostile public takeover bid for Canary Wharf.
- Advised Goldman Sachs International (private equity) in auction bid for certain gas distribution networks held by National Grid Transco (finally sold to another bidder for £5.8 billion).
- Advised London Stock Exchange plc on takeover proposals by Deutsche Börse and Euronext.
- Advised Xstrata plc on its acquisition of a 20% stake in Falconbridge Inc (approximately US$2 billion).
- Advised two large private equity sponsors on a bid for Shell’s liquid petroleum gas operations.
- Advised The Rank Group plc on the sale of Deluxe Film to McAndrews & Forbes (£450 million).
- Acted for Compass Group PLC on the sale of its travel concessions catering operations to Macquarie Bank and EQT (£1.8 billion).
- Advised the vendors of Spin Palace(internet gaming) on its sale to Fairground Gaming Holdings plc (US$66 million) and subsequent MBO back from Fairground.