Jane Cai

Jane is a partner with extensive experience in cross-border M&A and joint ventures, including complex carve-out transactions. She also has expertise in providing strategic structuring and corporate governance advice, including to international conglomerates, public companies with significant shareholders and professional services firms.

Jane’s experience spans a number of wide-ranging sectors and she has particular knowledge of the industrials, extractive and telecoms sectors. Jane works closely with many of the firm’s largest clients, including Jardines, CK Hutchison, Cummins, Glencore and Deloitte.

Work highlights

Jane has advised on a broad range of high-profile strategic corporate transactions. Particular highlights include advising:

• CK Hutchison on its proposed £10.5bn acquisition of O2 and merger with Three UK and on the €10bn sale of its European towers business to Cellnex
• Aristocrat on its proposed £2.1bn takeover offer for digital gaming group Playtech
• Glencore on multiple international M&A transactions in Europe, Africa and Latin America, including the $2.5bn sale of a 49% stake in its agricultural business to two Canadian pension funds, CPPIB and bcIMC
• Novartis on its $23bn transformational three-part asset swap transaction with GSK, including the sale of its vaccines business to GSK, the acquisition of GSK’s oncology division and the creation of its consumer healthcare joint venture with GSK
• Jardine Matheson on the $5.5bn acquisition of the remaining 15.1% of shares in Jardine Strategic which it does not already own and as a significant 40% shareholder of Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT), on Marsh’s $5.6bn takeover of JLT
• Deloitte on its plans to merge nine of its member firms across Europe with its UK and Swiss operations to create Deloitte North and South Europe, as well subsequent combinations with Ireland, Italy, Greece, Malta, Cyprus and the Middle East and on the disposal of its UK and Channel Islands restructuring and insolvency business to Teneo
• Greene King on its £2.7bn recommended takeover by CK Asset Holdings

Jane is an instrumental member of the firm’s innovation and efficiency team, leading one of the firm’s first client-focused legal design projects to produce a M&A pre-closing do’s and don’ts guide aimed at client business teams.

Jane is a D&I Champion for the Linklaters Corporate Division and is passionate about promoting a diverse workplace. Jane took a leading role in creating the Linklaters Courageous Conversations about Race client webinar series which focused on the themes of Black identity and race in the workplace, including hosting a webinar with race historian David Olusoga and bringing the series back for a second year in 2021.

She has spent time in the firm’s Amsterdam office.