Chris Boycott

Chris Boycott

Corporate Partner, London

“I focus on the full spectrum of private equity and financial sponsor transactions. I aim to provide clear, direct, commercially-oriented advice to help clients successfully and efficiently pursue their businesses.”

Overview

Professional experience

Education and qualifications

Overview

Chris advises financial sponsors and their investee companies on public and private M&A, joint ventures and restructuring transactions across a broad range of sectors, notably the financial institutions, technology, industrials, business services, consumer and healthcare sectors. Chris is a leading adviser to financial sponsors on UK public-to-private transactions.
 
Chris completed a secondment to Bridgepoint in 2011.

 

Work highlights

Chris has led, or been a key adviser, on a wide range of financial sponsor transactions. These include advising:

  • Brookfield on its £2bn cash and partial share offer for Network International Holdings plc
  • The Carlyle Group on its acquisition of Anthesis
  • Brookfield on its £4bn recommended offer for HomeServe plc
  • the consortium of Kinetic and Globalvia on the recommended offer for The Go-Ahead Group plc
  • Hg on its £1bn recommended offer for Ideagen plc
  • the consortium of Global Infrastructure Partners, Blackstone and Cascade on the $4.7bn recommended offer for Signature Aviation plc
  • Advent International on its takeover offers for Cobham plc and Laird plc
  • The Carlyle Group and PA Consulting on PA’s strategic partnership with Jacobs Engineering Inc. and associated exit by Carlyle
  • BC Partners and Pollen Street Capital on the £868m hostile offer for Shawbrook Bank 
  • The Carlyle Group on: the acquisition of Praesidiad from CVC; the strategic sale of 50% of its stake in The RAC Group to GIC, and the subsequent sale of its remaining interest to CVC; and the £500m recommended offer for The Innovation Group
  • BC Partners and Valtech on the successful competing offer for Kin + Carta plc

Professional experience

Chris co-presented the LexisNexis webinar on “Private Equity – issues and trends”, in October 2017.

Education and qualifications

Chris studied law at the University of Warwick.