John Tsui

John Tsui

Corporate (Private Equity) Managing Associate, London

"I work with private equity and financial sponsors on matters throughout the life of an investment from acquisition to exit, with a particular focus on private and public M&A, portfolio company advisory matters and management incentivisation plans."

Overview

Professional experience

Education and qualifications

Overview

John has worked on a wide range of private and public M&A transactions for financial sponsors and major corporates. He specialises in advising private equity portfolio companies on corporate or advisory matters throughout the life of an investment and management incentivisation plans.

John completed a secondment to AnaCap Financial Partners in 2018.

Work highlights

John has been a key adviser on the following transactions and matters:

  • Hg on several investment and recapitalisation rounds in the Access Group, a provider of business management software, including the latest Hg investment in 2022 valuing the business at £9.2 billion.
  • Hg on its initial investment in fundinfo and subsequent merger with Financial Express to form FE fundinfo, together with subsequent bolt-ons and ongoing corporate and MIP advisory work for FE fundinfo.
  • Brookfield infrastructure on its £4bn recommended cash offer for HomeServe plc.
  • Carlyle on several funding rounds in PIB Group, a group of insurance brokers, together with subsequent bolt-on M&A, management of the portfolio company and MIP throughout the investment, and the exit to Apax.
  • Hg on its acquisition and exit of A-Plan Group, an insurance broker, including MIP and portfolio advisory matters throughout the investment.
  • Advent International on its £4bn recommended cash offer for Cobham.

Professional experience

Other M&A experience includes:

  • OTPP and its minority investment in the group.ONE and dogado group alongside Cinven, a provider of domain and web hosting solutions for SMEs.
  • a global investment bank on its €200m minority investment in Constructel, a construction company in the telecoms and energy sectors.
  • Hg on its exit of Commify Group, a provider of business messaging solutions, to ECI Partners.
  • Carlyle on its sale of Barbon Insurance, an insurance broker.
  • BC Partners on its investment in Davies Group, a provider of insurance consulting and technology services alongside HGGC and AIMCo.
  • Arqiva on the £2bn sale of its telecoms business to Cellnex.
  • Carlyle on its recommended offer for Harwood Wealth Management Group plc.
  • GIC on its investment in Sani/Ikos Group, an operator of luxury resorts in Europe.
  • Hg on its sale of Intelliflo, an SaaS provider of back office software to financial advisers, to Invesco.
  • a global investment bank on its acquisition of Caldic, a provider of specialty chemicals distribution.

Experience with PE portfolio advisory and MIP implementation matters includes:

  • HomeServe’s EMEA business, including Checkatrade.
  • Hg portfolio companies, including FE fundinfo, Access Group, A-Plan Group, Waystone and Commify Group.
  • Carlyle portfolio companies, including Theramex, PIB Group and Barbon Insurance.
  • Montagu portfolio companies, including Waystone and Janes.
  • a global investment bank portfolio companies, including LRQA and Constructel.
  • Míla, a portfolio company of Ardian Infrastructure in Iceland.
  • Netomnia, a joint venture between Digital Bridge, Advencap and Soho Square.
  • G.Network, a joint venture between USS and Cube.
  • Nexfibre, a joint venture between InfraVia, Liberty Global and Telefónica.
  • Davies Group, a BC Partners portfolio company.

Education and qualifications

John holds a Law degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science.