Jonathan Sadler

Jonathan advises corporates on public and private mergers and acquisitions, demergers and investments and provides ongoing corporate governance and Board advice to the firm’s listed clients. He also has wide experience on major equity capital markets transactions (both IPOs and secondary capital raisings). 

Jonathan aims to combine technical skill and in-depth experience with a calm and approachable manner to facilitate clients’ strategically important deals.

Jonathan has spent time in the firm’s Hong Kong office (2009 – 2012).

Work highlights

Jonathan has led on multiple substantial transactions, including advising:

• Britvic on its £3.3bn public M&A takeover by Carlsberg;
• Metro Bank on its £325m capital raise and £600m debt refinancing (2023), insertion of new holding company (2023), possible public M&A takeover (2021), £375m placing (2019), ABB non pre-emptive placings for £300m (2017 and 2018) and on its IPO;
• Remgro and its consortium with MSC on the £3.7bn public M&A takeover of Mediclinic;
• Biffa on its £1.3bn public M&A takeover by a group controlled by US private equity firm Energy Capital Partners;
• Mayr-Melnhof on its £312m class 1 acquisition of the packaging business of Essentra;
• Sony Interactive Entertainment on its acquisitions of game developers Housemarque, Firesprite, Nixxes Software and Savage Game Studios, and its investment into Devolver Digital;
• Mitie on its £271m acquisition of Interserve Facilities Management, together with its related £201m rights issue and extension of its £250m RCF;
• Travis Perkins on its demerger and the listing of Wickes, the £325m sale of its domestic P&H business to H.I.G. Capital and the disposal of its wholesale P&H business to Newbury Investments;
• ORIX on its $2.2bn acquisition from the HNA Group of a 30% stake in the aircraft leasing business of Avolon Holdings Limited and its $60m investment into OurCrowd, an Israel based VC crowdfunding platform; 
• Steinhoff in connection with its financial irregularities, the restructuring of c.€10bn of debt implemented by way of CVAs, the connected reorganisation of the European business and on-going governance and Board matters;  
• Amec Foster Wheeler on its recommended £2.3bn public M&A takeover by John Wood Group, its rights issue and its £230m disposal of its UK oil and gas business to WorleyParsons;
• Sibanye-Stillwater on its £285m recommended public M&A takeover of Lonmin.

Jonathan studied economics and geography at Exeter University and obtained his PGDL and LPC at BPP Law School London.