David Avery-Gee

David’s experience* includes advising:

• Advent and FedEx on their €7.8 billion takeover of InPost Group
• Advent International on the sale to PPF Group of its approximately 30% shareholding in InPost Group, which had a market capitalization of approximately €8 billion
• Algonquin on its PIPE investment in Atlantica Infrastructure
• Algonquin on the $2.555 billion sale of Atlantica to Energy Capital Partners and co-investors

• American Securities on the $3.25 billion sale of CPM Holdings and ASP MWI Holdings to Rosebank Industries and its $1.85 billion agreement to sell Acuren, a leading North American provider of critical asset integrity services, to Admiral
• ARCM in connection with its equity placement and strategic investment in Premier Oil plc
• Balderton Capital on the sale of a $2 billion stake in Revolut and as a lead investor in Wayve’s $1.5 billion equity financing
• Cardtronics plc on its $2.5 billion sale to NCR Corporation
• Century Aluminum on its agreement with Noble Group to acquire Noble’s 55% interest in Jamalco, a bauxite mining and alumina production joint venture in Jamaica
• ChampionX Corporation on its sale to SLB
• Dugout on its merger with OneFootball
• Eli Lilly on its collaboration with Sitryx, research collaboration agreement with MiNA and acquisition of Aparito
• Eutelsat and its board of directors on its £2 billion all-share combination with OneWeb to create a global satellite services provider
• The financing banks to the acquirer in connection with the £7.2 billion acquisition of RSA Insurance Group plc
• Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp. II on its $9 billion business combination with Paysafe Limited
• Glencore on a number of matters, including its proposed $260 billion merger with Rio Tinto plc; the sale of Cobar; its strategic partnership with Li-Cycle Holdings Corp.; its investment in Horizonte Minerals plc; the take-private of PolyMet; and its minority investment in ACG Acquisition Company
• Glencore plc, CPP Investments and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, as shareholders, on Viterra Ltd.’s approximately $34 billion business combination with Bunge Ltd.
• Gores Guggenheim, Inc. on its $20 billion business combination with Polestar Performance
• Highland Gold Mining plc on its take-private by Fortiana Holdings
• HM Government on its investment alongside Bharti Global Limited of more than $1 billion to acquire OneWeb and fund the full restart of its business operations
• The Home Depot, Inc. on its $18.25 billion acquisition of SRS Distribution Inc.
• Howden on its €208 million take-private of Assiteca, a listed Italian insurance broker
• InPost and its selling shareholders on the English and U.S. aspects of InPost’s offering and listing on Euronext Amsterdam—the largest-ever European technology IPO—which valued InPost at €8 billion
• Lactalis on the $1.3 billion acquisition of Saputo Inc.’s UK Dairy Division
• Lone Star Funds on its £709 million takeover of McCarthy & Stone plc
• MGM Resorts International on its $607 million acquisition of LeoVegas AB
• NEOGEN Corporation on its $5.3 billion combination with 3M’s Food Safety business in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction, implying an enterprise value of $9.3 billion for the combined company
• Petropavlovsk plc on the sale of IRC and related corporate governance matters
• Sanofi on the approximately $13 billion sale of substantially all of its 20.6% stake in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. through a registered public offering and related share repurchase by Regeneron
• Various sponsors on proposed take-private bids
• Willis Re on its acquisition of the reinsurance division of BMS Group
• Willis Towers Watson plc on its proposed $80 billion all-share merger with Aon plc

*Includes matters undertaken prior to joining S&C.