David Allen
Biography
David trained at Baker McKenzie and became a Partner in 2010. David became Head of Corporate in 2020, having previously been Head of Private Equity in London since 2015 and Global Head of Private Equity since 2017.
David's team has won a number of awards, including "M&A Team of the Year (Large Deals)" in the 2019 British Legal Awards and "Private Equity Team of the Year" in the 2016 British Legal Awards.
Practice Focus
Representative Legal Matters
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Advised Silver Lake on its acquisition of a stake in RAC from CVC Capital Partners and GIC.
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Advised funds connected to Apollo Global Management on their EUR 500 million investment into Sazka, the pan-European lottery group.
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Advised Bluegem Capital Partners on its acquisition of France-based Béaba Group, the childcare and baby-related products business, from Bridgepoint and others.
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Advised Hitachi on the USD 11 billion acquisition of ABB's power grids business in over 100 jurisdictions (the largest ever acquisition by a Japanese industrial company).
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Advised Fiera Infrastructure on the acquisition of a 50% interest in Wightlink, the UK ferries business.
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Advised Bluegem Capital Partners on the sale of the DMC group to Lion Capital.
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Advised Bain Capital in respect of its bid for the European distribution business of CRH.
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Advised Core Equity on the acquisition of Portman Dental from Livingbridge and management.
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Advised Platinum Equity on the sale of Worldwide Flight Services to Cerberus.
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Advised Fiera Infrastructure on the acquisition of IslaLink, the Spanish submarine communications provider, from EQT.
Admissions
- England & Wales~United Kingdom (2003)
Education
- Nottingham University (L.P.C.) (2001)
- University of Lancaster (LL.B.) (2000)
- University of Nancy (LL.B.) (1999)
Languages
- English
- French
- Russian
Previous Offices
- Sydney