Rakesh Rathod

Rakesh  advises clients from multiple sectors on a broad range of corporate transactions, including private M&A, joint ventures, corporate governance, listings on the main market of the LSE, on-going public company listing/disclosure obligations, corporate redomiciliations and general corporate advisory work.

Rakesh has extensive experience, and a particular focus, on advising global corporates in relation to complex, multijurisdictional and multifaceted spin-offs / demergers, carve-outs (sales and acquisitions), post-acquisition integrations and group reorganisations and restructurings.

• Advised Emerson on the carve-out sale of a majority stake in its Climate Technologies business to private equity funds managed by Blackstone in a transaction valuing Climate Technologies at USD 14 billion.
• Advised nVent Electric plc on the international aspects of its USD 1.1 billion acquisition of ECM Investors, LLC.
• Advised New Mountain Capital on the carve-out acquisition of PerkinElmer’s Applied, Food and Enterprise Services business for up to USD 2.45 billion, across 35 jurisdictions. 
• Advised Sike AG on its EUR 5.3 billion acquisition of MBCC from LoneStar, including he sale and carve-out of the remedy divestment of the MBS business to Cinven.
• Advised WPP on the GBP 3.1 billion carve-out sale of a majority stake in Kantar, a global data, research, consulting and analytics business to, and resulting joint venture with, Bain Capital, across 90 jurisdictions.
• Advised Pentair on the global separation and spin-off of its Electricals business (nVent Electric), across 43 jurisdictions.
• Advised Pentair on the USD 3.15 billion carve-out sale of its Valves & Controls business to Emerson, across 45 countries.
• Advised The Carlyle Group on the USD 8 billion acquisition of Veritas, a global information management systems business, from Symantec, across 38 jurisdictions.
• Advised TE Connectivity on the USD 350 million carve-out sale of its Circuit Protection Devices business to Littelfuse, Inc, across 16 jurisdictions.
• Advised TE Connectivity on the USD 3 billion carve-out sale of its global Broadband Network Solutions business to CommScope, Inc, across 57 jurisdictions.
• Advised Covidien on the post-acquisition integration of the ev3 Group across 12 jurisdictions.
• Advised Covidien on the global separation and spin-off of its Pharmaceuticals and Imaging business (Mallinckrodt), across 48 jurisdictions.
• Advised Tyco International on the global separation and spin-off of its North American Security Business (ADT) and the simultaneous separation, spin-off and sale of its Flow Control business to Pentair, across 75 jurisdictions.

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