Anthony Doolittle

Bohai Leasing on the sale of Seaco to Stonepeak for US$1.75bn

O’Connor Capital Solutions on the sale of its stake in McLaren Racing

FE fundinfo on its acquisition of Finscape

Apis Partners as lead investor on a c. £70m investment in Moneybox, one of the UK’s fastest-growing and most profitable digital wealth management platforms

New Incubation Ventures, the strategic early-stage investment arm of The Estée Lauder Companies, on its investments in Vyrao and Haeckels

Wanda on its sale of Sunseeker International, a British luxury performance motor yacht manufacturer, to Lionheart and Orienta

Vodafone on its joint venture with Accenture to create a new global services company, Vodafone Shared Operations Limited (VSOL) 

Schroders on its acquisition of wealth management firm Whitley Asset Management Ltd

Global Ports Holding PLC on its £310m recommended takeover offer by Global Yatırım Holding A.Ş and its related delisting from the London Stock Exchange

Tenet Group on the sale of Tenet & You, a whole of market IFA firm, to My Pension Expert

Tenet Group on its exclusive arrangement to transfer Tenet’s Wealth Network to Openwork

Neuropool Ltd, a social enterprise, on its seed funding round and receiving an equity investment from the Growth Impact Fund

Shaftesbury plc on its all-share merger with Capital & Counties Properties plc to create Shaftesbury Capital PLC, to create a central London REIT with a combined portfolio of approximately £5bn

Virunga Power on the commitment by Gridworks, a UK government-backed investor, to invest up to US$50m to fund new sustainable electricity generation projects across Africa

AmerisourceBergen on its US$6.47bn acquisition of Alliance Healthcare from Walgreens Boots Alliance

Norwegian Air Shuttle on its joint venture with CCB Leasing Corporation, a subsidiary of China Construction Bank Corporation, to finance, own and lease 27 aircraft
 
 

Qatar Insurance Company on its participation in a £200m investment by Pollen Street Capital in the insurance broker, Markerstudy, and QIC’s ongoing partnership with Markerstudy

Goldman Sachs in connection with its investments in Nutmeg, Starling Bank, Trussle and other fintechs
 

ISTARI on its cornerstone investment in Sonrai Security as part of its US$50m series C fundraising

Vodafone on the combination of Vodafone Netherlands with the Netherlands business of Liberty Global

Standard Life plc on the recommended offer and scheme of arrangement to acquire Aberdeen Asset Management plc for share-for-share consideration