Jack is Counsel in the Firm’s Energy and Infrastructure practice, based in London. He advises private equity and infrastructure funds and their portfolio companies, as well as corporate clients, on a broad range of complex domestic, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional M&A transactions and other corporate transactions, including public to private transactions, joint ventures, consortium arrangements, carve-outs, and minority and majority investments.
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Work Highlights
Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:
- Heineken in its $3.2 billion acquisition of FIFCO's beverage and retail business
- American Industrial Partners in its $1.5 billion carve-out acquisition of Global Cellulose Fibers from International Paper Corporation
- SS&C Technologies in its £766 million acquisition of Calastone from funds managed by Carlyle
- EQT in its $1.5 billion acquisition of NZX-listed Metlifecare by way of scheme of arrangement
- Emerson Electric Co. in the sales of its Climate Technologies business to funds managed by Blackstone in a transaction valuing Climate Technologies at $14 billion
- Vodafone NZ in its sale of 80% interest in its mobile tower assets for $1.7 billion
Education
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University of Otago, 2016 LL.B.
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University of Otago, 2016
B.A.
Jack is Counsel in the Firm’s Energy and Infrastructure practice, based in London. He advises private equity and infrastructure funds and their portfolio companies, as well as corporate clients, on a broad range of complex domestic, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional M&A transactions and other corporate transactions, including public to private transactions, joint ventures, consortium arrangements, carve-outs, and minority and majority investments.
Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:
- Roche in multiple transactions, including its $7.1 billion acquisition of Telavant and $1.05 billion acquisition of PathAI
- TPG in its $2.2 billion acquisition of AvidXchange Holdings with Corpay
- Elliott Investment Management in its acquisition of a majority interest in American Greetings
- BlackRock in its minority investment in TXSE Group
- NiCE in multiple transactions, including its take-private of LiveVox Holdings
- Ampol in its $1.96 billion acquisition of NZX-listed Z Energy by way of scheme of arrangement
- Sale of Westland Co-operative Dairy Company to Yili Group by way of scheme of arrangement for $588 million
Jack received his LL.B. and B.A. from the University of Otago in 2016. He is admitted to practice in New York.