Warwick Brennand

Partner
Joined firm 2014. Partner since 2023.

Warwick has a broad international corporate practice, with particular experience advising on public and private M&A, joint ventures and equity capital market transactions. He also advises clients on company law, corporate governance and other general advisory matters.

Warwick advises clients of all sizes, from start-ups through to late-stage growth companies and large listed companies.  

Highlights include advising:

  • ABP Food Group on various matters, including its acquisition of processing and packaging facilities from Scotbeef Ltd
  • ARM on its $34 billion takeover offer by SoftBank
  • BHP on various matters, including the unification of its dual-listed company structure
  • Booking.com on its €1.6 billion acquisition of the Etraveli Group from CVC Capital Partners
  • British American Tobacco on various matters, including its acquisition of Twisp
  • Deutsche Bank on its £410 million takeover offer for Numis
  • Diageo on various matters, including the sale of its shareholding in Guinness Nigeria plc, a company listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, to Tolaram and Diageo’s delisting from Euronext Paris and Euronext Dublin
  • Essentra on the sale of its Filters business for £262 million
  • GlaxoSmithKline on various matters, including the formation of a consumer healthcare joint venture with Pfizer and its buyout of Novartis’ interest in their consumer healthcare joint venture for $13 billion
  • Halfords on various matters, including its strategic partnership with Bond International and on the sale of a minority stake in its automotive SaaS business, Avayler, to Bridgestone
  • INEOS on various matters, including its acquisition of oil and gas interests from Hess Corporation for $150 million
  • Kingsway Capital on its take-private of Al Eqbal Investment Company (EICO) which valued EICO at $1.4 billion
  • Lendable on a £150 million investment by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
  • Micro Focus International on its $6 billion takeover offer by OpenText Corporation
  • Pennon on its £380 million acquisition of SES Water and its placing and related retail offer
  • Santander on the $17 billion merger of Alawwal bank with The Saudi British Bank
  • SEGRO on its equity placing to raise £451 million
  • Shepherd Building Group on the sale of Portakabin to Antin Infrastructure Partners
  • Unilever on its acquisition of Pukka Herbs
  • Whitbread on its sale of Costa to The Coca-Cola Company for £3.9 billion
  • WS Atkins on its £2.1 billion takeover offer by SNC-Lavalin