Areas of expertise
Recent work
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, the sale of its shareholding in Guinness Ghana Breweries Plc (a company listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange) to Castel, and its 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
- Therme Group in connection with its acquisition of Therme Erding and the associated equity financing
- 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