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
- 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 majority shareholding in East African Breweries plc to Asahi which valued 100% of EABL at $4.8 billion, as well as the sale of Diageo’s majority shareholding in Guinness Nigeria plc to Tolaram and its majority shareholding in Guinness Ghana Breweries plc to Castel
- 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
- Shawbrook on its IPO which valued Shawbrook at £1.92 billion
- Shepherd Building Group on the sale of Portakabin to Antin Infrastructure Partners
- Therme Group on various matters, including its €1bn joint venture with CVC and the acquisition of Therme Erding
- 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