Bio

Alan Farkas is a partner in the London office of Dorsey & Whitney and a member of Dorsey’s Corporate Group. Alan has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers and joint ventures as well as advising issuers on IPO’s and secondary issues on AIM and the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. Alan also advises on a broad range of other transactional work including private equity and venture capital as well as corporate group re-organisations and capital restructuring. Alan focuses on oil and gas, where he works regularly for field service companies in the UK and Norwegian Continental Shelf, West Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Alan’s sector focus also includes healthcare where he advises private healthcare organisations on transactions covering procurement processes, licencing rights as well as bespoke contractual structures, mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures covering GP practices, pharmacies and other NHS organisations. Alan is ranked by International Financial Law Review in its annual guide IFLR 1000 and by Legal 500 in relation to his M&A expertise.