Bio

Leon Ferera has over 25 years' experience advising on corporate transactions and governance matters, including takeover offers, private M&A, buyouts, and joint ventures. He was seconded for two years to the UK Takeover Panel (where he was also secretary to the Code Committee, which carries out the Panel's rulemaking functions) and for one year to Invesco's UK equities team. Leon leads the London M&A practice. Representative matters include advising: Framatome on its acquisition of Rolls Royce's Civil Nuclear Instrumentation and Control business in France and China; Koch Equity Development on its investment into Victoria plc; Freudenberg on its takeover of Low & Bonar; The Stars Group on its £11 billion combination with Flutter; Hansteen on its £500 million takeover by Blackstone; Signature Aviation on the $1.36 billion sale of its Ontic business to CVC; Houlilhan Lokey on GVC Holdings' £3.9 billion takeover of Ladbrokes Coral; Canyon Bridge on its £550 million takeover of Imagination Technologies; Reynolds American on its $49 billion acquisition by BAT and $27.4 billion acquisition of Lorillard; GE Healthcare on the acquisitions of Rapidscan and Asymptote; STERIS on its $6.2 billion combination with Synergy Health; Euronext on its €510 million binding offer for LCH.Clearnet; Atmel on its proposed $4.6 billion sale to Dialog Semiconductor and subsequent $3.6 billion sale to Microchip Technology; WL Ross on the £1 billion Northern Rock acquisition from the UK Government; and various transactions for Essilor, Invesco, and Procter & Gamble. Leon speaks and writes frequently on takeovers, is a member of the takeovers working group of ICAEW's Corporate Finance Faculty, and is repeatedly recommended in Chambers and The Legal 500.