London
tel: +44 (0)20 7786 6181
fax: +44 (0)20 7786 6299
fax: +44 (0)20 7786 6299
Jeremy.Willcocks@ aporter.com
Practice Focus
Jeremy Willcocks is a corporate partner in the London office and undertakes a broad range of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate advisory work. Jeremy has acted on a range of share and asset sales, IPOs on both the Official List and on AIM, public takeovers and joint ventures. His clients include public and private companies, private equity funds, and banks.
Representative Matters
Representative transactions include advising:
- Lerner family on the recommended cash offer by Reform Acquisitions Limited for Aston Villa plc.
- Performance Designed Products, LLC on its acquisition of In2GamesLimited.
- Deutsche Asset Management on the sale of a significant minority stake in Fitness First Limited to funds advised by BC Partners.
- Kraft Foods UK Limited on the sale of its Bird's Custard, Angel Delight and associated brands to Premier Foods.
- Veolia Transport UK Limited on its acquisition of Shamrock Travel Limited.
- Veolia Transport UK Limited on its recommended cash offer for Dunn-Line plc.
- Veolia Transport UK Limited on the sale of its London bus business to National Express Group plc.
- Armour Group plc on the acquisition of various companies operating in the consumer electronics market.
- On the sale of The Centre for Medicines Research International Limited to the Thomson Corporation.
Representative Matters
Recent transactions include advising:
- Lerner family on the recommended cash offer by Reform Acquisitions Limited for Aston Villa plc.
- Performance Designed Products, LLC on the acquisition of In2GamesLimited.
- Deutsche Asset Management on the sale of a significant minority stake in Fitness First Limited to funds advised by BC Partners.
- Kraft Foods UK Limited on the sale of its Bird's Custard, Angel Delight and associated brands to Premier Foods.
- Veolia Transport UK Limited on its acquisition of Shamrock Travel Limited.
- Veolia Transport UK Limited on its recommended cash offer for Dunn-Line plc.
- Veolia Transport UK Limited on the sale of its London bus business to National Express Group plc.
- Armour Group plc on the acquisition of various companies operating in the consumer electronics market.
- On the sale of The Centre for Medicines Research International Limited to the Thomson Corporation.
Rankings
"[Jeremy Willcocks] takes time to integrate himself into our team and makes our objectives all the more attainable as a result." (Chambers UK 2010, Corporate/M&A: Mid-Market: London)
PLC Which lawyer? Yearbook 2009: Recommended for Life sciences: corporate
Chambers UK: A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession 2009 for Corporate Finance
Legal Business's Legal Experts 2008 for Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions and Transport
Books
Ian Kirby, Rochelle Mello, Jeremy Willcocks and Niels Christian Ersbøll. "Country Q&A UK (England & Wales): Overview Of Main IPRS." (PDF: 361 kB) Practical Law Company's IP in Business Transactions Handbook 2008/2009.
Articles
Lincoln Tsang and Jeremy Willcocks. "Getting The Deal Through: Life Sciences - United Kingdom." (PDF: 549 kB) Global Competition Review 2010.
Advisories
"FSA Publishes Feedback Statement on Short Selling Disclosure." (PDF: 254 kB) Oct 2009.
"New Disclosure Regime for Contracts for Difference to Take Effect in June 2009." (PDF: 208 kB) Mar 2009.
"Ban on Short Selling of UK Financial Stocks To Be Lifted." (PDF: 221 kB) Jan 2009.
"Short Selling and Contracts for Difference--New UK Changes." (PDF: 257 kB) Nov 2008.
"Prohibition on Short Selling of UK Financial Sector Stocks and New Disclosure Requirements." (PDF: 602 kB) Sep 2008.
"Short Selling and Contracts for Difference: New UK Disclosure Requirements." (PDF: 264 kB) Jul 2008.
"Credit Crunch: Method of calculating LIBOR under the spotlight." (PDF: 206 kB) May 2008.
"The New EU Listing Regime and its Impact on Sovereign Debt Issuers." (PDF) Jul 2005.
LLB, Warwick University, 1987
England and Wales