Biography
Akash Mehta is counsel in Weil's Tax Department, based in London. Akash's experience includes advising clients on complex UK and international corporate tax matters, with a focus on M&A transactions (public and private), cross-border structuring and debt capital markets. Akash also acts on tax disputes.
Recent representative experience includes:
- Ares and Goldman Sachs on their participation in CD&R’s takeover of Morrisons, which valued the British supermarket at £10.2bn including debt
- Lone Star Funds on its take-private of McCarthy & Stone plc
- Sanofi on its $1.45bn acquisition of Kymab
- CD&R on the combined acquisition of OCS and the UK, Ireland and Asian operations of Atalian
- Ad hoc group of lenders in Seadrill Limited’s $5bn debt restructuring
- Private securitisation of television franchise rights and IP
- GSAM as lender in connection with the refinancing of Casa Optima
- Montagu Private Equity on the acquisition of the ISI Emerging Markets Group
- Advent International on financing for various bids and in respect of portfolio companies
- PAI Partners on the acquisition of HKA
- Macquarie Asset Management on the acquisition of Roadchef
Prior to joining Weil, Akash worked in the tax team of a leading international law firm in Sydney, where he acted for multinationals on transactions and disputes, and in the corporate tax team of a “Big 4” accounting firm.