Biography
Jack Gray is a Corporate counsel in London. He advises on a broad range of corporate and private equity transactions, including domestic and international private mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, joint ventures and equity capital markets transactions.
Representative experience as part of a team, including prior to joining Weil, includes acting for:
- Ares and Goldman Sachs on their participation in CD&R’s £9.7 billion offer for Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc
- Ares on the refinancing of TalkTalk Telecom Group
- Atlas Mara on its strategic financing agreement with Fairfax Africa Holdings Corporation and the associated placing and open offer and on Atlas Mara’s transaction in Rwanda
- bd-capital on its acquisition of SportPursuit
- Berkshire Partners on numerous private equity transactions, including:
- the merger of VetStrategy with IVC
- the acquisition of the REPA Group
- the acquisition of a joint venture interest in MedOne
- Century Aluminum on its agreement with Noble Group to acquire Noble’s 55% ownership interest in Jamalco, a bauxite mining and alumina production joint venture in Jamaica
- Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A. on the all-share merger of The Net-A-Porter Group Limited and YOOX S.p.A to create the YOOX Net-A-Porter Group and on its acquisition of Watchfinder.co.uk
- CVC on its strategic partnership with Dale Underwriting Partners
- Dugout on its merger with OneFootball
- Eutelsat on its combination with OneWeb and its listing on the London Stock Exchange
- Financing banks to the acquirer on the UK public takeovers of each of RSA Insurance Group plc and Meggitt PLC
- General Atlantic on:
- the investment in Dixa
- its investment in the Permira and Blackstone-led take-private of Adevinta, valuing Adevinta at around NOK 141 billion
- its majority investment in GRESB
- its minority investment in Wireless Logic, valuing Wireless Logic at £3.5 billion
- Generation Investment Management on its equity investment of up to $600 million in Octopus Energy Group
- IBM on the sale of its Algorithmics Assets to SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc.
- Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. on the £4.3bn recommended cash acquisition of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc
- KLAR Partners on the acquisition of Ventro Group
- Petropavlovsk Plc on M&A and corporate governance matters and on a variety of contentious and regulatory matters, including internal and external investigations
- Roivant Sciences on its strategic alliance with Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma
- Sanofi on its up to $1.45 billion acquisition of Kymab, Ltd.
- Standard Life Aberdeen plc on the £3.24bn sale of its UK and European insurance business to Phoenix Group Holdings
- Standard Life plc on the £11bn recommended all-share merger with Aberdeen Asset Management to create Standard Life Aberdeen plc
- Swiss Re Ltd on the sale of a minority stake in ReAssure to MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc.
- United Utilities Group plc on the formation of a new joint venture with Severn Trent plc
- Zurich Insurance plc on the transfer of its pre-2007 UK legacy employers’ liability portfolio to Catalina by way of an interim reinsurance arrangement and subsequent insurance business transfer