Biography
Laurence Feeny is counsel in Weil’s Private Equity team in London. He advises both private equity sponsors and corporates on a broad range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including buyouts, private M&A, takeovers, equity issues, management incentive programmes, reorganisations and general corporate advisory matters.
Prior to joining Weil, Laurence worked for a Magic Circle law firm in their London and Hong Kong offices.
Representative experience as part of a team includes advising:
- Sign In solutions Inc on its recommended cash offer for Smartspace Software plc
- SilverTree Equity on the sale of a co-controlling interest in Orbus Software to FTV Capital
- Global Infrastructure Partners, as part of a consortium together with Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Employees’ Provident Fund of Malaysia and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), on their $3.9 billion pre-conditional voluntary cash takeover offer for Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad
- Advent International on the carve-out sale of Tag (part of the Williams Lea Tag group) to Dentsu
- PSG on the sale of Nomentia to Inflexion
- Bain Capital on the acquisition, together with Nextalia, of Deltatre
- Scandinavian Airlines on its emergence from Chapter 11 insolvency
- Shieldco (a portfolio company of PSG) on the acquisition of 10to8
- Eutelsat and its Board on all legal matters regarding its combination with OneWeb
- An ad-hoc group of noteholders in relation to the consensual recapitalisation and financial restructuring of Frigoglass S.A.I.C.