Biography
Martin Weatherston-Wilson is Corporate counsel 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.
Representative experience as part of a team, including prior to joining Weil, includes acting for:
- Sun European Partners on its acquisition of Sports & Leisure Group
- Advent International on its investment in Planet Payment, and the subsequent bolt-on of Proximis
- Advent International on its acquisition of Hoist Group, and the subsequent bolt-on of protel Hotelsoftware
- Wejo on a minority investment by General Motors, and on its $1.1 billion business combination with Virtuoso Acquisition Corp., a SPAC sponsored by Virtuoso Sponsor LLC
- Lone Star on its take-private of McCarthy & Stone
- Kantar (a portfolio company of Bain Capital) on the $375m carve-out and sale of its Health division to Cerner Corporation
- Highland Gold Mining on its £1bn recommend pre-conditional mandatory takeover offer by Fortiana Holdings
- Willis Towers Watson on its proposed $80bn combination with Aon
- Bain Capital on its majority acquisition of Kantar from WPP
- SEAF on its sale of ABCom to Vodafone Albania
- Berkshire Partners on its investment in Teraco Data Environments
- Bain Capital on its £1.2bn takeover of esure Group
- Groupe Fnac on its £914m takeover of Darty
- TUI Travel on its £4.5bn takeover by TUI AG
- Westinghouse on its c. $4.6bn sale to Brookfield Business Partners and pre-completion restructuring
- KKR, Blackstone and Apax on a number of sponsor-led M&A transactions
- Aston Martin in a £200m private placement of preference shares
- KKR on a $466m block trade of shares in Pets at Home Group plc
- Blackstone and CVC on a series of block trades of shares in Merlin Entertainments, raising c. $2bn in aggregate