Biography
Thomas Weatherill is counsel in the Employment practice in London. He advises clients on the full range of employment law issues, both contentious and non-contentious. Prior to joining Weil, Thomas worked at another US-headquartered firm in London.
Representative experience, as part of a team, includes advising:
- A&M Capital Advisors Europe on its acquisition of GBUK
- Advent International on numerous transactions, including on: a partnership with the founder of the Parfums de Marly and INITIO Parfums Privés niche fragrance brands; the acquisition of a co-controlling stake in Planet Payment Group; the acquisition of Hoist Group; the €3.9 billion sale of Aareon; the acquisition of SYSPRO; the carve-out sale of Tag (part of the Williams Lea Tag group) to Dentsu; the sale of Williams Lea to RR Donnelly
- Bain Capital Credit on its bid to acquire LV=
- Baring Private Equity Asia in the sale of China headquartered HCP Packaging, a global leader in the design, development and manufacture of cosmetics packaging, to The Carlyle Group
- British Columbia Investment Management Corporation on the recommended cash offer and financing for BBGI Global Infrastructure SA (BBGI)
- Brookfield Asset Management on the acquisition of DWS’ Private Equity Secondaries business
- Brookfield Business Partners in its $8 billion sale of Westinghouse Electric Company
- CD&R on its acquisition of OCS Group
- Churchill Capital VII, a special purpose acquisition company, in its definitive agreement for a business combination with CorpAcq Holdings
- CIIG Capital Partners II, Inc on a $573m de-SPAC merger with Zapp Electric Vehicles
- Cobham (a portfolio company of Advent) on the carve-out and sale of its Mission Systems division to Eaton for $2.83bn
- CVC Capital Partners on the acquisition of RiverStone Europe from Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited and its acquisition of Dale Partners
- Depop, the British second-hand fashion resale app, on its $1.6 billion sale to Etsy, Inc
- EO Charging in its proposed $675 million business combination with First Reserve Sustainable Growth Corp., a SPAC sponsored by First Reserve Corporation
- EQT Partners on its investment in United Talent Agency
- FitzWalter Capital in connection with the carve out of TriConnex Ltd and eSmart Networks Ltd from Nexus Infrastructure plc
- Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp., a SPAC sponsored by Bilcar FT, LP and Trasimene Capital FT, LP., in its $7.3 billion combination with Alight Solutions LLC
- Globeducate (a portfolio company of Providence Equity), on the acquisition of the L’Ecole des Petits and L’Ecole de Battersea French-English bilingual elementary schools
- Howden Group on its acquisition of A-Plan and its acquisition of TigerRisk Partners
- InfraBridge on the combination of its UK fibre business, operating as VX Fibre and LilaConnect, with Freedom Fibre Limited
- L’Oréal in its acquisition of Color Wow
- Marquee Raine Acquisition Corp., a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of The Raine Group LLC and Marquee Sports Holdings SPAC I, LLC, in its $1.2 billion business combination with Enjoy Technology, Inc.
- Newlight Partners LP in its growth equity investment in Landways, the UK’s leading provider of integrated in-building digital and power infrastructure
- OMERS Private Equity on the acquisition of Bionic
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board: on the acquisition of Logoplaste group
- Providence Equity on the take-private of Hyve Group plc and its acquisition of Node4 Group
- PSG Equity on the strategic growth investment in Glasswall
- Px3 Partners on the carve-out acquisition of the filtration division of Celeros Flow Technology, a portfolio company of Apollo Global Management
- Sumeru Equity Partners on its investment in iProov Limited