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Brigid Breslin is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP, based in its London office. She is a member of the Corporate Department, where her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and private equity. She also advises on a wide range of corporate and finance transactions, as well as giving day to day general advice on matters of company law. She has extensive experience in relation to reductions of capital, schemes of arrangement, joint ventures, management buy-outs, restructurings, flotations, UK domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, rights issues and the setting up and marketing of investment funds. Brigid advises extensively on the Companies Act 2006 and in relation to European Company law directives and regulations.
Representative Experience:
Advising Merrill Lynch on its acquisition of the energy trading business of Entergy-Koch
Advising The Exploration Company plc on its £43m merger, by way of scheme of arrangement, with El Oro Mining and Exploration Company plc.
Advising Schmalbach-Lubeca, one of Europe’s largest packaging companies, on the €1.7bn sale of its packaging and bottling businesses to Amcor, Australia’s largest packaging group.
Advising Streetnames plc on its reverse acquisition of Networkers International plc and its admission to AIM
Advising Arbuthnot Securities as underwriter of a rights issue by Umeco plc to raise £22m to part fund its proposed acquisition of Advanced Composites Group Holdings Ltd
Advising a major oil company in relation to bids for numerous oil and gas interests
Education:
University College London, L.L.M. (Corporate & Commercial), 1998.
Southampton University, L.L.B. (Hons), 1994. | 