Patrick Hennessy
Associate
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Experience
Patrick Hennessy focuses on public and private mergers & acquisitions (including cross-border transactions), acting on behalf of purchasers, sellers and targets. Patrick also concentrates on corporate finance and corporate governance work, acting for issuers and financial institutions on flotations, secondary funds raising and ongoing compliance with market rules. Patrick also advises on restructurings and non-contentious insolvency matters. Patrick joined Mayer Brown International LLP in 2004. He has spent six months on secondment to Cable & Wireless plc and eight months on secondment to AstraZenca plc. Notable Engagements
- Advising a Hong Kong Stock Exchange listed investment company on its £250 million recommended takeover of an AIM-traded property investment company.
- Advised a Bermuda-based insurer on its £136 million recommended cash offer for a quoted Lloyd's insurer.
- Advised Entertainment One Limited in relation to its acquisition of the business of the Canadian-listed Entertainment One Income Fund and simultaneous fundraising and admission to the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange,
- Advised a London-based property company on its acquisition of a Netherlands-incorporated company.
- Advised a Luxemburg-based company on its purchase of 50 percent of the share capital of a Kazakhstan-based company, which owns the exploitation rights to certain oil fields in Kazakhstan.
- Acted for Administrators on the sale of certain intellectual property rights.
- Acted for a car-sourcing company on the implementation of its Company Voluntary Arrangement with a moratorium.
- Advised an India-based company on the issue of its US$70m foreign currency convertible bonds.
- Advised Kazakhstan's largest commercial bank, Kazkommertsbank JSC, as the originator on its US$300 million Diversified Payment Rights securitisation.
Education
Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, LPC, 2002-2003; (with distinction) • University of Southampton, LLB (Hons), 1999-2002. Admitted
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