Nick Azis is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP, based in its London office. His practice focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Nick has advised on a broad range of UK domestic and cross-border public and private company M&A principally in the energy/natural resources, IPMT, manufacturing and commodities sectors.
Nick is mentioned in recent editions of Legal 500.
Representative Experience
- Advising Olam International in connection with its acquisition of Britannia Food Holdings
- Advising Olam International Limited on its acquisition of Crown Flour Mills Limited in Nigeria
- Advising Olam International on its joint venture and financing of a sugar refinery in the Port of Lagos, Nigeria
- Advising CV Starr & Co on the sale of its interest in Discovery Russian Realty Paveletskaya
- Advising the owner and founder of the World-Check Group in the partial sale of the World-Check Group to Spectrum Equity Investors and subsequent sale to Thomson Reuters Corp
- Advising MCT Corp, provider of mobile telephone services in Russia and Central Asia, in the sale of Vostok Mobile Northwest BV
- Advising Azpetrol BV in the sale of its interest in Binagardi Oil and Gas of Azerbaijan to Rosneft
- Advising Porton Capital, the UK Ministry of Defence and other shareholders in relation to the sale of Acolyte Biomedica to 3M Corporation
- Advising Intersnack Group GmbH in its acquisition of Union Snack
- Advising Honeywell International in the acquisition of controlled lighting company Ex-Or Holdings
- Advising JX Nippon Oil Exploration and Production U.K. Limited on an exchange of North Sea oil interests with Stratic Energy Limited
- Advising Luxottica Group SpA in the consolidation of its Sunglass Hut companies in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland and in the merger of the Sunglass Hut UK Group with Optika Holdings Limited, owner of the David Clulow brand of opticians
Education
- College of Law, LLB, 1992
- Bristol University, BA (Hons First Class), 1988
Languages Spoken
- English
- French
