Garrett Hayes

Overview

Garrett Hayes focuses his practice on a broad range of cross-border and domestic M&A and corporate advisory matters. His practice includes a broad range of general corporate work and includes advising on fund raising, strategic investments and joint ventures.

He has extensive experience in transactions in the telecoms industry, including M&A involving mobile network operators and telecoms infrastructure. Garrett also represents private equity sponsors, management teams, and portfolio companies on leveraged buyouts, equity incentive arrangements, restructurings and exits.

Results

Advised a leading European private equity firm with over €8 billion of assets under management, on the acquisition of a significant minority stake in a leading supplier of insurance software*
Advised a leading European private equity firm, its founders, and the management team on the acquisition of a leading player in the primary research market, serving over 1,000 private equity funds, hedge funds, mutual funds and management consulting firms*
Advised a leading European private equity firm on the acquisition of the leading provider of Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) software solutions for financial institutions*

Advised a market-leading acquirer and manager of consumer debt on the acquisitions of three separate financial entities*
Advised a Chinese shipping and port company, on the acquisition of a 67% stake in a port in southeast Greece as part of the Hellenic Republic’s high profile privatisation programme, in a transaction valued in excess of US$1 billion*
Advised a leading Korean pharmaceutical company on the English law aspects of its long-term strategic collaboration partnership with a Japanese pharmaceutical company with respect to biosimilars*
Advised an Irish telecommunications company on the sale of a majority stake in a provider of secure communications to the Garda and emergency services, at an enterprise value of €130 million*
Advised an Irish telecommunications company on the €300 million sale of a portfolio of 650 telecoms towers, to a wireless infrastructure company and the associated long term master services agreement*
Advised an Irish telecommunications company on a new partnership to create a dedicated fibre company, focused on the deployment of fibre-to-the-home across the Republic of Ireland*
Advised a serviced offices company on the proposed merger with a flexible workspace company to create the premier flexible workspace company in the UK and Europe*
Advised a stock brokerage firm and investment bank based in Hong Kong on its recommended cash acquisition of a Tokyo-listed investment company, which was affected by means of a UK Scheme of Arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006*
Advised a large South Korean business conglomerate on its US$300 million investment in a UK-based low earth orbit satellite communications company*
Advised a European telecommunications provider on the €260 million acquisition of a leading Cypriot mobile phone operator*
Advised a European telecommunications provider on the €250 million acquisition of a Maltese mobile phone operator*
Advised a French telecommunications company on the €3.2 billion acquisition of a leading Irish telecommunications company *
Advised a Swiss telecommunications provider on the CHF 0.8 billion (€0.7 billion) sale of a 90% equity interest in the company owning their passive mobile infrastructure in Switzerland to a Spanish tower operator and the associated long-term master services agreement*
Advised a Swiss telecommunications provider on the €135 million sale of a 10% stake in a mobile infrastructure operator*
Advised a South Korean multinational electronics corporation on its US$310 million acquisition of the handset connectivity and location development operations from a multinational fabless semiconductor company and the related subscription by them for a 4.9% equity stake in the company*
Advised a South Korean multinational electronics corporation on its acquisition of a Swedish developer of ultra-low-power Wireless LAN chipsets for high-speed wireless access in mobile phones*
Advised the owner of China’s largest publicly-traded meat processing enterprise in a US$7.1 billion agreement to acquire the largest US publicly-traded pork processor and hog producer*
Advised a specialist energy investment firm on its investments into various companies*
Advised an energy investment firm on the formation of an investment platform established as a Cayman segregated portfolio company which provides growth capital to energy companies*
Advised management of a fire and gas safety solutions company on the US$480 million sale of the company to an American multinational conglomerate corporation*