Overview
Tom Whelan focuses his practice on private equity, advising private equity sponsors, multi strategy funds, other private capital investors and corporates, helping them deploy capital across the world.
Tom handles buyouts, including secondary buy-outs and secondaries, take privates and co-investments, general M&A, bolt-ons, management incentive plans, restructurings and refinancings through to exits. During the course of any investment, Tom advises on portfolio company work and any changes to management incentive plans.
Tom regularly executes transactions in regulated sectors such as healthcare, technology, media and telecoms, financial services, water and energy, as well as handling many transactions in other sectors such as real estate, hotels and leisure, food, consumer and retail, industrial and automotive.
Results
- Advised Fortress on its acquisition of the Majestic Wines retail business*
- Advised Trilantic on its buyout of James Grant Group*
- Advised IDI on its buyout of Mangar Health*
- Advised Pamplona Capital on various £500m+ acquisitions in the UK/Europe*
- Advised Interval Leisure Group on a disposal*
- Advised Swissport on a substantial acquisition*
- Advised Fortress on a substantial proposed UK investment*
- Advised 21 Investimenti on its joint venture with Aberdeen Standard Investments*
- Advised General Atlantic in relation to its investment in Joe and the Juice*
- Advised a large corporate on a proposed major acquisition of a substantial global logistics company from a PE sponsor*
- Advised Altran Technology on the acquisition of a cyber security business
- Advised Vitruvian on a proposed acquisition of a financial services company*
- Advised Navis Capital on a number of UK acquisitions and disposals*
- Advised NM Rothschild & Sons Limited on the £117m sale of Five Arrows Leasing Group Limited to Paragon Bank plc*
- Advised Rothschild (Five Arrows Principal Investments) on a number of European buyouts*
- Advised Ares Capital and Management on the acquisition and subsequent refinancing and sale of ESG Holdings Limited and MIP*
- Advised a Family Office on its £30m investment into a healthcare tech business*
- Advised Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on its £626m acquisition of Inexus Group Limited from Challenger Infrastructure Fund*
- Advised senior management on the €3.2bn Allegro transaction and new MIP arrangements*
- Advised senior Management on the €2.6bn sale of Permira of Birds Eye Iglo to Nomad Holdings Limited and new MIP arrangements*
- Advised the senior executive management team of Vocalink on its sale to MasterCard for approximately £700m*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott
Recognitions
- Chambers UK, Private Equity: Buyouts: Mid-Market, 2022 – 2023
- The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom, M&A Law and Private Equity Law, 2023
- Acritas Stars 2020, listed among independently rated lawyers
- The Legal 500 UK, Leading Individual in London Private Equity Transactions: Mid-Market Deals; Recommended Lawyer in London Corporate and Commercial: M&A lower mid-market, 2022- 2023
- IFLR 1000 2022, Highly Regarded in Private Equity, UK
Community
- Law Society of England & Wales
- BVCA
Credentials
Education
University of Durham, BA (Hons), 1990
Admissions
England & Wales
Languages
English
Italian
