Graham Conlon

Practice Areas

Corporate/M&A, Private Equity

Career

Graham Conlon is an English-qualified cross-border PE/M&A partner based on the ground in CEE, and is the Head of Private Equity for CEE/CIS. He has a regional role and has acted on matters in around 45 countries in his career to-date. Graham trained and worked at Linklaters in London, and he holds a Masters in Finance from the London Business School. Clients have remarked that Graham is “no doubt a heavyweight in corporate and M&A”, “very pragmatic” and “very commercial” in his approach.

Recent transactions on which he has advised include Horizon Capital and Datagroup on the leveraged acquisition of the Volia group of companies, on the sale of Spearhead, a leading food and agricultural business managing 83,000 hectares of farmland across the UK, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and Romania, on a major container-terminal joint venture transaction with DP World, Cinven across five jurisdictions (involving over 60 CMS lawyers) on the acquisition of Partner in Pet Food, and on the sale of TIP Trailer Services (a leading equipment service provider headquartered in Amsterdam and operating in 17 countries) to I Squared Capital.