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Provided by Nick Rumsby

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Nick Rumsby’s practice focuses on public and private mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, restructurings, joint ventures, demergers, and equity financings.

He is uniquely placed to advise on UK takeovers having completed a two-year secondment to the UK Takeover Panel as a senior case officer (2008-2010) where he was involved in all major decisions and policies made during that time. Following his secondment, Nick has spent over a decade advising targets and UK and overseas bidders on some of the largest and most high-profile takeovers in the UK market.

Career

In addition to his time at the Takeover Panel, Nick spent over two decades as a renowned M&A lawyer at a leading magic circle law firm, leading one of their corporate groups for six years.

He joined Cleary Gottlieb as a partner in 2023.

Professional Memberships

England and Wales

Publications

Nick contributes regularly to the Takeover Panel’s public consultations. He contributed three chapters to the second edition of Butterworths Takeovers: Law and Practice and edited the Gore-Browne chapter on takeovers for more than seven years.

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Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability - UK
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Band 3

Nick Rumsby is experienced in domestic public M&A, in addition to boasting expertise in joint ventures, demergers and corporate restructurings. His practice benefits from time on secondment at the Takeover Panel.

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