Paul Whitelock
UK Guide 2025
Band 5 : Corporate/M&A: £800 million and above
Band 5
About
Provided by Paul Whitelock
Practice Areas
Paul Whitelock is a corporate lawyer based in London.
Paul spent two years on secondment as a Secretary at the UK Takeover Panel, where he was responsible for regulating some of the most high profile public M&A transactions as well as developing the Panel's policies on a number of issues. He has extensive experience of takeovers involving companies listed on the Main Market and traded on AIM, as well as capital markets transactions. He also has detailed experience of schemes of arrangement/reductions of capital and structures utilised to return cash to shareholders.
Paul read French at Warwick University and completed his legal training at Westminster University and College of Law in London. He became a partner in 2006.
Chambers Review
UK
Paul Whitelock concentrates his practice on the representation of clients in public M&A and capital markets deals. He is particularly prominent in the financial services sector.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Paul is very commercial and incredibly helpful. The advice he provides is tailored to his understanding of our risk profile."
"Paul has good expertise and he makes the complicated understandable. We really value his advice."
"Paul is a public M&A specialist. He is very knowledgeable and shrewd in his application of the Takeover Code."
"Paul is very commercial and incredibly helpful. The advice he provides is tailored to his understanding of our risk profile."
"Paul has good expertise and he makes the complicated understandable. We really value his advice."
"Paul is a public M&A specialist. He is very knowledgeable and shrewd in his application of the Takeover Code."