Anna Lewis
PartnerAnna is a Corporate lawyer and the Co-Head of DLA Piper’s International Corporate Reorganizations practice. She has over 20 years' experience advising on complex national and cross-border corporate matters, with a particular focus on large, multi-jurisdiction reorganisations and restructurings including high profile spin-offs.
Working closely with many DLA offices, relationship firms and accountants across the globe on a daily basis, Anna has strong connections and teams that she has built to deliver significant and complex transactions. She project manages complex transactions and step-plans, whether that be as part of a carve-out, post-acquisition integration, entity rationalisation, tax optimisation project or general group re-alignment. She has completed both cross-border reorganizations and acquisitions and disposals for clients which include NYSE listed companies and market leaders, such as Arconic, Klockner Pentaplast, Howmet Aerospace, Medtronic and GE.
EXPERIENCE
- Medtronic plc on the global pre-sale carve out of its renal care business in preparation for its renal care joint venture with Davita plc
- GE – advising GE on its significant project to separate into independent aerospace, healthcare and energy businesses, each listed in New York
- Klockner Pentaplast – on the large reorganisation of its group to separate and streamline its two core food packaging and pharmaceutical, health and durables businesses. The steps were planned and implemented over a two year period.
- Innovid Corp. (NYSE:CTV), in connection with its acquisition of TVSquared, an independent global measurement and attribution platform for converged TV.
- Arconic, Inc on its group reorganisation and separation involving over 20 jurisdictions in order to spin-off into two separate groups, both listed on the NYSE, Howmet Aerospace, Inc. and Arconic Corp.
- Arconic, Inc on the auction share sale of its UK based forgings business, Firth Rixson Forgings Limited, to US private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners.
- Coupa Software, on its UK legal rationalisation project. Advising on structure and implementing the steps over a two year period.
- Corteva Agriscience on the UK aspects of its internal group reorganisation to optimise its business structure.
- Danaher Corporation on the acquisition of General Electric’s biopharma business, which involved a global reorganisation of General Electric and Danaher’s businesses prior to the acquisition.
- Danaher Corporation following its acquisition of the biopharma business of General Electric, on the group reorganisation and alignment steps to integrate the biopharma business into the Danaher group.
- SolarEdge Technologies on the acquisition by one of its subsidiaries of the entire issued share capital of Hark Systems, a UK-based SaaS and IoT platform provider
- Standard Industries on the global reorganisation and simplification of its BMI group of companies, which manufacture roofing solutions, to enable it to deliver services through a more efficient and streamlined toll manufacturing structure (2019-2022).
- English
- Nottingham Trent University, Law LLB
- Nottingham Law School, Legal Practice Course
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