Bob Bishop has almost 30 years’ experience of advising clients on all areas of corporate law, with a particular focus on cross-border M&A, private equity transactions and joint ventures.
He has particular knowledge of IP-rich businesses and the industries they operate in, including consumer goods, life sciences, media/sports and technology. His clients include listed and private companies, institutional investors, and financial intermediaries.
Bob’s experience includes:
- recommended and hostile public takeovers
- all manner of private share and business acquisitions/disposals, domestic and cross-border
- private equity buyouts and exits
- corporate venture capital investments, often with a path to control and
- joint ventures/strategic alliances
He is widely regarded as a trusted advisor and relationship builder, leading the firm’s relationships with clients such as Aristocrat Leisure Limited (ASX: ALL), Carlyle Europe Technology Partners (part of The Carlyle Group Inc., NASDAQ: CG), Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR), Liberty Global plc (NASDAQ: LBTY), Mondelēz International, Inc. (NYSE: MDLZ), The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAIN) and Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. (NASDAQ: WBD).
Recent transactions that Bob has advised on include the proposed 50:50 joint venture between Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. and BT Group plc to create a new sports venture in the UK (combining Eurosport UK and BT Sport), and the acquisition by Pixel United (the video games division of Aristocrat Leisure Limited) of mobile gaming studios Futureplay (Finland) and Playsoft (Poland).
Bob has a truly global perspective, especially helpful for clients entering new markets, dealing with overseas counterparties or executing complex multi-jurisdictional deals. Taken together, the transactions he has led on have involved most of the developed economies around the world.
Bob is also known for giving legal advice based on first-hand commercial insight, having spent time out of the law working as a venture capitalist.