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Anna Lewis

Partner
Co-Head of International Corporate Reorganizations, Corporate
SheffieldLondon
About

Anna 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.

Areas of FocusCorporateMergers and AcquisitionsInternational Corporate ReorganizationsIndustrialsLife SciencesConsumer Goods, Food and Retail
Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

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).
Languages
  • English
Education
  • Nottingham Trent University, Law LLB
  • Nottingham Law School, Legal Practice Course

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