Marie Johnson


Marie Johnson
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Marie Johnson

Marie Johnson

Partner


Marie Johnson
  1. People /

Marie Johnson

Marie Johnson

Partner

Marie Johnson

Partner

London

T: +44 (0) 20 3400 2385

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Biography

Marie is a Partner in our M&A and Corporate Finance team with extensive experience acting on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, intra-group reorganisations and in advising shareholders and directors on company law matters. Marie co-leads the firm’s Retail and Consumer Products sector focus group.

Marie has experience advising both corporate buyers and management sellers on founder transactions and can readily anticipate and strategically navigate the key issues that arise on these types of transactions, both on buy and sell side.

Marie is also experienced in advising leading insurers on warranty and indemnity insurance solutions and can draw on this experience to assist a smooth underwriting process for the insured to support the transaction.

Admissions

  • England and Wales

Related Practice Areas

  • M&A & Corporate Finance

  • Private Equity

  • Retail & Consumer Products

  • Sports & Entertainment

  • Corporate

  • Litigation & Dispute Resolution

  • UK Public Company

  • Collegiate Sports Practice

  • Olympic & National Governing Body Practice

  • Professional Sports Team Practice

  • Sports & Entertainment Contract, Endorsement & Celebrity Representation Practice

  • Anti-Doping Practice

  • Sports & Event Venue Real Estate Infrastructure and Operation

  • Naming Rights & Sponsorship Practice

  • Sports & Entertainment M&A Practice

  • Sports & Entertainment Litigation Practice

  • Sports & Entertainment Specialty Counseling Practice

  • Entertainment Industry Practice

  • Sports & Event Financing

  • Hotels and Hospitality

  • Real Estate Retail

Experience

  • Curium Pharma (a Capvest Partners portfolio company) in relation to its acquisition of a global medical imaging business and more recently a carve-out sale of its Enterprise Technologies division;
  • Gamesys plc on several strategic corporate acquisitions in the online gambling sector;
  • British Telecommunications plc on several strategic carve-out sales including the sale of BT Fleet to PE fund Aurelius;
  • Angel Trains on its acquisition of a 50% share in SMBC Leasing’s UK rail rolling stock portfolio, and related joint venture arrangements;
  • The Lewis Trust Group on its acquisition of the ladies fashion brand, Mint Velvet and post-acquisition management incentivisation packages for the founders of Loaf;
  • the founders of the leading UK football agency business, the Stellar Group, on their sale of the group to US-based talent agency, ICM Partners;
  • ironSource, an Israeli company providing a leading business platform for the app economy, on its acquisition of Luna Labs, a creative management platform for mobile ads;
  • the founders of biotechnology company, IOmet Pharma, to US based pharmaceutical corporation, Merck;
  • Playtech Plc on several acquisitions during a long-standing relationship built on excellent service delivery and client care. This included the acquisition of proprietary game maker YoYo Games Limited, and each of its acquisitions in the regulated financials trading sector beginning with the purchase of TradeFX Limited, the holding company behind the forex and CFD broker Markets.com and the group’s subsequent complimentary acquisitions of B2B technology provider, Consolidated Financial Holdings Group, and market maker, Alpha Capital Markets;
  • BGC Partners, on its acquisition of Algomi Limited from selling founder-managers, a software company that provides technology to bond market participants to improve their workflow and liquidity by data aggregation, pre-trade information analysis, and execution facilitation;
  • the founders of e-commerce ladies fashion business, Long Tall Sally, to Equistone Partners Europe-backed German retailer TriStyle Mode in a deal valued at £30 million; and
  • the Foschini Group on its acquisitions of ladieswear businesses, Whistles, Damsel in a Dress and Hobbs, in each instance from selling founder teams with rollover and post-completion incentivisation structures.

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