About
Toby is a senior associate in our Global M&A and Capital practice based in London.
He has experience advising clients across a variety of sectors on a mixture of private M&A, public M&A and equity capital markets transactions. Toby also advises both listed and unlisted companies on corporate governance matters.
Toby trained at Freshfields and was previously seconded to Freshfields’ Hong Kong office.
Additional Information
Advising:
- ITV on the sale of its Media & Entertainment business to Sky and the acquisition of Love Productions from Sky, for a total consideration of up to £1.6bn.
- Bakkavor Group, a UK listed FTSE250 FMCG company, on its takeover by Greencore Group.
- DAZN, a leading global sports platform, on various mandates including its purchase of Eleven Sports Network Limited, a global sports media business, from Aser Ventures, and its disposal of the Perform Content business to Vistra Capital Partners, following a 30+ jurisdiction carve-out;.
- Entain, one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming groups, on the acquisition of Angstrom Sports, a specialist provider of next generation sports modelling, forecasting and data analytics.
- TotalEnergies on its all-stock acquisition of 50 per cent of EPH’s 14+ GW portfolio of flexible power generation assets, with a JV enterprise value of €10.6bn.
- Pure Health Holding PJSC, the largest integrated healthcare network in the UAE, on the acquisition of a 60 per cent stake in Hellenic Healthcare Group, the largest private healthcare provider in Greece and Cyprus.
- Mumtalakat, the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Bahrain, on the successful reorganisation of McLaren, the global luxury automotive and elite motorsports group.
- Amanda Staveley, her investment vehicle PCP Capital Partners, and a consortium led by the Public Investment Fund on the acquisition of Newcastle United Football Club.
- various English Premier League football clubs on a range of corporate and regulatory matters.
- EDF on its equity investment and ongoing supplier role in Sizewell C, a 3.2GW nuclear power station under development in East Suffolk.
- AngloGold Ashanti plc, on its sale of a 100 per cent interest in a gold exploration project in the Department of Tolima, Colombia to Mineros S.A. through the sale of all the outstanding shares in AngloGold Ashanti Colombia S.A.S.
- General Dynamics Corporation on the sale of its General Dynamics Mission Systems – Italy division to Maticmind S.p.A., a CVC portfolio company.
- Compass Group on a cashbox placing to institutional investors alongside an offer to retail investors to raise approximately £2 billion, as well as Aston Martin Lagonda, Mitchells & Butlers, Auto Trader and HSS Hire on secondary capital raises undertaken by each.
Toby Halford
Senior Associate
London Office
100 Bishopsgate
London EC2P 2SR