London
Alexander Shoferpoor
Senior Associate
About
Alex is a senior associate in our London Global M&A and Capital practice, specialising in ECM and M&A.
He has experience advising clients across a variety of sectors on equity capital markets and public M&A transactions. Alex also advises on private M&A and listed companies on corporate governance and company law matters.
Alex recently returned from a secondment to the Equity Execution team at a major US investment bank, where he covered ECM mandates across EMEA, and was previously seconded to EQT’s European Legal M&A team. Alex trained at Freshfields and was also previously seconded to our Dubai office.
Additional Information
His recent experience includes advising:
- SSE on its £2bn equity raise.
- REA Group on its £6.2bn possible cash and share offer for Rightmove plc.
- Aston Martin Lagonda on a £111m equity placing.
- CVC Capital Partners on its €14bn IPO on Euronext Amsterdam.
- Mars, Incorporated on its recommended acquisition of Hotel Chocolat Group plc.
- PSP Investments on its acquisition of a majority stake, and subsequent sale of a minority stake, in Angel Trains, a UK rolling stock company.
- Pilgrim's Pride Corporation on the acquisition of Kerry Food's meats and ready meals businesses for approximately £700 million.
- Mercuria Energy, an independent energy and commodity group with revenues of over $100bn, on its acquisitions of strategic equity stakes in various renewables businesses, including N+P Group and CWP Europe.
- Mitchells & Butlers on its capital raise by way of an open offer to raise approximately £350 million.
- HSS Hire on its capital raise by way of a firm placing, placing and open offer to shareholders and new institutional investors to raise approximately £53 million.
- A FTSE 250 closed ended investment fund on various ongoing corporate matters, including a multibillion dollar reduction of capital.
Alexander Shoferpoor
Senior Associate
London Office
100 Bishopsgate
London EC2P 2SR