Luk Trewhela
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Luk Trewhela

Associate
trewhela.luk@dorsey.com

Overview

Luk advises clients on a wide range of corporate transactional matters, with a particular focus on cross border and domestic M&A.

Luk’s practice focuses on public and private M&A, equity financings, venture capital, and more general corporate matters, acting for clients in a wide range of industry sectors including technology, professional services, and energy & natural resources.

He has particular experience advising on complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, public to private takeover transactions, corporate reorganisations, and guiding founders and management teams through private equity backed transactions or sales to corporate acquirers.

Education & Admissions

Cardiff Law School (Legal Practice Course, 2011)

Cardiff University (LLB, Law, 2010)

Admissions

  • England

Experience

Representative Experience

Corporate Transactions

  • Advising DWF Group Plc on the £342m recommended takeover by Inflexion Private Equity
  • Advising Datatec Limited (a company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange) on the £210m sale of its technology consulting business, Analysys Mason, to Bridgepoint Development Capital
  • Advising the majority shareholders of Met Media on the sale of the ‘Met Film School’ to private equity backed (ICG), BIMM Group Limited
  • Advising the senior management team of Motor Fuel Group on its acquisition of 337 Morrison petrol forecourts
  • Advising the shareholders of Peoplevox (including Index Ventures) on its sale to Descartes
  • Advising Exchanger Industries of Canada, a designer and manufacturer of heat exchanger products, on its cross-border acquisition of HRS Heat Exchangers Group operating in countries across the globe including the UK, India, Spain, Australia and Malaysia.  Exchanger Industries is a portfolio company of private equity investor, Nova Capital
  • Advising the equity partners of accountancy practice, Rees Pollock, on their sale to private equity backed (HG Capital), Blick Rothenburg
  • Advising Kogenta on its acquisitions of FluxLoop and Urban Analytix
  • Advising the management team at Alexander Mann Solutions on the sale of the company for US$1.2b in a transaction between New Mountain Capital and OMERS Private Equity
  • Advising the shareholders of Dunstan Thomas Group, a leading fintech business, on the sale of DTG to London Stock Exchange-listed Curtis Banks Group plc
  • Advising the shareholders of Arts Alliance Media, the  leading operational software solution provider to the cinema industry,  on their sale to Shandong Luxin-Rio Visual Technology of Qingdao, China 
  • Advising a global crop protection company on the total reorganisation of its international operations, including the buy-out of a longstanding European joint venture partner
  • Advising the shareholders of This Is The Big Deal on its sale to trade buyer, GoCompare.com

Industries & Practices

  • Banking & Financial Institutions
  • Capital Markets
  • Corporate Governance & Compliance
  • Emerging Companies
  • Energy & Natural Resources
  • Europe
  • Lending Transactions
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Technology

Professional & Civic

Professional Achievements

  • Law Society of England and Wales

Luk Trewhela