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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.
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
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- Capital Markets
- Corporate Governance & Compliance
- Emerging Companies
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Europe
- Lending Transactions
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity
- Technology