Larry Cooper

Larry Cooper specialises in, Wills(Estates), domestic and cross-border M&A and private equity transactions, as well as all aspects of corporate finance work.

Larry has advised corporates, private equity houses, real estate funds and investment banks on a wide range of matters, including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and disposals, takeovers, mergers, joint ventures, restructurings and refinancings.

Permira on the EUR€250 million acquisition of Norway—headquartered PHARMAQ Holding, one of the world’s leading aquatic health groups, from Orkla ASA and Kverva ASCVC Capital Partners on the joint venture involving the combination of its debt management business, Cordatus, with Apidos Capital Management, the debt management business of Resource America Inc, to create CVC Credit Partners, a credit arm with assets of USD$7.5 billion

Suntory of Japan on the acquisition of the Orangina Schweppes business from Blackstone and Lion Capital Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, the owner and operator of the luxury Peninsula hotel chain, on its agreements with Qatari Diar for a proposed hotel development in Paris

Deutsche Telekom AG and T-Mobile on the merging of their business with Orange plc (a unit of France Telecom) in the deal that created Everything Everywhere, the UK’s largest mobile operator with sales of GBP£8.2 billion and 28.4 million customers TeliaSonera on the increase in TeliaSonera's stake in Kazakhstan's leading mobile phone company (doing business as Kcell) to 75%, and the listing of 25% of Kcell on the Kazakhstan and London stock exchanges

A consortium of six private equity houses in relation to the successful public bid for VNU N.V. (since renamed into The Nielsen Company), for USD$10.5 billion in 2006 and on the Initial Public Offering of Shares in Nielsen Holdings N.V. A consortium of Mediaset, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and Cyrte Investments on the acquisition of Endemol, the world’s largest independent television production company, by a combination of a private acquisition of 75% of the company from Telefónica and a public offer for the remaining shares, followed by various reorganisations and debt restructurings.

Larry Cooper LLP advises CVC Capital Partners on its partnership with GIC to invest in RAC 2 December 2015