Mark Wagh

Mr. Wagh’s experience includes advising:

• Farfetch in the expansion of its luxury new retail partnership, with an agreement for Farfetch to acquire a 47.5% stake in YOOX Net-a-Porter
• A major UK financial holding company on handling questions from UK competition authorities and financial regulators in relation to losses caused by a major global insolvency
• MGM, Hollywood’s most iconic movie studio and home to the James Bond franchise, in its US$8.45 billion acquisition by a multi-national technology company
• Five9 in Zoom’s US$14.7 billion acquisition of Five9
• Global Media and Entertainment Limited on its acquisition of Exterion Media which was cleared at Phase 1 by the CMA*
• Roche Holdings, Inc. on its acquisition of Spark Therapeutics, Inc. which was cleared at Phase 1 by the CMA*
• Cengage Learning, Inc. on its merger with McGraw-Hill Education which was abandoned by the Parties during the Phase 2 review by the CMA*
• ION Investment Group Limited on its acquisition of Broadway Technology Holdings LLC which received conditional clearance at Phase 1 by the CMA*
• A third party on the proposed Liberty Global plc / Telefonica transaction*
• A client in relation to a regulatory anticompetitive agreement investigation in the UK*
• MasterCard Europe SA as an intervening party in a preliminary reference in American Express Company v The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury*
• An international bank in investigations around the world into the foreign exchange markets*
• Coty Inc. on its US$12.5 billion offer for Procter & Gamble's fine fragrance, colour cosmetics and hair colour businesses which was unconditionally cleared at Phase I by the European Commission*
• Arclight Capital LLC on its £585 million acquisition of North Sea assets from Total which was unconditionally cleared by the CMA*
• Russian search provider, Yandex, as a complainant in the European Commission’s Google Android investigation*
• A large multi-national corporation on Article 102 TFEU compliance*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham