Oscar Hayward

Oscar's experience includes advising :

• Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL) on its participation in a consortium with CVC to launch a €10.7 billion Cash Tender Offer for Recordati  
• Apollo Global Management and Tega Industries consortium on their US$1.45 billion acquisition of Molycop, an Australia-based global supplier of grinding media for the mining industry 
• Ericsson in relation to its proposed joint venture with all major European leading CSPs regarding its platform to aggregate APIs, with parallel reviews across the globe 
• FIS on the merger control aspects of its US$13.5 billion acquisition of Global Payments’ Issuer Solutions business, and of its US$6.6 billion disposal of its stake in Worldpay 
• Bridgepoint and CPP Investments in their sales of Dorna Sports to Liberty Media (EU Phase II) 
• Microsoft in securing CMA Phase 1 unconditional merger clearance of its high-profile hiring of former employees of Inflection.ai and entry into related agreements 
• Informatica, a provider of enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, on its US$8bn sale to Salesforce 
• Anglo American on the US$3.7 billion sale of its Australian Steelmaking Coal Business 
• Astorg Partners on the US$9.5 billion sale of its portfolio company Clario to Thermo Fisher Scientific  
• KKR for its strategic partnership with Encavis, an independent power producer with solar parks and onshore wind farms  
• Shift4 on its US$2.5 billion acquisition of Global Blue, the leading specialty payments and technology platform enabling tax-free shopping, dynamic currency conversion, and payments solutions to the world’s largest retail brands
• A major technology company in the UK CMA’s unprecedented 21-month investigation into cloud services. The investigation ended without the CMA taking any action 
• Viasat in its US$7.3 billion acquisition of Inmarsat, a UK-based operator of mobile telecommunications satellite networks 
• MGM in its US$9 billion acquisition by a multinational technology company NVIDIA Corporation in its planned US$40 billion acquisition of Arm 
• Spirit AeroSystems in its proposed acquisition of Asco*
• Hyperconnect Co. Ltd. in its acquisition by Match Group*
• Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in its acquisition of joint control of Viking Cruises*
• Fiserv in its acquisition of First Data*
• Morgan Stanley Infrastructure, Inc. in its acquisition of joint control of Tele Columbus*
• Morgan Stanley Infrastructure, Inc. in its acquisition of VTG AG*
• Fletcher Building Limited in its sale of Formica*
• Bayer AG in its acquisition of Monsanto Company*
• Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd in its acquisition of Allergan plc*
• Fiat on case T-759/15 - Fiat Chrysler Finance Europe v Commission*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham