Ross Allardice is an M&A lawyer with more than 20 years of experience advising private equity houses and financial sponsors on the full spectrum of complex, cross-border transactions.

Ross draws on extensive experience across industries and a sophisticated understanding of the market to help clients navigate:

  • Acquisitions
  • Divestitures
  • Joint ventures
  • Leveraged buyouts
  • Public offerings

Before joining Latham, Ross was a partner at another global law firm.

Ross’ representative transactions include advising:

  • Nordic Capital on:
    • Its potential US$3 billion take-private of Bavarian Nordic AS alongside Permira*
    • Acquiring Minerva Imaging AS*
    • Its re-investment in Regnology alongside Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments)*
    • Acquiring Anaqua from Astorg and Anaqua’s subsequent acquisition of RightHub*
    • Its re-investment in Max Matthiessen alongside Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board*
    • Acquiring Surgical Information Systems from Accel-KKR and Surgical Notes from Capstreet*
    • Selling Macrobond to Francisco Partners*
    • Selling Consilium Safety to Antin Infrastructure Partners V*
    • Acquiring Duco from Insight Partners and founders and on Duco’s acquisition of Metamaze*
    • Acquiring Care Fertility from Silverfleet and its subsequent acquisition of its US practice, REACH*
    • Selling Itiviti to Broadridge Financial Solutions*
    • Portfolio company Advanz Pharma’s acquisition of the majority of Intercept Pharmaceuticals and ongoing MIP work for Advanz*
    • Several acquisitions for portfolio company Sortera Group (including O’Donovan Group and Reuse Holdings)*
    • Several acquisitions for portfolio company Regnology*
    • Selling the labs business of portfolio company European Dental Group to Oakley Capital*
    • Acquiring Ecospend for portfolio company Trustly*
    • Acquiring Inverid for portfolio company Signicat*
  • Summit Partners on acquiring Dreampath Diagnostics*
  • Archimed on:
    • Selling Direct Healthcare Group to Rhone Capital*
    • Acquiring Symbio/Proinnovera*
    • Acquiring Direct Healthcare Group from Northridge*
  • Titan Wealth/Parthenon Capital on acquiring:
    • IWP Financial Planning and IWP Investment Management*
    • AHR, a financial services company in the United Arab Emirates*
  • SoftBank Vision Fund II, Lightrock, Escala, Ally Bridge, Watrium, and Cambridge Innovation Capital on their investment in CMR Surgical, a Cambridge-based designer and supplier of next-generation surgical robots*
  • One Equity Partners on:
    • Selling Brush Group’s Power Generator division to Baker Hughes*
    • Acquiring Brush Group from Melrose plc*
    • Acquiring Mera International for portfolio company Orion*
  • Quilvest Partners on acquiring Phaidon International*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Registered Foreign Lawyer)
  • Scotland (Solicitor)

Education

  • LLM, University of Cambridge, 2002
  • Diploma in Legal Practice, University of Dundee, 2001
  • LLB, University of Dundee, 2000