Emily Cridland

emily.cridland@lw.com

+44.20.7710.4676

Profile

Emily Cridland is a partner in the London office of Latham & Watkins and is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department.

Her practice focuses on advising public and private company clients in a variety of industries on strategic and complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, carve-outs, venture capital, reorganisations, and general corporate matters.

Emily builds long-standing relationships with her clients so that she fully understands their business objectives. She draws on her experience of working in-house on secondment at Markit Group Limited (now part of S&P) to give pragmatic, commercially focused advice that reflects her clients’ priorities and the pressures they face. Clients value her ability to manage complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions from start to finish, working with Latham & Watkins’ global network to deliver results efficiently.

In addition to her legal practice, Emily has previously held the role of Vice Chair on the firm’s Recruiting Committee and has also served on the Associates Committee.

Experience

Emily’s representative transactions include advising:

UL Solutions on its acquisition of the electrical and electronics business of Eurofins
HUB, a SaaS provider of AI-enabled solutions that automate investment operations, on its sale to OSTTRA
Bain & Company on its acquisition of JJCFinTech, a London-based boutique financial services consulting and technology firm
Anglo American on the:
- Sale of its Australian steelmaking coal business to Peabody Energy Corporation for US$3.775 billion
- Sale of its 33.3% minority interest in Jellinbah Group Pty Ltd to Zashvin Pty Limited for A$1.6 billion
- US$3.875 billion disposal of its steelmaking coal business in Australia to Dhilmar Limited, a UK-based private mining company
Novo Holdings on its agreement to acquire the Norwegian fish genetics company Benchmark Genetics from Benchmark Holdings plc for an enterprise value of up to £260 million
Ericsson on its joint venture with some of the world’s largest telecom operators — including América Móvil, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Reliance Jio, Singtel, Telefonica, Telstra, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Vodafone — to combine and sell network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) on a global scale to spur innovation in digital services
Cadence Design Systems in its acquisition of BETA CAE for US$1.24 billion
atai Life Sciences on its investment into Beckley Psytech Limited, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing novel psychedelic therapies
System1, Inc. on the sale of Total Security Limited, a cybersecurity company, to a group led by Just Develop It Limited
Ericsson / Cradlepoint on its acquisition of cloud-based security specialist Ericom
IHS Markit on its joint venture with PIMCO, Man Property Holdings, State Street, and Microsoft to set up a new technology-led company, HUB, to build a cloud-based operating platform aimed at transforming asset managers’ operations technology
Novo Holdings A/S on its acquisition of BBI Group, a leading supplier of products and services to the global diagnostics and life sciences industries
Nordic Capital on its acquisition of ADVANZ PHARMA, a London-based pharmaceutical company
Ligand Pharmaceuticals on its sale of Vernalis (R&D) Limited, a UK-based fragment and structure-based drug discovery research company, to HitGen
Eleusis Holdings on its acquisition of Kalypso Treatment Centers, a leading provider of ketamine infusion therapies in the United States
Nestlé Health Science on its acquisition of Vital Proteins
Atnahs Pharma on its acquisition of assets related to five hypertension medicine brands from AstraZeneca
Thomas Cook Group in connection with its strategic review, re-financing and the proposed sale of its airline and ultimately its attempted recapitalization
Sony Pictures Entertainment and its subsidiary, Columbia Pictures Corporation, on the acquisition of Silvergate Media, a developer of children’s brands for broadcasters, streaming platforms, and retail partners (including the Octonauts, Peter Rabbit, and Hilda animated series)
GlaxoSmithKline on its:
- Divestment of its Prevacid®24HR business to Perrigo Company
- Divestment of assets relating to the Bialcol and Cibalgina brands in Italy to Vemedia
- Divestment of certain North American consumer health assets to Crown Laboratories
- Divestment of five over-the-counter dermatology brands and one pediatric cough remedy brand to the STADA Group
Peloton Advantage, a portfolio company of Amulet Capital Partners, on the acquisition of Open Health Communications, a UK-based provider of healthcare communications and market access services
Netflix on the acquisition of Millarworld, the comic book company founded by Mark Millar, creator of a number of iconic characters and stories, including Kick-Ass, Kingsman, and Old Man Logan, the first ever acquisition by Netflix
ACCO Brands Corporation in connection with its €296.9 million acquisition of Esselte Group, a leading European office products company, from private equity firm J.W. Childs
Astorg Partners on its acquisition of Audiotonix, a global producer of audio mixing consoles