Emily Cridland is an associate in the London office of Latham & Watkins and is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department. She primarily handles cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, venture capital, reorganizations, and general corporate matters for clients across a variety of industries. Ms. Cridland trained in Latham's London and Singapore offices, gaining a broad range of experience in corporate, public international law and arbitration, project finance, banking, and restructuring.
Ms. Cridland has spent time working in-house on secondment to Markit Group Limited, advising on the acquisitions of DealHub and CoreOne Technologies, working on an investment into a fund run by Illuminate Financial, and assisting with other general corporate and commercial contract work.
Ms. Cridland’s representative transactions include advising:
- 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
- Eleusis Holdings in its acquisition of Kalypso Treatment Centers, a leading provider of ketamine infusion therapies in the United States
- Atnahs Pharma on its acquisition of assets related to five hypertension medicine brands from AstraZeneca
- Sony Pictures Television on its acquisition of Silvergate Media, a company focusing on developing, producing, and licensing children’s animation with offices in both London and New York
- 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, in 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