Overview
Tom Johnson focuses his practice on private equity, advising private equity funds, financial institutions and large corporates on a broad range of private equity and corporate transactions including leveraged buyouts, strategic mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, management equity plans and general corporate advisory matters.
Results
- H.I.G. Infrastructure on the acquisition of PolarDC Group Limited, which develops, owns, and operates data center infrastructure targeting high-performance computing applications, from the Lian Group
- H.I.G. Capital on the acquisition of Rainham Industrial Services Limited, a leading UK provider of industrial installation, maintenance, and refurbishment services to the power generation, energy from waste, nuclear and manufacturing sectors
- H.I.G. Capital on the equity aspects of their disposal of Acqua & Sapone, the leading Italian non-food discount retailer selling a wide range of household and cosmetic products, to TDR Capital LLP, with H.I.G. rolling over and retaining a significant equity stake
- Main Capital and its portfolio company Bizzdesign on the acquisition of the software platform Alfabet from Software GmbH (formerly Software AG), owned by Silver Lake
- Affiliates of WCAS and Managed Market Insights & Technology in connection with MMIT’s $1.6 billion merger with Evaluate*
- Achieve Partners on its acquisition of a majority stake in Boclips, an online educational video platform*
- Great Hill Partners on its pending strategic majority investment in a newly formed organisation comprising Vivup, a leading provider of health and well-being benefits, and Perkbox, an award-winning global benefits and reward platform*
- KKR on its majority acquisition of Biosynth Carbosynth, a Swiss life sciences reagents and custom synthesis and manufacturing services company*
- Apollo on its acquisition of three student accommodation assets in the UK for a combined transaction value of approximately £161 million*
- A leading US private equity sponsor on the structuring, implementation and administration of management equity plans for certain portfolio companies*
- A publicly listed healthcare infrastructure REIT on the reorganization of its global holding structure and real estate portfolio*
- An international asset management firm on its acquisition of a two million square-foot real estate portfolio in Germany, Spain, and Poland*
- A global logistics firm on its £473 million disposal of an industrial properties portfolio to a leading investment fund*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott
Credentials
Education
The University of Law, LPC, 2018
The University of Law, GDL, 2017
The London School of Economics and Political Sciences, BA, 2016
Admissions
England and Wales
