Ruchit Patel

Experience

Strategic Transactions:

• Medtronic on its US$1.64 billion acquisition of Mazor Robotics Ltd
• Medtronic on the CMA review of its preferred partnership with Animas Corporation
• Blue Coat on the European aspects of its sale to Symantec valued at over US$4 billion
• Pfizer on the sale of its Hospira Infusion Business to ICU Medical, valued at US$1 billion
• Pfizer on its nearly US$14 billion acquisition of Medivation, Inc.
• Baring Private Equity Asia on its US$1.8 billion sale, alongside the Shanghai-based Bright Food Group, of British breakfast cereal brand Weetabix to U.S.-based cereal company, Post Holdings
• Medtronic in relation to the European aspects of an acquisition in the medical technology sector valued at over US$1 billion
• Medtronic on EC and ROW aspects of Medtronic’s US$43 billion acquisition of Covidien. Secured approvals from 13 jurisdictions and coordinated a single remedy globally
• Biomet, the divestiture buyer, on J&J’s US$21.3 billion acquisition of Synthes
• Merck on its animal health joint venture with Sanofi-Aventis (ultimately abandoned). Awarded GCR “Deal of the Year” in 2011 in recognition of its size and complexity
• Abbott on its US$4.5 billion acquisition of Solvay’s pharmaceuticals and diagnostics business, which was conditionally cleared at Phase

Private Equity Transactions:

• APG Asset Management on its €450 million joint venture with the US-based Hines Group in Cherrywood, a new home, school and leisure scheme, advising APG in relation to all antitrust aspects of the transaction, including securing clearance from the European Commission
• Bain Capital on its pending US$18 billion acquisition of Toshiba Memory Corporation from Toshiba Corporation, by way of a Bain Capital-led consortium including Apple, Seagate Technology, Kingston Technology, Hoya, Dell Technologies and SK Hynix
• Oakley Capital on the acquisition of TechInsights, a technology patent analysis business

Investigations:

• Google with several multi-jurisdictional competition law investigations
• A multinational financial services organisation in the defense of allegations of collusion by the European Commission
• SK Hynix on settlement negotiations with the European Commission in DRAM
• IBM with a complaint to the European Commission in relation to “midrange” servers

Litigation & Counseling:

• Metlac in defence of the Competition Commission’s decision to prohibit AkzoNobel’s acquisition of Metlac
• Boots plc in relation to Celesio’s appeal of the OFT’s decision in Boots/Alliance Unichem in the Competition Appeal Tribunal
• An intervener in relation to Ofgem’s decision to fine British Gas for exclusionary policy in relation to gas and electricity matter

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