A senior associate in Ropes & Gray’s London office, Craig has extensive experience representing some of the world’s largest institutional investors as they deploy capital. Craig is part of Ropes & Gray’s secondary buyer practice, which represents 10 of the top 15 secondary buyers globally. He regularly advises clients in connection with a range of transactions in the UK and internationally, including GP-led secondaries/continuation fund transactions, preferred equity investments, secondary purchases and sales and other structured liquidity transactions, co-investments and joint ventures.
In addition to his secondaries practice, Craig has extensive experience acting on a broad range of corporate and M&A matters globally, with specific experience acting for private equity sponsors in relation to their direct investment transactions, equity arrangements, restructurings and ongoing portfolio company matters.
Experience
- Represented the lead investor, co-lead investors or lead investor syndicates in GP-led recapitalization transactions ranging from several hundred million to multiple billion dollars.
- Regularly represents the world’s largest institutional investors in co-investment transactions.
- Advising Nature Infrastructure Capital on its investment in Eco Stor, a leading battery energy storage developer in Germany
- Advising Partners Group, HarbourVest and AlpInvest on multiple co-investment opportunities
- Advising Humble Group on its acquisition of the Solent Group, a snacks and household goods maker
- Advised Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) subsidiary Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation on its acquisition of select divisions of Maitland's fund administration business
- Advising a leading US private equity sponsor in connection with the restructuring of one of its portfolio companies
- Advising ERM, the world’s largest pure-play sustainability consultancy, and the ERM Partner shareholders, on the sale of ERM to KKR, a leading global investment firm
- Acting for Bridgepoint on its investment in Matrix SCM, a leading managed service provider for the outsourced hiring and management of temporary local government staff in the UK
- Acting for Avista Capital on the sale of Trimb Healthcare, a leading consumer health care company based in Stockholm, for SEK 3.4 billion
- Acting for Duke Street on York-based Great Rail Journeys’ acquisition of Chicago-based Vacation By Rail, a U.S. provider of railway holidays
- Acting for Silverfleet Capital on the acquisition of CARE Fertility, the UK’s leading fertility services provider
- Acting for TPG Capital, and its portfolio company Beaver-Visitec on its acquisition of PhysIOL Group SA
- Acting for Epiris on its acquisition of Bonhams, the global auction house, from private shareholders
- Acting for Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a leading health care investment firm, in its acquisition of Abzena plc, a Cambridge, UK-based biopharmaceutical services company
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