Darren Tai

Darren advises conglomerates, private and listed companies, financial sponsors, and their portfolio companies on cross-border private and public M&A, joint ventures, reorganisations, and other corporate transactions. He also handles general advisory work across a variety of industries.

• Assisted in the representation of the founder on the €100 million sale of his majority stake in Inceptua Group, a pharmaceutical services company, to Vesey Street Capital Partners.
• Assisted in advising Capita plc on the £21 million sale of its human resourcing business to Inspirit Capital.
• Assisted in advising Capita plc on the £14 million sale of its employment screening business to Bridgepoint Development Capital.
• Assisted in representing S&P Global on the $975 million sale of its global engineering solutions business to funds managed by KKR.
• Assisted in advising Emerson Electric Co. on the $14 billion carve-out sale of its majority stake in its climate technologies business to funds managed by Blackstone.
• Assisted in representing a British billionaire on the £10 million acquisition of the media, events, and training operations from Merit Group plc.
• Assisted in advising Teddy Sagi on his $1.51 billion offer for Kape Technologies plc.
• Assisted in representing Citigroup in relation to Schneider Electric SE’s £9.86 billion offer for AVEVA Group plc.
• Assisted in advising the corporate reorganisation of Walgreen Boots Alliance.
• Assisted in representing numerous Chinese real estate developers and property managers in their IPO and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.