Ian Lopez

Ian Lopez advises clients in connection with public and private mergers and acquisitions, equity capital market transactions, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings.

As head of our European Mergers and Acquisitions Practice, Ian advises companies across numerous industries, including healthcare, financial services, telecoms, media and entertainment, insurance, and consumer and retail.

Legal 500 UK recognizes Ian as a leading individual in the M&A: Upper Mid-Market and Premium Deals category, where clients describe him as "an experienced, smart, creative, friendly, collaborative, business-minded, proactive, and strong negotiator."

Work highlights:

• Counsel to LumiraDx Limited on its US$3 billion de-SPAC merger with CA Healthcare Acquisition Corp and its NASDAQ listing
• Counsel to LumiraDx Limited on its public offering underwritten by Goldman Sachs (as lead underwriters) and concurrent private placement to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Counsel to Mayo Clinic on its US$3.5 billion joint venture with SEHA (the Abu Dhabi Health Authority) to operate Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, one of the UAE's largest hospitals for patients with serious or complex medical conditions
• Counsel to Domino's Pizza Group plc on the sale of its business in Switzerland, Sweden, Iceland and Norway
• Counsel to Coller Capital Management Limited in connection with a sale by Bernard Topco Limited, a Macquarie majority-owned company, of a joint controlling stake in Premier Technical Services Group Limited to Warburg Pincus incorporated