Commercial
Rob Lowe is a partner in Clyde & Co's global Corporate & Advisory practice and is based in the firm's London office.
Direct Lines
+44 (0) 20 7876 5314 +44 (0) 75 9657 8926 Rob.Lowe@clydeco.comMain Office
London, The St Botolph Building
+44 (0) 20 7876 5000 +44 (0) 20 7876 5111Regional experience
Full Profile
Rob Lowe is a partner in the firm's global Corporate & Advisory practice. He has extensive experience of advising on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate finance, private equity and venture capital transactions, restructuring and insolvency, financial regulation, corporate governance, and the corporate aspects of commercial disputes. A lot of Rob's experience has a cross-border element and he has worked with lawyers in most jurisdictions across the world.
Rob has worked across a variety of sectors including energy and natural resources, commodities, insurance, retail, media and entertainment, technology, real estate, aerospace and defence and professional services.
Rob also benefits from prior experience working in-house as the general counsel to an independent, dual stock exchange listed, multinational oil and gas exploration and production company.
Experience
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Venture Capital
- Advised insurtech investor on its successful Series A fundraise.
- Advised publicly listed company on multiple investments into technology start-ups.
- Advised venture capital fund on its investment in multiple financing rounds of online used car retailer.
- Advised entrepreneur on investment into a Turkish cosmetics start-up.
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Restructuring
- Advised Hong Kong investor on the restructuring of its investment into a UK football club.
- Coordinated the implementation of complex post-merger restructuring following one of the world's largest pharmaceutical acquisitions.
- Advised gold mining company with assets in Liberia on its restructuring and spin out of non-core assets.
- Advised former owner of Battersea Power Station on £1.964 billion restructuring.
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Corporate Finance
- Advised private equity-owned insurance company on Tier 1 regulatory capital fundraising.
- Advised AIM-listed virtual reality content creator on £20 million and £5 million private placements.
- Advised pensions consulting business and its private equity owner on the company’s successful £190 million IPO on the premium segment of the London Stock Exchange.
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Mergers and Acquisitions
- Advised awarding-winning global technology enablement and operations advisory firm on its sale to AIM-listed consulting company.
- Advised global aerospace group on its successful acquisition of leading aerospace communications business from private equity owner following a competitive auction process.
- Advised insurance services provider on its acquisition of global specialist broker of litigation insurance and funding products.
- Advised one of the world's largest privately-owned media businesses on its acquisition of multiple UK radio businesses.
- Advised global provider of work project management solutions on its acquisition of a leading UK-based artificial intelligence agency.
- Advised leading Asian agribusiness group on the sale of its ethoxylation plant in France to a global chemical company.