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Overview
Luk advises clients on a wide range of corporate transactional matters, with a particular focus on cross border and domestic M&A.
Luk’s practice focuses on public and private M&A, equity financings, venture capital, private equity, and more general corporate matters, acting for clients in a wide range of industry sectors including technology, professional services, and energy & natural resources.
He has particular experience advising on complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, public to private takeover transactions, corporate reorganisations, and guiding founders and management teams through private equity backed transactions or sales to corporate acquirers.
Experience
Representative Transactions
- Advising BlueFive Capital on its $48 million fundraising
- Advising DWF Group Plc on the £342m recommended takeover by Inflexion Private Equity, and advising DWF management on the subsequent management incentive plan
- Advising Systems Engineering & Assessments on the sale of its Intelligent Transport Systems business
- Advising Piper Sandler as cash confirmation counsel on the $600m acquisition of Care REIT Plc by CareTrust REIT
- Advising Datatec Limited (a company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange) on the £210m sale of its technology consulting business Analysys Mason to Bridgepoint Development Capital
- Advising the majority shareholders of Met Media on the sale of the ‘Met Film School’ to private equity backed (ICG), BIMM Group Limited
- Advising the senior management team of Motor Fuel Group on its acquisition of 337 Morrison petrol forecourts
- Advising Exchanger Industries of Canada, a designer and manufacturer of heat exchanger products, on its cross-border acquisition of HRS Heat Exchangers Group operating in countries across the globe including the UK, India, Spain, Australia and Malaysia. Exchanger Industries is a portfolio company of private equity investor, Nova Capital
- Advising the equity partners of accountancy practice, Rees Pollock, on their sale to private equity backed (HG Capital), Blick Rothenburg
- Advising Kogenta on its acquisitions of FluxLoop and Urban Analytix
- Advising the management team at Alexander Mann Solutions on the sale of the company for US$1.2b in a transaction between New Mountain Capital and OMERS Private Equity
- Advising the shareholders of Dunstan Thomas Group, a leading fintech business, on the sale of DTG to London Stock Exchange-listed Curtis Banks Group plc
- Advising the shareholders of Arts Alliance Media, the leading operational software solution provider to the cinema industry, on their sale to Shandong Luxin-Rio Visual Technology of Qingdao, China
- Advising a global crop protection company on the total reorganisation of its international operations, including the buy-out of a longstanding European joint venture partner
- Advising the shareholders of This Is The Big Deal on its sale to trade buyer, GoCompare.com
Industries & Practices
Banking & Financial Institutions
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- Capital Markets
- Corporate Governance & Compliance
- Emerging Companies
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Europe
- Executive Compensation
- Lending Transactions
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity
- Technology
