Emmett Saigal’s practice focuses on a range of corporate and financial transactions, including public and private M&A.

He specialises in UK public M&A having recently spent two years on secondment to the UK Takeover Panel (2022-2024), where he was the case officer for many of the most significant public M&A transactions of that time including Capco’s offer for Shaftesbury, KKR’s offer for Smart Metering Systems, OpenText’s offer for Micro Focus, Brookfield’s offer for HomeServe, Vistry’s offer for Countryside, and the competing offers for Wincanton by CMA CGM and GXO Logistics. Emmett also participated in material policy and disciplinary decisions taken by the Panel Executive as well as in consultation processes regarding important revisions to the Takeover Code.

Emmett joined the firm in 2018.

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Notable Experience

  • Sixth Street in the $7.1 billion take-private of ESR, as part of a consortium with Starwood Capital Group, SSW Partners, QIA, Warburg Pincus, and certain founders of ESR.

  • Bridgepoint in its recommended cash acquisition of Eckoh plc.

  • Cascade Investment in its recommended $4.7 billion offer for Signature Aviation, as part of a consortium with Blackstone and Global Infrastructure Partners, which topped a prior $4.6 billion offer from Global Infrastructure Partners on a standalone basis

  • Allied Universal in its recommended £3.8 billion offer for G4S plc, topping a hostile competing £3.7 billion bid from GardaWorld

  • TPG in its sale of Evoltz to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board

  • Hillhouse Capital in its acquisition of the Loch Lomond Group

  • A consortium of selling shareholders in the sale of TAG Farnborough Airport to Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 6

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