Nick Rumsby

Nick Rumsby’s practice focuses on public and private mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, restructurings, joint ventures, demergers, and equity financings.

Nick Rumsby is uniquely placed to advise on UK takeovers having completed a two-year secondment to the UK Takeover Panel as a senior case officer (2008-2010) where he was involved in all major decisions and policies made during that time. Following his secondment, Nick has spent over a decade advising bidders and targets on a wide variety of recommended and hostile situations involving both UK and overseas bidders.

Nick contributes regularly to the Takeover Panel’s public consultations. He contributed three chapters to the second edition of Butterworths Takeovers: Law and Practice and edited the Gore-Browne chapter on takeovers for over seven years.

In addition to his time at the Takeover Panel, Nick worked in-house at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney (now Citi) and spent over two decades as a renowned M&A lawyer at a leading magic circle law firm, including leading one of their corporate groups for six years.

Nick joined the firm as a partner in 2023.

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“Nick Rumsby is involved in a formidable volume of public M&A engagements, driving or advising upon a broad spectrum of big-ticket sales and purchases.”

“Nick is very calm and sensible under pressure.”

“Nick Rumsby is very strong and excellent on Takeover Code topics.”