Senior Associate

Karl Williams

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English

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Karl is a senior associate in our London Corporate team, with over a decade of experience, specialising in private equity transactions and broader M&A. His practice focuses on representing private equity sponsors throughout the lifecycle of an investment from acquisition through to exit.

Karl’s wider practice involves acting for institutional investors, large multi-national corporations and founders on all aspects of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, investments and incentive arrangements particularly in the healthcare, energy, technology, and sports sectors.

Relevant experience

August Equity on its sale of Agilio Software, the UK’s largest provider of healthcare operations software, to Five Arrows and TA Associates.
Queen’s Park Equity on its exit from Encore, one of the UK’s leading residential managing agent businesses, to Odevo a portfolio company of CVC and Fiedlio. This deal representing Queen’s Park Equity’s inaugural exit.
Dunedin and management on the sale of EV Holdings, a leading global provider of vision-based diagnostics and analytics services for the oil and gas sector, to a joint venture between Enersol, Adnoc Drilling and Alpha Dhabi Holding.
Breal Capital (a privately owned family office) on the sale of Barclay & Mathieson, one of the UK’s largest independent steel distribution and metal service providers, to Marubeni Itochu Steel Inc.
August Equity on its investments into (i) Clarity Informatics, a software provider to the primary care sector; (ii) Intershift Planning, Netherlands’ leading provider of scheduling software for GPs; and (iii) Caragon, an automated data solutions supplier operating from Ireland.
Queen’s Park Equity on its investments into (i) Blue Ribbon, a specialist provider of Adult Residential Care and Supported Living Services; (iii) Republic M!, a specialist provider of outsourced commercialisation services to the pharmaceutical industry; and (iv) Psychiatry UK, the UK’s leading provider of digital psychiatry services.
Octopus Energy in relation to a 20% investment in the company by Origin Energy, Australia’s leading energy company.
Octopus Energy on the USD 250m investment by existing shareholders and new shareholder, Tokyo Gas and the establishment of a Japanese utility joint venture between Octopus Energy and Tokyo Gas.

Education

2012 – Legal Practice Course, College of Law.
2010 – Law and Philosophy BA (Hons), University of Hertfordshire.

Practice Areas

Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions

sectors

Private Equity

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