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Kenneth Rose

Partner

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Kenneth Rose

Partner

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CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Saltire Court
20 Castle Terrace
Edinburgh
EH1 2EN
United Kingdom
Languages English

Kenny Rose is a partner in the Corporate group with over 25 years' experience as a corporate lawyer.

He specialises in M&A and corporate finance projects. He has a particularly strong track record and profile in financial services transactions where he continues to act for, and has key relationships with, a number of high profile clients.

He also has an impressive reputation for corporate finance assignments in a broader range of sectors including energy, transport and government services.

As an experienced corporate finance partner he has acted on many public company fundraisings, having led numerous IPOs and secondary share issues for both trading companies and investment entities. Since 2012 he has been Chairman of the Regional Advisory Group of the London Stock Exchange for Scotland.

Kenny also has a wide range of experience in both public and private company M&A having been lead adviser on numerous public company takeovers and private company acquisitions and disposals.

Given his seniority and experience he is comfortable as the lead adviser to boards and senior executives on a wide range of large, complex and bespoke transactions and on advising them on related governance issues.

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Relevant experience

  • Alliance Trust Savings (a subsidiary of Alliance Trust plc) in its acquisition of the Stocktrade business from Brewin Dolphin plc.
  • As lead adviser to RBS in its disposal for circa GBP 1bn of its interest in Tesco Bank to Tesco plc and the establishment by RBS of transitional service arrangements to support Tesco Bank's banking and insurance products.
  • Virgin Money Holdings (UK) plc on the sale of its bank subsidiary, Church House Trust (now Bank and Clients plc), to Ocean Industries SA.
  • SSE plc on its subscription of up to GBP 43m in the context of the IPO of Greencoat UK Wind plc.
  • Oval Ltd (UK-wide insurance broker and financial intermediary) in the corporate and commercial sector, as strategic legal adviser on its establishment, several fundraisings and numerous private company and business acquisitions and disposals. Oval was eventually sold to Arthur J Gallacher for circa GBP 200m.
  • Lloyds Banking Group on the sale of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership group to Aberdeen Asset Management, undertaking detailed vendor due diligence and pre-sale analysis of intra-group arrangements.
  • RBS in connection with the establishment and eventual dissolution of its major bancassurance joint venture with Aviva plc and on the related contractual service and arrangements for the distribution of life and collective investment scheme products.
  • Cavanagh Group plc in its acquisition of a number of financial intermediary businesses, its re-listing on AIM and its sale to Close Brothers for GBP 26m.
  • RBS in a number of intra-group transfers of banking businesses and debt and loan/mortgage portfolios using court approved Part VII transfer schemes.
  • Lothian Buses Limited, Edinburgh Trams Limited and Transport for Edinburgh Limited on the establishment of a new corporate structure for the integration of public transport to incorporate the operation of the new Edinburgh Tram.
  • Balfour Beatty investments as sponsors on the University of Edinburgh Student Accommodation wrapped project bond.
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Education

  • 1986 - Dip LP, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
  • 1985 - LLB (Hons) , University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
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Memberships

  • Notary Public
  • Chairman, Regional Advisory Group, The London Stock Exchange for Scotland.
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Lectures list

  • Regular speaker and public contributor on company IPOs.
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Expertise

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16 Jul 18
ECM Mar­ket Re­view June 2018
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Publication Equity Capital Markets
16 Sep 19
The pro­rog­a­tion of the UK Par­lia­ment: CMS to live blog from the UK...
Widely dubbed the con­sti­tu­tion­al case of the cen­tury, on Tues­day 17 Septem­ber 2019 the UK Su­preme Court will hear three ap­peals - one from each of the leg­al jur­is­dic­tions mak­ing up the United King­dom...
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Law-Now Public Procurement
02 Sep 19
The leg­al chal­lenge to pro­roguing Par­lia­ment: what is hap­pen­ing in...
The Court of Ses­sion in Ed­in­burgh was in the head­lines last week, as an ur­gent ap­plic­a­tion for in­ter­im or­ders was brought in the court on Thursday 29 Au­gust 2019 con­cern­ing the UK Min­is­ters’ ad­vice...
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Law-Now Public Procurement
10 Jan 19
A tale of two Acts: UK Su­preme Court rules on the com­pet­ency of Scot­tish...
In an ac­tion packed month for Brexit ob­serv­ers, it would have been easy to have missed the sig­ni­fic­ance of the UK Su­preme Court’s de­cision in the mat­ter of THE UK WITH­DRAW­AL FROM THE EUROPEAN UNI­ON...
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Law-Now Brexit
10 Dec 18
A real al­tern­at­ive: CJEU con­firms UK can uni­lat­er­ally re­voke its no­ti­fic­a­tion...
Ex­ec­ut­ive sum­mary The Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU”) has this morn­ing ad­vised that the UK may uni­lat­er­ally re­voke its no­ti­fic­a­tion un­der Art­icle 50 of the Treaty of the European Uni­on (“Art­icle...
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Law-Now Brexit
22 Nov 18
Art­icle 50: The third way
UK Su­preme Court re­fuses per­mis­sion to ap­peal against de­cision to ask CJEU if, and how, the UK's no­ti­fic­a­tion to leave the EU un­der Art­icle 50 can be re­voked Ex­ec­ut­ive sum­mary There have been con­tra­dict­ory...
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Law-Now Brexit
24 Sep 18
The third way? Courts to ask CJEU if, and how, the UK’s no­ti­fic­a­tion...
Ex­ec­ut­ive sum­mary There have been con­tra­dict­ory views as to wheth­er, once is­sued, a no­ti­fic­a­tion un­der Art­icle 50 of the Treaty of the European Uni­on (“Art­icle 50”) can be re­voked, with Lord Kerr...
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Law-Now Brexit
23 Jul 18
Chal­lenge to the Scot­tish Par­lia­ment’s Brexit Bill to be heard by...
This week, the UK Su­preme Court will hear the much-an­ti­cip­ated chal­lenge by the UK Gov­ern­ment’s Law Of­ficers, the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and the Ad­voc­ate Gen­er­al for Scot­land, against the Brexit le­gis­la­tion...
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Law-Now Commercial
27 Sep 17
Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment is­sues pro­posed amend­ments to European Uni­on With­draw­al...
On Tues­day 19 Septem­ber, the Scot­tish gov­ern­ment pub­lished ‘De­fend­ing de­vol­u­tion’, the pro­posed amend­ments by the Scot­tish and Welsh gov­ern­ments to the EU With­draw­al Bill.  The aim of the amend­ments...
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Law-Now Public Procurement
26 Jan 17
UK Su­preme Court rules in the Art­icle 50 Brexit Ap­peal: what hap­pens...
The UK Su­preme Court has giv­en its judg­ment in the mat­ter of R (on the ap­plic­a­tion of Miller and an­oth­er) v Sec­ret­ary of State for Ex­it­ing the European Uni­on [2017] UK­SC 5 – more com­monly known as “the...
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Law-Now Commercial
20 Jan 17
De­cision time: judg­ment in the Art­icle 50 Brexit Ap­peal due Tues­day...
The UK Su­preme Court has an­nounced that its de­cision in the ap­peal of R (on the ap­plic­a­tion of Miller & Dos San­tos) v Sec­ret­ary of State for Ex­it­ing the European Uni­on [2016] EWHC 2768 (Ad­min) – oth­er­wise...
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