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Philip Walton

Senior Associate

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English, German

Philip Walton is a senior associate in the Corporate Team in London with experience of negotiating a broad range of corporate/M&A transactions. His practice focusses, predominantly, on international M&A, strategic ventures, investments and reorganisations.  Philip holds the Certificate in Corporate Finance from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

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Relevant experience

  • German-run leisure sector manufacturing business WOW Tech on its EUR 1bn joint venture with European sales and marketing entity Lovehoney.
  • Intellectual Property & Software Limited, European Domain Management Limited and Rocket 9 Limited, on the sale of their online casino business to Swedish mobile gaming company LeoVegas for GBP 65m.
  • Technology company Voith Group’s EUR 319m multi-jurisdictional carve-out and acquisition of BTG – a multinational provider of integrated, highly specialised process solutions for the global pulp and paper industry – from Spectris.
  • Multimedia company Liberty Global’s sale of its direct-to-home satellite TV operations in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia to M7 Group for EUR 180m. 
  • Loyalty technology and marketing company Reward Insight on the sale of a strategic stake to US data analytics company Verisk.
  • EUR 220m acquisition by strategic investor Bottega of the multi-jurisdictional information and communications technology services group Getronics from European asset manager Aurelius.
  • Acquisition by Munich-based technology and media company Hubert Burda Media of Immediate Media, the UK content and digital platform group from Exponent.
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Education

  • 2007 – Legal Practice Course, The College of Law, Birmingham, England
  • 2006 – LL.B. European Law, University of Aberystwyth, Wales
  • 2002 – Abitur, Goethe Grammar School, Berlin, Germany
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17/08/2021
CMS ad­vises WOW Tech Group on > EUR 1 bn busi­ness com­bin­a­tion with Love­honey...
Mu­nich – WOW Tech Group and Love­honey, two of the glob­al lead­ers for sexu­al well­ness products, join forces. To­geth­er with Swiss brand Amor­ana – ac­quired by Love­honey in 2020 – they now form the...
24/07/2017
CMS ad­vises Bot­tega on €220m ac­quis­i­tion of Get­ron­ics Group
CMS has ad­vised long-stand­ing cli­ent Bot­tega S.à r.l, a stra­tegic in­vest­ment en­tity con­trolled by US/Brazili­an IT en­tre­pren­eur, Nana Baf­four, on its €220m ac­quis­i­tion of the Get­ron­ics group from European...
10/08/2016
Olswang ad­vises on Min­istry of Sound Re­cord­ing­s' ac­quis­i­tion by Sony Mu­sic...
This art­icle was pro­duced by Olswang LLP, which joined with CMS on 1 May 2017.In­ter­na­tion­al TMT law firm Olswang has ad­vised the Min­istry of Sound Group on the sale of its icon­ic la­bel Min­istry of Sound...

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17/08/2021
CMS ad­vises WOW Tech Group on > EUR 1 bn busi­ness com­bin­a­tion with Love­honey...
Mu­nich – WOW Tech Group and Love­honey, two of the glob­al lead­ers for sexu­al well­ness products, join forces. To­geth­er with Swiss brand Amor­ana – ac­quired by Love­honey in 2020 – they now form the...
05/12/2017
CMS ad­vises GAME Di­git­al on its sale of Mul­ti­play to Unity Tech­no­lo­gies
5 Decem­ber 2017. In­ter­na­tion­al law firm has ad­vised long-stand­ing cli­ent GAME Di­git­al plc (LON:GMD) on the sale of its sub­si­di­ary Mul­ti­play, which op­er­ates an on­line game serv­er-host­ing busi­ness for game...
12/01/2017
Olswang ad­vises Hubert Burda Me­dia on ac­quis­i­tion of the UKs Im­me­di­ate...
This art­icle was pro­duced by Olswang LLP, which joined with CMS on 1 May 2017.In­ter­na­tion­al tech­no­logy, me­dia and tele­coms law firm Olswang has ad­vised Mu­nich-based tech­no­logy and me­dia com­pany Hubert...