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Andrew B. Harris

Partner

European Head of Private Equity and Corporate

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Andrew B. Harris

Partner

European Head of Private Equity and Corporate

Andrew B. Harris is a Partner at Vedder Price and is the European Head of Private Equity and Corporate for the firm. He is a member of the Finance & Transactions group in the firm’s London office.

Mr. Harris focuses on private equity and private M&A transactions. He has  considerable experience in share and asset purchases, disposals/exits, MBOs, MBIs, buy and builds, joint ventures and restructurings and acts for private equity firms, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals, as well as portfolio companies, other corporates and management teams.

Mr. Harris has been “highly rated” by Legal 500 UK in “Private Equity: Transactions” and was recognised as a leading practitioner in Chambers UK, who comment that he receives “effusive praise” for his “deft touch in negotiations” and that he is “extremely talented, thoughtful and knowledgeable.” He was also “highly regarded” and chosen as a “Leading Lawyer” by IFLR 1000.

A number of transactions on which Andrew served as lead adviser have been recognised for industry accolades, for example, the disposal of QA by EMK Capital and Bregal Capital to CVC, which won the Real Deals “Grand Prix Deal of the Year 2018” and “UK Mid-Cap Deal of the Year 2018.”

Prior to joining Vedder Price, Mr. Harris served as London Managing Partner and a private equity and M&A partner at an Am Law 100 firm in London and as the EMEA Head of Private Equity at a Top 10 global law firm.




Andrew B. Harris

Partner

European Head of Private Equity and Corporate

Education

  • Queens' College, University of Cambridge, M.A., (Honors, First Class)

    Awarded the Cambridge University Clive Parry Prize for International Law and the Lucas Smith Memorial Prize by Queens’ College

Andrew B. Harris

Partner

European Head of Private Equity and Corporate

Bar Admissions

  • England and Wales, 1993

Affiliations

Member, The Law Society

Andrew B. Harris

Partner

European Head of Private Equity and Corporate

Andrew B. Harris

Partner

European Head of Private Equity and Corporate

Experience

  • EMK Capital and Bregal Capital on its disposal of the QA Group, an IT training company, to CVC Capital Partners (Awarded “2018 Grand Prix Deal of the Year” and “2018 UK Mid-Cap Deal of the Year” by Real Deals).
  • EMK Capital on the secondary MBO of outsourced recycling and resource management services business, Reconomy Group from Bregal Capital.
  • MK Capital on the MBO of Williams Advanced Engineering from the Williams Formula 1 Group.
  • EMK Capital on the sale of Williams Advanced Engineering to Fortescue Metals Group for £222m.
  • EMK Capital and Bregal Capital in connection with the dual track exit by way of private sale auction and IPO of the Stelrad Radiator Group – value £275m.
  • EMK Capital on the proposed secondary MBO of a UK-based specialist in regulated home decarbonisation, fuel poverty and energy efficiency.
  • EMK Capital on the capitalisation and establishment of the holding structure for the acquisition of Service Key SpA.
  • EMK Capital on its proposed secondary MBO of one of the UK’s largest mortgage and surveying specialists.
  • Nash Squared, a member of the Harvey Nash Group, on its acquisition of Latitude 36.
  • Nash Squared, a member of the Harvey Nash Group, on its acquisition of Knoldus Group.
  • Thirdway Group on the implementation of its MIP.
  • Macquarie Airfinance, in its $2.2 billion acquisition of an aircraft portfolio from ALAFCO Aviation Lease and Finance Company K.S.C.P.
  • Renewable Infrastructure Capital on its arrangements in relation to the equity funding of Voltaria, a battery energy storage developer and asset owner.
  • Renewables Infrastructure Capital on its investment in Esken Renewables, alongside Pioneer Point Partners.
  • Renewable Infrastructure Capital portfolio company, Voltaria, on the implementation of its MIP.
  • Blantyre Capital and its portfolio company, DC Foods, on its acquisition of Island Way Sorbet LLC.
  • PMB Capital on its co-investment, alongside Octopus Energy and Legal General, in ground source heat pump business, Kensa Group.
  • A high-profile UK-headquartered social media/influencer group in its auction and sale process.

 

Recognition

 

  • The Legal 500 UK 
    Private Equity: Transactions (2017-2019)
  • IFLR1000
    "Highly Regarded" - Private Equity (UK) (2018-2019)
    "Leading Lawyer" - Private Equity (UK) (2016-2018)
  • Chambers UK
    Private Equity: Buyouts (UK-wide) (2011, 2016-2019)