Ellie is a Counsel in Weil’s London office. She advises leading private equity investors on buyouts (including complex carve-outs and public-to-private transactions), growth equity/minority investments and exits (including sales and IPOs), as well as providing general corporate advice to their portfolio and investee companies.
She has been seconded to the private equity and M&A department of Weil’s New York office and to the legal team at Access Industries (the privately-held industrial group founded by Len Blavatnik.
Track record
- Howden Group Holdings (formerly Hyperion Insurance Group, and an investee company of General Atlantic, CDPQ and Hg) on its acquisitions of the Aston Lark Group, A Plan and RK Harrison, and the investments by CDPQ and Hg Saturn in Howden Group
- General Atlantic on its investment in Depop, and subsequently advising General Atlantic as selling shareholder and Depop on its $1.6 billion sale to Etsy, Inc.
- CVC Capital Partners on the acquisition of RiverStone Europe from Fairfax Financial Holdings
- Ardian on the sale of Envision Pharma, and on the original investment
- M&G Investment Management, as lead investor, in a $168 million Series B investment round for Vaccitech
- Advent International on its acquisition of a 30% stake in Aareon
- TPG Growth on its Series C investment in Onfido
- Generation Investment Management in its investment partnership with CDPQ and that partnership's acquisition of an approximately 66% stake in the FNZ Group
- PSP as part of a consortium on the $10 billion carve out acquisition of Nestlé Skin Health
- PSP as part of a consortium on their investment in Axel Springer by way of voluntary public tender offer, valuing the company at €3.7 billion
- Mercury UK Holdco (a company controlled by Advent International, Bain Capital and Clessidra) in its €653 million sale of a 9.9% stake in Italian payment services provider, Nexi, to Intesa Sanpaolo, one of the largest banking groups in Italy
- Advent International on its high-profile £4bn public to private takeover of Cobham plc
- Advent International and Bain Capital on their acquisition of Worldpay, subsequent bolt on acquisitions and the subsequent London IPO of Worldpay