| Slaughter and May’s Charles Randell is quite simply
a class act. The corporate partner spearheads
Slaughters’ relationships with several key clients,
including the likes of Bertelsmann, Cairn Energy,
Centrica, the UK Government and RWE.
During the past 12 months the buoyant energy
and utilities sectors have kept Randell’s hands full.
He led the team advising German utilities group
RWE on the £8bn disposal of Thames Water. The sale of Thames attracted interest from several
bidders, including the Qatari Investment Authority,
which teamed up with UBS and Alinta. However, the
eventual winner was acquisitive Australian bank
Macquarie Bank.
Randell’s other high-profile deal was acting for
FTSE100 energy giant Cairn on its Bombay stock
market debut. The deal had two main components:
the float on the Bombay bourse of new company
Cairn India and the disposal of its Indian business to
Cairn India for cash and a majority shareholding in
Cairn India.
On the non-transactional side, Randell spent
much of 2006 advising the UK Government on its
nuclear policy.
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