| While on a two-year secondment at the Takeover
Panel, Baker & McKenzie corporate associate Robert
Adam worked on some of the most contentious
matters, including Malcolm Glazer’s acquisition of
Manchester United and Philip Green’s £9.1bn bid for
Marks & Spencer.
As soon as he returned from secondment, Adam
had his newly found skills put to use on L’Oréal’s
£650m takeover of The Body Shop in March
Since then Adam has had a role on the choicest
M&A file of late 2006, advising Greenhill, Nasdaq’s
financial adviser, on its second bid for the LSE,
for £2.9bn.
But it is not just the big-ticket deals that Adam has
been busy with this year; there are some out of the
ordinary cases too. In the summer he acted for a
shareholder activist who successfully requisitioned
the removal of the chairman of AIM-listed business
African Platinum.
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