Linzi Thomas

Latham & Watkins

Linzi Thomas was the sole private equity and M&A lawyer at Latham & Watkins who made partner in London in 2018, and as a new partner she has built her practice relentlessly over the past year.

She worked for BC Partners on the closing of the sale of the Antelliq Group to the Merck Group, a €3.5bn (£3bn) transaction, and advised Leonard Green Partners on the merger between IP management and technology companies CPA Global and ipan/Delegate in the first part of the year. In the first half of 2019, Thomas co-led for the consortium made up of Triton and a subsidiary the ADIA on its $2.5bn (£1.93bn) acquisition of IFCO, the plastic containers business of Australian logistics group Brambles.

One of the few female M&A partners in Latham’s London office, she co-led for CVC and Domestic & General on the sale of a 30 per cent stake to the ADIA, valuing the UK appliances insurer at just over £1bn. She also acted for Nigerian payments company Interswitch and its shareholders Helios Investment Partners and TA Associates on the strategic partnership with Visa, which also included a minority investment into Interswitch by the payments giant, valuing it at $1bn.

With a full pipeline for 2020, Thomas is sure to continue to rise up the corporate department at Latham this year.