Josh Baxter
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Josh Baxter

Counsel

Email

josh.baxter@aoshearman.com

Phone

+44 20 3088 4062

Offices

London

V-CARD

Josh advises clients on private equity transactions, including buyouts, minority investments, platform M&A and preferred equity investments.

Josh regularly advises on transactions in a range of sectors, with a particular focus on real assets, including infrastructure, energy and real estate transactions.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

  • Athora on its GBP5.7bn acquisition of Pension Insurance Corporation.
  • Division of a global financial institution on its acquisition of a majority stake in OSM Thome AS.
  • Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc and Miller Homes on the acquisition by Miller Homes of St Modwen Homes.
  • Stonepeak Partners on its joint venture with KKR with a recommended GBP1.6bn cash offer for Assura.
  • Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc on an investment into an Italian-headquartered leisure and hospitality business.
  • Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc on the acquisition of Evri, one of the UK’s largest parcel delivery companies, from Advent International (previous firm experience).
  • One Equity Partners and Buckthorn Partners in connection with their acquisition of Amey UK plc from Ferrovial (previous firm experience).
  • One Equity Partners and Buckthorn Partners in their acquisition of Acteon Group from funds managed and/or advised by KKR (previous firm experience).
  • Buckthorn Partners in its sale of Coretrax to Expro (previous firm experience).
  • Stanley Capital Partners on its investment in Roboyo, a market-leading independent consultancy company helping large corporates implement and manage a full spectrum of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) powered automation technologies (previous firm experience).
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.