A&O Shearman represents CUBE in acquisition of Thomson Reuters regulatory intelligence businesses

Published Date
Jun 12, 2024
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A&O Shearman represented Cube Content Governance Global Limited (CUBE), a global leader in automated regulatory intelligence and a portfolio company of Hg, a leading investor in European and transatlantic software and services businesses, in its acquisition of the regulatory businesses of Thomson Reuters Corporation.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal was announced on May 16, 2024.

Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence is a proactive, comprehensive solution that tracks and analyzes regulatory changes within approximately 2,000 regulatory bodies and rulebooks in more than 20 countries. For CUBE, these global businesses will deliver significant scale across the world’s leading and systemically important financial institutions for a global customer base in banking, insurance, asset and investment management and adjacent regulated industries.

The A&O team was led by corporate partner Dario de Martino, IP partner Alex Touma and associates Mara Goodman and Chynna Foucek with support from associates Lucy Chen and Jack Weinert.

Employment advice was provided by senior counsel Jason Rothschild and associate Alexandra Sentner. Regulatory advice was provided by partner Ken Rivlin, senior counsel Kuang Chiang and associates Jake Ely and James Daher. Privacy advice was provided by partner Helen Christakos and associate Sonya Aggarwal. Tax advice was provided by partner Dave Lewis and senior counsel John Hibbard. UK corporate advice was provided by Will Samengo-Turner, senior associate Josh Little, associate Josh Cohen and trainee solicitor Magali Wade. UK IP advice was provided by senior associate Alex Shandro and associate Alex Davis-White. UK employment advice was provided by associate Jessica Tancock. Poland employment advice was provided by senior associate Kamil Jablonski. Netherlands employment advice was provided by senior associate Chelsea Gunning. Singapore employment advice was provided by partner Shuhui Kwok and senior associate Yu Jia Ang. Hong Kong employment advice was provided by of counsel Susana Ng.

“CUBE is an innovative, growth-oriented company, and we were pleased to be able to work with their management team on this important acquisition,” de Martino. “This transaction underscored the breadth and depth of A&O Shearman and its many skilled attorneys.”