Caroline Crawford
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Caroline Crawford

Senior Associate

Email

caroline.crawford@aoshearman.com

Phone

+44 20 3088 3650

Offices

London

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Caroline has a wide range of experience advising private equity funds, financial sponsors and their portfolio companies on the full range of cross-border M&A transactions, including buyouts, mergers, exits, joint ventures, consortium arrangements and take private transactions.
In 2017 Caroline spent six months on secondment at Charterhouse Capital Partners and a year and half on secondment to the firm’s Singapore office from 2020 to 2021.

Expertise

Experience

Representative matters

  • Exponent Private Equity on a number of transactions including:
    - the investment in Chanelle Pharma.
    - the sale of Meadow Foods to Fairfax Financial.
    - (its and SHL’s) disposal of PDRI to Pearson.
    - the acquisition of East End Foods.
    - the acquisition of SHL.
  • USS on the sale of a minority interest in Dukes Education to KKR.
  • Apax on the acquisition of WGSN.
  • Waterland on its acquisition of a 55% stake in the accounting and audit firm, Moore Kingston Smith LLP.
  • A global alternative investment management firm on its joint venture with Hines to acquire Aedes SIIQ, an Italian REIT.
  • A global investment organization on the joint venture with Paine Schwartz Partners to create BLOOM FRESH International, a global fruit breeding company.
  • FNZ, a global wealth management platform, on its USD1.4bn equity fundraising from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Motive Partners, valuing the group at over USD20bn.
  • A privately held investment company on its acquisition of Unilabs from funds advised by Apax.
  • PAI on:
    - its (and its portfolio company, R&R Ice Cream) joint venture with Nestlé to create Froneri.
    - the sale of the caprolactone division of Perstorp to Ingevity Corporation.
  • AIMCo on its acquisition of a 30% stake in Davies Group.
  • Charterhouse Capital Partners on the public-to-private of Tarsus Group plc.
  • H.I.G. Capital on:
    - the acquisition of the assets of Xtera Communications.
    - the sale of Kondor Limited.

Qualifications

Admissions

Admitted as a Solicitor (England and Wales), 2017

Academic

BA (Hons) History, University of Durham, 2013
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.