Search    

Lawyers
Lawyers
  Download V-Card         Print this page         Email this page
Derek Jones
Partner
Corporate
41 Lothbury
London EC2R 7HF
United Kingdom
Phone: +44.20.7726.3438
Fax: +44.20.7726.3538
Education and Honors
LPC, College of Law, Chester, 1992

LL.B., University of Bristol, 1991

Recognised in the UK Legal 500 for Corproate and Commercial M&A - lower mid-marketdeals, £50m-£250m, 2009

Admissions and Affiliations

Qualified Solicitor, England and Wales, 1995
Practice Areas

Concentration

Corporate transactions in the energy, infrastructure, oil and gas, real estate, technology and telecommunications sectors, cross-border corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions.

Summary

Derek Jones has extensive U.K. and cross-border corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions experience. His broad experience includes takeovers, acquisitions, mergers and demergers, U.K. listings, rights issues, joint ventures and reorganisations, as well as private acquisitions and transactions.

Mr. Jones joined Baker Botts in September 2003 from Lovells, where he trained and qualified.

Representative Engagements

Real Estate

  • Russian Bank on the debt to equity swap of a lending consortium's investment in a leading Russian real estate development group
  • Development banks in relation to the merger of MDM Bank and URSA Bank
  • A Russian Bank on the debt to equity swap investment in a leading Russian retail group

Technology and Telecommunications

  • International technology company in relation to the sale of a Russian technology company
  • Liberty Global Europe – acquisition of a strategic stake in Telenet N.V., the largest Belgian cable operator
  • ALSTOM – long-term technology agreement with Rolls-Royce
  • AIM listed international technology company in relation to future exit strategies, including a potential sale of interests
  • Liberty Global Europe – €600 million acquisition of Noos, the largest French cable operator

Energy

  • Russian natural resources company on its group restructuring
  • ALSTOM – disposal of industrial gas turbines division to Siemens

Listings

  • IPO of part of its share capital on the Saudi Arabian Stock Exchange (Tadawul), including all corporate restructuring necessary for completion of the deal
  • Weqaya for Takaful Insurance & Reinsurance Co on its IPO of part of its share capital on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul)
  • OMX – EDX equity derivatives joint venture with the London Stock Exchange
  • South African Breweries – $5 billion acquisition of Miller Brewing Company
  • South African Breweries – listing on the London Stock Exchange, $420 million placing, and $600 million bond issue
  • OMX – unsuccessful hostile takeover for the London Stock Exchange
  • Granada – merger and demerger with Compass
  • Racal – takeover by THALES