Oliver Koo

Oliver Koo advises on a wide variety of corporate transactions, including cross-border private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and general corporate matters.

Mr. Koo’s experience includes representing:

• Open Text Corporation in its $150 million sale of Vertica Systems, Inc. to Rocket Software Inc., a portfolio company of Bain Capital, LLC
• S&P Global Inc. in the carve-out sales of its enterprise data management and thinkFolio businesses to funds affliated with STG Partners, LLC
• Plessey Group Holdings Limited in its sale of Plessey Semiconductors Ltd to Haylo Labs
• Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. in its $8.3 billion acquisition by The Boeing Company; the sale of certain assets and sites involved in the production of Airbus aerostructures to Airbus SE; and the $95 million sale of its facility and businesses in Malaysia to Composites Technology Research Malaysia Sdn Bhd
• Light & Wonder, Inc. (f/k/a Scientific Games Corporation) as special tax counsel in the $1.2 billion sale of its sports betting business, OpenBets, to Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc.; and in the $6.1 billion sale of its lottery business to Brookfield Business Partners L.P.
• V Sports S.C.S., the holding company of the Aston Villa Football Club Limited, in an investment in V Sports by Atairos Management, L.P.
• Intact Financial Corporation and its subsidiary Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Limited (RSA) in the sale of RSA’s U.K. direct home and pet personal lines insurance operations to Admiral Group plc; and their $648 million acquisition of the brokered commercial lines operations of Direct Line Insurance Group plc
• Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its $794 million acquisition by Alfasigma S.p.A.
• Visa Inc. in its $1 billion acquisition of Pismo
• Hillenbrand, Inc. in its acquisition of the food and performance materials business of Schenck Process Holding GmbH at an enterprise value of $730 million
• Pinnacle Pet Group Limited in its acquisition of Animal Friends Insurance Services Limited from Correlation Risk Partners
• a consortium led by Energy Infrastructure Partners AG in the acquisition of a 19.85% stake in Fluxys Group from Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, and in the financing aspects of the acquisition