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Rob Day is a partner in the Corporate department at SJ Berwin LLP. Rob qualified in 1995 and became a partner in 2002. Rob has extensive experience of public and private company M&A activity, within the UK and on cross border transactions, leveraged buy-outs, equity capital markets fundraising activity, and the establishment of joint ventures.

Key transactions in 2007/2008 include advising:

• the management of Aibel Limited on the $900 million sale of Aibel Limited, a leading provider of products and services to upstream oil and gas industry,
  
• FTSE 100 client Associated British Foods on the acquisition of a European Yeast Business,
  
• the GEO management team on the buyout of GEO by Alchemy Partners from Hutchison Whampoa,
• the sale of Accord Plc to Enterprise plc, the listed UK based support services provider and a portfolio company of 3i, and
• the management team of Prêt a Manger on the £345 million sale of Prêt to Bridgepoint Capital.

Previous deal highlights include advising the ALL3MEDIA management team on the £320 million acquisition of ALL3MEDIA by Permira; advising Lion Capital on its leveraged acquisition of the Wagamama restaurant group for £102.5 million; advising 3i and the management team of ERM, the leading global environmental consulting group operating in 39 jurisdictions, on the US$535 million sale of ERM to Bridgepoint Capital and advising Canary Wharf Group on consortium arrangements with Ballymore in relation to the development of the Wood Wharf site, which is expected to be a £2 billion development.

Rob is also the Corporate relationship partner for Universal Music Group and has advised the company of the on the €1.63 billion purchase of the BMG Music publishing business, the acquisition of V2 Records, a leading independent music company and a recommended cash offer for The Sanctuary Group plc.

In April 2004 Rob was named “Legal Adviser of the Year” at the BVCA/Real Deals Awards for leading the team advising Pantheon, the specialist private equity fund of funds group with US$7 billion under management, on its sale to Russell Investment Group.