John Allison
Partner Corporate & Finance
Languages
English
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
John is a senior corporate and M&A partner in our London office. John has a great depth of experience across many different industry sectors. John has a particular focus on transactions in regulated sectors and spends a significant proportion of his time on transactions in the financial services sector.
John has vast experience advising clients on complex reorganisations and restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investments and debt portfolio sales.
His clients include corporates of all shapes and sizes, financial institutions, banks, asset managers, investment firms, funds, private equity and other financial services firms.
Representative experience
Metro Bank on its sale of a £2.5bn residential mortgage portfolio to NatWest
An international bank on its acquisition of the retail banking business of a UK retailer (and associated banking business part VII) and including a long term strategic partnership agreement
Ford Credit Europe on its exit from the provision of retail auto financing in 12 European jurisdictions and entry into forward co-operation agreements with BNPP, Santander, Bank Now and UniCredit
Ford Credit Europe on the sale of its Nordic captive auto finance business Forso Nordic AB to Santander
UK Bank on the acquisition of a mortgage issuer and the associated acquisition of a mortgage portfolio of £2bn
Masthaven Bank on the sale of its long term lending/mortgage portfolio to a challenger bank
Lloyds Banking Group/Scottish Widows plc on the acquisition of Zurich's UK workplace pensions and savings business with AuA of £19 billion
UBS on the sale of its traditional fund administration services business in Luxembourg and Switzerland (with AuA of US$420 billion) to Northern Trust Corporation
UBS on the sale of UBS Delta to Stat Pro plc
Bank of Scotland on the sale of a portfolio of real estate loans to Cerberus
Credentials
- MA Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, St Edmund Hall, 1989