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Cross-border financial services M&A remains active in 2019 and beyond, driven by continuing innovations in fintech
02 May 2019
John Allison
PartnerLondon
Email john.allison@hoganlovells.com
Phone +44 20 7296 2023
Fax +44 20 7296 2001
LanguagesEnglish
Practice groupCorporate
A highly regarded figure 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 financial institutions, banks, asset managers, investment firms, funds, private equity and other financial services firms.
John is a senior corporate and M&A partner in our London office.
Education and admissions
Education
MA Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, St Edmund Hall, 1989
Representative experience
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.
TSB Bank plc on the acquisition of £3.3bn of Northern Rock mortgages and loans from Cerberus as part of the £13bn acquisition from UK Asset Resolution.
Erste Abwicklungsanstalt bank on the sale of Basinghall Finance Limited to Blackstone and Macquarie.
UBS on the sale of UBS Delta to Stat Pro plc.
PIMCO on debt portfolio and share acquisition transactions.
Lloyds Banking Group on the sale of CMI Insurance, Lloyds Banking Group's offshore closed book life insurance business to RL 360.
Lloyds Banking Group on the sale of a portfolio of leveraged loans to ELQ Investors II Limited (a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs).
Bank of Scotland on the sale of a portfolio of real estate loans to Cerberus.
