Nicola Evans

Nicola Evans

Partner Corporate & Finance

London

+44 20 7296 2861

[email protected]

Languages

English

Nicola Evans

Overview
Experience
Credentials
Insights and events

She is a highly experienced M&A lawyer that has worked many times with our group. She has a very good understanding of what is important to us and what is not important to us. Therefore, making deals easier to execute for us.
Thomson Reuters Stand-Out Lawyers

Described by Legal 500 as a practitioner who is "approachable and pragmatic" and one that is “proactive, thinks ahead and provides pragmatic solutions”, Nicola has over 20 years’ experience advising clients on game-changing and often innovative corporate finance transactions.

Nicola’s experience is broad and extends to corporate transactions, domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures, the Takeover Code, disclosure and governance issues, securities law and the Listing Rules as well as secondary capital raising and restructurings. She is also often called upon by boards of listed companies to advise on their significant corporate matters.

She has experience across a number of sectors including, in particular, insurance, financial services, retail and real estate.

Nicola is Leader of our Global Insurance Sector and was awarded Insurance Lawyer of the Year at the Women in Insurance Awards 2023. Nicola was also named as a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer in 2024 and 2025, with a client saying, "Nicola has the ability to solve transactional complex problems very quickly, delivers very straightforward honest advice and she really understands our business."

Approachable and pragmatic
Legal 500

Representative experience

Well Pharmacy on its acquisition of Lexon Pharmaceuticals, a wholesale pharmaceutical business.

Global Ports Holding PLC on its US$310m unconditional recommended takeover offer by its majority shareholder, Global Yatırım Holding A.Ş and its related delisting from the London Stock Exchange.

Represented Shaftesbury PLC on its recommended £5bn all-share merger with Capital & Counties Properties PLC.

Represented AXA on the acquisition of Ageas Insurance Limited’s commercial lines insurance business.

Represented a global insurance broker on the sale of its Russian entities.

Represented Just Group plc cash box placing of £75 million alongside an underwritten benchmark restricted tier 1 debt offering of at £300 million.

Represented Shaftesbury on its £300 million underwritten equity capital raise.

Represented U+I on the sale of its stake in the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus to Brookfield Asset Management.

Represented AXA on various transactions including the disposal by way of auction sale of Bluefin and HAPS.

Represented Suramericana on the multi-jurisdictional acquisition from Royal + Sun Alliance of its Latin American businesses.

Represented the Pension Protection Fund on its arrangements with Tata Steel.

Represented Prudential/M+G on various corporate acquisitions of real estate assets.

Represented Segro on its £1bn public takeover of Brixton plc and associated placing and open offer.

Represented Aviva on its acquisition of real estate assets by way of the acquisition of shares in various companies.