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EU-UK Spotlight: Renewables, trade, and the global supply chain
Akhil Parekh
Senior Associate Corporate & Finance
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Akhil Parekh is a senior associate in our international corporate practice based in London. Akhil advises on a broad range of corporate transactions including public and private M&A, private equity and growth equity, and equity capital markets.
Akhil’s clients range from large multinational organisations including Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies to financial institutions and private equity funds. Akhil has experience advising clients on their most significant corporate transactions across a range of sectors including infrastructure and energy, life sciences and pharmaceuticals, real estate, hospitality and consumer, technology, media, telecommunications, fintech, and financial services.
Akhil has spent six months on secondment to a major banking group based in the UK.
Representative experience
DCC plc on the sale of its Info Tech business in the UK and Ireland to AURELIUS
Smart Metering Systems plc on its £1.3bn recommended takeover offer by KKR
Serica Energy plc on the acquisition of TotalEnergies’ entire operated interest in the West of Shetland area assets and onshore Shetland gas plant
Prax (in administration) on the sale of its entire upstream oil and gas business to Serica Energy plc
Well Pharmacy on its acquisition of the Lexon UK pharmaceutical wholesale and retail pharmacy business
Electra Private Equity PLC on the demerger and main market listing of Hostmore plc, UK franchisee of the TGI Fridays restaurant chain
Booking.com on the sale of its global customer service business to Majorel
Google on its minority investment in a UK-based technology company and subsequent exit
Labcorp on the global separation, reorganisation and spin-off of Fortrea
Ruder Finn Group on the acquisition of Touchdown PR
U+I on the sale of its stake in the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus to Brookfield
Shaftesbury PLC on its £300m underwritten equity capital raise
Credentials
Education
- Accelerated Legal Practice Course, BPP University, Holborn, Distinction, 2019
- Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP University Law School, Waterloo, Distinction, 2018
- B.A. English, University of Bristol, First Class Honours, 2017
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Solicitor, England and Wales
Court admissions
- England and Wales
News
Press releases
14 July 2025
Press releases
02 July 2024
Press releases
26 March 2024