Tom Hartwright

Tom Hartwright

Partner

Tom is a partner in the Private Equity & Financial Sponsors Group.

Tom is a corporate partner, specialising in pan-European and international private equity and M&A transactions. His clients include corporates, institutional investors, alternative asset managers, senior management teams, founders and investee companies.

Tom advises on a full range of transactions including leveraged buyouts, consortium deals, bolt-on acquisitions, carve-outs, co-investments, minority deals, recapitalisations, divestments, distressed M&A, public-to-privates, joint ventures, reorganisations and restructurings together with advising on general corporate matters.

Tom also advises the firm's global asset management clients on GP-stake transactions, GP succession planning (including restructuring ownership and governance arrangements) and structured secondary market liquidity solutions (including GP-led and LP-led secondary transactions).

Industry recognition

  • Ranked as an "Up and Coming" lawyer in Chambers 2023.
  • Tom has been recognised as a Private Equity "Rising Star" and one of "Europe's Best Up-and-Coming Lawyers" by Law.com.

Other roles and background

  • Tom is a member of both Travers Smith's Technology Sector Group with a focus on technology M&A and its Legal Technology Working Group, which brings together lawyers and technologists to design more agile and efficient ways to deliver legal services.

Selected deals

  • Inflexion and other shareholders on the sale of Medivet to CVC Capital Partners.
  • Inflexion on its sale of Huws Gray, one of the largest builders' merchants in the UK, to Blackstone.
  • Management on the sale of TES Global from Providence Equity to Onex Partners.
  • TA Associates and management shareholders on the sale of a majority stake in ITRS Group, a global provider of real-time monitoring and analytics software, to Montagu Private Equity.
  • Kester Capital and other selling shareholders on the sale of Frontier Medical Group, a medical device manufacturer, to Agilitas Private Equity.
  • Livingbridge and management shareholders on the sale of a majority stake in Exclaimer, a global provider of email signature management software, to Insight Partners, with participation from Farview Equity Partners.
  • Equistone Partners Europe and management shareholders on the sale of Winterbotham Darby, one of the UK's most dynamic chilled food business, to PAI Partners.
  • IK Investment Partners on the acquisition of a majority stake in Forthglade Foods, the natural pet food brand.
  • Marlin Equity Partners and other selling shareholders, on the sale of a majority stake in Qualitest, the outsourced software testing and quality assurance specialist, to Bridgepoint.
  • Livingbridge and management shareholders on the sale of Sykes Holiday Cottages, the online holiday cottage rental agency, to Vitruvian Partners and the subsequent co-investment by Livingbridge.
  • ITRS Group on its bolt-on acquisitions of Uptrends (Netherlands), OP5 (Sweden) and Sumerian (UK).
  • Equistone Partners Europe on the carve-out and acquisition of Bulgin, a developer and manufacturer of environmentally sealed connectors and components, from Elektron Technology PLC.
  • Bridgepoint and its investee company, Element Materials Technology Group, on the P2P cash acquisition of Exova Group plc.
  • Equistone Partners Europe on the sale of OneOcean.
Travers have gone above and beyond on this one – just superb delivery
Inflexion, in relation to the sale of Medivet to CVC
You and your team were exceptional throughout the process. We made the right choice.
Rod Williams, CEO of Tes Global in relation to the sale to Onex
Tom Hartwright is a promising up-and-coming private equity partner. He impresses through his assistance on several large-scale transactions for high-profile clients. He is also proficient on tech M&A.
Chambers 2023
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