Stephen Lloyd
Partner
London
Stephen Lloyd
Partner
London
Contact details
Stephen is Co-Head of our Private Equity practice, based in London. He has over 25 years of experience advising private equity houses, sovereign wealth funds and other equity providers on acquisitions and disposals.
He also advises public and private corporates and investment banks on the full range of cross border M&A and corporate finance transactions.
Stephen is recognised as a leading individual by Chambers UK 2022.
Stephen is in Legal 500’s Hall of Fame for Private Equity High Value Transactions UK 2022.
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
Law Society Finals, First Class Honours, 1992
MA (Hons) Classics, Cambridge University, First Class Honours, 1989
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Experience highlights
Advising Bridgepoint on the sale of testing services provider Element Materials Technology to Temasek and the acquisition of tech company Fenergo from Insight Partners.
Advising EQT on the acquisition of Idealista, the online real estate classifieds platform, from Apax Partners.
Advising Cinven on the acquisition of Compre, an insurance provider.
Advising the privately held investment company on its acquisition of Unilabs from funds advised by Apax Partners.
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
Law Society Finals, First Class Honours, 1992
MA (Hons) Classics, Cambridge University, First Class Honours, 1989
Other noteworthy experience
- Blackstone on its acquisition of a majority stake in Luminor Bank from Nordea and DNB
- H.I.G. Capital on its acquisition of Vernacare
- Bridgepoint on its acquisition of Fishawack, an independent global healthcare communication group from Lloyds Development Capital
- WPP on the sale of a 60% stake in Kantar to Bain Capital
- Apax on the acquisition of surface treatment provider Safetykleen from Warburg Pincus
- EQT Partners (EQT) on the acquisition of Parcel2Go, a parcel delivery comparison website
- Eurazeo on the sale of half of its stake in integrated payments leader, Planet to Advent International
- WPP on the sale of 49.99% of the newly combined Finsbury, Glover Park and Hering Schuppener Group, a new global strategic communications advisory firm and on the subsequent merger with Sard Verbinnen
- Greensill, the leading non-bank provider of working capital finance for companies globally, on its USD800m investment and USD655m follow-on investment from Softbank Vision Fund
