Tom Shropshire
Partner, Linklaters
Tom is a corporate partner and co-head of Linklaters’ newly established Operational Intelligence Group, which focuses on risk, regulation and governance. Tom has significant experience in M&A and equity capital markets transactions in the United States, Europe and South Africa, having acted as the lead U.S. adviser on a number of high profile and complex transactions in recent years. He also provides U.S. corporate law and SEC-reporting advice to a number of the firm’s largest clients. Tom is also chair of the firm’s Corporate Responsibility Committee.
Representative examples include advising:
An SEC-registered company in the extractive industry on an SEC-investigation and a global compliance review throughout the U.S., Africa, Australia, Asia and Latin America
A UK plc in connection with the design of its compliance and governance framework
The United Nations Global Compact on its Global Corporate Counsel Initiative
AMEC plc in connection with its $3.3 billion offer for Foster Wheeler AG
Rio Tinto in connection with the $142 billion unsolicited offer by BHP Billiton
The Royal Bank of Scotland in connection with the €71.1 billion cash and share offer for ABN AMRO
Gold Fields Limited and Sibanye Gold Limited on the spin-off and NYSE listing of Sibanye
National Grid in connection with its £3.2 billion rights issue
Rio Tinto in connection with its $15.2 billion rights issue