Global law firm Reed Smith has advised St. Louis based UniGroup on its acquisition of UK based Sterling Relocation. The deal closed on 30 June 2014.
UniGroup is one of the world’s largest transportation and relocation services providers and owner of United Van Lines and Mayflower Transit among other companies. The acquisition provides UniGroup with the full range of global relocation services, from relocation consulting, assignment management, immigration, and destination and supply-chain management.
Sakil Suleman, Reed Smith corporate partner, commented:
"Sterling’s global presence, across the UK, US, China, Singapore, France, Germany, Switzerland, India and more, gave us a great opportunity to showcase our international capabilities. It was a complex deal with lots of moving parts. Given the firm’s platform, we managed to field a cross-office team of over 50 lawyers to help successfully get the deal done to the client’s satisfaction in a tight time frame."
The core Reed Smith team was led by corporate partner Sakil Suleman and associate Oliver Harker in London and included: partner Caspar Fox (tax), counsels Kate Brimsted (data privacy) and Alex Heaton (real estate), and associates Stephen Mooney and Julia Fagelman (both corporate), Angela Gregson (competition), Matt Peters (data privacy), Amy Ferrington and Thomas Remington (both employment), Victoria Thompson and Daniel Weiner (finance), Kirsty O’Connor (litigation), Gail Fairman (real estate), James Bromley and Will Sutton (tax), consultant Jeremy Glover (employee incentives), and trainee Annabel Bratby in London; partners Michel Debroux (competition) and Isabelle MacElhone (corporate) and associates Bertrand Baheu-Derras and Anaïs Moyrand (both corporate) in Pairs; partner Stephan Rippert (corporate) in Munich; partner Darren Cohen (IP) in New York; partner Michael Pepper (corporate) in Hong Kong; and associate Jeffrey Friedrich (corporate) in Pittsburgh.
Hogan Lovells advised the sellers.
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