Tamas is a Counsel in the Global Corporate Group. He has over a decade of corporate transactional and general advisory experience, with a primary focus on cross-border transactions, principally in private M&A and private equity. He also focuses on corporate restructurings and reorganisations and complex commercial contracts. He advises corporates, financial sponsors and institutional investors across a broad range of business sectors.
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
Advised K1 Investment Management, and its portfolio company the SINGU Group, on its acquisition of Synbiotix, a leading European provider of cloud-based software for property operations and facility management.
Advised RedBird IMI on the proposed acquisition of the Telegraph Media Group, a multimedia news company (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised RedBird IMI on the disposal of The Spectator magazine, the oldest continuously published weekly in the English language (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Private Equity
Advised K1 Investment Management, and its portfolio company the SINGU Group, on its acquisition of Synbiotix, a leading European provider of cloud-based software for property operations and facility management.
Advised RedBird IMI on the proposed acquisition of the Telegraph Media Group, a multimedia news company (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised RedBird IMI on the disposal of The Spectator magazine, the oldest continuously published weekly in the English language (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised a large U.S. financial sponsor and its portfolio company on the latter’s $450 million acquisition of an online consumer intelligence and social media listening platform (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised Safanad on its control investment in HC-One, the UK’s largest care home operator, and related management incentivisation plan (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised Investcorp on its acquisition of 3iDM, a credit investment company with $12 billion in assets under management, from 3i Group plc (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised Money Mart Financial Services, a Lone Star Funds portfolio company, on the disposal of its European operations to a large U.S. financial sponsor (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised Lone Star Funds on its $1.3 billion acquisition of DFC Global Corp. (now known as Money Mart Financial Services) (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised Lone Star Funds on the IPO of Forterra plc on the London Stock Exchange and subsequent full exit (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised Lone Star Funds on its $1.4 billion acquisition of a North American and UK building products business from a large German building materials company (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised Asterion Industrial Partners on its investment in Prejeance Industrial, a rooftop solar development company (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised Stone Canyon Industries, LLC, through its subsidiary BWAY Corporation, on its $2.3 billion acquisition of Mauser Group N.V. from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised the portfolio company of a mid-market financial sponsor on the acquisition of a circa 70% stake in a display and interactive technologies business (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised OpenGate Capital on its acquisition of a majority interest in CoreMedia AG, a global content management and digital experience platform (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised Gulf Capital and Gulf Marine Services plc, an operation of self-propelled lift boats, on the IPO of Gulf Marine Services plc on the London Stock Exchange (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Strategic M&A
Advised a significant Middle Eastern family office on the proposed disposal of an oil and gas offshore exploration and production company (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised a significant Middle Eastern family office on the disposal of a petrochemical company (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised Towers Watson on its $18 billion merger of equals with Willis Group (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised a large U.S. financial sponsor and its portfolio company on the latter’s $450 million acquisition of an online consumer intelligence and social media listening platform (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised Zayo Group on its acquisition of Viatel’s pan-European dark fibre infrastructure and enterprise businesses (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised a large U.S. engineering and manufacturing company, a subsidiary of a large German energy company, on the disposal of a UK engineering company to a UK manufacturing company (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised a Middle Eastern engineering and construction company in connection with a joint venture (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised Coty Inc. on its acquisition of the Bourjois cosmetics business (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Reorganisations and Restructurings
Advised a cross-holder group of term loan lenders and noteholders (including, among others, Capital Group, PGIM and CVC Capital Partners) on the comprehensive cross-border recapitalisation of Venator Materials PLC through a pre-packaged Chapter 11 process (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised an ad hoc group of noteholders on the restructuring of the 2023 maturing debt of a large U.S. multinational producer of fiber and technology solutions for the apparel and personal care industries (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised Money Mart Financial Services, a Lone Star Funds portfolio company, on the reorganisation of its North American and UK operations (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Pro Bono
Advised First Star Scholars, a UK charity with the mission of creating more opportunities for children living in care to enter higher education, on its incorporation, corporate governance and contractual negotiations (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised DeafKidz International, a UK charity with the mission of supporting deaf children worldwide, on its merger with Sound Seekers (formally known as the Commonwealth Society for the Deaf) (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Advised Richard Ratcliffe on securing the release of his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from illegal detention in Iran (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Recognitions
- Selected through peer review for Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom as “One to Watch” for Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2023–2025
Credentials
Education
Education
- University of Law, Moorgate, 2011, LPC
- University of Law, Moorgate, 2011, LL.B. (Hons)
- University of Law, Moorgate, 2010, GDL
- University of Durham, 2009, BA (Hons)
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- England and Wales
Professional affiliations
Professional affiliations
- Royal Society of Arts, Fellow
- Royal Institute of International Affairs, Member