Cleary Gottlieb hires Travers Smith's Shawyer for M&A practice

Shawyer spent 17 years at Travers Smith, most recently leading its private equity and financial sponsors practice. 

At Cleary Gottlieb, he will help to develop the firm's M&A and private equity team, the firm said in a statement. Shawyer brings experience in areas including leveraged buyouts, bolt-ons, carve-outs, minority deals, recapitalisation, divestments, distressed M&A and take-privates, the statement added.

Shawyer has previously worked on mandates for Bridgepoint, advising on the sponsor's exits of risk mitigation consultancy HKA to PAI and of home builder Miller Homes to Apollo. He also advised on its investments in Asian food chain Itsu and pharma intelligence provider Prescient Healthcare.

He has also advised on deals including Livingbridge's acquisition of book retailer World of Books and TA Associates' exit of monitoring solutions provider ITRS to Montagu.  

Cleary Gottlieb's M&A team has recently advised on the sellside of IFF's carve-out of Savory Solutions to PAI, and Mubadala's co-investment in EQT's takeover of German insulation solutions group Va-Q-tec.

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