AVONHURST - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Office Coordinator
- Personal Assistant
Devyn is the personal assistant and office coordinator at Avonhurst. Devyn manages the day-to-day running of Avonhurst's headquarters and acts as a first point-of-contact for clients and colleagues. She is also responsible for supporting the Avonhurst partners. Devyn worked at a law firm in New Zealand for three years before moving to London and joining Avonhurst
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Corporate Partner
Emmanuel is a corporate partner who advises on a full range of transactions, including domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, private equity and venture capital transactions and joint ventures.
He has extensive experience working across the industrials, technology, healthcare and real estate sectors, advising private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, corporates and founders. Emmanuel also advises management teams on private equity buy outs and their equity plans.
Emmanuel developed his practice at Magic Circle and US law firms working in London, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Practice Areas
Mergers & Acquisitions / Private Equity / Emerging Companies and Venture Capital / Joint Ventures / Corporate Real Estate / Corporate Reorganisations / Restructuring / Corporate Advisory
Corporate partner Emmanuel Amos led the Avonhurst team supported by counsel, Joshua Swerner, and a team including Thomas Mawson, Oliver Elsaesser and Katy Vella.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor
- Senior Advisor to
Gavin is a Senior Advisor to Avonhurst. He served as Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister from June 2017 to July 2019 during one of the most turbulent periods in British political history. As the Prime Minister's senior political adviser, he was intimately involved in both the conduct of the Brexit negotiations and the efforts to secure Parliamentary support for the deal, giving him outstanding contacts in all British political parties, the EU institutions and a number of European governments.
Prior to his appointment, he was the Member of Parliament for Croydon Central from May 2010 until June 2017. In October 2013, David Cameron appointed him as a Government Whip and subsequently promoted him within the Whips Office. Between July 2015 and June 2016, he was responsible for day-to-day management of business in the House of Commons, giving him an unparalleled understanding of how Parliament and the legislative process works.
Ian is a finance partner, specialising in leveraged finance and restructurings. He advises private equity houses, venture capital funds, direct lenders and corporates across all asset classes and geographies. Ian also has significant experience advising banks and other financial institutions.
Joshua is a corporate partner who advises on a broad range of M&A and corporate transactions, with a focus advising private equity sponsors, venture capital funds, large corporates and family offices.
His recent experience includes advising on transactions in the industrials, life sciences, media, energy, real estate and healthcare sectors.
Joshua developed his practice at Magic Circle and leading UK law firms working in London and Moscow.
Expertise
Mergers & Acquisitions / Private Equity / Emerging Companies and Venture Capital / Joint Ventures / Corporate Real Estate / Corporate Reorganisations / Restructuring / Corporate Advisory
Katy is a paralegal who provides support to our transaction teams and clients on a broad range of corporate and finance matters, with a particular focus on M&A and real estate transactions.
She previously worked at leading international law firms where she provided corporate support in addition to her role as administration team leader.
Nigel specialises in real estate law and financing, advising developers, bankers and other institutions on a range of real estate transactions, as well as real estate opportunity funds and major investment banks on their European real estate investment programs.
His extensive experience includes advising across the equity, finance and restructuring elements of complex real estate financing transactions.
Nigel has more than 30 years‘ prior experience working in leading international UK and US law firms.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Finance Associate
Oliver is a finance associate, specialising in leveraged finance transactions. He advises lenders, underwriters and sponsors on leveraged finance, direct lending and restructuring transactions across a broad range of asset classes.
Oliver previously developed his career in the leveraged finance team of a leading US law firm.
Expertise
Leveraged Finance / Syndicated Lending / Unitranches / Asset Lending and Trade Finance / Mezzanine and PIK Financing / Real Estate Finance / Restructuring / Special Situations / Distressed Lending
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor
- Senior Advisor to
Pippa is a Senior Advisor to Avonhurst. She served President George W. Bush in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and on The National Economic Council, serving on the President's working group on corporate governance and financial markets. Before joining the White House, she ran the Bankers Trust Asset Management business in Asia as the Global Chief Currency Strategist and served as the Deputy Head of Global Strategy at UBS.
Pippa is the best-selling author of The Infinite Leader, Geopolitics for Investors and Signals: How Everyday Signs Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy. She serves as a judge on The Queen's Enterprise Business Awards and was a member of the Board of Directors for The Department for International Trade in the UK from 2017-2019.
Pippa has a BA from Mount Vernon College and an M.Sc. and PhD from LSE, and completed the Harvard Program on National Security. She lectures at Sandhurst and the Duke Fuqua Global Executive MBA Program and has guest lectured at the U Texas Austin and INSEAD.
Sarah is an associate in the Corporate team. She advises on a broad range of M&A and corporate transactions, including private equity and venture capital transactions and joint ventures, as well as on general corporate matters.
Prior to joining Avonhurst, Sarah developed her career at a leading international law firm.
Expertise
Mergers & Acquisitions / Private Equity / Joint Ventures / Corporate Real Estate / Corporate Reorganisations / Corporate Advisory
Job Titles:
- Partner - Origination and Client Development
Sophie is a partner who is focused on deal origination and client development. She is highly regarded for her commercial and pragmatic approach to finding innovative solutions for Avonhurst's clients across a broad range of asset classes and sectors with particular expertise in real estate.
Sophie works with investors to source potential investment opportunities and develop investment strategies, and advises managers and businesses on strategy execution through all stages of the investment lifecycle, from capital deployment through to exit.
Expertise
Investment Strategy / Finance / Real Estate / Restructuring / Special Situations / Distressed Lending
Stephen advises on all types of domestic and cross-border real estate transactions, including sales, purchases, lettings, development, financing, joint ventures, business mergers and acquisitions and real estate funds formation.
He regularly advises domestic and international investors, developers, borrowers, lenders and other financial institutions, private equity and real estate hedge funds.
Stephen has previously worked at leading international UK and US law firms.
Stuart advises a wide range of clients from institutional investors, private equity investors, hotel operators and developers through to private banks and high net worth individuals in relation to all of their real estate needs.
Stuart has previously worked at Magic Circle and leading international law firms.
Tor is a Senior Advisor at Avonhurst. He has a wide range of experience across media and communications, finance, intelligence and strategy and is a founder of Tiller, a trusted and connected network with recourse to hard-to-access information and authenticated insights.
He is a former partner of Nash Capital Group, which provides funding, M&A and corporate finance advisory services, alongside direct investment access to rapidly growing private companies. There, as an appointed member of the Trade Policy Research Centre's Strategic Advisory Committee, he also advised a specialist group of political strategists on trade policy and activity. Prior to that, he had a spent his career launching, acquiring and selling media businesses, including the launch of Australia's Foxtel and Galaxy platforms, before returning to the UK to work for NBC Universal's UK and EMEA television channels business as Director of Channels.
Having served on the boards of start-ups and multinationals, Tor has a broad knowledge of corporate governance issues, with skills that encompass corporate strategic development, marketing and communications, public policy presentation and change leadership. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and an active supporter of research into cancer and genetic disease and has served on board of the National Institute of Health Research's Pancreas Biomedical Research Unit.