Lorna Dean

Expertise

Lorna is an associate in the Corporate Finance team, who qualified and trained in the Firm’s London office. Lorna has worked numerous corporate and corporate finance transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, public takeovers, management buy-outs, corporate re-organisations, initial public offerings, disposals, acting for private equity houses on their investments and exits.

In October 2023, Lorna transferred to the Firm's Dubai office, where she continues to work on corporate transactions, focusing predominantly on private M&A. Lorna has also worked on a range of venture capital transactions and has been involved in a range of discrete commercial matters. Lorna also has previous in-house corporate experience, working closely with the General Counsel within MJ Hudson to support on the company's initial public offering in 2019.

Experience

Advised the founders of the Rise Group on the sale of part of its business in the Middle East to Elevate Sports Ventures.
Advised Kent Group DMCC, a global engineering services leader, on its strategic acquisition of Sudlows DMCC, a design and engineering firm headquartered in Dubai specialising in data centres.
Advised a MENA cryptocurrency platform on its sale to an Indian listed cryptocurrency investment application.
Advised a Dubai property management company on the investment into it by a Malaysia-listed group.
Advised FTSE 100-listed Associated British Foods on its takeover of National Milk Records.
Advised private equity house Terra Firma on its 110 million GBP acquisition of Kier Living from leading UK construction and infrastructure company Kier Group.
Advised Curtis Banks Group on its exit from the UK market via a 242 million GBP acquisition by Nucleus Financial Platforms.

Education