Freddie Schwier
Lawyers
Advises on U.K. tax issues, including in connection with M&A, finance, capital markets and restructuring transactions.
Freddie advises on a wide range of U.K. tax issues across the firm’s practice, including corporate acquisitions and reorganisations, corporate finance, private equity, restructurings, capital markets transactions and tax advisory matters.
Experience
Recent Work
- British American Tobacco $750 million notes offering
- Financing for Advent’s $2.5 billion Sapiens take-private acquisition
- Mitel emerges from chapter 11
- Clarivate $500 million incremental term loan facility
- Harbour Energy $11.2 billion acquisition of Wintershall Dea upstream assets
- Royalty Pharma $1.5 billion senior notes offering
- Smith+Nephew $1 billion notes offering
- Roche $295 million acquisition of LumiraDx's point of care technology platform
- Province of British Columbia $2 billion global bond offering
- MSCI acquisition of Trove Research
- Roivant Sciences registered direct offering and investment in Immunovant
- Province of British Columbia $2.25 billion global bond offering
- Lucid Group $232 million strategic supply agreement with Aston Martin
- NatWest Group $1.25 billion senior notes offering
- Roivant Sciences $150 million equity offering
- Verisk $3.1 billion sale of Wood Mackenzie to Veritas Capital
Insights
Education
GDLP, Law, BPP University Law School
- with distinction
B.A., French and Italian, University of Oxford
Qualifications and admissions
- England and Wales