Tim Lake

Tim is a corporate partner who is highly regarded for his extensive transactional mergers and acquisitions and private equity experience, acting for clients across Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the US.

He regularly acts for founder shareholders, large corporate vendors/purchasers, private equity and debt funders/institutions and management teams on a wide range of domestic and cross-border corporate transactions. Tim’s main areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, disposals, management buyouts, secondary buyouts, development capital investments, exits and corporate reorganisations, restructurings and refinancings.

He practices across multiple sectors including Financial Services, Energy and Natural Resources, Consumer Goods, Food and Retail, Technology, Real Estate, Media Sport and Entertainment, Life Sciences, Infrastructure, Construction and Transport but has particular expertise in the Industrials Sector.

Tim is Global Co-Chair of DLA Piper’s Manufacturing Sub-sector and the UK Head of Industrials. He brings a mixture of technical excellence and commerciality to any transaction he leads.

Tim advises global corporates including Alstom; Altrad; Blom; BorgWarner; Bridgestone; Bromford Industries; CommVault Systems; CoreLogic; H&M Hennez & Mauritz; Hill & Smith; Huber+Suhner; Jaguar Land Rover, KTM; Lotus Bakeries; MKS Instruments; Mondelez; Mitsubishi Logisnext; National Grid; Outcomes First Group; Staples; Swissport; Watkin Jones Group and William Hill and international institutions including Barclays Bank; LDC; Livingbridge; Lloyds Bank; NFT Ventures; Permira; Sovereign Capital Partners; The Co-Operative Bank; The Royal Bank of Scotland and Vespa Capital.