James Scott

About James Scott

James is a private equity partner and leader of the UK private equity team specialising in both public and private markets transactions for private equity sponsors and other financial investors internationally and across a range of sectors.  He is relationship partner for a number of the firm’s key private equity relationships.

Prior to joining Freshfields in 2004, James worked as an analyst for Citigroup in their UK mergers and acquisitions team.

Recent work

• Advent on the acquisition of ICE and its subsequent acquisitions of New Zealand Pharmaceuticals and ABC Farmaceutici
• Advent and Zentiva on the acquisition by Zentiva of Alvogen’s CEE / CIS business
• Advent on the dual-track exit (IPO and sale), by way of sale of the Priory Group to Acadia Healthcare Company
• Advent in relation to its investment in Mediq
• Advent on the acquisition of Faerch Plast from EQT
• Advent on the acquisition of V Group from Omers
• Advent on the sale of Ammeraal Beltech to Partners Group
• Apax and Travelex on the sale of Travelex’s global business payments business to The Western Union Company
• Apax on the dual-track exit (IPO and sale), by way of sale of Travelex
• AIMCo, OMERS, Ontario Teachers’ Pensions Plan and WrenHouse on the acquisition of London City Airport from Global Infrastructure Partners and Highstar Capital
• AMEX Global Business Travel on the takeover of Hogg Robinson plc
• Blackstone and Sixth Street on the sale of Kensington Mortgages to Barclays
• Blackstone and Bluewater on the sale of Siccar Point Energy to Ithaca Energy
• Blackstone and Goldman Sachs in relation to their investment in Prima Assicurazioni
• Blackstone and Sixth Street Partners on the acquisition of Kensington from Investec plc and Acenden from the Lehman estate
• Blackstone on the acquisition of Lombard from Friends Life
• Blackstone on the triple-track exit (IPO, refinancing and sale), by way of sale of Center Parcs to Brookfields property funds
• Blackstone, GIC and MassMutual on the acquisition of Goldman Sachs’ interest in Rothesay Life
• Blackstone on the sale of its interests in Rothesay Life to GIC and Mass Mutual
• Blackstone on the acquisition of the financial and risk business of Thomson Reuters
• Cinven on its majority investment in Grant Thornton UK
• Cinven on the acquisition of majority stake in Arcaplanet and Maxi Zoo Italia
• Cinven on the acquisition of Guardian Financial Services from AEGON
• Cinven on the acquisition of the CPA Global from Intermediate Capital Group, management and the founder
• Cinven on the acquisition of Pronet Güvenlik from Turkven and the founder
• Cinven on the acquisition of Host Europe and subsequent bolt-on acquisitions
• Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Motor Fuel Group on the acquisition of Morrisons' forecourt business
• First Reserve on the acquisition of Morrison Utility Services from Bregal Capital and Motion Equity Partners and subsequent bolt-on acquisitions
• First Reserve on the sale of Morrison Utility Services to PAI Partners
• First Reserve on the acquisition of The Weir Group plc’s Flow Control Business
• General Atlantic on its minority investment in Partners Capital Investment Group
• GIC on its original investment in, and subsequent acquisition of Cinven's interests in, Miller Insurance
• GIC on the sale of its interests in Leaseplan to ALD
• GIC on its significant minority investment in Nordic Aviation Capital
• GIC on its investment in Nestle Skin Health alongside EQT and other investors
• GIC on its investment in Thyssen Krupp alongside Advent, Cinven and other investors
• Montagu on the sale of Servelec to The Access Group
• Montagu on the acquisition of ITRS Group
• Montagu on the takeover of Servelec Group plc
• Montagu on the acquisition of Wireless Logic Group from CVC
• Montagu and Wireless Logic Group on the acquisition of Webbing
• Sixth Street Partners on the establishment of, and its investment into, the Clara Pension Platform and the addition of Wilton Re as an additional capital partner