Global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has advised long-standing client F&C Asset Management plc (F&C) in connection with a recommended £708 million cash acquisition by BMO Global Asset Management (Europe) Limited (BMO Europe). BMO Europe is a wholly–owned subsidiary of the Bank of Montreal. The proposed acquisition was announced on 28 January 2014 and is to be effected by means of a Scheme of Arrangement.
The Norton Rose Fulbright team comprised London corporate partners Chris Randall and Paul Whitelock, supported by of counsel Claire O’Donnell, associates Christopher McCarthy, Samantha Hurrell. Employee benefits partner Monique Fry also advised with Financial services regulation advice provided by partner Jonathan Herbst, senior associate Imogen Garner and associates Kennedy Masterton-Smith and Josie Collyer and partner Ian Giles and associate Mark Daniels advised on the competition aspects of the transaction.
J.P. Morgan Cazenove acted as the financial advisers to F&C.
