Travers Smith acts on £1.28 billion IPO of Pets at Home Group Plc

A tax and corporate team, led by Tax Partner Russell Warren and Corporate Partner Adrian West have advised Pets at Home Group Plc and its management team on matters relating to management shareholders in connection with the company’s listing on the main market of the London Stock Exchange on 17 March 2014.

Tax advice to Pets at Home Group Plc and its management shareholders was provided by a team led by Russell Warren and including Silvana Corrieri (associate). Adrian West and Matthew Pym (associate) provided corporate law advice. Mahesh Varia (Head of the Employee Incentives Group), Elissavet Grout (senior counsel) and Claire Prentice (associate) advised on share incentives arrangements.

Pets at Home is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of pet food, pet-related products and pet accessories. The company also operates the UK’s second largest small animal veterinary business by combined number of surgeries, both in its stores and at standalone locations, and is the leading operator of pet grooming services by number of in-store salons. Pets at Home operates from 371 stores located across the UK, and 250 small animal veterinary surgeries, principally under a joint venture model using the Companion Care and Vets4Pets brand names. The Group also operates 119 in-store Groom Room grooming salons.

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