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Philip J. Newhouse
Partner 
11 Pilgrim Street
pnewhouse@mcguirewoods.comLondon EC4V 6RN, United Kingdom F: +44 (0)20 7632 1638    |
Mr. Newhouse focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and reorganisations (private equity, private equity real estate and hedge). His practice includes cross-border and domestic corporate work for a wide range of substantial international clients. He advises on and executes the formation of a variety of investment funds involving private equity, private equity real estate and hedge and other investment funds in the United Kingdom, Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He has acted for most clients in excess of 18 years.
- Advising IBI Group on its acquisition of Nightingale Associates.
- Advising in the creation of Euromena I and Euromena II million private equity funds.
- Representing MENAVEST private equity fund with its provision of mezzanine finance for a major structured management buyout in Jordan, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Lebanon, and dealing with subsequent successful disposal.
- Advising in the sale and purchase of a number of secondary limited partnership interests.
- Advising on significant acquisitions and disposals in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Lebanon by clients incorporated in Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands, Bermuda and Panama.
- Advising clients on a variety of transactions including a Norway-owned mini-merchant bank in connection with venture capital investments in financing of a holiday resort in Hawaii; the financing of a chain of confectionery shops in the United States; the formation and minority shareholding of a leisure water park in Madrid; and the financing of a medical devices company based in the United Kingdom, United States and France.
- Acting as an English adviser and due diligence team coordinator in the Belgian acquisition of a major Europe-based bank.
- Preparing legal due diligence for 20 Romania-based companies to be sold by the state on the basis of PHARE funding.
- Representing a major Austria-based oil company in connection with acquisitions in Europe and divestitures in Africa and Central Europe.
- Representing a Portugal-based company in its acquisition of a well-known port and sherry company.
- Advising in the acquisition of a major share of a UK-based pension fund and financial adviser by a U.S.-based pension fund.
- Advising in the acquisition of a major Portugal-based porcelain manufacturer by a well-known UK-based brand, complete with equity and debt funding.
- Advising in the purchase and subsequent disposal of a substantial private equity and corporate finance fund management company by a Germany-based buyer.
- Advising a publicly quoted Canada-based company on a number of issues relating to its ongoing financing and expansion into a number of countries including Greece, France and UK.
- International Transactions
- Private Equity & Venture Capital
- Emerging Markets
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Securities & Corporate Finance
- Partner, Squire Sanders (Haarmann Hemmelrath until 2006 Merger), 2000-2009
- Partner (1985), Taylor Wessing, 1983-2000, Managing Partner - Bucharest Office, 1997-1999
- Solicitor, Simmons & Simmons, 1981-1983
- Trainee and Solicitor, Speechly Bircham, 1976-1981
- Legal advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury's Anglican Communion Fund and the Anglican Investment Agency
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EDUCATION Exeter University, LL.M. International Business Law, 1978 Exeter University, LL.B., Honours, 1973 ADMITTED Solicitor, Senior Courts of England and Wales 1978 |