
Rebecca Carwood Barron
Counsel
Rebecca.CarwoodBarron@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Private Equity Transactions
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Corporate & Finance
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
Biography
Concentrates on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures and private equity driven transactions. Rebecca advises on a range of corporate transactions. She is an experienced private equity and M&A lawyer representing clients on complex cross-border transactions. She has particular experience advising clients in competitive auction processes.
Representative Work
- Advised Nexperia on $177 million sale of Newport Wafer Fab, the U.K.’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, to Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.
- Advised The Carlyle Group on its debt for equity swap in Officine Maccaferri S.p.A.
- Advised Croatian conglomerate Fortenova Grupa d.d., on the €615 million sale of its frozen food business, the Frozen Food Business Group, to Nomad Foods, owner of Birds Eye and Findus, among others.
- Advised The Carlyle Group on its acquisition of a privately owned upstream oil and gas company.
- Advised Edison Energy on its acquisition of Alfa Energy.
- Advised New York Stock Exchange-listed Endava on its acquisition of Comtrade Digital Services.
- Advised The Carlyle Group on its acquisition of onshore Colombian assets.
- Advised Bain Capital Credit on a preferred equity investment in Arajet, the first ultra-low-cost airline in the Caribbean region.
EducationDLP, University of Edinburgh, 2013
LL.B., University of Edinburgh, 2012
DLP, University of Edinburgh, 2013
LL.B., University of Edinburgh, 2012
Bar AdmissionsLaw Society of Scotland
Law Society of Scotland