Phillip Norah

Associate

 

profile

Phillip Norah is an associate in the Corporate & Commercial department. Prior to joining Appleby in March 2011, he was a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.

He has broad experience acting for private equity, trade and financial institutions with a particular emphasis on public and private company M&A as well as debt and equity capital markets transactions. Phillip also advises on a wide range of corporate structured finance transactions, including credit restructuring, debt consolidation and advising banks and borrowers on secured and unsecured credit facilities.

Phillip took a lead role in a working group that addressed the challenges of implementing the UK Companies Act 2006 position on multiple corporate representatives and advised on the first-ever implementation of the provisions of the Act at a high-profile and much-publicised extraordinary general meeting of a FTSE 100 company.

He has spent time seconded as legal counsel to the Royal Bank of Scotland International in Jersey and the Isle of Man as well as to AIG in London. Phillip has also practised in Hong Kong

Phillip speaks fluent English, French and Seychelles Creole and has a working knowledge of German.

expertise

Recent highlights have included advising:

  • Rio Tinto plc on its US$4 billion three-part disposal of Alcan Packaging to Amcor Group, Bemis Company and Sun Capital Partners
  • Goldman Sachs on its €1.2 billion joint acquisition of Ontex BV from Candover Investments and other minority shareholders
  • Northern Rock plc on the events leading to its nationalisation by the UK Government in response to the 2008 liquidity crisis
  • AIG UK Limited on the part-nationalisation of its US holding company by the US Government and the subsequent restructuring of the UK business

education

University of Warwick (England)