Lesley Olsen
Associate Director, UK
Associate Director in the TVO corporate team, with a wide range of corporate experience, specialising in complex cross-border M&A and joint ventures for private companies, private equity sponsors and other asset management clients.
Lesley has a wide range of corporate experience including acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, investments and reorganisations across a variety of sectors, including Financial Services, Tech, Media and Comms, The Built Environment, and Energy and Utilities.
She specialises in M&A and joint ventures for private equity sponsors and asset management clients, but also acts for a variety of other clients, including financial institutions, large corporates and early stage companies. Lesley has extensive experience in leading and managing teams on large, complex, cross-border transactions. She spent four years working in Hong Kong where she focused on cross-border M&A and joint ventures in emerging markets, and has completed secondments to a global bank and to a real estate investment manager.
Prior to joining Osborne Clarke Lesley worked for Simmons & Simmons LLP in London, and prior to starting her career as a lawyer she completed a degree in French and German at Cambridge University.
APG
Advised APG, Europe’s largest pension fund, on the formation of a real estate fund, and the acquisition of a residential property portfolio worth approximately £349.4 million.
Principal Global Investors
Advised Principal Global Investors, the asset management arm of Principal Financial Services, Inc, on the acquisition of INTERNOS, a London-based European real estate investment manager with $3.25 billion in assets under management.
Brookfield Asset Management
Advised Brookfield Asset Management on several matters including the disposal of a 30% stake in Peterborough Hospital, a UK health PFI Project, to John Laing Infrastructure.
Orion Resource Partners
Advised Orion Resource Partners on various matters including its partnership with Fusion Capital AG and the acquisition and subsequent disposal of mining assets.
GIC
Advised GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, on several matters including its investment in Rothesay Life Ltd and its joint venture arrangements with co-owners Blackstone and Goldman Sachs.
Macquarie Capital
Advised Macquarie Capital as financial investor on a UK solar investment structure delivering 100% funding to a developer to facilitate accelerated portfolio accumulation.
JPMorgan
Advised JPMorgan as financial adviser to China Merchant Bank on its US$4.66bn takeover of Wing Lung Bank.
Mainstream Renewable Power
Advised Mainstream Renewable Power on its $1.4 billion joint venture with pan-emerging markets investor Actis for delivering 600 megawatts of wind and solar projects in Chile.
Yara International ASA
Advised Yara International ASA on the disposal of part of its industrial gases business across nine European jurisdictions.
Comcast/NBCUniversal
Advised Comcast/NBCUniversal, on several matters including the buy-out of a former joint venture partner and subsequent restructuring.
NEC Europe
Advised NEC Europe on the transfer of NEC Enterprise Solutions’ direct sales and service businesses in four European countries to the Aurelius-owned Getronics entities.
