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StuartWelburn

Partner
New York

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StuartWelburn

Partner

Stuart is a partner in, and vice chair of, our Corporate Transactions & Securities practice group. He focuses his practice on international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, securities laws and compliance, and corporate governance matters. He represents public and private companies, family offices, boards of directors, board committees, investors, and financial advisors in a range of corporate transactions and governance matters.

Stuart joined Thompson Hine in 1996 and became a partner in 2001. Prior to joining the firm, he was a corporate finance solicitor in England.

Legal 500 US Recommended Attorney 2023

Focus Areas

Stuart has represented clients in the following matters:

  • Purchase by a public company of an international critical power solutions business for $540 million
  • Sale of a global chemical tanker business to the Singaporean subsidiary of a Japanese public company for approximately $900 million (including assumption of liabilities)
  • Sale of a public company in the gaming and entertainment sector for approximately $1.85 billion
  • Advised a NYSE American listed company and its board of directors in a review of strategic alternatives, resulting in a sale of the business to a strategic purchaser in a Chapter 11, Section 363 transaction
  • Sale to a large PE fund of an international specialty chemicals company operating 15 manufacturing facilities across 3 divisions serving the water treatment, construction, paints & coatings, food additives and contact lens markets
  • Purchase by a NYSE listed retailer of an iconic footwear brand, including related ecommerce business, increasing the client’s reach into the direct-to-consumer and wholesale channels
  • Sale of a fiber-optic network business and an affiliated entity owning wireless spectrum for $2 billion
  • Sale of an Isle of Man company owning Brazilian natural resource assets to a Brazilian public company for approximately $550 million
  • Carve-out and sale of a seismic technologies business to a Scandinavian public company for cash and securities having a value in excess of $250 million
  • Sale of a railcar leasing business for $3.4 billion
  • Sale by a public company of a scrap metal recycling business for $325 million
  • Purchase of a public company by the controlling stockholder in a 13e-3 “going-private” transaction
  • Sale of a public company that manufactures and leases railcars for approximately $1.75 billion
  • Merger of a PET resin company with a subsidiary of a Latin American public company for in excess of $185 million
  • Purchase of a United Kingdom-based business from the world’s largest chemical company in a transaction mandated by the European Union
  • Complex carve-out sale of an 800,000+ square foot facility, manufacturing rubber track products for agricultural, construction and defense industries
  • Combination of two companies, creating a major water treatment chemicals business with 27 sites extending across North America
  • Purchase of an Irish public company listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange
  • Purchase of a specialty chemicals division of a public company for $100 million
  • Sale of a global pharmaceutical business to a private equity fund for in excess of $150 million
  • Purchase of the worldwide electronic metals business of a French multinational company. Led multi-jurisdictional team of lawyers in France, Germany and Australia
  • Sale of a U.S. and Italian food business in a stock-for-stock transaction to a Fortune 100 public company for more than $175 million
  • Purchases of more than a dozen healthcare services businesses for a FTSE 250 European public company
  • Purchases and sales of multiple energy-sector businesses for a NYSE listed public company
  • Sale of multiple mining businesses
  • Start-up of a $250 million multi-venture fund media business and subsequent $100 million follow-on financing
  • Representation of a Special Committee of the Board of Directors of a Fortune 500 company in connection with board transition issues and a threatened proxy contest
  • SEC registration and NASDAQ stock market listing for an energy company
  • New York Stock Exchange listing for an energy company

Listed in The Legal 500 in M&A: Middle-Market (sub-$500M), 2020 to 2023

Professional Associations

  • International Bar Association
  • Law Society of England & Wales
  • Solicitors Roll, England & Wales

Community Activities

  • St. George’s Society of New York, Board Member, 2014-2017

Education

  • Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Master of Law, 1998
  • The College of Law, LSF, 1992,

    York, England

  • London Guildhall University, B.A., 1991,

    Hons.

Bar Admissions

  • New York
  • England and Wales (Inactive)