Tom Hartwright

Tom Hartwright

Partner

Tom is a partner in the Private Equity & Financial Sponsors Group.

Tom is a corporate partner, specialising in complex cross-border and domestic private equity and M&A transactions. His clients include international institutional investors, alternative asset managers, senior management teams, founders, corporates and investee companies.

Tom advises on a full range of transactions including leveraged buyouts, consortium deals, bolt-on acquisitions, carve-outs, co-investments, minority deals, recapitalisations, divestments, distressed M&A, public-to-privates, joint ventures, reorganisations and restructurings together with advising on general corporate matters.

Tom also advises the firm's global asset management clients on GP-stake transactions, GP succession planning (including restructuring ownership and governance arrangements) and structured secondary market liquidity solutions (including GP-led and LP-led secondary transactions).

Industry Recognition

  • Recognised as one of "Europe's Best Up-and-Coming Lawyers" and a Private Equity "Rising Star" by Law.com.
  • Ranked as an "Up and Coming" lawyer for Private Equity in Chambers 2023 and 2024.

Other roles and background

  • Tom is a member of Travers Smith's Technology Sector Group with a focus on technology M&A and also devotes part of his time to Travers Smith's pioneering Legal Technology team, working alongside its software engineers to design more agile and efficient ways to deliver legal services.
  • Tom is a member of Travers Smith's NextGen International Board, responsible for developing its international network of law firms.
  • Tom trained at Travers Smith and became a partner in 2021.

Selected deals

  • Inflexion on its carve-out investment in Allen & Overy's legal and compliance data subscription platform, aosphere.
  • Inflexion on its acquisition of European treasury and cash management fintech Nomentia from PSG and Verdane.
  • Management on the sale of education software solutions provider TES Global from Providence Equity to Onex Partners.
  • TA Associates and management shareholders on the sale of a majority stake in ITRS Group, a global provider of real-time monitoring and analytics software, to Montagu Private Equity.
  • Inflexion and other shareholders on the sale of international veterinary care group Medivet to CVC Capital Partners.
  • Inflexion on its sale of Huws Gray, one of the largest builders' merchants in the UK, to Blackstone.
  • Livingbridge and management shareholders on the sale of a majority stake in Exclaimer, a global provider of email signature management software, to Insight Partners, with participation from Farview Equity Partners.
  • Equistone Partners Europe and management shareholders on the sale of Winterbotham Darby, one of the UK's most dynamic chilled food business, to PAI Partners.
  • Inflexion on its care-out investment in GlobalData plc's £1.1bn Healthcare data division.
  • Inflexion on its investment in structural biology specialist Proteros Biostructures GmbH.
  • Equistone Partners Europe on the sale of OneOcean, a global supplier of digital navigation and voyage compliance services.
  • ITRS Group on its bolt-on acquisitions of Opsview (UK), Uptrends (Netherlands), OP5 (Sweden) and Sumerian (UK).
  • Marlin Equity Partners and other selling shareholders, on the sale of a majority stake in Qualitest, the outsourced software testing and quality assurance specialist, to Bridgepoint.
  • Livingbridge and management shareholders on the sale of Sykes Holiday Cottages, the online holiday cottage rental agency, to Vitruvian Partners and the subsequent co-investment by Livingbridge.
  • Equistone Partners Europe on the carve-out and acquisition of Bulgin, a developer and manufacturer of environmentally sealed connectors and components, from Elektron Technology PLC.
  • Bridgepoint and its investee company, Element Materials Technology Group, on the P2P cash acquisition of global testing services provider Exova Group plc.
Travers have gone above and beyond on this one – just superb delivery
Inflexion, in relation to the sale of Medivet to CVC
You and your team were exceptional throughout the process. We made the right choice.
Rod Williams, CEO of Tes Global in relation to the sale to Onex
Tom Hartwright is a promising up-and-coming private equity partner. He impresses through his assistance on several large-scale transactions for high-profile clients. He is also proficient on tech M&A.
Chambers 2023
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