Macfarlanes advises Finsbury Glover Hering on completing merger and buy-in

13 January 2021

Following their announcement on 7 July 2020, Finsbury, The Glover Park Group (GPG) and Hering Schuppener have completed their merger and management buy-in of 49.99 per cent of the combined business.

The Macfarlanes team was led by corporate and M&A partner Howard Corney with assistance from solicitor Andrew Wheelhouse. Tax and reward expertise was provided by partners Rob Collard and Jeremy Moncrieff alongside solicitors Mark Petch and Eugene Atkinson and advice on employment aspects came from senior solicitor Tabitha Al-Mahdawie.

Howard Corney comments: “We are delighted to have advised Finsbury Glover Hering on the completion of this transaction which creates a pre-eminent global strategic communications and public affairs consultancy, operating from 18 offices with almost 700 consultants.”