Patrick Sarch, Partner

Patrick is a senior partner in the London Corporate & Finance practice at Hogan Lovells and is co-head of the firm's UK M&A practice. He has more than 25 years' experience advising clients on corporate finance, domestic, and cross-border public company M&A (with extensive experience in competitive and hostile situations), innovative structuring, the Takeover Code, disclosure issues, securities law and the Listing Rules, as well as secondary issues and capital restructuring. In recent years, he has developed a strong "activism" practice, having advised both companies and activist shareholders on a number of leading ESG, strategic, and M&A-related campaigns and disputes. 

Patrick has very broad experience of advising businesses and investors through their full life cycle, from start-up to wind-up, via strategic investment, IPO, merger and redomiciliation and has helped rescue many from near death situations. Patrick has a particular focus on financial services but is also active in a number of other sectors, including retail, technology, and consumer businesses. He has advised on a number of global and UK "firsts" and record-breaking deals.