Richard Daggett

Richard has a broad corporate finance practice focusing on offshore property holding structures, mergers and acquisitions (public and private), IPOs, private equity structures and joint ventures.

Background and experience

Richard has a broad corporate finance practice focusing on offshore property holding structures, mergers and acquisitions (public and private), IPOs, private equity structures and joint ventures.

Richard is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Private Equity team. He specialises in downstream corporate advisory work and related financings. His achievements include working with Carlyle, KKR, OMERS, Cinven and ABRY Partners on numerous high profile acquisitions and disposals.

Richard is recognised as a Leading Individual within The Legal 500, Highly Regarded within The IFLR 1000 directory and also formally ranked by Chambers & Partners.

Richard was admitted as an English solicitor in September 2006 after training with Ogier, having joined the firm directly following his legal studies in September 2004.

Richard received an LLB from University of Durham in 2003 and was awarded his Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice with Distinction in 2004.

Admitted in:
2009 - Jersey
2006 - England & Wales (not practising)

Representative transactions include:

Real Estate

• Acted for Permodalan Nasional Berhad and the Employees Provident Fund on the £1.6 billion acquisition of Battersea Power Station, the most expensive single asset property deal in UK history
• Acted for Intu Properties Plc on its purchase of a portfolio of two shopping centres and a retail park from Westfield for £867.8m
• Acted for NYSE-listed Brookfield Office Properties on its $829m purchase of Hammerson’s London office portfolio
• Acted for Carlyle on its acquisition of the White Tower portfolio of properties for £671 million
• Acted for Hammerson UK Properties Limited and CPP Investment Board Real Estate Holdings Inc. in relation to the acquisition of a 33% stake in the Bullring Shopping Centre, Birmingham, worth £307m
• Acted for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P on its first European property acquisition
• Acted for China Overseas Holdings Limited on the purchase of Centrium, 61 Aldwych for £170m
• Acted for long term private equity client on its £162m disposal of the Sterling portfolio of property assets to Westbrook
• Acted for The Collective on its £125m acquisition of Europe's largest co-living development
• Acted for The Collective on its £140m group financing
• Acted for Urban Logistics on seven site portfolio acquisition
• Acted for long term private equity real estate client on its £103m disposal of the Woolwich Estate to British Land
• Acted for Lee Kim Tah-Metro Jersey Limited on its £76m purchase of 5 Chancery Lane

​​Corporate

• Acted for Clarivate on its $6.8bn combination with CPA Global
• Acted for Clarivate on $4.2 billion merger with Churchill Capital Corp and NYSE listing
• Acted for OMERS on $1.1 billion acquisition of Alexander Mann Solutions
• Acted for Biffa on its listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, at the time, the UK's biggest IPO following the Brexit vote
• Acted for Cinven and Partnership Assurance on Partnership's £1.54 billion premium listing on the main market of the London Stock Exchange
• Acted for Onexim Group on its disposal of its interest in Polyus Gold International for £3.6 billion
• Acted for ABRY Partners in its investment in Options Technology
• Acted for Deutsche Bank AG in connection with a US $2.1 billion secured credit facility to Colfax Corporation as part funding for its acquisition of Charter International plc
• Acted for Advent International on its disposal of Domestic & General Group to CVC Partners
• Acted for a steering committee of senior lenders comprising Haymarket Financial, ING Bank and M&G Investments on the restructuring of the EurotaxGlass group
• Acted for Cinven on its acquisition of Premium Credit Limited for an enterprise value of £462 million
• Acted for Integrated Diagnostics Holdings plc on its $668m listing on the main market of the London Stock Exchange
• Acted for the sellers on the £680m sale of the Jurys Inn hotel group to US private equity firm Lone Star