Clare Carroll

Clare is a lawyer in the Corporate team. She advises clients across a range of sectors in relation to a variety of local and cross-jurisdictional corporate matters and transactions, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and capital markets transactions.

Clare is Australian qualified.

• Advising IJM, one of Malaysia’s leading conglomerates and listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad with a market capitalisation of £2bn, in relation to its acquisition of 50% of the share capital of JRL Group, a privately owned, UK-based diversified construction group, for £50m. This strategic investment furthers IJM’s expansion into the United Kingdom and strengthens its core construction capabilities.
• Assisting with the acquisition by IJM, a major Malaysian conglomerate, of a Dutch special purpose vehicle which owns the Grade II listed landmark 25 Finsbury Circus building, a circa 250,000 sq ft property in the City of London with planning permission for a £150m redevelopment from TPG Angelo Gordon, the global alternative investment manager. Following redevelopment, the asset is expected to be worth £380m.
• Advising Valent Projects Ltd, a UK tech company that uses multiagent AI to counter disinformation and other information threats, on its £1.1 million fundraising round.