Alston & Bird advised Texas-based pawnbroker FirstCash Holdings and its UK subsidiary Chess Bidco on their £351 million acquisition of H & T Group, a leading publicly traded UK-based operator of pawn stores. With over 3,000 retail locations, FirstCash is the largest publicly traded pawn platform in the United States, UK, and Latin America.
Representing FirstCash was an Alston & Bird team led by partners Kyle Healy, Robert Ardern,
Paul Simcock, Kate Moseley, James Ashe-Taylor, Paul Hespel, Jonathan Garforth, and Matt Strumph; counsel John Stephen and Irene Fraile; senior associates Simon Cahill and Lydia Rachianioti; and associates Jonathan Kress and Emma Rigby.