Robert Ardern

• Represented a Thai conglomerate on its $10.6 billion acquisition of a UK-based multinational grocery and general merchandiser’s Thai and Malaysian operations.
• Represented a U.S. multinational financial technology company on its successful multijurisdictional competitive auction bid to acquire a European payments business. 
• Represented a UK-based food delivery service on its €9 billion merger with a Dutch online food ordering service.
• Represented a U.S. health care marketing company on its acquisition of a UK health care PR group. 
• Represented a U.S. private equity sponsor on a $44 million Series A investment round into a UK sanctions business.
• Represented a Swiss financial services company on its CHf3 billion auction sale of its payment services division to a French payments and transactional services company.
• Represented a U.S. health care company on its acquisition of a UK healthtech business. 
• Represented a U.S. industrial company on a multi-jurisdictional European reorganization.
• Represented a semiconductor manufacturer on its $600 million business sale and IP license to a major multinational technology company.
• Represented an automotive technology company on its $230 million Series A capital raise.

Robert Ardern, a partner in Alston & Bird’s London office, is a member of the firm’s Corporate & Business Transactions Group. He focuses his practice on international and domestic corporate finance transactions.

He advises both public and private companies and financial sponsors across multiple sectors on a broad range of complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, joint ventures, carve-outs, restructurings, corporate governance, and other general corporate advisory matters.

Before joining the firm, Rob was a managing associate at a London-headquartered Magic Circle law firm, where he practiced in London and Amsterdam, and served on secondment to IFM Investors and the Natwest Group.

Robert has been recognized by MergerLinks as being amongst the UK’s top up-and-coming corporate lawyers most active on UK listing authority deals.

Robert received his B.A. in jurisprudence, with honors, from St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.

Bar Admissions

• Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Education

• University of Law (L.P.C., 2010)
• University of Oxford (B.A., 2008)