Albert Weatherill

Albert’s representative matters prior to and since joining Kirkland include:

• Advising financial sponsors and other financial institutions on regulatory and compliance arrangements relating to topics including governance and market abuse.
• Advising financial sponsors on the regulatory aspects of M&A transactions.
• Advising a range of financial institutions on the application of the UK’s regulatory framework to a wide variety of domestic and cross-border financial services products and services.*
• Advising a range of financial institutions on authorisation and registration applications with the FCA across asset management, brokerage, banking, payments and electronic money, and consumer credit.*
• Advising financial sponsors and other asset managers on the application of various UK and EU regulation, including MiFID II, AIFMD, the Money Market Funds Regulation, PRIIPs and UCITS.*
• Advising a range of financial institutions on ongoing regulatory and compliance matters relating to governance, market abuse, marketing, conduct of business, regulatory engagement, outsourcing, risk management, regulatory capital and regulatory engagement.*
• Supporting numerous financial institutions in designing, developing and launching innovative financial services products and services across digital banking, payments, consumer and corporate lending, cryptoassets, banking as a service, decentralised finance and blockchain and distributed ledger technology.*
• Advising KKR in relation to numerous transactions, including:
  • the conversion of its NYSE-traded entity from a limited partnership to a corporation and various additional corporate reorganisations undertaken by KKR*;
  • its investment into Pillarstone, a non-performing loan platform*;
  • its take private of ASX-listed lender Pepper Group Limited and multiple subsequent follow-on transactions in relation to Pepper*;
  • its majority investment in car finance platform Oodle*;
  • its strategic investment in Marshall Wace, a leading hedge fund*;
  • the merger between KKR’s hedge fund business, KKR Prisma, and Pacific Coast Alternative Asset Management Company*;
  • its investment in Söderberg & Partners, a Swedish insurer and asset manager, and various follow-on transactions involving Söderberg*;
  • its investment in heidelpay (now called Unzer), a European payments company*;
  • its investment in Vitesse, a UK payments company*;
  • its investment in TDC Capital, an SME funding platform, from Toscafund*;
  • its acquisition of Avida, a Nordic credit institution*;
  • its acquisition of pan-European insurer APRIL*;
  • its investment in Jaja Finance, a credit card provider*;
  • its acquisition of USI Insurance Services*; and
  • its acquisition of Exact Payments, a pan-European payments company.*
• Advising Bain Capital on the financial services regulatory aspects in relation to:
  • its £1.2 billion acquisition of esure Insurance Group*; and
  • its bid to acquire insurer LV.*
• Advising Conning and Cathay Financial on the acquisition of Conning by Generali.*
• Advising BMO Financial Group on the sale of its EMEA asset management business to Ameriprise Financial.*
• Advising Charles Stanley plc on its acquisition by Raymond James.*
• Advising Mercer on its acquisition of the Cardano Group, an investment manager and occupational pensions provider.*
• Advising Starling Bank on numerous rounds of funding totalling over £350 million.*
• Advising Allica Bank on its £100m Series C fundraising.*
• Advising Société Générale on the sale of SG Kleinwort Hambros Bank to Union Bancaire Privée.*
• Advising a pan-African bank on the restructure of its payments business.*
• Advising asset manager Carne on its acquisition of The Asset Management Exchange.*

*Matters prior to joining Kirkland

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, London

• Partner, 2023–2025
• Counsel, 2021–2023
• Senior Associate, 2019–2021
• Associate, 2015–2019

King & Wood Mallesons LLP, London

• Trainee Solicitor, 2013–2015