Alana Tinkler

Alana Tinkler is Of Counsel in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of Antitrust and Competition Practice Group.

She advises on a wide range of UK and European competition law, spanning complex merger control matters (including in the contexts of strategic M&A, financial investments and restructurings), foreign investment & national security, and antitrust investigations.

Her experience covers a variety of industry sectors including: Biotechnology, Communications, Consumer Goods, Critical Infrastructure (including Water and Energy), Enterprise and Infrastructure Software, Financial Services, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Space & Defence.

Alana is a dual qualified solicitor in England & Wales and New Zealand, having previously practised in the competition law departments of leading international firms in both countries.

 

Alana’s experience includes advising:

• Elliott Investment Management L.P. and its affiliates in relation to various acquisitions and dispositions, including the $7.1 billion take private acquisition of Syneos Health, Inc. by a private investment consortium, the acquisition of a majority ownership stake in American Greetings, and the sale of Gardant S.p.A. to Italian listed doValue S.p.A. for an aggregate value of €460 million.
• Luxembourg-based satellite company SES to achieve global unconditional Phase 1 clearances on its $3.1 billion acquisition of satellite communications provider Intelsat.
• SpaceX on its $17 billion acquisition of EchoStar’s full portfolio of AWS-4 and H-block 50 MHz spectrum licences, along with certain international rights and priorities related to that spectrum.
• Hologic, Inc., a global leader in women’s health, in its acquisition of Endomagnetics Ltd, a developer of breast cancer surgery technologies, for approximately $310 million.
• John Laing on its acquisition of a portfolio of five UK assets from HICL Infrastructure plc, including Hornsea II offshore transmission assets, the Oxford John Radcliffe Hospital PFI Project, the Queen’s Hospital PFI Project in Romford, the South Ayreshire Schools PFI Project, and the Priority Schools Building Programme North East Batch.
• Various lenders and asset managers in complex, cross-border restructuring transactions, including an ad hoc group of cross-holders and DIP lenders in the prepackaged chapter 11 case of Venator Materials plc.
• Micro Focus International plc, the global enterprise software company, on its $8.8 billion merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s software business segment (HPE Software).*
• Bridgepoint on the sale of Oasis Dental Care, the UK’s leading private dental services provider, to BUPA, in a transaction valuing the business at £835 million.*
• A leading investment bank in relation to global antitrust investigations in the financial services sector.*

 

* Some of these representations occurred prior to Alana’s association with Gibson Dunn.

Capabilities

• Antitrust and Competition

Credentials

Education:

• University of Auckland - 2010 LL.B. (Hons)
• University of Auckland - 2010 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• England & Wales - Solicitor
• New Zealand - Barrister and Solicitor