Patrick Sarch

Patrick Sarch is a partner in our global M&A and Corporate practice team based in London and leads our UK Public M&A practice.

Patrick is valued by his wide range of clients for providing commercial, pragmatic, and sound business advice. He is widely viewed as a trusted adviser to the boards of many UK and international listed companies, financial institutions, and investors.

Patrick has almost 30 years’ experience advising clients on corporate finance, domestic, and cross-border public company M&A (with extensive experience in competitive and hostile situations), innovative structuring, the Takeover Code, disclosure issues, securities law and the Listing Rules, as well as secondary issues and capital restructuring. In recent years, he has developed a strong “activism” practice, advising both companies and activist shareholders on strategic, ESG, and M&A-related campaigns and disputes. He has a very broad base of skills, including for example advising on corporate aspects of investigations and crisis management.

Patrick has particular experience in financial services but is also active in a number of other sectors, including retail, technology, and consumer businesses. He has advised on a number of global and UK “firsts” and record-breaking deals. Patrick joined the City of London Law Society Company Law Committee in January 2019 and continues to interact regularly with relevant market regulators, such as the Takeover Panel and FCA, as a member of its working groups.

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Will Farrell

Federated Hermes
Assistant Manager, EOS
London

Will co-leads the climate change theme at EOS, the stewardship arm of Federated Hermes Limited, where his coverage includes companies in Europe and Australia, primarily financial services, energy, chemicals, and materials. Prior to joining EOS, Will worked in the energy and infrastructure investment banking team at Macquarie Capital, where he specialised in renewable energy. Before that, Will held a number of roles across the UK climate policy space, including as a parliamentary researcher for Rt. Hon. Chris Skidmore MP on climate and energy issues, and as a climate and economic policy analyst at a diplomatic institute. He was appointed as a voluntary adviser to Rt. Hon. Alok Sharma MP, President of COP26, on preparations for COP26 after co-founding a Westminster climate policy group in 2019, which engaged MPs and Members of the House of Lords to advocate for more ambition on climate action in public policy. Will has a Bachelor’s degree (1st Class Honours) in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.