Experience

Tony Grant is a partner in the London and Dublin offices of HRO.

Selected Experience

• Recommended public takeover by Optimisa plc of eq group plc, a listed market research services company
• Sale by the owners of GS Telecom Limited, a leading telecommunications provider in Africa to Gateway Communications (US$34 million)
• Sale by Dolphin TV and other shareholders of The Wrestling Channel
• Sale by the owners of Nugus Martin, leading television producer of history programming to World Media Group
• Acquisition by Cooper Gay of the reinsurance and terrorism insurance portfolio of the CRS group
• Sale of 50% of Indie Mobile, a mobile music company to Vital Distribution
• Acquisition by Optimisa plc of the USA business information services business of Huntsworth plc (with HRO Denver office) and other corporate acquisitions
• Purchase by International Railway Systems SA of the European rail business of Trinity Industries, Inc.
• Sale by the majority shareholders of Chiltern International Holdings to Czura Thornton
• Sale by the owners of Prima TV and European Radio Investments Limited of their television and radio interests in Romania to SBS (US$29 million)
• Sale by the majority shareholders of Zone Vision Networks of their shareholding interests to the Liberty Group (US$65 million)
• Acquisition by Optimisa plc, an AIM listed company of kae: marketing services through a reverse take-over (involving a whitewash and Takeover Panel approval)
• Sale by the owners of the Ideal Music group to Imagesound plc, an AIM listed company for listed shares and cash
• Investment by Hockley Investments in Grove Atlantic, a major book publishing company
• Sale by the shareholders of Café Brera to C’Est ICI Limited
• Acquisition by Splice Investments of John Newbery, a company manufacturing and selling cricket and other sport equipment

• Creation of 50/50 company between Strong Media Group and Viasat to establish a Swedish holding company to own and exploit a television satellite platform in the Ukraine
• Establishment on behalf of a telecommunications provider of a joint venture company to acquire data centres in the United Kingdom

Equity Financing

• Investment by Sonae Corporation, a major Portugese company of £28 million in Cooper Gay, a leading insurance and reinsurance brokerage involving an acquisition of existing shares and the issue of convertible loans
• Investment by Hastings in Nomi-Call and Global Nomi, suppliers of mobile and other telephone cards for £6 million
• Investment by Hockley Investments in a 25% shareholding interest in Worcester Rugby Club
• Establishment of myQBuster.com, a new mobile telephone service facilitating the purchase of consumables
• Advising the founder management team on the establishment of, and private equity investment in, Wedding TV

 Commercial

• Acting for a UK governmental regulator in relation to various confidential matters
• Acting for the major car manufacturers involved in the establishment of GPWC (GPMA) to represent their interest in relation to Formula One motor racing
• Acting for the BBC on Freeview and other major transactions
• Acting on the establishment of the Baby Channel
• Naming rights agreement for the O2 on behalf of Anschutz Entertainment Group