Nigel Boardman
One Bunhill Row
EC1Y 8YY
Biography: Corporate Governance
Nigel Boardman joined Slaughter and May in 1973 and was made a partner in 1982. His broad practice includes domestic and international corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, IPOs, demergers, private acquisitions and disposals, private equity, public takeovers, issues of compliance and corporate governance and insolvency, restructurings, investigations and sports law.Nigel is ranked as a 'star performer' for corporate and M&A work by Chambers in its UK, Europe and global directories and has been honoured with the directory's lifetime achievement award. He is also listed as a leading individual for mergers and acquisitions in The Legal 500, 2010, is the City's most influential lawyer in City AM's 'Power Hundred 2011' and is listed as a leading lawyer for mergers and acquisitions in IFLR1000's The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms 2011 (21st Anniversary Edition).
He was recently included by the Evening Standard in their 2010 review of the most influential people in London and by The Times in their 100 most influential people in business. In Who's Who Legal he appears in both the corporate governance category, where he is ranked as the second most highly regarded individual globally, and in mergers and acquisitions and is also included in Debrett's Who's Who. In the Legal Experts Directory he is recognised as an expert in capital markets and corporate M&A and in PLC's Which Lawyer he is in the first rank for corporate and M&A.
Nigel is a contributor to the Prospectus for the Public Offering of Securities in Europe, 'The European Company'' and is a consulting editor of the Oxford University Press' Annotated Companies Acts. Following on from his role on the South African Department of Trade and Industry's committee on the reform of company law, he has contributed a chapter in Modern Company Law for a Competitive South African Economy in takeovers.
He is also a non-executive director of Save the Children UK and chair of its child survival campaign board.
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Other Practice Areas
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