Craig O'Malley

Associate Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

London +44 (20) 74442301

Craig O'Malley

Craig O'Malley is a corporate lawyer based in London. Craig focuses on cross-border corporate transactions, including public and private company M&A, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, equity capital markets work and general corporate matters.

Craig trained at the firm and is also part of our global sports law practice.

Professional experience

Representative experience

bp on its corporate and commercial agreements relating to the Rumaila technical service contract in Iraq, and specifically the operational structure in place between bp and its partner, PetroChina, as well as a restructure establishing a joint venture company, Basra Energy Company Limited.
bp on its strategic entry into a US$ 2bn 51:49 natural gas joint venture in Egypt with XRG, ADNOC’s international energy investment company.
Centamin PLC in connection with its c. US$2.5 bn recommended cash and shares takeover by AngoGold Ashanti PLC by way of Jersey scheme of arrangement.
Barrick on potential joint ventures in relation to gold and copper projects.
Appian on potential joint ventures in relation to zinc and lead projects.
Quinbrook, a renewable energy specialist, on its acquisition of energy trading platform Habitat Energy and various grid stabilisation projects from Welsh Power
A US-based private equity firm on its acquisition of a controlling stake in the UK’s leading medical services and transport business
A consortium comprising TowerBrook and J.C. Flowers (the Consortium) on the acquisition of Embedded Finance Limited (Railsr). The acquisition of Railsr was inter-conditional with a £283 mn recommended cash takeover of Equals Group PLC by the Consortium and Railsr’s shareholders.
Zego, a tech-enabled commercial motor insurer, on a bolt-on to its US$150 million Series C valuing the company at US$1.1 billion, making Zego the UK’s first InsurTech unicorn
Aquiline Capital Partners on its acquisition of a controlling stake in Ripe Insurance, a UK based MGA with a focus on specialist and small business insurance
Nederlandse Spoorwegen on the management buy-out of its wholly-owned subsidiary Abellio UK, one of the leading operators of rail and bus services in the UK
777 Partners on the sale of a minority stake in the London Lions, a London-based British Basketball League club, to NBA star, Ogugua “OG” Anunoby
777 Partners on the acquisition of a majority stake in Hertha BSC GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien (Hertha BSC)
Mr Jisheng Gao on the sale of his controlling stake in Southampton Football Club