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Francesca Parker
Partner Corporate & Finance
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Chambers UK, 2026Francesca is excellent and a safe pair of hands.
Francesca Parker is a partner in the firm's corporate practice in London. She has a broad practice with a particular focus on M&A (including public takeovers, private acquisitions and disposals) and equity capital markets, across a variety of sectors.
Francesca has experience advising a broad range of clients (including listed, private, private equity and financial institutions) across the full spectrum of their lifecycle, from start-ups, initial public offerings through to companies in the FTSE 100. She is recommended as a leading lawyer in the Chambers UK guide for Corporate/M&A with a client noting that “Francesca has great interpersonal skills, is incredibly responsive and instils confidence.”
Before joining Hogan Lovells, Francesca was an associate in the corporate department of a Magic Circle law firm.
Chambers UK, 2026Francesca has great interpersonal skills, is incredibly responsive and instils confidence.
Representative experience
Zopa Group PLC on its acquisition of payments platform Rvvup.
Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. on the outside-of-the-U.S. aspects of its US$2.4bn purchase of Foot Locker Inc.
Metro Bank PLC on sale of £584m unsecured consumer credit loan portfolio.
Metro Bank PLC on the issuance of its inaugural £250 million Additional Tier 1 securities.
Goldman Sachs as cash confirmation counsel in connection with the c.£1.9bn recommended acquisition of Centamin plc by AngloGold Ashanti plc.
Smart Metering Systems plc, a UK-listed energy infrastructure company, on its recommended £1.3 billion takeover offer by private equity firm KKR.
CVC as it joined KKR in the acquisition of Superstruct Entertainment, one of the world’s premier live entertainment groups.
Shaftesbury on its all-share recommended merger with Capco; the combined group (Shaftesbury Capital) created a leading mixed-use central London REIT, with a combined portfolio of approximately £5bn.
Tetra Tech on its successful contested £636m takeover offer of RPS Group and its £43m takeover of WYG.
Marsh McLennan on the sale of Mercer’s U.S. health and benefits administration and UK pension administration businesses to Bain Capital Insurance.
Acting for a large multinational insurer on many buy and sells side processes
The Trustee of the Gallaher DB Pension Scheme on the legal aspects of its £1.7bn pension insurance buy-in with Standard Life.
Credentials
Education
- B.A., History, University of Exeter, 2012
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Solicitor, England and Wales