Dean is a partner in the Corporate department handling major transactions. More specifically his practice focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and on property-related corporate work. The latter has included deals in excess of £1.5 billion. Client companies come from a wide range of industries, most notably telecoms, media and financial services, and among them names such as Matterhorn Capital, CB Richard Ellis and Dover Corporation. Recent successes have seen Dean advise the majority shareholders of EC&O Venues in their sale of a 50% interest in London’s Earls Court and Olympia Exhibition Centres to Liberty International. This valued the business at £400m.

Ranked as a leading lawyer for M&A deals between £50m and £250m, The Legal 500, 2009 has this to say: "Clients attest that Dean Poster is 'one of the best lawyers we have ever encountered.'"

Dean joined the Firm in April 2010 from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe where he had been a partner. Prior to this he was Coudert Brothers’ Head of U.K. Corporate and Commercial Law, and Managing Partner of their London office.

Key Experience

Advised on the £92 million purchase and subsequently on the £126m sale of the O2 Centre in North West London.

Advising Matterhorn Capital on numerous acquisitions of corporates with significant real estate interests in the leisure industry in mainland Europe.

Advising CB Richard Ellis, the world's leading commercial property and real estate services adviser, on numerous acquisitions and joint ventures in the UK and Europe.

Advised on the £55 million financing of The Brewery, Chiswell Street for Earls Court and Olympia Exhibition and Conferencing Centres.

Advised on the creation and establishment of a new electronic market for the trading of Euro-denominated government bonds, whose 24 shareholders represented many of the world’s largest international banks and financial institutions.

Advised in relation to the €440 million acquisition of the CenterParcs Europe businesses.

Advised on a cross-border sale of a certification and inspection services company with over 80 subsidiaries and associated companies in more than 50 jurisdictions.

Advised Corgi International Ltd on its sale to Hornby.

Career History

Partner, Mishcon de Reya
Partner, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Managing Partner, Coudert Brothers
Partner, Coudert Brothers
Associate, Coudert Brothers
Associate, Nabarro Nathanson
Qualified, Nabarro Nathanson
Leicester University LLB (Hons)