Travers Smith Head of Corporate, Chris Hale, and senior corporate associate Will Yates, led a team advising the management shareholders of WCL Group Limited on its sale to Nord Anglia Education for £153m.

WCL delivers premium K-12 education to students in eleven international schools: six schools in the United States, one in Spain, and four in Qatar in the Middle East. In addition, WCL offers leading-edge educational products and services to schools worldwide, including its international curricula which are used by nearly 1,500 schools in some 80 countries.

The Travers Smith team included corporate associate James Lumsden.

The transaction was conditional upon certain regulatory clearances being obtained.

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