Alston & Bird advised Texas-based pawnbroker FirstCash Holdings and its UK subsidiary Chess Bidco on their £351 million acquisition of H & T Group, a leading publicly traded UK-based operator of pawn stores. With over 3,000 retail locations, FirstCash is the largest publicly traded pawn platform in the United States and Latin America.
Representing FirstCash was an Alston & Bird team led by partners Kyle Healy, Robert Ardern, Paul Simcock, Kate Moseley, James Ashe-Taylor, Paul Hespel, Jonathan Garforth, and Matt Strumph; counsel John Stephen and Irene Fraile; senior associates Simon Cahill and Lydia Rachianioti; and associates Jonathan Kress and Emma Rigby.