Our corporate team advise both public and privately owned companies on a variety of corporate transactions including acquisitions and disposals of companies and businesses together with all associated funding requirements. The team has advised across a range of sectors and is known for its partner led, hands-on, commercially minded approach. We provide a “one-stop-shop” full service team, pulling expertise from our tax, employment, banking, intellectual property and real estate teams.
Our services include:
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Public market IPOs, secondary fundraisings, takeovers and market transactions
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Private company acquisitions, disposals and transactions
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Private equity and venture capital transactions
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Funds & investment structures
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Business structures
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Insolvency and restructuring
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Company secretarial
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Corporate reorganisations
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Company law and general regulatory advice
If you are interested in listing on AIM, our lawyers are well versed in these types of transactions. More details can be found in FSI’s Guide to AIM.
Recent experience advising:
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listed company Yell Group Plc on the acquisition of Trusted Places Ltd, the reviews based directory business, for an undisclosed sum
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nominated adviser and broker Cenkos Securities Plc on a placing of new shares in AIM listed Omega Diagnostics Group Plc raising £7.75 million of new monies together with the acquisition of the business and certain assets of Allergopharma Joachim Ganzer KG constituting a reverse takeover under the AIM Rules
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shareholders of Euroffice, including funds managed by private equity house Net Partners, together with the founders and management, on the sale by way of management buy-out to funds managed by Darwin Private Equity LLP, for an undisclosed sum
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nominated adviser and broker FinnCap on a placing of new shares in AIM listed Tristel Plc raising funds of around £3.9 million
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management on the formation of a domiciliary homecare consolidator, Ark Home Healthcare Holdings Ltd, backed by two private equity partners, Ashridge Capital and Core Capital with funds of circa £18 million, for the purpose of the acquisition of numerous operators in that industry
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nominated adviser and broker Daniel Stewart & Company Plc, on a placing of new shares in Probability Plc, the AIM listed mobile gambling specialist, raising funds of circa £2.3 million
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management of The Office Group Ltd on the purchase of the company by Esselco Ltd, a company owned by Lloyd Dorfman, from management and Bridges Ventures for an undisclosed sum
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AIM listed CareCapital Group Plc on the £23.5 million disposal of part of its UK property portfolio, through the sale of Sinclair Montrose Properties Ltd, to Primary Health Investment Properties Ltd
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Ark Home Healthcare Holdings Ltd on the simultaneous acquisition of three local care providers in the South of England, following the establishment of the acquiring consolidator entity, such acquisitions being in relation to AG Care Ltd, Breslin Health & Social Care Ltd and Mac Caring Ltd
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shareholders of Green Tomato Cars Ltd, the environmentally friendly private hire service, on the sale of the company to Transdev Plc for an undisclosed sum
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nominated adviser and broker Daniel Stewart & Company Plc on a secondary placing of convertible loan notes and separately of shares in AIM listed Private and Commercial Finance Group Plc raising funds of circa £1.75 million
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NASDAQ-listed Global Traffic Network Inc. on the acquisition from AIM-listed UBC Media Group Plc of the entire issued share capital of The Unique Broadcasting Company Ltd for consideration of circa £14.5 million