Experience

I’m a partner in the Corporate team, where I specialise in M&A and private equity.

I work across a number of sectors, including cross-border, technology (particularly medical technology), professional services, impact investing and corporate real estate.

A large part of my practice involves advising founders and owner-managers through all aspects of their business life-cycle from fundraising, investment rounds and structuring to M&A and exits. I also routinely advise buyers, including UK and foreign listed companies, private equity funds and leading international foundations, on share acquisitions of or investments into UK companies.

I therefore have extensive experience of key negotiation issues in acting for both sellers and buyers on M&A transactions, particularly those involving cross-border elements. I’ve worked extensively in corporate structuring, joint ventures, partnerships and general corporate advisory, including in implementing the corporate aspects of wealth planning structures.

I am also the Co-Lead of our Development Finance practice as I have a keen interest in working with ESG-focused and purpose-driven clients. I regularly advise impact investment funds, development finance institutions, foundations, UK and foreign government-backed funds and private equity funds on equity investments and disposals, particularly focussed in the Global South.

Recent case studies:

• Advised M.C. Dean on its acquisition of Bells Power Group.

• Advised ThinkSono, a pioneering ultrasound AI company, on its £4.5m fundraise from a mix of institutional funds, PE and private wealth.

• Advised the founders of House of Hackney on the buyout of private equity investors, facilitating their return to full founder ownership and supporting the company’s future governance and sustainability goals.

• Advised investors on the joint venture between PSS Global Ltd and Officine Maccaferri, supporting the development of sustainable infrastructure solutions.

• Advised ICAPE Holding on the acquisition of Kingfisher PCBS Ltd

• Advised ICAPE Holding on the acquisition of ALR Services

• Advised Intellego Technologies AB, a Swedish listed company, on the acquisition of a group of UK companies active in the engineering and manufacturing sector.

• Advised the founders of Heart & Lung Imaging Limited, a London-Based Teleradiology Network Focused on Lung Cancer Screening, on the sale of the company to RadNet, Inc.

• Advised space launch company HyImpulse UK Limited, world-leaders in hybrid propulsion technology, on new joint venture.

Highlights
  • Advised a specialist group action litigation law firm on the sale of its business and assets to a law firm specialising in large scale consumer claims in the areas of product liability, workers’ rights, data breach and privacy, investment fraud and financial products mis- selling, and competition law.
  • Advised an impact private equity fund on (i) its majority stake investment into a sustainable forestry business in Peru, (ii) its majority stake into a sustainable forestry business operating in Colombia, and (iii) its substantial minority stake investment into a sustainable forestry business operating in Ghana and Sierra Leone.
  • Advised the impact investment arm of a high-profile international foundation as the lead investor in establishing a social enterprise seeking to expand access to affordable medical technology in the Global South, alongside a household-name charitable foundation and other high-profile philanthropic investors.
  • Once established, I also advised on the new social enterprise’s acquisition of biotech company developing lateral flow and rapid diagnostic technologies, including Covid-19 lateral flow tests, with a view to it providing access to such technologies to the world’s poorest countries.
  • Advised an African SME private equity fund investing in the food value chain across Africa in connection with the acquisition of a UK/ SA trade finance company focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa, and its subsequent restructuring.
  • Advised the impact investment arm of a major US foundation in connection with the sale of its controlling interest in its Indian venture capital portfolio. to an investment management company owned by one of the largest private banking and asset management groups in the world.