Corporate
Our European corporate/M&A practice advises on domestic and
cross-border corporate transactions across a wide range of
commercial sectors. Our core services include advising on
mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, public company takeovers,
venture capital, private equity and equity
capital markets transactions.
Our expertise ranges from setting up new
ventures to major international acquisitions and listings . Our
client base consists of clients from all industry sectors and
ranges from entrepreneurs and fast-growing businesses to government
departments, multi-nationals and major listed companies.
Much of our work is of an international nature
with clients based across Europe, the US, the CIS countries and
around the world. We advise regularly on the particular
issues involved in doing business and conducting transactions
across borders. Our integrated international offices allow us to
offer a multi-jurisdictional corporate capability in all of the
major European business centres and we can provide our clients with
a single point of contact covering all relevant jurisdictions. Our
global outlook means that we appreciate how cultural differences
may impact on a transaction and can immediately highlight any
potential pitfalls.
Our corporate practice is complemented by
experts across the firm in practice areas such as banking and
finance, tax,
competition/anti-trust, employment and pensions, financial services, real
estate, IP and technology and regulatory. This enables us to provide the right
expertise for any particular transaction.
Notable deals
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Advising Avocet Mining PLC, the gold mining and exploration
business, on its move from AIM to trading on the London Stock
Exchange's main market and the disposal of its South East Asian
assets worth $200m
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Advising French fashion retailer Paule Ka on the sale of a 70%
stake in the business to private equity firm Change Capital
Partners
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Advising Trap Oil Group plc, the independent oil and gas
exploration business on its AIM listing and successful placing
which raised £60 million at a market capitalisation of just under
£80 million. This was one of the largest AIM flotations in
2011
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Advising the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, BT, TalkTalk, Arqiva and Channel
5 on the ground-breaking YouView venture, for which we were awarded
TMT Team of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2011
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Advising Kent Reliance
Building Society on the creation of the first mutually
controlled banking business backed by private
equity
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Advising Sanhua Co Ltd on the acquisition of the refrigerator
components unit of Aweco Applicance Systems GmbH & Co.
KG
- Advising Sopra Group (Euronext: Paris and NYSE), the
leading technology group, on its two simultaneous UK acquisitions
of 100% of the share capital of Tieto UK Ltd and Business &
Decision Ltd. Both targets specialise in offering IT products and
solutions to the financial services sector
- Advising Air Liquide (Homecare) Limited, a UK subsidiary of
Air Liquide Santé International on its acquisition of Carina VT
Limited and on various other corporate matters
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Our Corporate Group has an international reach, advising clients
on all aspects of establishing, funding, developing and acquiring
businesses.
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