Joint ventures, shareholder, partnership and LLP arrangements
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Private equity and venture capital transactions, acting for both institutions and management teams
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Corporate recovery transactions
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Commercial contracts
Career:
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Trained at Taylor Joynson Garrett (now Taylor Wessing) 2001 – 2003
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Associate (and Senior Associate) at Taylor Wessing 2003 – 2011
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Senior Associate at Maples Teesdale 2012
Notable
transactions
and relevant
experience:
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Advised a property investment group on its acquisition, via a joint venture partnership structure, of a historic London docks estate and related marina business
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Advised a property investment group on its £622m acquisition of a group of theme park properties via a corporate structure, with a lease back of the assets to a private equity backed operator
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Advised a property investment group on its £232m acquisition of a property portfolio from the appointed receivers
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Advised the executive management team on its buy out, backed by a private equity house, of a sports retail chain
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Advised a private equity house in connection with its acquisition of a leading tool and equipment hire business
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Advised a private equity house on a restructuring and refinancing of its original investment in a substantial and well known chain of retail stores throughout Germany
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Advised a private equity house and the executive management team in connection with the secondary buy-out of a well-known chain of restaurants
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Advised the management team/founders of a bio pharmaceutical company on a substantial funding round alongside two private equity houses
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Acting for property investors in connection with property acquisitions and disposals through the use of Jersey Property Unit Trusts (JPUTs)
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Acting for administrators in relation to the sales of businesses and assets out of administration
Education:
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The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
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The University of Birmingham – LLB (European)
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The University of Bayreuth, Germany – Diploma in German Law
