Lisa Booth, Ian Burton and Imran Sami are the partners in the firm’s corporate team. They advise on private equity investments and capital raising, management buy-outs, private company acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, restructuring, AIM admissions and general corporate law issues.

The corporate team has recently advised:

• a leading IT and technology recruitment firm on its acquisition of a rival recruitment business specialising in the legal sector


• a real estate investment firm specialising in investments in the Nordic region on its co-acquisition with a large US fund in a commercial property asset in Sweden


• a website design and domain name hosting business with operations in the UK and in France on a group demerger under section 110 of the Insolvency Act 1986


• an independent broker of independent citizen photojournalism on an investment and distribution deal with a major US photographic agency


• a Dutch-owned employment services and apprenticeship provider on its acquisition of a UK apprenticeship, training and skills consultancy


• a private equity investor on the purchase of a medical services company from an administrator in a “pre-pack” arrangement


• a consortium of investors in connection with their acquisition of a 50% shareholding in a “spin-out” company established to exploit technology developed by academics from Oxford University


• a provider of software for electronic payment processing specialist on a cross-border company take-over structured by means of a court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement


• a "smart energy" company in connection with its second-round financing from a major UK energy company and a private equity fund


• a partnership of hospital consultants in relation to the termination of their joint venture with Nuffield Health.


• an international advertising and branding agency on a restructuring designed to provide a phased exit for its founders and an equity stake for junior management


• selling shareholders in sale of UK oil trading and fuel blending company, with an annual turnover in excess of £1 billion, to an Irish private equity buyer


• a Japanese TV company in relation to its proposed admission to AIM


• a Dutch private equity buyer in its £2.5 million acquisition of a UK voice recording supplier.

For details, please contact either:

Lisa Booth or Ian Burton.