Our corporate M&A and corporate finance team provide specialist expertise on a wide range of transactions. We work with clients on IT systems contracts, hardware supply and purchase, software licensing, e-commerce, data protection and technology licensing as well as general commercial and services contracts for consulting engagements, supply and distribution agreements and collaborative research and development agreements between producers.
We have a track record of successfully completing transactions for TMT clients and are ranked in the top 10 of TMT corporate transaction advisors in Europe.
We pride ourselves on having over 600 lawyers specialising in M&A transactions across Europe and China. This equips us with the ability to manage deals of any size on a domestic and international level. We believe in adding real value. We offer training and advice on the specific laws in each jurisdiction to help you with your acquisition strategy, pre- and post-merger support and strive to continuously build a relationship with you and satisfy your ad-hoc legal requirements.
Our core services within these two sectors are:
Corporate M&A:
- Public and private acquisitions and disposals
- Joint ventures
- Strategic alliances
Corporate Finance:
- Flotations or IPOs
- Secondary offerings
- Takeover offers for quoted companies
- Competition and post merger advice
- Advice on law/rules applicable to quoted companies including Prospectus, Listing, Disclosure and Transparency, AIM and Market Abuse.
Relevant experience includes advising:
- A global software development company on the sale of Iris Software Group to Hellmann & Friedman for £350 million.
- An Infocommunications provider on the first phase of the planned acquisition of Antenna Hungaria Zrt. (a major Hungarian infocommunications provider)
- Computer Software Group plc on the acquisition of FAST limited
- A global information technology company in connection with the acquisition of a Romanian software company, and the establishment of an outsourced software development entity
