Our corporate team provide specialist expertise on a wide range of transactions, and have built a solid reputation in advising both equity houses and management teams on all private equity and venture capital transactions, including:

• Management Buyouts
• Management Buy-ins
• Secondary Buyouts
• Take privates

Our TMT group also regularly acts for many types of organisations in the UK, across Central and Eastern Europe and beyond with our CMS offices globally. With experience gathered over many deals, we have specific knowledge of potential challenges or technology idiosyncrasies, as well as the ability to spot opportunities on a pan-European scale.

Apart from long-term relationships with many of the leading players, we also keep abreast of industry trends through membership of the British Venture Capital Association and the European Venture Capital Association. This further helps us to clearly communicate and simplify technical complexities within the advice that we give to you.

Clients recognise that our approach is very different from other firms that focus on more ‘transactional’ relationships. Through launching one of the legal sector’s most comprehensive client feedback programme we measure just how focused we are against what you really want from your legal advisors. We don’t just listen to what you want, we take the time to understand what your criteria for good service is and how you want it delivered.  

Relevant experience includes advising:

• AAC Capital Partners on a number of transactions including, most recently the acquisition of Ocean Media and the £440 million sale of Park Resorts
• Advent International on the 730 million privatisation of Bulgarian telecoms operator BTC
• Capital Safety Group on their $565 million sale
• HgCapital on the £36 million recapitalisation of the Rolfe and Nolan Group