HCR Hewitsons

Corporate.

Partner in corporate department specialising in equity markets and mergers and acquisitions; venture, start-up and development capital, particularly in biotech and technology sector; corporate and banking finance and reconstructions; and employee share option schemes. Practice areas: flotations (small and mid-cap); corporate finance; M&A.

Trained Shoosmiths & Harrison; qualified 1987; Theodore Goddard 1987-97; partner Hewitsons 1998.

French, German.

Sir Roger Manwoods Grammar School, Sandwich; Leicester University (1984 LLB with French Law); University of Strasbourg (1988 Diploma in French Legal Studies); College of Law, Guildford (1984-85).

Cricket, hockey.