Keystone Law

Bryan is a highly experienced corporate and commercial lawyer, handling the full range of corporate transactions including M&A, private equity, corporate restructures and joint ventures. He is also an employee share schemes specialist. Bryan’s areas of specialism are M&A – shares and assets; corporate finance; reorganisations and reconstructions; loan and security documentation; joint ventures and shareholders agreements; partnership and LLP; general commercial agreements; company secretarial. Bryan’s key achievements include Tullo Marshall Warren Ltd: advising the sellers on the £38m sale of this direct advertising company to Creston plc. Negotiated all sale documentation and commercial issues and successfully completed the deal within clients’ budget and timescale. Target MCG Ltd: advised on the formation of this media and communications group and the simultaneous acquisition of three sets of companies (Cooler King Ltd and subsidiaries, OTM (UK) Ltd and White Label Productions Ltd) for a mixture of cash and shares. Drafted and negotiated the huge set of documents required, including all financial assistance paperwork, all banking documents and all shareholder arrangements going forward. Quiller Associates Ltd: Acted as lead lawyer for Huntsworth plc (a leading listed PR group) on the £10.7m purchase of this communications company. Drafted and negotiated all deal documentation including complex consideration provisions. Energy & Power Ltd: Advised the sellers on the £7m sale of this energy and power consultancy group to the German owned ThyssenKrupp UK plc. The deal threw up a number of complex earn-out and share consideration challenges, all of which were successfully resolved.

Trained Memery Crystal, qualified 1995. Campbell Hooper, 1996-2007; Keystone Law, 2008.