Keystone Law

Laurence has broad national and international experience handling commercial support, company sales and purchases and corporate restructuring. He previously advised McDonalds on its first UK acquisition of Café Aroma Ltd. Laurence is a specialist in the rapid production of shareholder agreements for funded start-ups. Bilingual in Italian. Laurence’s areas of expertise include Sales & acquisitions (business and shares), MBO’s, AIM and private placements, corporate governance and FSMA regulatory, company restructurings. Joint ventures, shareholder/investment agreements, service level and technical services agreements, option agreements and consultancy agreements. Laurence’s key achievements include acquisition of entire issued share capital of Italian brokering company by UK listed company. Acquisitions by major French construction company for entire issued share capital of manufacturer of remote operated vehicles. McDonald’s Restaurant Operations Inc’s first UK acquisition of Café Aroma Limited. Acquisition of German Biotech company involved in the manufacture of technical equipment. Organisation and structuring of network of mixed private and public hospitals/clinics. Distribution agreements for major US film distributor (BuenaVista International) for video titles throughout Italy. Commercial contracts for laboratory testing company for clinical trials testing including template services agreement, service level agreement and global courier agreement. Pan-European model software and hardware master agreement for Sun Microsystems. Agreement establishing distribution network and bespoke sales points for Levis in shops throughout Italy and providing FSMA and FSA advice in relation to regulated activities.

Trained Withers, qualified 1998. Nath & Rosenthal, 1998-2000; Buchanan Ingersoll, 2000-03; Watson Farley Williams, 2003-05; Keystone Law, 2005.