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Walter Blake

Walter Blake

Work Department

Corporate Finance

Position

Walter is a corporate finance partner based in London and head of the equity capital markets (ECM) group. His clients include public and private companies as well as a number of investment banks. On the equity capital markets side, he has worked on IPOs, secondary fundraisings and M&A transactions involving companies with operations in the UK and beyond. His ECM practice is balanced between LSE main market and AIM work. Walter works with clients across a range of industry sectors including, in particular, companies in the mining/resources, pharma/life sciences, technology sectors.

Career

Trained Shepherd and Wedderburn 1993-95; assistant 1995-99; associate 1999-2001; partner 2001.

Memberships

Law Society of Scotland.

Education

University of Edinburgh (1992 LLB Hons); Dip LP (1993).