Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Private wealth, retail and leisure, technology, media and telecommunications; corporate.

Hamish advises on general company and commercial matters, with a particular emphasis on private company mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, fundraisings/private equity and corporate reorganisations. He acts for a broad range of corporate, institutional, governmental and private clients/management teams, both domestically and internationally, and across a number of sectors. In particular, Hamish has extensive experience advising clients in the technology, media, communications and recruitment sectors. He is also a host and regular speaker as part of the firm's in-house counsel seminar programme, and a member of the advisory board for the Association of Caribbean Corporate Counsel. Experience: acting for the government of the Bahamas on the privatisation of The Bahamas Telecommunications Company, the issuance of a second mobile licence and various other telecoms matters; advising Meredith Corporation in relation to its investment in Iris Worldwide; advising an international tea trader on the sale of its Rwandan operations to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kolkata-based McLeod Russel India Limited, one of the largest tea producers in the world; advising on the sale of Hawk-Eye to Sony; advising Randstad and various other companies/individuals on numerous transactions in the recruitment sector.