Company and corporate finance.

Partner specialising in advising public and significant private companies and well known for advising on large-scale corporate transactions, including acquisitions/disposals, City Code takeovers, flotations, secondary issues and general listed and related ‘plc’ compliance issues.

Rowe & Maw (including articles) 1981-86; qualified 1984; Addleshaw Sons & Latham (now Addleshaw Goddard) 1986-88; partner 1988 to date. Non-executive chairman Manchester brewer Joseph Holt Group Ltd.

French.

Law Society of England and Wales.

Sexey’s Grammar School, Blackford; Trinity College, Cambridge (1980 MA).

Sport, raising children.