Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Corporate

Robert is a corporate finance partner in the Corporate Team based in Newcastle, with over 25 years’ experience of advising clients on private and public company mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, domestic and international joint ventures and corporate governance.

In over 20 years working in the North East corporate marketplace as part of an award winning regional firm, Robert has advised on some of the most significant transactions in the region and worked with some of the region’s best known entrepreneurs and businesses. Robert’s specialisation is working with owner-managers and shareholders around strategic direction and maximising value when exiting their companies and also on the reverse side of those transactions, acting for corporates acquiring new businesses and companies as part of growth strategies.

Robert has been named Insider’s North-East corporate lawyer of the year on three separate occasions – and worked on 4 of the awards’ ceremony “Deal of the Year” in the North East Region.

Robert has recently worked on projects including:

1. the IPO of Tekmar Group PLC;
2. the disposal of RIBA Enterprises Ltd (trading as NBS) by RIBA and its co-investment alongside LDC;
3. the AVX Corporation acquisition of the TT Electronics PLC business; and
4. MPac's strategic disposal of its cigarette and packaging division.

These transactions follow on from projects in the region in bringing Quantum Pharma PLC, Ulilitywise PLC and Vertu PLC to the AIM market.

Trained Dentons; qualified 1990; solicitor, Dentons 1990;  solicitor, Memery Crystal 1992; solicitor, then partner, Muckle LLP 1994; 15 years building the corporate practice at Muckle LLP from a recovery and insolvency specialist practice to a market leading well known specialist corporate law and M&A firm; partner, Bond Dickinson April 2016; partner, Womble Bond Dickinson on combination 2017.