Mills & Reeve LLP has a deep bench of lawyers in its Cambridge corporate M&A practice, which frequently handles high-value regional and national transactions. Head of corporate Tom Pickthorn, head of commercial Kevin Calder and head of life sciences James Fry oversee 'a very strong practice, with excellent depth of understanding of UK Corporate law, and great ability to distill it down to a practical approach'. Private equity partner Anthony McGurk 'has a very good sense of market practice'. Claire Clarke has particular expertise in education work and formation of investment funds, and Jonathan Greenwood focuses on mid-market M&A and PE investment. Senior associate Charlotte Bull also plays a key role in the team.
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‘Very strong practice, excellent depth of understanding of UK corporate law, and great ability to distill it down to a practical approach and reasonable steps. Also very good at providing comparative analysis to assist from an international perspective. ’
‘Anthony McGurk has a very good sense of market practice, how to get to a commercially reasonable agreement, and how to get a deal across the finish line.'
Key clients
- Ministry of Defence
- EA-RS Group Limited
- Siemens Healthcare
- Cambridge Mechatronics
- Institution of Engineering and Technology
- Sellers of TFSL Limited
- Richardson Malting (UK) Limited
- Shareholders of Force One Limited.
- Shareholders of MAP Life Sciences Limited
- Bluestone Investment Holdings Limited
- Midwich Group PLC
- IQ Capital Partners LLP
- VetCT Specialists
- F-star Therapeutics
- Orbit Service Partners, Inc
- BAE Systems
- FactSet Research Systems, Inc
- Start Codon
- Accelerator Advisory
- Evonik Ventures GmbH
- RNAvate
- Wellcome Sanger Institute
- Mercia Ventures
- Foresight Group
Work highlights
- Instructed by Canadian company Richardson International Ltd to advise its UK subsidiary, Richardson Malting (UK) Ltd, on the acquisition of the entire share capital of Norfolk based Ragleth Ltd, the parent organisation of Anglia Maltings (Holdings) Limited.
- Advised Midwich Plc on a £50m placing by way of an accelerated bookbuild. In conjunction with the Placing, Midwich completed the acquisition of S.F. Marketing, Inc. ("SFM"), a specialist value-add AV distributor in Canada for an enterprise value of up to CA$44.3m (£26.7m).
- Advised F-star Therapeutics on its strategic discovery collaboration and licence agreement with global pharmaceutical company Takeda.
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Tom Pickthorn, Kevin Calder, James Fry