Addleshaw Goddard fields a ‘practical and commercial’ team of lawyers across England and Scotland, with AIM- and Main Market-listed clients as well as major investment bankers and brokers regularly instructing the practice to guide them through the corporate and regulatory aspects of their transactions. The team maintains a very active offering in the takeovers space for both targets and bidders, with a particular propensity for advising foreign clients on transactions subject to the UK Takeover Code, and it is also active in advising listed entities on public M&A. Giles Distin and Simon Wood are key contacts for this line of work and also have a strong reputation for advising tech and life sciences companies on their primary and secondary fundraising activities. Nick Pearey heads up the practice.
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‘The team is excellent.’
‘The team are practical and commercial. They are solution-orientated and thoroughly pleasant to deal with.’
‘Anna Brown is amazing.’
‘They are a very strong team, involved in so many deals and acting on all sides of transactions. They are at the forefront of current trends and best practice.’
Key clients
- Abrdn Property Income Trust
- Accrol Group Holdings PLC
- Allenby Capital
- Alpha Financial Markets Consulting PLC
- Belvoir Group PLC
- Berenberg
- Boohoo group PLC
- B.P. Marsh & Partners PLC
- Brickability Group PLC
- Britvic PLC
- Brown (N) Group PLC
- Carclo PLC
- Cardean Bell
- Cavendish Capital Markets
- Chesnara PLC
- Churchill China PLC
- City Pub Group PLC
- Curtis Banks Group PLC
- DX (Group) PLC
- Diageo PLC
- Fenchurch Advisory Partners LLP
- genedrive PLC
- GENinCode PLC
- Gneiss Energy Limited
- Investec Bank
- Intuitive Investment Group PLC
- JD Sports Fashion PLC
- J.P. Morgan Securities PLC
- LBG Media PLC
- Liberum Capital
- March Harvey Limited
- Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC
- Morgan Advanced Materials PLC
- musicMagpie PLC
- NAHL Group PLC
- N.M. Rothschild & Sons Limited
- Norcros PLC
- On the Beach Group PLC
- Pebble Group PLC
- Peel Hunt
- Pressure Technologies PLC
- PZ Cussons PLC
- Ramsdens Holdings PLC
- Rathbones Group PLC
- Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
- Shore Capital & Corporate
- Singer Capital Markets
- Speedy Hire PLC
- Spirax-Sarco Engineering PLC
- SSE PLC
- Team17 Group PLC
- Teneo Corporate Finance
- Vanquis Banking Group PLC
- Victrex PLC
- Xpediator PLC
- Zeus Capital
Work highlights
- Advising abrdn Property Income Trust Limited in connection with its proposed all-share merger with Custodian Real Estate Income PLC.
- Advised Rathbones Group PLC on its all-share combination with Investec to acquire Investec's discretionary wealth manager business.
- Advised DX (Group) PLC on a recommended takeover by funds advised by H.I.G. Capital LLC.
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Nick Pearey