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M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m

Freeths LLP

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Fielding a ‘true partner-led service’, Freeths LLP regularly assists clients on M&A, private equity and capital markets transactions. Practice head Tom Rowley acts for clients across a range of sectors on the full gamut of transactional and commercial matters. The ’gifted’ Francis Dalton  has particular expertise in funding rounds and M&A, notably acting for regulated tech and IP-focused companies. The team has recently been strengthened by a number of new recruits from BDB Pitmans, including Angelina Mikelove Szentpali and Robert Chidley, who joined in October 2022 and November 2022, respectively. Peter Hill retired in March 2022.

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  • ‘It is a true partner-led service it doesn't just say that it is and a true team where members can dip in and out of projects and the service level, expertise and historical client knowledge is not impaired. Lots of firms say it but few actually deliver that.’

  • ‘Francis Dalton is gifted technically with an ability to distill and explain complicated points and find practical commercial solutions with a really pragmatic approach - a pleasure to work with.’

Key clients

  • Vero Screening Limited
  • Templars Medical
  • Solomon Capital Holdings
  • Samskip Multimodal BV
  • Phenutest Diagnostics Limited
  • Tescan Medical
  • Autins Group Plc
  • Hanover Investors Management LLP
  • Celeres Investment Limited
  • Perci Health Ltd
  • Hexagon Intergraph
  • Cambridge Power Limited

Work highlights

  • Advised the shareholders of Vero Screening Limited on sale to Accurate Background, the largest privately held provider of compliant background checks, drug and health screening and monitoring solutions in the USA.
  • Advised the shareholders on the sale of their entire issued share capital of Optimal Medical Limited, a company based in Skipton to a Swedish publicly-listed company, Dedicare A.B..
  • Acted on the c. USD 250m sale of Tescan Orsay Holding a.s., a Czech-incorporated company in the life sciences sector, by a dozen different sellers in the Czech Republic and France to global investment PE firm Carlyle.

Lawyers

Next Generation Partners

Francis Dalton

Freeths LLP

Francis has a broad corporate practice which includes both public and private M&A (including corporate finance, private equity and venture capital) and both main market and AIM capital markets transactions. He has experience in a blend of national and international transactions and is used to working across multiple jurisdictions with different laws.Francis also has a breadth of corporate advisory experience and has advised on a number of joint ventures, corporate and financial restructurings and securities offerings. He has operated in a number of sectors and has a focus on technology, media, communications and healthcare. He is a corporate lawyer based in our London office.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Tom Rowley

Other key lawyers

Francis Dalton, Robert Chidley, Matthew Cooper, Naomi Spring

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