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Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)

Addleshaw Goddard

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Particularly praised for its depth at partner level, the team at Addleshaw Goddard handles a steady stream of high-cap as well as mid-market transactions for a strong roster of sponsors and management teams. The sizeable, national practice is headed up by Mike Hinchliffe, a ‘very experienced and knowledgeable’ figure whose broad capabilities range from acquisitions to minority fundraising deals. With more than two decades in the market, Yunus Seedat is similarly well-versed in all manner of corporate transactions, while Marc Field‘s recent workload includes investment deals and sale processes for clients engaged in the tech, energy, and professional services sectors. Gemma Phillips is noted for her track record in deals, working with both sponsors and portfolio companies. Other names to note include Liam Gasior, who focuses on financial services-based mandates, and Victor Oderinde, whose recent highlights include a number of auction processes. All named lawyers are based in London.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Good all-round team with depth at partner level in particular.’

  • ‘Mike Hinchliffe is very experienced and knowledgeable.'

  • 'Gemma Phillips and Marc Field are both highly skilled lawyers with a good commercial approach.’

  • 'Collaborative team with good depth below partner level. Associates have made the effort to get to know individual portfolio company dynamics well and provided hands-on support through the full investment life cycle with high EQ.'

  • 'Marc Field is a trusted and respected advisor to our team - highly responsive with excellent problem solving capabilities.'

Key clients

  • Accel KKR
  • Bridges Fund Management
  • CGE Partners
  • ECI Partners
  • Equistone Partners Europe
  • H2 Equity Partners
  • Inflexion Private Equity
  • LDC
  • Limerston Capital
  • Livingbridge
  • Phoenix Equity Partners
  • Soho Square
  • Synova Capital
  • Terra Firma
  • Volpi Capital
  • Waterland

Work highlights

  • Advising ECI Partners on its investment in Zenergi and the sale of Bionic.
  • Advising Inflexion on the acquisition of Astrak Group.
  • Advising International Financial Group on its sale to Cinven.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Mike Hinchliffe

Addleshaw Goddard

Partner in the corporate division advising on acquisitions, disposals, private equity transactions (MBOs, MBIs and development capital), joint ventures and other general corporate advice. Clients include 3i, Bridges Fund Managers, ECI Partners, Foresight, Graphite Capital and Piper Private Equity. Deal experience includes the secondary buyouts of the Las Iguanas restaurant chain and Kurt Geiger, the buyouts of Evans Cycles and Media iQ, and the disposals of Kerridge Commercial Systems and The Gym Group.

Yunus Seedat

Addleshaw Goddard

Partner specialising in all areas of corporate finance work with particular expertise in buy-out and venture capital work, acting for institutions, Newco and management teams.

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Nathan Pearce

Addleshaw Goddard

Nathan acts on all aspects of domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures and restructurings, with a particular focus on private equity and other financial sponsor-led transactions and advising high net worth individuals and families. He advises private equity houses on executing their investments, on managing their portfolio companies during the life of their investments and on helping them to deliver successful exits. He has worked with a number of well-known investors including 3i, AnaCap, Bridgepoint, Candover (now Arle Capital), Doughty Hanson, Goldman Sachs PIA and Smedvig Capital on a full range of low, mid and large cap transactions. Nathan also regularly advises management teams backed by private equity funders – examples include advising the management of The Miller Group Limited on the terms of their participation in the circa £500m financial restructuring led by GSO (part of the Blackstone Group), and advising the management of RL360 on its buyout from Royal London backed by Vitruvian. In addition, Nathan frequently advises corporate, institutional and high net worth clients, having undertaken a broad range of transactional and other work in the UK and overseas. Examples include work for Rathbone Brothers Plc, GVC Holdings Plc, MacDermid Inc, Alliance Medical Group Limited and Boris Berezovsky. Nathan regularly works on cross-border matters, often working alongside our preferred law firms in numerous jurisdictions. He has particular experience in relation to Germany (where he spent six months on secondment to Noerr’s Munich and Berlin offices) and Italy (where he regularly works with NCTM).

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Mike Hinchliffe

Other key lawyers

Yunus Seedat, Marc Field, Gemma Phillips, Liam Gasior, Victor Oderinde

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