We understand the complexities of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals inside out.
After all, with one of the most active corporate legal teams in the UK, we’ve seen every kind of deal in the market (source: Experian MarketIQ). We are experts in navigating the pitfalls and legal complexities of technology-rich businesses, from customer contracting to the integrity of your software stack; if there is a legal problem we can help find it and fix it.
We can tap straight into our extensive experience to get the best possible outcome for you with practical support, well-thought-out commercial strategy and robust legal merger and acquisition advice every step of the way. Whether it’s advising on a business sale or purchase, joint venture, takeover, business structuring, private equity deal, flotation or re-organisation our solutions-focused team can help.
Having the right M&A team on hand can make all the difference. If you’re an individual entrepreneur, your deal is likely to be a life-changing opportunity to fulfil your life’s work – so we treat your business as our own. Equally, if you’re a company wanting to acquire or sell a non-core subsidiary, you’ve got the security of knowing you have the right team to guide you through it – all with the personal support from one of our experienced partners.
Investments
We often assist early-stage businesses companies with start-up and seed investment; we see business through to Series A and other VC investments and private equity investments. Leveraging our commercial colleagues’ expertise we understand the legal complexities facing technology-rich businesses and can help allocate risk and protect investments, and protect founders’ key interests.
Examples of our experience
- Advising Palatine Private Equity on the acquisition and investment in 4Net (a digital transformation and customer experience specialist), as well as multiple bolt-on acquisitions for 4Net.
- Advising Palatine Private Equity on the acquisition and investment in BluprintX (a global digital transformation services provider focused on delivering technology and data solutions in marketing, sales and service).
- Advising the shareholders and management team of National Education Group (an education tech business providing digital solutions to education workforces) on its significant minority investment from Synova.
- Advising various investors (including Praetura Ventures, Foresight, Edition Capital and Maven Capital Partners) on their investment in numerous tech businesses.
- Acting for the sellers of Serif (Affinity software) on the sale to Canva, Inc.
- Acting for the founders of Pebble Learning (online training software) on the investment by Northedge Capital.
- Advising the Founders of Podium Software on the investment by Moneysupermarket.com.
- Advising Juno Retail Limited (part of the Patchworks group) on the sale of its ecommerce (shopify) business to Tryzens.
- Advising Babble Cloud of on all of their acquisitions since 2017, 13 in total to date.
- Acting since 2003 on all of CACI Limited’s UK acquisitions in telecoms, IT services, digital marketing services and similar, a total of 21 transactions to date.
- Sale of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Partner Three Grey Monkeys Limited to Voxtur Group Ltd.
- Sale of Upstream Group Limited and its subsidiary, Riverbank IT Management Limited, to Air IT Limited.
- Acquisition of Agile Applications, SaaS software provider to the public sector, by LDC-backed IEG Group.
Also in this section
- Technology contracts
- Data protection for technology businesses
- Protecting and commercialising IP assets for technology businesses
- eGaming
- Dispute resolution and international arbitration for technology businesses
- Artificial intelligence
- Tax and employee ownership for technology businesses
- Employment law and service contracts for technology businesses
- Acquiring, investing in and selling technology businesses
- Equity capital markets and public company advice for technology businesses
- FinTech
- Telecoms