Corporate Transactions
Recent Transactions and Deals
We have recently worked with our clients on a range of successful and high profile transactions including those featured below.
 | Sale of Abilitec Holdings Limited to Innovise plc for up to £4m. M&A advised the sellers and management team of Abilitec. |
 | Advised the management team, lead by Chief Executive and Veuve Clicquot 2007 Business Woman of the Year, Rosaleen Blair, on a £100m secondary management buyout backed by Graphite Capital. |
 | Advising Aurelian Property Finance Limited in connection with financing the acquisition and development of in excess of 20 new residential property sites and a major refinancing. |
 | Spin-out by Cardiff University of existing and future IP and £8m ring fenced fund raising by Biofusion plc. Advised Biofusion plc on the sale to Morvus Technology Limited of two of its portfolio companies which are developing IP in the sphere of oncology and pharmaceuticals. Lifestyle Choices Limited - investment by South Yorkshire Investment Fund. |
 | Advised Bluefield Land Limited on its property development joint venture with Irish based Bluefield Strategic One Limited Advised Bluefield Land Limited on its property development joint venture with Twenty 20 Homes Limited |
 | Advised The Capita Group plc in 2007 on two share acquisitions, MVRA Holdings Limited and CPFR Solutions Limited, as well as one business acquisition, the acquisition of NHS Partners business from North Bristol NHS Trust. Also advised on two business sales - Capita's traffic surveys business operating out of Chadwell Heath to Count On Us Limited and its binding authorities business operated by its subsidiary, Art Inc (UK) Limited to Underwriting Risk Services Limited. |
 | Satisfaction of Conditions to development of CCFC's new stadium at Leckwith, Cardiff. |
Investment by Finance Wales. | |
 | Advising Envirogene in connection with a series of investments by RAB Capital. Drafting and negotiating various IP agreements and licences with universities, research bodies and companies. |
 | Advised Jonathan Wignall on the investment in Escape Nightclub, Swansea by Mohammed Pasha. |
 | Advised the administrators of Ferrari’s Bakery Limited on a major administration and restructuring of the business involving over 40 sites. |
 | Advised Golley Slater on the acquisition of digital marketing agency GCDM Limited (now renamed Golley Slater Digital Limited) from Green Cathedral plc. GCDM Limited was Green Cathedral's main operating subsidiary. |
 | Advised Walters Group the terms of a third party investment in Ffos Las Limited, which is in the process of bringing the UK's first new national hunt racecourse facility in 80 years to South West Wales. Advised Walters Group on the equity structure of Walters UK Limited in connection with the change of ownership of the management stake in that company. |
 | Advised the shareholders of Hedges and Rose Insurance Company Limited on the sale of the company to quoted Giles Insurance Brokers Limited |
 | Advised Holiday City Limited on the sale of its travel business to Kwik Travel. |
 | Advised utility network and infrastructure provider Inexus Group on the acquisition of Exoteric Gas Solutions Limited and its subsidiaries. |
 | Following a £90 million refinancing we advised the James Hull Group on 15 acquisitions of dental practices throughout the United Kingdom. We continue to advise the Group on its acquisition programme as it consolidates its position as the UK’s leading specialist dental business. |
 | Acting for the shareholders of Milbury Systems Limited, an eminent pre-cast concrete producer, in connection with the sale of the company to AIM listed Eleco Plc. |
 | Acting for the sellers in connection with the management buy-out of Moorhouse Corporate Limited, a south Wales based company specialising in the provision of insurance services. |
 | Advised Mountway Limited on the acquisition of Nordic Care Services Limited, a company with the exclusive UK distribution rights to a range of Scandinavian living aids, extending Mountway's range by approximately 250 products. |
 | Advised selling shareholders and management on the sale of National Britannia Holdings Limited to Connaught plc in October 2007 for an enterprise value of approximately £91 million. Also advised National Britannia on 4 share acquisitions: Hygiene Monitoring Services Limited, EH&SS Limited, ANT Environmental Services Limited and Corporate Health & Safety Solutions Limited. |
 | Advised Omniport on its agreement with the existing owners of Kilimanjaro Airport in Tanzania to take over the concession of the airport in a substantial infrastructure deal. |
 | Restructuring and refinancing of the Opco Group. |
 | Advised the selling shareholders of Pelican Healthcare Limited on its sale to Eakin Holdings Limited for circa £22million. |
 | Advised the sellers in the sale of Peter’s Food Service Limited to its management and NBGI Private Equity in a £20 million buy-out. |
 | Advised Protectagroup on its purchase of Hodge Insurance Brokers Limited from Julian Hodge Bank Limited |
 | Advised Renaissance Lifecare plc on the £26m financing of the acquisition and development of Grove Place, Hampshire Advised retirement village developer Renaissance Lifecare plc and its shareholders on an investment of a significant undisclosed sum by Equity International, a private equity fund headquartered in Chicago, USA which invests in real-estate based companies operating outside the US. |
 | Advised the shareholders of RPA Quantity Surveyors Limited on the sale of the company to Hyder Consulting plc for an undisclosed sum. |
 | Sale of Carbon Checker IP and associated business to BuildDesk Limited by Southfacing Services Limited |
 | Reorganisation and refinancing of the Surgicraft Group. |
 | Advised the management team on a management buy-out. |