Overview

Richard heads the firm's Corporate and Financial Institutions team.

He specialises in corporate advice, private equity, domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions.

Richard's work focuses on complex corporate transactions and re-organisations with particular emphasis on the private equity sector. He has significant experience advising institutions, management and investee companies on buy-outs, buy-ins, development capital transactions and re-financings as well as exit events, on a domestic and cross border basis.

He is a long standing member of the firm's International Committee.

Experience

His experience includes advising:

  • the founders of Maltese based international web analytics business Hotjar on their c. $180m UK law governed exit to venture backed French/American business Contentsquare (alongside German, Spanish, US and Maltese counsel).
  • Alten, a French listed group and leader in outsourced engineering, R&D and IT, on its acquisition of UK based Methods, a leading IT services consultancy and the acquisition of Radtac from its founders.
  • Gooch & Housego, an AIM listed photonics company with major operations in the UK and US, specialising in Aerospace & Defence, Life Sciences and Industrial sectors, on numerous acquisitions including VITL (life sciences) and Spanoptics (a manufacturer of optical products).
  • shareholders of Lightfoot, a provider of telematics solutions tying engine data and other factors to driver performance, on its sale to European technology investor Volpi Capital.
  • Clarivate a NYSE global leader in provision of trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation on the UK aspects of the divestiture of MarkMonitor™, an industry-leading enterprise-level provider of domain management solutions, to Newfold Digital, supporting Blank Rome in the US.
  • LCM (with Ayache in Paris, Arnold and Porter in the US) on the sale of its brokerage business in France, US and UK to TPICAP.

What others say...

He has provided exceptional advice, ensured my interests are protected whilst ensuring every single transaction reached a successful conclusion. He is very easy to work with, has very high integrity and understands what is and is not important to me when negotiating a deal.

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