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Travers Smith LLP

10 SNOW HILL, LONDON, EC1A 2AL, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7295 3000
Fax:
Fax 020 7295 3500
DX:
79 LONDON/CITY EC1
Web:
www.traverssmith.com
Email:
Paris, London

Neal Watson

Tel:
Work +44 20 7295 3000
Email:
Travers Smith LLP

Work Department

Corporate.

Position

Partner specialising in company law, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and secondary fund raisings, advising publicly quoted companies and financial advisers on English securities and disclosure laws and regulations, the Main Market and AIM rules and the Takeover Code, and on boardroom and shareholder issues and general matters of corporate governance. Recent work has included advising: Pinewood Shepperton on its Main Market flotation; the sellers on the £865m disposal of Scarborough Property Group; the University of Surrey on the sale of Surrey Satellite Technology; Fulcrum Group on its $295m merger with the funds services division of Butterfield Bank; the nomad and broker on the AIM flotation of Cambria Automobiles; and Acertec on its restructuring and refinancing .

Career

Trained Travers Smith 1991-93; qualified 1993; assistant solicitor 1993-2001; partner 2001.

Member

Law Society.

Education

Corfe Hills School, Wimborne, Dorset; University College London (1990 LLB Hons); College of Law, Guildhall University (1991 Law Society finals).

Leisure

Sport, family and friends.

Practice Areas

Corporate finance; M&A; Flotations (small and mid-cap)

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