Paul Airley > Fladgate LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Fladgate LLP
16 GREAT QUEEN STREET
LONDON
WC2B 5DG
England
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Work Department

Corporate

Position

I specialise in equity capital markets transactions, M&A and advisory mandates, acting for clients ranging from founders to financial institutions. I am active in both traditional and novel business sectors, including energy and resources, technology, cannabis, and psychedelics.
I am an experienced corporate and equity capital markets lawyer.

I enjoy advising clients in diverse, challenging and often novel sectors, including mining, oil and gas, renewable energy, technology (including blockchain and cryptocurrencies), financial services, cannabis and psychedelics.

I act for UK and international issuers, founders, investors and financial institutions on a wide range of capital markets and M&A transactions including: LSE Main Market and AIM IPOs (including dual IPOs); secondary financings and M&A transactions for listed issuers; UK financings for overseas issuers; public takeovers, private acquisitions and joint ventures; activist shareholder situations; corporate governance matters; and corporate reorganisations.

After 7 years as a partner in the London office of a major Canadian law firm, I have a particular interest in advising Canadian companies on capital markets and M&A transactions in the UK.

I am consistently ranked in the Legal 500 UK for Equity Capital Markets, Mining & Minerals, and Oil & Gas work.

Career

Trained Osborne Clark, qualified 1997; joined Fladgate as a partner in 2012.

Memberships

Law Society.

Education

Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe; Bristol University, LLB (1993) and LPC (1995)

Lawyer Rankings

London > Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap

Fladgate LLP‘s equity capital markets practice maintains a strong emphasis on international AIM transactions across the oil and gas, mining, healthcare, technology and financial services sectors. Beyond these core focus areas, the team is noted for its presence in emerging sectors such as eSports, cannabis, and psychedelics. Practice head David Robinson is well versed in ECM work and public M&A. Paul Airley also comes highly recommended by clients.