Fox Williams LLP

Corporate

Partner

Richie advises UK and international companies and financial institutions on a broad range of corporate matters including public and private mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, equity capital markets, and corporate governance.

He advises clients in a variety of industry sectors with a focus on technology, financial services, FinTech and natural resources and has particular expertise in helping international clients enter the UK market to seek funding or make investments and acquisitions as part of their growth strategy.

Richie is recommended as a leading individual in the latest editions of Chambers and the Legal 500.

He is a long-time director of the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce and regular attendee at International Bar Association events.

Articled Blake Cassels & Graydon, Calgary 1995-96; qualified Alberta 1996; Ashurst Morris Crisp 1997-2001 (admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales 1998); McCarthy Tétrault 2001; partner 2004; partner Fox Williams LLP 2007. Publications include: ‘On Par: The Takeover Panel’s review is designed to level the playing field for London-listed mining companies’ in ‘Mining Journal’ December 2010; ‘Takeover Panel’s review encouraging for AIM companies but still work to be done’ in ‘Dealmonitor’ September 2010; ‘How to prepare for a London IPO in 2010’ in ‘International Resource Journal’ January 2010; ‘Getting your IPO right in 2010’ in ‘Director on Finance Online’ 23 November 2009; ‘All that glisters – London’s AIM: Some Canadians think again’ in ‘FTSE Global Markets’ June 2009; ‘Is the AIM market still a growth platform for natural resources companies?’ in ‘International Resource Journal’ May 2009; ‘What does the future hold for AIM: Evolution or Extinction?’ in ‘Dealmonitor’ April 2009.

French.

Law Society of England and Wales; Law Society of Alberta; Association of International Petroleum Negotiators; Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce (also a director and chair of SME forum); Quoted Companies Alliance Corporate Governance Experts Committee.