Marriott Harrison LLP

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Corporate MandA

Ben Devons

Ben Devons

Ben is a partner who is highly experienced in advising on both domestic and international corporate transactions, particularly on M&A and fundraisings. He regularly acts for individuals and private and public institutions, including private equity and venture capital houses. Ben has aide range of sector experience, including: technology; commercial property; film and television; energy; retail; food and drink; and manufacturing. He has acted on transactions ranging from £100k to £100m in value.
Katerina Heal

Katerina Heal

Partner and head of Tax at Marriott Harrison, Katerina's corporate tax practice covers all aspects of UK and international taxation in areas that include UK and cross-border M&A, venture capital, private equity and general corporate transactions, business start-ups and group restructurings and reorganisations. Katerina also advises on venture capital companies and individual investors on UK tax reliefs, such as EIS, SEIS, business investment disposal relief, investor’s relief as well as on various employment tax matters such as share schemes and IR35. Her experience also focuses on providing tax advice to UK companies and multinational groups on their UK and international establishment and operations.
David Bettis

David Bettis

A partner in the Corporate team at Marriott Harrison, David's practice has a particular focus on M&A, venture capital and private equity transactions. He regularly advise clients on sales, acquisitions and both early and late stage investments in a variety of sectors. David also provides general corporate advice to clients and works closely with shareholders and directors to assist them with the collaboration, reorganisation and structuring matters that companies and their stakeholders often encounter throughout a company’s life cycle.

Deals

  • Advised Chiltern Capital on the management buyout of International Decorative Surfaces (IDS), a surface materials specialist manufactured distributor.
  • Acted for the selling shareholders of Hamilton Fraser to a leading PE-backed UK insurance intermediary.
  • Acted for Chiltern Capital on its sale of Doby Verrolec.
  • Advised the shareholders of Yayyay Group on its sale to Queens Park Equity.
  • Advised Pendo.io.Inc on its acquisition of Mind the Product.
  • Advised Gavin Ucko and Family on the sale of the Happy Puzzle Company to Smart Toys and Games.
  • Acted for the shareholders of DMJ Recruitment on its sale.
  • Acted for Credit Laser Holdings Limited on its acquisition of Money Dashboard Limited.
  • Acted for StorIQ on its acquisition of Cegid.
  • Acted for Shutterstock on its acquisition of Splash News.
  • Acted for Kronos Systems Limited on its acquisition of Quorbit Ltd.
  • Acted for Firebird Capital on its acquisition of Team Factors.
  • Advised Sophos, a global leader in next generation cyber security, on its acquisition of SOC.OS Cyber Security Ltd, a spinout of BAE systems Digital Intelligence.
  • Advised the shareholders of Halian Holdings on its sale to Twenty20 Capital.
  • Advised DTA Group Management Team / Mark Scott on its sale to Exaudio Capital.
  • Advised OSF Global Services Inc on its acquisition of Oegen Ltd/.
  • Advised the shareholders of Cellesce Limited on its sale to Molecular Devices LLC.
  • Advising the shareholders of Hamilton Fraser on its sale.
  • Advising the shareholders of Ubiquity Press Limited on its acquisition by Walter de Gruyter.
  • Advised the Cybit Group Limited on its acquisition of Technique Limited.

Team Services

Corporate is at the heart of Marriott Harrison. It has market leading practices in M&A and venture capital and is supported by a full spectrum multi-disciplinary team with connected specialist expertise.

The M&A team is uniquely positioned to service its clients on the acquisition and sale of venture backed companies and private equity financed growth deals.

The team is best known for its role as counsel to progressive private corporate and leading investors as they build and evolve UK, regional and international businesses through strategic transactions.

Client testimonials

CEO of Ubiquity

"We are very grateful to the team at Marriott Harrison who provided expert and pragmatic advice to navigate us through the process on a tight timetable."

CEO of Yay

"David and the team at Marriott Harrison are nothing short of simply on it!"

James Brooke, Founder and CEO at Amplience

"Over the last ten years during the phenomenal growth of the business we have always turned to Marriott Harrison for our legal needs across a range of business matters."

James Gordon, CEO of Audiotonix

"The Audiotonix group and MH go back a long way, in fact to the original buy-out of its Digico business way back in 2007. Since that time, we have received a consistently high level of service and care from MH. Jonathan and his colleagues provide us with sound professional and commercial advice in a straight-forward way which works very well for us."

Investment Manager, Chiltern Capital LLP

"This is another in a long line of transactions we have worked on together, with Jonathan and his team doing a great job coordinating a complicated multi-tiered process. Highly professional and very responsive,  they played a crucial part in getting this transaction completed."