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Charles Russell Speechlys LLP Offices

5 FLEET PLACE
LONDON
EC4M 7RD
England
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Tom Shaw

Work Department
Corporate.
Position
Tom specialises in corporate and commercial law and has over 25 years’ experience dealing with advisory and transactional work for public and private businesses, including mergers, acquisitions, sales, joint ventures, reorganisations and securities issues. His experience and project management expertise allows him to deliver advice and solutions to clients on a range of transactions and projects. Experience: advising issuers and corporate finance advisers on IPOs and secondary issues, including overseas companies coming to the London market, particularly AIM, and has advised on a number of takeovers of AIM companies; a solid track record of advising on complex and less run-of-the-mill projects, such as the reorganisation of PA Consulting (involving the demerger of its venture capital business by scheme of arrangement, s110 reconstruction, and reductions and returns of capital) and advising the trustees in the reorganisation of the A to Z map business; advising Ahlstrom Corporation, a global leader in non-wovens and speciality papers and quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, in its €22.5m acquisition of Shandong Puri Filter & Paper Products Limited in China from Purico Group, a project that spanned over four years.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Family
- Employment > Immigration: personal
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Private client > Court of protection
- Private client > Family: mediation
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Residential property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- Real estate > Planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Employment > Senior executives
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition