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Hugh Maule
Work Department
Corporate.
Position
Partner
Career
Trained Lawrence Graham LLP; qualified 1991; secondment to Credit Suisse as corporate recovery officer 1992-94; partner in charge of trainees Lawrence Graham LLP 2000-06; partnership board 2005-06; head of business and finance 2006; managing partner 2008-2014; group leader, corporate finance, tax, funds, regulatory and private capital 2014; consultant editor ‘Practitioners Guide to the AIM Rules’ (City & Financial); consultant editor ‘World Stock Exchanges’ (Globe Business Publishing); Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co, partner, 2014.
Languages
French, German, Spanish (all conversational).
Memberships
Law Society, The Justinians (Secretary 2013).
Education
Merchiston Castle School; Robinson College, Cambridge (1987 MA); Guildford Law School (1989).
Leisure
Fitness, keen rugby follower, governor of Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
Noted for its significant international footprint, the corporate practice at Gowling WLG
fields a cross-disciplinary team of ‘responsive’ lawyers that sit across the life sciences, real estate, healthcare, energy, and advanced engineering sectors. The team is led by and co-head of the firm’s India group, Sunil Kakkad, and the head of the London M&A and private equity team Gareth Baker, a specialist in corporate energy and infrastructure transactions who is described as ‘results driven, pragmatic and a shrewd negotiator.’ The ‘excellent’ Neil Hendron is praised for his ‘practical and pragmatic’ advice in high-value private company M&A transactions – particularly in the healthcare and life sciences industries. European PE head Ian Piggin regularly advises biotech companies, life sciences investors and mid-market private equity firms. Other key lawyers include Hugh Maule and Jeffrey Elway.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Environment
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Water
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Health and safety
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Real estate > Planning
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport > Rail
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Real estate > Social housing: finance
- Industry focus > TMT
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport