Collyer Bristow LLP

Corporate and Commercial, Private Equity

Partner

Ragavan is a Partner in our Corporate & commercial team with two decades’ experience of Company Law matters. He focuses on M&A and Private Equity, and chairs Collyer Bristow’s Private Equity Audience Group.

He acts for family offices, private companies, individual directors and shareholders.

Ragavan advises clients who are looking to buy or sell a company or business, raise the finance for such acquisition, or protect their majority or minority investment into a company or business. He also advises on general Corporate Governance and Commercial Law matters.

As well as advising on mergers and acquisitions and private equity matters, he also advises on insolvency turnaround and shareholder disputes.

He listens to what his clients want to achieve, and works back from that objective to put in place simple and effective solutions.

His clients range across a number of sectors including family offices, manufacturing, renewable energy, media, food, advisory and commercial property.

Deal Examples

Advising Ibrahim Ibrahim, the former owner of Portland Design Associates Limited, with regards to the sale of the company to Perkins+Will, a global architectural and design firm which employs 1,800 professionals worldwide.

Portland Design was founded in 1987, and has offices in London, Dubai and Istanbul. It is an award-winning design consultancy with a client portfolio including St Pancras International, Diageo, British Land, Nestle, TfL, Heathrow, CNN and TDIC.

Ibrahim Ibrahim (Managing Director) commented: 

“Having worked hard to grow the business of Portland Design Associates over a number of years, I was delighted with the support that Ragavan and the team at Collyer Bristow provided in guiding me through the sale process. Their very meticulous step by step approach helped me understand the key issues, this was very valuable as I had not been through this type of process before.

“It was particularly useful to have advisors who had experience dealing with the expectations and demands of a US buyer, and its legal representatives. It was a testament to the team’s ability to make things run smoothly that we were able to complete this deal within the demanding two week timetable that had been set.”

The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree. University College London (LLB).

Farrer & Co, Kimbells LLP (now part of Freeths), Collyer Bristow since 2007.