DLA Piper‘s corporate team, led by Simon Rae, advises on M&A, private equity issues, joint ventures, and international restructurings across the energy, technology, consumer goods, and financial services industries. Rae, who is noted for his strength handling PE transactions, is regularly supported by Andrew Wardrop and Megan Green, who both handle a variety of public and private M&A.
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Key clients
- Private Equity/Institutional
- Ancala Partners
- Bio Capital Limited
- Energy Ventures
- Lloyds Banking Group
- NatWest
- Proprium Capital
- Scottish Equity Partners
- SCP Group
- Vespa Capital
- Voyager Interests
- Yamaha Motor Ventures
- CORPORATES
- BrewDog PLC
- Clearsky Logic
- Collectors Inc
- Compass Group
- CSIgnum
- Danaher Corporation
- Element Materials Technology Group
Work highlights
Advising Ancala Partners/Noventa Energy on the acquisition of Dalmarnock Energy Centre, Stirling Energy Centre and Aqualibrium Energy Centre from Scottish Water (and related financing arrangements).
Advising Energy Ventures and the other sellers on the sale of Geoteric to a syndicate of investors.
Advising Vespa Capital/Lumi Technologies on the acquisition of Assembly Voting by Lumi Technologies (and the related refinancing).
Lawyers
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Practice head
Simon Rae
Other key lawyers
Andrew Wardrop; Megan Green