Neil is a corporate, banking and finance lawyer. He qualified in 1996 while working in-house at Northern Rock plc before moving into private practice at national and regional law firms including partner roles at Taylor & Emmet LLP and Lupton Fawcett LLP. Neil’s practice covers the full spectrum of middle market and lower M&A transactions and all types of debt and equity funding.
Neil provides corporate law advice to partnerships, SMEs, OMBs, family businesses, corporates (local, national and international) and their stakeholders, start-ups and scale ups, private equity and venture capital funds, angel investors, banks, ABLs, corporate and individual lenders and borrowers, MBO/MBI teams and property investors/developers. Across all sectors.
A highly personable lawyer, Neil is a great listener, commercially focused and solutions orientated.
Specialisms:
M&A:
● Acquisitions and disposals including cross border
- MBO/MBIs
- Cash-outs
- Private equity and venture capital deals
- Divestments
- Bid processes
- Franchise transfers
- Pre-packs and other purchases out of insolvency
- Shareholder/partnership buyouts and retirements
Corporate:
- Reorganisations and restructurings
- Demergers and spin outs including share capital reduction, MVL & s110 IA scheme
- Succession planning and exit strategy
- Strategic reviews and legal audits
- Shareholder/partnership agreements and cross options
- Joint ventures and collaborations
- Shareholder and partnership disputes
- Share buybacks and capital reductions
- Business structures and legal entities
- Sole trader/partnership incorporations
- Share options and employee incentive schemes
- Bespoke articles/share rights for new ventures
- Corporate governance and director duties
- Corporate insolvency and business recovery/turnaround
- Company/partnership formation, dissolution and wind up
Banking & finance:
- Private equity and venture capital funding
- Angel investments
- Corporate banking facilities including cross border transactions
- Structured, acquisition, working capital and leveraged finance
- Real estate acquisition and development finance
- Asset & receivables finance
- Hire, lease & hire purchase facilities
- Purchase/assignment of debts
- Business and asset refinancing
- Facility and loan agreements including LMA documentation
- Security documentation – primary, collateral, third party and security trustee
- Guarantees and indemnities
- Security release documentation
- Corporate bonds and loan notes
- Security reviews and due diligence
- Legal opinions
- Inter-creditor, subordination and priority agreements
