Nick acts for a wide range of clients across the UK in a variety of sectors, his clients are often founders or owner / managers of SME’s.  The vast majority of Nick’s practice is advising on a variety of corporate transactions predominately company sales, disposal and exits but also acquisitions, buy and build strategies, management buy outs, mergers and demergers.  Nick’s practice often includes an international dimension and Nick has closed transactions involving buyers in Italy, Germany, USA, Malaysia, Ireland, China, New Zealand amongst other.  Nick also acts on sales to Employee Ownership Trusts.

Nick is known for bringing energy, drive and focus to issues.  Often Nick’s clients are referred to him by accountants or corporate finance advisers who value the way in which Nick works with all parties to a transaction, to ensure closing is reached as efficiently as possible.   Nick has a reputation for finding a way to ensure transactions are closed.

Major transactions where Nick has advised include acting:

• for management sellers on the sale of Suneeker to the US based Lionheart / and Italy based Orienta Capital Partners
• on the sale of the Sempre Group to the listed PLC acquirer, Oxford Metrics Plc
• on the sale of Futuremost to Elliotts Builders Merchants
• on the sale of Extreme Exhibitions to the Claverley Group
• on the sale of Message Direct to LDC
• on the sale of Parvalux Electric Motors to the Swiss buyer maxonmotor
• acting as Lead Adviser to the Hong Kong based Challenge Group on the sale of their global business (UK, Ireland, South Africa, Hong Kong, China, Australia and Malaysia) to the Italian buyer Megadyne
• on the sale by Robert Braithwaite CBE DL of certain of his shares in Sunseeker to the Dalian Wanda Group
• on the sale by Robert Braithwaite CBE DL of certain of his shares in Sunseeker to FL Partners