Specialist team:
Corporate
Experience:
Tom specialises in corporate and commercial law and deals with advisory and transactional work for public and private businesses including mergers, acquisitions and securities issues. He is head of the quoted companies group within our corporate practice and leads our Indian practice group.
Particular work includes advising on IPOs and secondary share issues on AIM, often to provide finance for acquisitions, and advising on private company/business acquisitions and disposals. He is a member of the Legal Committee of the Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA).
Recent transactions include:
- £45m recommended takeover of Solitaire plc by Vincent Tchenguiz’s Consensus Business Group;
- £80m demerger by PA Consulting of its venture capital business by scheme of arrangement and s.110 reconstruction;
- reverse takeover of AIM-listed Falkand Gold and Minerals Limited;
- acquisition of a 29.9% stake in fully listed Marchpole Holdings plc;
- pre-IPO funding rounds for Intelligent Energy Holdings plc raising £40m in aggregate.
Tom joined Speechly Bircham in 1992, becoming a partner in 1995. He completed his training at Cripps Harries Hall and was admitted as a solicitor in 1987. Tom obtained his law degree at Reading University in 1983.