Experience

Pannone Corporate LLP

• United Kingdom
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Corporate Partner

  • Feb 2014 - Present

  Recent Corporate transactions completed (and publishable) include:M&A• acting for Spanish hazardous waste operator Tradebe Group on its acquisitions of Labwaste and Avanti Environmental Group.• acting for French listed Visiativ SA on its acquisitions of CAD design distributors Innova Systems and CCSL and R&D tax consultancy businesses, Jumpstart (acquired from Business Growth Fund), MSC Associates and IFTC.• acting for Dutch tool hire conglomerate, Boels Rental on its UK acquisitions of Already Hire, Artisan Hire and SAS• acting for oil collection business Slicker Recycling on its acquisitions of J Vant, RE:Group and Hydrodec.• Acting for shareholders of pensions administration business Talbot and Muir on its £26m sale to Curtis Banks Group• Acting on sale of Hifi etailer AV distribution to listed Gear4Music (Holdings) plcPrivate Equity• acting for YFM Equity Partners on the MBO of The Protein Works, with a £6m investment from its Buyout Fund I.• acting for YFM on its £5.6m VCT investment into lead generation platform, Unbiased. • acting for Marlborough Fund Managers on its acquisition of Irish fund manager TechInvest and its investment into IFA Continuum Wealth, IFA platform Hubwise and IFA network IBOSS. Acting for Marlborough on sale of Hubwise to SS&C.• acting for Maven on their new investment (and follow on rounds) into My Digital Accounts, Membr, Mirrorweb, Trak Rap, Ski Lifts, Hiring Hub, Esafe (and exit to Smoothwall), Esales Hub, Flynotes, Blueberry Therapeutics.• acting for Perwyn private equity on its backing of the MBO of Freshcut Foods• acting for the management team of Bertram Nursery on their secondary MBO, backed by Apiary Capital.• acting for management, Mercia and Maven on sale of Mojo Mortgages to RVU, part of Zoopla Property Group• acting for management and Marlborough on sale of asset management business IBOSS to Aim listed Kingswood



Pannone

• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Associate, Corporate Finance

  • May 2012 - Feb 2014

  Recent transactional experience includes:• Taking a lead role in acting for the shareholders of Stobbarts Limited on the sale to NYSE listed Jacobs Engineering Group Inc, the world's largest provider of professional technical services.• Taking a lead role in acting for Tradebe Group on its joint venture with French stock exchange listed Suez Environnement, in respect of their respective clinical waste businesses.• Taking a lead role in acting for the vendors and management on the £13 million MBO of WEMS International backed by private equity investors WHEB Partners and Hermes GPE• Taking a lead role in acting for hazardous waste group, Tradebe, in its acquisition of clinical waste business, Ecowaste Southwest Limited. This was a forced divestment by the vendor, SRCL, following a ruling by the competition committee• Acting for Manchester Science Parks Limited on the disposal of a majority stake to property investment company, Bruntwood• Acting for the shareholders of football licencing apparel business, Source Lab, on the sale of a majority stake to JD Sports Plc

• Associate, Corporate Finance

  • May 2010 - May 2012

  Transactional experience includes:• Advising national retailer GO Outdoors in respect of a £28m investment from private equity house 3i. This deal was awarded Deal of the Month in April 2011 by Insider magazine and gives the platform for the client to continue its impressive expansion drive, with 10 new store openings planned each year until 2015. (http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/yorkshire/51684-insiders-april-deal-month-named/index.html) • Advising hazardous waste operator Tradebe on the acquisition of leading solvent waste handling firm SRM from HeidelbergCement.(http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/north-west/58426-tradebe-moves-lancashire-rival/index.html)• Advising Yearsley Group in respect of its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Ice Pak Seafood, a cold storage facilities provider. • Acting for the vendors and management team on the £30m management buy-out of Air Energi Group Ltd, the international recruitment business specialising in the oil and gas industry. Zeus Private Equity provided equity funding of £10m alongside management. This was shortlisted for Deal of the Year at the 2009 North West Insider Dealmakers Awards.• Acting for Hasgrove Plc on its placing and admission to the AIM market.• Acting for NYSE listed, Advance America, Cash Advance Centers Inc, on its buy and build strategy of pay day loan businesses as a new entrant to the UK market.• Acting for Bailey Capital Limited on the acquisition of the nationwide car parts and car accessories retailer Motor World.• Acting for Broca Plc on its demerger from AIM listed 2ergo Group Plc and its subsequent listing on AIM.• Acting for Thompson & Capper, a subsidiary of Irish conglomerate DCC plc, on its acquisition of Dutch business, Numard Pharmaceuticals B.V.• Acting for the management team of Parasol Ltd, the market leading employment services company, on the £24m MBO led by Inflexion Private Equity.

• Solicitor

  • Sep 2004 - May 2010

  Corporate department