Partner
Philip is a partner in the Corporate team and regularly advises corporate clients, private equity firms, founders, management teams and investors on all aspects of acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and investment transactions (including private equity-backed buyouts, growth capital / venture capital investments and exits).
Philip supports clients on strategically important transactions across a range of sectors but has a particular focus on transactions in the financial services sector, having supported clients on a wide range of investment and M&A transactions involving both regulated and non-regulated financial services firms throughout his career.
Philip has significant practical experience from secondments at AnaCap, a financial services focused private equity fund, and CDC Group plc, the UK’s development finance institution.
Philip is independently recognised as a “Leading Partner” in The Legal 500, with clients describing him as “an outstanding, commercially astute young partner” and "a rising star: bright, thorough, responsive and calm”.
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
Experience
- Advising Future PLC on its acquisition of digital fashion and lifestyle publisher SheerLuxe Limited.
- Advising Pollen Street Capital on the acquisition of a majority stake in professional services firm Leonard Curtis.
- Advising the executive management team of RED Driving School on their MBO backed by Westbrooke Alternative Asset Managers.
- Advising Allica Bank on its strategic acquisition of Kriya, an award-winning SME lending fintech.
- Advising the UK shareholders of global boutique fitness brand, Barry’s, on the investment by US private equity firm Princeton Equity Group.
- Advising Lloyds Banking Group on its investments in fintechs Coadjute and Aveni.
- Advising financial services group Fidelius Group on the investment by private equity-backed Söderberg & Partners.
- Advising Newcastle Building Society on its merger with Manchester Building Society.
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Related sectors
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Corporate
Mergers and acquisitions UK lawyers
Private equity
Venture capital lawyers - start-ups, investors, high growth, entrepreneurs
Corporate governance lawyers - listed and unlisted companies
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