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Moore Barlow’s Corporate solicitors act for a variety of SMEs and owner managed businesses. See our recent key deals below.
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Automotive, Transport and Logistics
International logistics business
Deal type: Reorganisation under new holding company on partial exit of majority shareholders.
Deal value: £15million
Date: November 2022
Project Yew
Deal type: Advising on the sale of a provider of automotive technology solutions
Deal value: £5million
Date: July 2021
Yorkshire Exhaust Specialists (Leeds) Ltd
Deal type: Sale to Alliance Automotive Group
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: July 2021
Westend Limited
Deal type: Sale to Alliance Automotive Group
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: June 2021
Project Pine
Deal type: Purchase of the entire issued share capital of four group companies.
Deal value: Circa £1.25 million
Date: March 2021
Project Beech
Deal type: Advising on the sale of a vehicle repair garage
Deal value: £1.3million
Date: November 2020
Jim Barker Motor Factor Limited
Deal type: Sale of company
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: February 2020
FMP Motor Factors Limited
Deal type: Sale of company to Alliance Automotive
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: August 2019
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Glaze Auto Parts Limited
Deal type: Sale of company to Alliance Automotive
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: August 2019
Regal Dive
Deal type: Acquisition of Regal Dive by Natural Travel Collection Limited
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: October 2018
Motorcare Motor Factors Limited
Deal type: Sale of company to Alliance Automotive
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: August 2018
Discount Car Spares Limited
Deal type: Sale of company to Alliance Automotive
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: May 2018
FMS Autoparts
Deal type: Sale of company to Alliance Automotive along with pre-completion corporate reorganisation
Deal value: Undisclosed
Port Invest BV
Deal type: Advising Port Invest BV on its recommended offer for Nature Group plc
Deal value: £4.21 million
Sheldon Barry Posner
Deal type: Advising Lord Posner on his sale of the entire issued share capital of Cricklewood Carriers Cab Company Limited and The London & General Motor Cab Company Limited to Cricklewood Carriers Management Co Ltd
Deal value: Undisclosed
Financial Services
SKS Business Services Ltd
Deal type: Acquisition of the business and assets of DSM CA Limited
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: December 2022
Capital Plans Limited
Deal type: Sale of business and assets of Capital Plans Limited (IFA)
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: October 2022
Project Willow
Deal type: Advising on the sale of a specialist insurance brokerage
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: April 2021
Bailey Group
Deal type: Acquisition of business and assets of Bailey Group and others
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: September 2020
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Peter Hall Limited
Deal type: Acquisition of Peter Hall Limited by Benedect Mackenzie Limited
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: May 2020
Thompson Jones Business Solutions Limited
Deal type: Acquisition by SKS Business Services of Thompson Jones Business Solutions Limited
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: August 2019
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Lamosa Business Services Ltd
Deal type: Acquisition of Lamosa Business Services Ltd by SKS Business Services Ltd
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: February 2019
SKS Business Services Ltd
Deal type: Acquisition of Khans Accountants by SKS Business Services Ltd
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: December 2018
SKS Business Services Ltd
Deal type: Acquisition of Ramon Lee & Partners by SKS Business Services Ltd
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: August 2018
Place Flight
Deal type: Acquisition of Place Flight by SKS Business Services Ltd
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: June 2018
SKS Business Services Ltd
Deal type: Acquisition of Wall & Co by SKS Business Services Ltd
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: June 2018
SKS Business Services Ltd
Deal type: Refinance of SKS Business Services Ltd with Shard Capital Partners
Deal value: £20 million
Date: May 2018
Baker Watkin
Deal type: Acquisition by SKS Business Services of the business and assets of Baker Watkin LLP
Deal value: Undisclosed
Westlake Clark Limited
Deal type: Acquisition by SKS Business Services of Westlake Clark Limited
Deal value: Undisclosed
Healthcare
PHL Group Limited
Deal type: PE investment and acquisition of Partnering Health Ltd
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: September 2022
Ross Brand and Others
Deal type: Sale of healthcare business and fundraising
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: September 2022
PHL Group Limited
Deal type: Acquisition of a Scottish-based company.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: November 2021
Project Sycamore
Deal type: Acting for the buyer in a management buy out of a Care Group
Deal value: £3.8million
Date: March 2021
Osteotec Limited
Deal type: Sale of Osteotec Limited by Venture Equity Partners, a specialised supplier of niche orthopaedic products to the NHS and private healthcare sectors
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: June 2019
Project Cedar
Deal type: Strategic sale of minority stake in fast growing physiotherapy clinic chain to a well-established family office
Deal value: £2.5 million
Date: May 2019
Farehaven Lodge Care Home
Deal type: Sale of the business and assets of Farehaven Lodge Care Home, based in Fareham, to Agincare
Deal value: Undisclosed
Synergy Biologics Limited
Deal type: Advising Synergy Biologics Limited on its buyback of its shares
Deal value: Undisclosed
Industrials and Manufacturing
New Path Fire and Security Limited
Deal type: Acquisition of the entire issued share capital of various companies by New Path Fire and Security Ltd
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: December 2022
Sprint Electric
Deal type: PE investment, buyout of minority.
Deal value: £5 million
Date: December 2022
Aqua Cooling
Deal type: Growth shares and shareholders' agreement.
Deal value: £10 million
Date: December 2022
International manufacturing business
Deal type: Purchase of competitor
Deal value: £1million
Date: November 2022
Pilgrims Risk Management Group Limited
Deal type: Acquisition of shares in joint venture company.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: November 2022
New Path Fire and Security Limited
Deal type: Company refinancing
Deal value: £20million
Date: November 2022
The Alarming Company Limited
Deal type: Management buy-out (MBO)
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: October 2022
Elecon UK Limited
Deal type: Management Buy Out of Elecon UK Limited by management team
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: September 2022
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Private clients
Deal type: Sale of shares on exit
Deal value: £1million
Date: August 2022
Private clients
Deal type: Sale of packaging business
Deal value: £5million
Date: August 2022
Private clients
Deal type: Sale of shareholding
Deal value: £2million
Date: August 2022
Project Cube
Deal type: Purchase of packaging business
Deal value: £2million
Date: August 2022
US manufacturing client
Deal type: Investment in UK
Deal value: £5million
Date: June 2022
Private clients
Deal type: Buyback and sale of shares on retirement
Deal value: £2million
Date: May 2022
UK manufacturing company
Deal type: Purchase of competitor
Deal value: £1million
Date: May 2022
UK manufacturing company
Deal type: Share buyback
Deal value: £2million
Date: April 2022
Aqua Cooling
Deal type: Management buy-in (MBI)
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: April 2022
International manufacturing business
Deal type: Reorganisation and hive up
Deal value: £25million
Date: March 2022
Project Flint
Deal type: Management buy-out of company
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: March 2022
Project Ohio
Deal type: Management buy-out of Limburn Boiler & Heating Holdings Limited
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: February 2022
Private clients
Deal type: Sale of packaging business
Deal value: £45million
Date: January 2022
Eco Mechanical Services Limited
Deal type: Acquisition of company
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: March 2020
Scubair Holdings Limited
Deal type: Equity investment into Scubair by Finstock Capital
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: July 2019
Spinnaker Waste Management Limited
Deal type: Sale of company to Restore plc
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: August 2018
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Venture Engineering
Deal type: Acquisition of entire issued share capital of precision engineering company, Fylde CNC Specialists
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: October 2018
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Brooklyn Supply Chain Solutions Ltd
Deal type: Advising Brooklyn Supply Chain Solutions Ltd on its seed financing
Deal value: Undisclosed
Nick Galea
Deal type: Advising Nick Galea on his sale of the entire issued share capital of Acunetix Limited to Nnetsparker Holdings Limited
Deal value: Undisclosed
Project Bay
Deal type: Reorganisation and de-merger of group companies, to seperate different strands of the business into separate companies going forward
Deal value: £5million
Date: November 2021
Sunbury Holdings Limited
Deal type: Sale of Sunbury Holdings Limited and subsidiary Planer Limited by Geoffrey Planer and family
Deal value: £7 million
Symetrica Limited
Deal type: Fundraising by Symetrica Limited, the global leader in radiation detection and identification, by way of equity investment from existing investors
Deal value: Undisclosed
WA+A Maintenance Limited
Deal type: Acquisition of the entire issued share capital of WA+A Maintenance Limited by Scubair Holdings Limited
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: July 2019
Real Estate
Promethean Lending Limited
Deal type: Business finance, by way of acquisition of a loan.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: November 2022
UK property development company
Deal type: Joint venture
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: November 2022
Hall&Woodhouse Limited
Deal type: Acquisition of Yummy Freehold Limited and associated assets (Wiremill, Surrey)
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: October 2022
Andrew Tinney & Guy Charrison
Deal type: Completing a joint venture.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: July 2022
FGOM Limited
Deal type: Abortive restructuring of large group of companies
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: June 2022
UK property development company
Deal type: Disposal os SPV
Deal value: £10million
Date: April 2022
Private clients
Deal type: Sale of estate agency
Deal value: £1million
Date: April 2022
UK property development company
Deal type: Sale of subsidiary
Deal value: £4million
Date: March 2022
Estate agency
Deal type: Purchase of a lettings agency
Deal value: £1million
Spence Willard Limited
Deal type: Management buy-out (MBO)
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: February 2022
Hall&Woodhouse Limited
Deal type: Acquisition of L Stone Ltd (Royal Lion Hotel, Lyme Regis)
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: February 2022
UK property development company
Deal type: Company merger
Deal value: £100million
Date: January 2022
Project Boxer
Deal type: Joint venture with a European community driven housebuilder in relation to the development of property.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: January 2022
Project Sequoia
Deal type: Advising on a settlement and subsequent reorganisation and demerger of a large property holding group
Deal value: £373million
Date: September 2021
Private clients
Deal type: Acting for minority shareholder in a dispute leading to a restructuring of UKProperty Group, enabling our client to acquire a valuable subsidiary.
Deal value: £70 million
Date: September 2021
Adenobrook Limited
Deal type: Advising Adenobrook Limited on its joint venture relating to the residential development of a site in West London
Deal value: Undisclosed
Capathon Estates Limited
Deal type: Advising Capathon Estates Limited on its share capital reorganisation
Deal value: Undisclosed
Churchill Retirement plc
Deal type: New banking facilities from HSBC Bank plc
Deal value: Undisclosed
DKH Investments Limited
Deal type: Advising DKH Investments Limited in connection with a refinancing by Secure Trust Bank
Deal value: Undisclosed
Gerard Reusing
Deal type: Advising Gerard Reusing on his sale of the entire issued share capital of Reusing Property UK Limited to Saracen House Limited
Deal value: Undisclosed
KOB (The Three Compasses) Limited
Deal type: Advising KOB (The Three Compasses) Limited on its sale of the business assets of the public house, The Three Compasses, to Little Alpine Limited
Deal value: Undisclosed
Simler et al
Deal type: Advising Simler et al on their sale of the entire issued share capital of Althurst Limited
Deal value: Undisclosed
Recruitment
Serocor
Deal type: Debt refinance
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: September 2022
Serocor Group
Deal type: Management buy out of +£100m turnover recruitment group, Serocor Group
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: October 2020
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Retail, Leisure and Hospitality
Private clients
Deal type: Sale of café
Deal value: £0.5million
Date: December 2022
Private clients
Deal type: Sale of LLP and company
Deal value: £3million
Date: December 2022
Project Hake
Deal type: Acquisition of the business and assets of a jewellers.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: October 2022
Project Diamond
Deal type: Disposal of the business and assets of a jewellery franchise business to an internationally renowned jewellery company.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: October 2022
Drink Crafty Limited
Deal type: Acquisition of entire issued share capital.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: August 2022
Hotel and restaurant business
Deal type: Sale of business and assets
Deal value: £4million
Date: August 2022
Garden centre business
Deal type: Sale of garden centres
Deal value: £5million
Date: August 2022
Private clients
Deal type: Sale of jewelry business
Deal value: £1million
Date: June 2022
Emerald Supplies Limited
Deal type: Refinancing in an insolvency.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: May 2022
Stanwell House Hotel
Deal type: Advising the buyers on the purchase of Stanwell House Hotel, based in the New Forest, Hampshire.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: April 2021
Project Redwood
Deal type: Acting for a Group in the industrial sector in relation to the restructuring of a management buy out
Deal value: £3.5million
Date: February 2021
Darwin & Wallace Limited
Deal type: Advising Darwin & Wallace Limited on its debt fundraising and on its open offer
Deal value: Undisclosed
Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT)
Private clients
Deal type: Part disposal
Deal value: £8 million
Date: December 2022
Private clients
Deal type: Reorganisation, and raising VCT investment
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: December 2022
Quostar Solutions
Deal type: Growth shares, shareholders agreement and part acqusition of managed service company.
Deal value: £4 million
Date: December 2022
Private clients
Deal type: Restructuring of a joint venture.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: November 2022
Solace Cyber
Deal type: Growth shares, shareholders agreement and part-acquisition of a cyber company.
Deal value: £500,000
Date: November 2022
Project Apple
Deal type: Acquisition of the entire issued share capital of a telephony business
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: November 2022
Project Leopard
Deal type: Acquisition of the entire issued share capital of a corporate and business phone systems.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: November 2022
Private clients
Deal type: Sale of shares in IT business.
Deal value: £10million
Date: August 2022
Q Associates Limited
Deal type: Sale to US based Logicalis Group.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: August 2022
Project Jupiter
Deal type: Acquisition of certain of the business and assets of a telephony marketing provider.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: August 2022
Spinnakar Limited
Deal type: Sale to US based Wayside Technology Group.
Deal value: £10million
Date: July 2022
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Bedroq Limited
Deal type: Company acquisition.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: July 2022
Excalibur
Deal type: Debt refinance
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: June 2022
Project Nightjar
Deal type: Acquisition of the entire issued share capital of a overseas business specialising in cloud phone systems, IP telephony, hosted phone systems.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: June 2022
4Com Group
Deal type: Buy-out of Midshire Telecom – its first acquisition in its 23-year history
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: June 2022
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Deal type: Acquisition of the entire issued share capital of a business specialising in Smart IP communications.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: June 2022
DTN Europe
Deal type: Intragroup reorganisation
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: May 2022
Film production company
Deal type: Share buyback
Deal value: £1million
Date: May 2022
4Com Group
Deal type: Acquisition of entire issued share capital.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: May 2022
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Deal type: Acquisition of the entire issued share capital of a telecoms service provider.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: April 2022
Tetcom Network Services Limited
Deal type: Sale of telecoms business.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: April 2022
Southern Communications
Deal type: Acquisition of the entire issued share capital of cloud technology specialist X-on.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: March 2022
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Tailor Made Technologies Limited
Deal type: Restructuring of a joint venture.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: March 2022
Propel Tech Limited
Deal type: Acquisition of Acclaim Safety Systems Limited
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: February 2022
Coeo Limited
Deal type: Restructuring of a joint venture.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: February 2022
Web and app design businesss
Deal type: Sale of company shares
Deal value: £5million
Date: January 2022
Project Linear
Deal type: Acquisition of the entire issued share capital of a business IT and telephony service provider.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: December 2021
Project Cobble
Deal type: Acquisition of the entire issued share capital of an end-to-end business communication solutions in respect of IT and telecoms.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: December 2021
Private clients
Deal type: Disposal of UK holding company, and is UK and US subsidiaries to a US based corporation.
Deal value: £15 million
Date: December 2021
Private clients
Deal type: Disposal to a US purchaser of entire share capital of UK business operating worldwide in the technology sector.
Deal value: £15 million
Date: December 2021
Smartlogic
Deal type: Advising on the sale of Smartlogic Holdings, to US based MarkLogic Corporation.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: November 2021
Project Acer
Deal type: Advising on the sale of 40% of a retail technology services company in 2018 and the subsequent sale of the remaining 60% in 2021
Deal value: circa £35 million
Date: November 2021
Bedroq Limited
Deal type: Advising Bedroq Limited on the purchase of technology and security specialist, Tellemachus Limited.
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: June 2021
Project Chestnut
Deal type: Assisted a serial entrepreneur leading a buy-in management buyout of an IT business, with significant private equity investment.
Deal value: £50million
Date: June 2021
Project Elm
Deal type: Advising the managers of an IT managed services company on taking further investment from a private equity house
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: April 2021
Project Ash
Deal type: Sale of the entire issued share capital of the company
Deal value: Circa £1.9 million
Date: March 2021
EIS Fundraising by Blackfinch
Deal type: Venture capital investment
Deal value: £1.8million
Date: March 2021
ThirdSpace Ltd
Deal type: Advising the managers of ThirdSpace on the sale of the company to TiG, a leading IT managed services provider
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: March 2021
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Bytes Technology Group
Deal type: Supporting Bytes Technology Group in preparing for listing on the London Stock Exchange and advising management on the listing.
Deal value: £780million
Date: December 2020
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Transparity Solutions
Deal type: Advising market leading Microsoft cloud specialist, Transparity, on its investment from Beech Tree Private Equity
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: September 2020
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Q Associates Limited
Deal type: Acquisition of Apex Group Services Limited
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: June 2020
Exactive
Deal type: Advising on the sale of Exactive Holdings, to Gamma Telecom Holdings
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: February 2020
Aura Technology
Deal type: Advising Aura Technology Group on its acquisition of Amicus ITS
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: November 2019
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Crave Interactive Limited
Deal type: Advising Crave Interative, a market leading interactive ordering solutions provider, on its investment from True Corporation, one of Asia’s largest digital and media conglomerates
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: April 2019
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Project Birch
Deal type: MBI of service-led cyber security company
Deal value: £9million
Date: November 2019
Peach Technologies
Deal type: Advising Peach Technologies on the acquisition of Taylor Made Computer Solutions
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: August 2018
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Project Aspen
Deal type: Advising a listed acquirer on its acquisition of an IT software business
Deal value: £35million
Date: September 2017
Project Holly
Deal type: Advising on the sale of a travel technology services company
Deal value: £8million
Date: August 2017
Blue Chip Data Systems
Deal type: Advising the sellers of Blue Chip Data Systems on their sale to GCI Managed Services
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: July 2017
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Inframon
Deal type: Advising on the sale of Inframon Limited to Ensono Limited
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: June 2017
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Modrus
Deal type: Advising on the sale of Modrus to Nasstar
Deal value: £13million
Date: December 2016
Trustmarque
Deal type: Advising the sellers of Trustmarque Solutions on the sale of the company to Capita
Deal value: £57million
Date: June 2016
Liberata UK Ltd
Deal type: Advising the sellers of Liberata UK Ltd on the sale of the company to Outsourcing Inc.
Deal value: £43million
Date: June 2016
Liberata UK Ltd
Deal type: Advising Liberata on its acquisition of Trustmarque Solutions
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: September 2014
Bytes Technology Group
Deal type: Advising Bytes Technology Group on its sale of Bytes Document Solutions to Xeretec
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: May 2014
Liberata UK Ltd
Deal type: Advising Liberata on its acquisition of Trinity Expert Systems
Deal value: Undisclosed
Date: December 2013
Axell Wireless
Deal type: Advising the sellers of Axell Wireless on the sale of the company to Cobham
Deal value: £85million
Date: July 2013
FOLAN
Deal type: Advising French data & telecom infrastructure specialist, FOLAN (Groupe R&D SAS), on its purchase of the entire issued share capital of Mainframe Communications Limited
Deal value: Undisclosed
B.P.G. (Stamford) Limited
Deal type: Acquisition of the business and assets of B.P.G. (Stamford) Limited relating to the business of the magazines published under the titles “Fieldsports” and “Scottish Sporting Magazine”
Deal value: Undisclosed
Large acquisitive telecommunications company
Deal type: Series of strategic acquisitions
Deal value: Undisclosed
Project Fir
Deal type: Advising the sellers on the collapse of an earnout under an earlier transaction at full consideration
Deal value: £12million
Virtuosos Holding Ltd
Deal type: Advising Virtuosos Holding Ltd on its share capital reorganisation
Deal value: Undisclosed
With our corporate law experts based across our offices in London, Southampton, Richmond, Woking, Lymington and Guildford, we’re ideally placed to offer specialist advice on a local, national and international level.
