Adrian West

Head of Corporate M&A and ECM

Adrian is Head of the Corporate M&A and ECM Group and Head of the Retail Sector Group. His practice is focussed on equity capital markets and M&A and he is renowned as a leading adviser on IPOs.

Equity capital markets

Adrian is routinely engaged as either underwriter counsel or issuer counsel on Main Market and AIM IPOs and secondary fundraisings. Adrian has also advised management teams or significant shareholders on a number of the highest profile IPOs in recent years.

Adrian regularly advises clients on the Market Abuse Regulations and compliance with the UKLA Listing Rules and AIM Rules.

Adrian is ranked as a "Leading Individual" in equity capital markets by the Legal 500. He is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers for his experience advising on AIM transactions. According to Chambers "He is a strong and technical lawyer with a commercial approach."

M&A general corporate advisory work

Adrian has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border M&A, public takeovers, demergers and joint ventures. He also provides general corporate and strategic advice.

FinnCap Group (renamed Cavendish Financial) on its all share merger with Cenkos Securities
Brewin Dolphin Holdings on its £1.6 billion takeover by RBC Wealth Management (Jersey) Holdings Limited (an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada)
Benchmark Holdings on is dual listing on AIM and Euronext Growth Oslo
Foster + Partners on its strategic partnership with Hennick & Company of Canada
Pets at Home on the sale of their specialist hospitals division to Linnaeus
Mishcon de Reya on its proposed main market IPO
The Hut Group on the acquisition of Claremont Ingredients and Acheson and Acheson
The founders/significant shareholders on the IPOs of THG (Hut Group), Oxford Nanopore, Deliveroo and LBG Media
TruFin on its AIM IPO and demerger of Distribution Finance Capital
Distribution Finance Capital on its AIM IPO
Hostelworld on its Main Market IPO
Berenberg as nomad and sole broker on the AIM IPO of LendInvest

Blancco Technology Group on its £175 million takeover by White Bidco Limited (an entity indirectly owned by the Francisco Partners Funds)
Liberum as nomad and sole broker on the AIM IPO of Hotel Chocolat Group
finnCap on the acquisition of Cavendish Corporate Finance and the IPO of the enlarged group on AIM
Fundraisings for numerous Main Market and AIM listed companies including: Benchmark Holdings, Serabi Gold, Distribution Finance Capital, TruFin, Hostelworld, Hotel Chocolat, eServGlobal, Jersey Oil and Gas, Capital and Regional and Staffline
Advising on tender offers and returns of capital including by CLS Holdings, Kenmare Resources and TruFin
Advising sponsors including Investec, Peel Hunt and Liberum on class one and related party transactions
Pinewood Group on its takeover by Picture Holdco a company backed by funds advised by Aermont
The Trustees of the British Steel Pension Scheme on the separation of the Scheme from Tata Steel
eServGlobal on its tripartite joint venture with MasterCard and Belgacom in relation to the HomeSend mobile payments business
The management teams on the IPOs of Pets at Home, Ascential, Exova, Spire Healthcare, British Car Auctions and Revolution Bars

Adrian can be trusted implicitly. He is highly sensible and pragmatic.

Adrian has seen it all, and so he can come up with solutions and be pragmatic

He is a strong and technical lawyer with a commercial approach.

Adrian West

Equity capital markets

M&A general corporate advisory work

Selected deals

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