Experience
Redcliffe's trainer is a UK corporate finance adviser with broad experience in UK equity market regulation. Following a 15-year career in the City advising major European companies, he has been presenting corporate finance courses on takeovers, London listings, disclosure guidance and transparency rules, and the FCA's market abuse and transparency regulation, as well as providing independent corporate finance advice and assistance to clients and professional firms.
After graduating in modern languages from Downing College, Cambridge, he qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse. He then spent three and a half years working at S.G. Warburg advising on a wide range of corporate finance transactions. He joined Paribas in London, where he spent the next fourteen years, becoming a director and head of cross-border corporate finance.
Following this, he spent two years in the London office of Mazars as a partner in charge of international corporate finance. During this period, he gained extensive corporate finance experience and worked with corporate clients from many countries, in particular from the UK and France. He is fluent in French and spent two years working in the head office of Paribas Paris.
He has advised on a wide range of complex UK transactions, both medium-sized and large, including public takeovers, restructurings, privatisations, private acquisitions and sales, listings and equity-linked issues. During the last fifteen years, he has produced and delivered many corporate finance sessions. In particular, specialising in the development of the Takeover Code and takeover tactics and stock market regulation for companies quoted in the UK, including the FCA Listing Rules, the FCA Disclosure and Transparency Rules and the FCA Prospectus Rules.
Previous Deals
He has advised on a wide range of complex transactions, both medium-sized and large. These have included:
- The public takeover bid by Lafarge SA for Blue Circle plc and by Infogrames SA for Gremlin plc
- The restructuring of Eurotunnel plc and SA
- The privatisation of British Telecom
- Private acquisitions and sales, UK FCA listing and equity issues
Training Style
Our FCA disclosure transparency rules specialist draws on his extensive technical knowledge and illustrates subjects with relevant examples from his own experience and other recent transactions. He encourages interactive discussion and welcomes questions from delegates, as well as posing them himself to ensure that the points are understood.
This trainer also presents Redcliffe Training's courses on Advanced Takeover Code and Introduction to The Takeover Code.