Experience
Leading this introductory session is a UK corporate finance adviser with broad experience in UK equity market regulation. Following a career in the City advising major European companies, he has been presenting corporate finance training courses on takeovers, London listings and other UK market regulations for over a decade. He also provides independent corporate finance advice and assistance to clients and professional firms.
After graduating in modern languages from Downing College, Cambridge, this expert qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse.
From here, he spent three and a half years working at S. G. Warburg, where he advised on a wide range of corporate finance transactions before joining Paribas in London. He spent the next fourteen years becoming 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.
Whilst in the city, he gained extensive corporate finance experience, working with corporate clients from many countries, in particular the UK and France. Fluent in French, he 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 and equity-linked issues.
Over the last decade, this expert has produced and delivered many corporate finance sessions and specialises in the development of the Takeover Code and tactics, including stock market regulation for companies quoted in the UK, including the Listing Rules, the Disclosure and Transparency Rules and the Prospectus Rules.
Previous Deals
Our trainer has advised on a wide range of complex transactions, both medium 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, and the privatisation of British Telecom, as well as private acquisitions and sales, UK listing and equity issues.
Training Style
Sessions draw on his extensive technical knowledge, illustrating subjects with relevant examples from his own experience and other recent transactions.
The trainer encourages interactive discussion, welcoming questions from delegates and posing them himself to ensure points have been fully understood.
This expert also presents the following courses: Advanced Takeover Code; Introduction to the FCA Listing, Disclosure and Transparency and Prospectus Rules; and, as in-house only, Public to Private Takeovers; Secondary Equity Offerings.