Nick is a corporate lawyer with over 20 years of experience. He carries out domestic and international corporate, M&A, joint ventures, fund raising/investment transactions and large scale outsourcing and commercial work.
Nick is a corporate lawyer with over 20 years of experience. He carries out domestic and international corporate, M&A, joint ventures, fund raising/investment transactions and large scale outsourcing and commercial work.
Nick advises across a range of sectors but has particular expertise in the marine and shipping sector and the cash/ATM/payment systems sector.
Experience
Transport and logistics (including marine/ports and aviation/airports)
Marine/shipping/trade
Advising owners on the $1.6bn financing of 5 ice class LNG carriers for use on the Yamal LNG project
Advising Oaktree on the acquisition of ship manager OSM
Advising off shore services company Deep Ocean on restructuring
Advising P&O on the acquisition of port services business in the Ukraine
Advising Sinochem Energy on certain English law aspects of its proposed $2bn HK listing
Advising Seaco on container leasing transactions
Aviation
Advising airlines on GDS and commercial projects (Singapore, Kenya, LOT, SAS)
Advising airports on corporate, commercial and technology matters
Logistics
Advising BOC on the outsource of its industrial gases transportation operation
Advising Exel/DHL/Deutsche Post on warehouse outsourcing transactions
Cash/ATM/payment services
Cash
Expertise on BoE NCS rules, VAT on cash services, FCA critical outsource functions, liability for cash, cash insurance and trust structuring arrangements
Advising G4S on major cash centre outsourcing transactions with Lloyds, Santander, Nationwide, Clydesdale, Danske Bank, Allied Irish Bank
Advising G4S on bullion outsource transaction with Deutsche Bank
Advising G4S on FX outsource transaction with MoneyCorp
ATM
Expertise on liability undertakings, duress, title transfer
Advising Cennox on the acquisition of Diebold Nixdorf's UK business
Advising RFCL on a strategic investment in it by Brinks
Payment services
Expertise on MiFIDII, AIFMD, AML directives
Advising Choice Money on regulatory matters including in relation to new international payment service product launch
Advising Sonect on TPR
Other key sectors
Green economy
Advising on a range of projects (from multiple battery tech projects to a food waste/animal feed generation project)
Gaming
Advising gaming development and gaming tech companies on game distribution and M&A
Technology
From data centres, to semi conductor multinational to various transportation tech clients
Hotels
M&A and JV work (acting for investors, brokers and operators). Recent transaction for the £120m sale of hotel in Copenhagen