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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.
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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
- Marine/shipping/trade
- 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
- Cash
- 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
- Green economy