Nick Purnell

Profil complet

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.

Expérience

• 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