Michael Pearce
Partner
Bristol
Michael is a corporate and finance lawyer based in our Bristol office.
About Michael
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BiografĂa
Michael is a corporate and finance lawyer based in our Bristol office. Michael advises public and private companies and public sector bodies on a broad range of corporate transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, buy-outs and equity fundraisings.
Michael has wide transactional experience advising banks and other financial institutions and borrowers on a variety of finance matters, including development and acquisition finance and structured finance arrangements
Michael's experience with DAC Beachcroft (and legacy firm Beachcroft) includes advising:
Corporate
- the UK arm of the deVere Group on its strategic partnership with Fidelius Group;
- the shareholders of Breathe Energy on its disposal to Imtech (a joint venture between EDF and Dalkia);
- Mobeus Private Equity on the management buyout of Kinneir Dufort;
- St James's Place on numerous acquisitions including the acquisition of its cornerstone international wealth management business in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai and the acquisition of the Rowan Dartington Group;
- Fidelity International on its £20m divestment of Mutual Fund Technologies Limited to Australian listed company, Bravura Solutions;
- Southampton NHS Foundation Trust on the disposal of the Complete Fertility Centre to Virtus Health;
- the shareholders of The Serviced Apartment Company on its disposal to Oaktree Capital;
- Ultrahaptics on a number of fundraising rounds, including on its oversubscribed £35m Series C fundraising;
- Ultrahaptics on its acquisition of Silicon Valley based Leap Motion; and
- the management of financial services group CapQuest on the £158m sale of the group to Arrow Global.
Finance
- Boost & Co on numerous growth capital loans;
- Backhouse Housing on its £50m investment fund with Cheyne Capital;
- Deeley Freed Estates on the establishment of a £100m property fund;
- Deeley Freed Estates on its £8.5m financing with Development Securities;
- Santander on numerous investment property finance transactions;
- Puma Investment Management on numerous development finance transactions;
- a listed online gaming company on its £175m acquisition finance facility;
- a leading NHS Foundation Trust on the structuring of a substantial term loan facilities;
- The Serviced Apartment Company on its general corporate facilities and the development finance facility for its major Cannon Street aparthotel; and
- Surrey County Council on the substantial loans advanced by it and Woking Borough Council to the joint venture vehicle established between them and a private developer to fund the redevelopment of parts of Woking Town Centre.
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Servicios financieros
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Infraestructuras y proyectos
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Inmobiliario
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Banca, Reestructuraciones e Insolvencias
Office Location
Bristol
- DAC Beachcroft LLP
- Portwall Place, Portwall Lane
- Bristol, BS1 6NA
+44 (0) 117 918 2000
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