Clive Garston

Clive specialises in corporate law, particularly equity capital markets and public and private mergers and acquisitions.

He has over 30 years’ experience advising clients across a range of sectors, including healthcare and sport. He has represented both UK and overseas companies on a range of transactions.

In addition, Clive has served as a Director and Chairman of a number of public and private companies and is currently the chairman of Warpaint plc.

Relevant recent experience includes advising:

• Diaceutics plc on its recent successful initial public offering on AIM.
• TLA Worlwide plc on a range of corporate transactions.

Clive is a fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment and chairman of its corporate finance forum. He holds the corporate finance qualification of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. He has previously been a member of the London Council of the Confederation of British Industry

Diaceutics state that “Clive headed up our legal team across this fast paced period. At all stages he provided clear timely advice to myself and CFO and used his own special brand of calm confidence to keep a steady hand on the tiller.” They also said that “He is the epitomy of a leader who orchestrates everyone through milestones without discord… my kind of advisor.”

Also the Chief Executive Officer from Lords Builders Merchants says that “Clive has provided us with the highest standard of service and advice. Clive is extremely responsive in his communication, thorough in the advice he provides and most of all very practical in how he manages a transaction as well as expectations of all parties. Clive was exceptional in how he managed to execute this brief we set him.”.