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Tom is a Partner, who leads our Corporate & Private Equity team. 

Tom is a mergers and acquisitions lawyer, specialising in private equity and venture capital, acting for private equity houses and management teams, as well as investee companies. He advises on equity investment, the acquisition and sale of companies and businesses, and refinancing transactions, and has taken on numerous management advisory roles on private equity-backed deals.

Tom acts for a number of private equity houses and is lead partner for WestBridge Capital, who he has advised on 18 management buy outs and several substantial exits.

Tom is identified in the 2024 edition of Chambers, “Tom has great negotiation skills, naturally knowing exactly what to argue and what not to argue” and identified in The Legal 500 as being “solutions-orientated”.

Expertise

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Private equity
  • Venture capital transactions
  • Group restructuring
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Recent work

APEM Group
Advising WestBridge-backed APEM on 6 of their acquisitions, including of Aspect Ecology, NASH Maritme and Macro Works.

WestBridge
Advising the private equity house on 18 of its investments and all exits from its 1st, 2nd and 3rd funds including its:

  • management buyout of international digital commerce agency Tryzens.
  • multi-million-pound management buy-out of Techex, a leading UK cloud and video over IP specialist.
  • £17m investment in Smart Capital Technology, a provider of rapid response IT infrastructure support (Inventory-as-a-Service) to the global IT channel.
  • £9.8m investment as part of a management buy-out of APEM, Europe’s leading independent environmental consultancy business.
  • management buy-out of Eque2, a market-leading provider of business management software to the construction, contracting and house-building industries as part of a £46.5m deal.
  • sale of AJM Healthcare, a supplier of mobility support products to the NHS via a secondary buy-out to Livingbridge.
  • sale of bChannels, a leading global marketing and data services agency specializing in the technology channel, to The Channel Company, backed by US Eagle Tree Capital.

TXO
Advising TXO’s management team on its TowerBrook backed MBO.

Averroes Capital
Averroes Capital on its buy-out of and growth capital investment in Journey Hospitality.

Specialist healthcare businesses
4 multi-million pound sales of specialist healthcare businesses to national providers.

BGF
On its investment in Character.com.

RJD Partners
On its investments in Survey Solutions and Improve International.

GTS Flexible
 On its management buy-out backed by Growth Capital Partners.

Multiple PE-backed businesses
A number of PE backed businesses on multiple bolt acquisitions including:

  • WestBridge backed APEM (Europe’s leading independent environmental consultancy business)
  • MML backed Veezu (UK’s fastest growing taxi and private hire technology platform with more than 8,000+ active driver-partners)
  • Livingbridge backed AJM Healthcare (a supplier of mobility support products to the NHS).

Well-known media company
On a series of investments by several high-profile high net worth and institutional investors to fund the development of national and international television projects.

Languages

  • German (fluent)

 

 

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  • I am immensely grateful to David at Capital Law for his exceptional support during my redundancy process. His expert knowledge in employment law, coupled with a compassionate approach, made a potentially challenging time much more enjoyable. David provided clear, practical advice and was always available to answer my questions, ensuring I felt confident and well-represented throughout. I highly recommend him and Capital Law to anyone in need of dedicated and professional employment law services.

    WP | Managing Director

  • Terrafend is a fast growing, venture capital backed sustainability company. Consequently, many of our transactions are diverse in nature and have tight execution timetables. In Sarah, we found the ideal legal counsel to guide and support our business growth. She has a strong understanding of corporate finance, great attention to detail and an innovative and pragmatic thought process – imperative for early stage businesses who have to ‘get things done’, without compromise and to the highest possible professional standards.

    Benjamin Reid | Chief Executive Officer
    Terrafend

  • Gareth, Mel and all of the team at Capital Law have been fantastic – they provided pragmatic advice and calmly guided us throughout the process.

    Steve Edwards | Founder and CEO
    Silvertel

  • Gareth, Sara & the team at Capital Law have been a huge support for us in getting this deal done. Their advice, knowledge and project management have been invaluable. The team have been a real pleasure to work with and we look forward to working together again soon.

    John Cordrey | Private Equity Principal
    Foresight Group

  • I can’t recommend Capital Law enough if you are selling equity in your business. The team led by Gareth Williams-Davies were thoroughly professional and were able to offer a commercially balanced view on all aspects of the transaction. The breadth of skills within Capital Law allowed Gareth to bring in specialist colleagues when required and I could not have been represented better. Gareth’s calm and experienced tone was a great advantage during some of the trickier negotiations and he was a significant factor in completing the transaction.

    Paul Daly | Founder
    Energy Saving Lighting

  • Duncan is a highly experienced Private Equity and Corporate lawyer with the rare gift of pragmatic commercialism combined with the charm of the human touch and a fine dash of humour. He understands entrepreneurs, business people and investors. His capable & highly responsive team get to the nub of an issue and deliver swift practical results for clients. He is in huge demand and still first on my Speed Dial.

    David Williams | Senior Partner
    Dunedin Capital