• Solicitor, qualified in England & Wales

Technology sector:

• Symphony Technology Group - on its £99.6m recommended bid for Kewill plc, the trade and logistics software provider.
• SuccessFactors - on the European aspects of its $3.4bn sale to SAP.
• Kleiner Perkins and Institutional Venture Partners - on several rounds of investment in Shazam Entertainment Limited, the smartphone-based music identification service, and on the sale of Shazam to Apple, Inc..
• NetScout Systems, Inc. - on the acquisition of Psytechnics, a leading provider of performance management technology.
• Scottish Equity Partners and management - on the £39.4m sale of Control Circle, a provider of complex managed hosting and cloud-based services, to Alternative Networks Plc.
• The founders of Sabio - on a management buyout that saw Lyceum Capital acquire a majority stake in the contact centre specialist in a deal valued at £50m.
• Imperial Innovations and the other shareholders of Permasense Limited, a provider of nonintrusive corrosion monitoring technologies - on the sale of Permasense to Emerson Electric.
• Oracle Systems Corporation - on the acquisition of Advanced Visual Technologies Limited.
• Barloworld - on the sale of its Barloworld Logistics supply chain software division to LLamasoft, Inc.
• Tiger Global Management - on its investment in Alex & Alexa, the online retailer of luxury brands for children.
• CGI - on the sale of its rFrame regulatory reporting product suite to Wolters Kluwer.
• The shareholders of Q-go - on its sale to RightNow Technologies, Inc.
• NGEN Partners - as lead investor in a US$12m investment in nlyte Software Limited.

FinTech sector:

• Northern Trust - on a joint venture with SC Ventures (the innovation and ventures unit of Standard Chartered) to launch Zodia Custody, an institutional-grade custody solution for cryptocurrencies.    
• A significant client - on its potential membership of the Diem Association (the association founded by Facebook to launch the Libra digital currency).
• The Web 3.0 Technologies Foundation - on the launch of the Polkadot network, one of the most high profile crypto projects in the world, being led by Gavin Wood who was one of the founders of Ethereum.
• The VAKT consortium of energy companies (BP, Statoil and Shell), energy trading companies (Koch, Gunvor and Mercuria) and banks (ABN Amro, ING and Societe Generale) - on the formation of a first of its kind block chain-enabled post-trade management platform.
• Project Tracr, a ground-breaking blockchain platform being developed by De Beers, which provides a first-of-its-kind digital register for diamonds to ensure authenticity, traceability and accountability across the diamond value chain.
• A global investment bank - in relation to a financial technology platform that leverages R3's distributed ledger technology, Corda, to provide liquidity management and collateral management solutions for institutional clients in the global securities financing markets.
• Five investments banks - on the formation of a consortium to develop a global trade finance platform based on the IBM blockchain platform.
• Revenio Capital - on its role as lead investor in a £35m Series A financing round in Fly Now Pay Later, a London-based payment provider for the travel sector.
• ValueAct Capital - on its £1.2bn consortium bid with CVC Capital Partners for Misys Plc, the banking software provider.
• IRIS Software Group - on the acquisition of Cascade Human Resources Limited, a leading provider of HR and payroll solutions.
• NYSE Technologies - on the acquisition of Metabit, a leading Tokyo based provider of high performance market access products throughout Japan and Asia.

The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom™ (2025 Edition) - FinTech