Liam Freeman

Legal Director

About

Liam is a corporate lawyer who has experience in a wide range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, joint ventures and initial and secondary equity issues.

Liam also advises underwriters in relation to the provision of warranty and indemnity insurance in connection with corporate transactions. Liam acts for domestic and international clients and his work spans many sectors, including media, sport and entertainment, technology, software and telecommunications and manufacturing.

Areas of FocusCorporate Media, Sport and Entertainment Technology

Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

EXPERIENCE

Advising Eagle Football Holdings on the acquisition of a majority stake in Olympique Lyonnais Groupe.
Advising AvantiGas ON Ltd on the sale of assets to British Gas Trading Limited in connection with its business of on-grid supply of natural gas to businesses in the United Kingdom.
Advising the individual shareholders on the sale of FloPlast and Cork Plastics, diversified manufacturers and suppliers of plastic rainwater, drainage and plumbing products, to Wienerberger.
Advising Hitachi Rail Limited in relation to its acquisition of Perpetuum Limited, a British rail technology firm that develops digital solutions to improve train reliability and performance.
AdvisingJohn Charles Textor with respect to his GBP80 million investment into Crystal Palace Football Club.
Advising Learning Technologies Group on the sale of the Lorien Engineering Division businesses to NIRAS.
Advising TES Global Limited on its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Orovia Group Limited.
Advising TES Global on its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of The Safeguarding Company.
Advising Supplier Assessment Services, a provider of technology-enabled third party pre-qualification and accreditation services backed by Warburg Pincus, in relation to its acquisition of Builder’s Profile (UK).
Advising TES Global Group Limited, a digital education business, in relation to its acquisition of Edval Education Pty Ltd, an Australian-based firm that specialises in school timetabling software, for an undisclosed sum in December 2019.
Advising Digital Unlimited Group, in relation to its disposal of the entire issued share capital of Creston Plc US Holdings Inc to Next Fifteen Communications Group plc for an initial consideration of approximately USD27.7 million (of which approximately USD6.7 million was satisfied by the issue of shares in Next 15), in October 2019.
Advising TES Global Group Limited, a digital education business, in relation to its acquisition of Educare Learning Limited, a UK-based provider of duty of care and safeguarding training, for an undisclosed sum in August 2019.
Advising Phatisa and the other shareholders of Mauritian-based Meridian Consolidated Investments Limited in relation to their disposal of 85% of Meridian Consolidated Investments Limited to Ma'aden (Saudi Arabia's largest mining company) for an enterprise value of approximately USD140 million in August 2019.
Advising Travelopia, the world's largest collection of specialist travel brands, in relation to its acquisition of Enchanting Travels, a German-headquartered tailor made luxury travel specialist, for an undisclosed sum in June 2019.
Advising Accesso Technology Group plc, an AIM-listed technology solutions provider to the leisure, entertainment and cultural markets, in relation to its placing to raise approximately GBP32 million together with a pre-emptive open offer to raise approximately GBP6 million in May 2020.
Advising Safestyle UK plc, an AIM-listed double-glazing group, in relation to a placing (by way of an accelerated bookbuild) to raise GBP8.5 million in April 2020.
Advising i-nexus Global plc, a UK-based provider of cloud strategy execution software, in relation to its admission to trading on AIM and a placing of new and existing ordinary shares to raise GBP10 million in June 2018.