Richard McGlasham

Richard’s relevant experience includes advising:

PRIVATE EQUITY 

• August Equity on:
  • the buy-outs of Superbia Group, VetPartners, British Assessment Bureau and Hallmarq Veterinary Imaging;
  • the sale of Amtivo Group to Charterhouse Capital Partners;
  • the sale of Pet Cremation Services to VetPartners; and
  • numerous domestic and international bolt-on acquisitions.
• Duke Street on the sale of Great Rail Journeys to Vitruvian Partners.
• Keensight Capital on its combination of ACTICO and Axe Finance.
• Macquarie Capital Principal Finance on its GBP 170m funding package for Certek, the global compliance services business.
  
  • its GBP 170m funding package for Certek, the global compliance services business; and
  • its funding package for Essar Group's acquisition of SGN Retail.
• Sun European Partners on:
  • the sale of Fresh-Pak to The Compleat Food Group;
  • the buy-out of WesCom Signal and Rescue from The Jordan Company;
  • the buy-out of Fletchers Solicitors;
  • the buy-out of MegaGroup; and
  • numerous domestic and international portfolio company transactions and reorganisations;
• MidEuropa on its majority investment in MBL Group.
• LDC on:
  
  • the buy-outs of Kerv Group, REAL Digital and Acora;
  • its minority investment in Sedex; and
  • numerous portfolio company transactions.
• Highlander Partners on the sale of Fuerst Day Lawson to Archer-Daniels-Midland.
• Charterhouse Capital Partners backed Amtivo Group on its international buy-and-build programme including the acquisitions of Certification Europe, InfoSaas, ACM, QAICL, Dovre Sertifisering, Ascentor, Secure Business Computing Solutions, Orion Registrar, Advantage International Registrar, First4Safety, EQA, UK Food Certification, American System Registrar,  Advanced Certification, CMA Quality International, EUCI, BQAI and Obiettivo Qualità.
• Livingbridge on the buy-out of Jungle Creations.
• Fremman Capital on the buy-out of Kids Planet Nurseries.
• HIG Realty Partners on equity arrangements related to the acquisition of Hotel Ullensvang (Norway) and La Plaza (Switzerland), as well as various portfolio recapitalization transactions.
• The management teams of: 
  • Inspired Pet Nutrition (owner of the Wagg and Harringtons pet food brands) on the secondary buy-out by CapVest;
  • Sharps Bedrooms on the secondary buy-out by Epiris;
  • Paladone Products on the secondary buy-out by IVEST Consumer Partners; and
  • GCX on the buy-out by 3i Infrastructure PLC.

CONSUMER GOODS, FOOD AND RETAIL

• Marks and Spencer PLC in relation to its investment in The Sports Edit.
• BrewDog PLC in relation to an investment by TSG Consumer Partners and on numerous subsequent transactions and corporate matters.
• Strategic Value Partners on the restructuring of the Aromair Group (formerly Jeyes Group) and the disposal of its UK cleaning brands business to Henkel and its manufacturing business to Easy Cleaning Solutions.
• Nisa Retail in relation to its takeover by the Co-op for GBP143 million by way of scheme of arrangement involving over 1,100 shareholders.