Jeffrey Elway
London
Partner, Corporate
T+44 20 7759 6517
Email JeffreyAdd Jeffrey to my contactsProfessionalLawrence Graham LLP, Partner 1994 to date
Berwin Leighton Paisner, Assistant Solicitor 1990-1994
Herbert Smith, Assistant Solicitor 1985-1990
Trained at Speechly Bircham 1983-1985
ExpertiseCorporate finance (flotations and secondary issues), public company takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, advising quoted companies on their obligations to the UK Listing Authority and the London Stock Exchange, general company and commercial law.
Experience
- Acted for Cenkos Securities (as Nomad & placing agent) on the £15 million placing of ordinary shares for AIM-quoted Brady plc
- Acted for Clipper Windpower Plc on its £139.5 million recommended cash takeover/acquisition by United Technologies Corporation (by way of a scheme of arrangement)
- Acted for Virtue Fusion Limited, a leading developer and licensor of online Bingo products, and its shareholders on the sale of the Virtue Fusion business to AIM-quoted, Playtech Ltd for £29 million, together with a one year earn-out of up to a further £7 million
- Acted for iNTERTAIN Group on its £65 million acquisition of 60 'Walkabout' bars, 'Jongleurs' comedy clubs and 'Old Orleans' restaurants from the joint administrators of the Regent Inns group
- Acted for FiveTen Group, the private recruitment group, on its separate acquisitions of Greythorn Holdings Limited, Ashsale Limited (Marks Sattin), Laurence Simons International Recruitment partnership business, EMR Search & Selection Limited and Antal International Russia Limited
- Acted for Accsys Technologies plc on its secondary listing on Euronext Amsterdam and associated €61.5 million Offering
- Acted for Entertainment Rights plc on its US$305 million acquisition of Classic Media Holdings, Inc., its related £71 million Placing & Open Offer and new £138 million loan facilities with Bank of Scotland
- Acted for Arbuthnot Securities on the £69.5 million AIM flotation of Matchtech Group plc
Acted for Regent Inns plc on the £26 million acquisition of Spirit Managed (Old Orleans) Limited
- Acted for Fibernet Group plc on the £50 million recommended takeover by GC Acquisitions Limited
- Acted for Noble & Co on the £25 million placing for, and takeover by, The Clapham House Group plc of Urban Dining plc
- Acted for Entertainment Rights plc, on its acquisition of Tell-Tale Productions Limited and Tweenies Limited
- Acted for Regent Inns plc, on its £19 million equity fundraising (by means of a Firm Placing and Placing & Open Offer)
- Acted for Scottish & Newcastle plc, a listed company on the beer and wine distribution agreements entered into with Spirit as part of the £2.51 billion disposal of its Retail Pubs Estate to Spirit
- Acted for Regent Inns plc on the aborted sale of 17 unbranded trading outlets to Lionheart Inns/Porter Black (Holdings) Limited
- Acted for substantial (27%) shareholders in Pura Plc on the recommended takeover of Pura Pic by Archer Daniels midland International Ltd
- Acted for Arbhuthnot Securities and subsequently Daniel Stewart & Co (each as Nomad) on the 'reverse' acquisition by GVC Holdings plc of the Turkish language website business of Sportingbet plc and GVC's re-admissino to AIM
- Acted for Golden Prospect Precious Metals Limited on the £18.6 million Placing of new ordinary shares and Bonus issue of subscription shares
- Acted for Shore Capital on the AIM flotation of Soverign Mines of Agrica plc and related Placing of ordinary shares and warrants