Anna McGill

Anna advises on mergers and acquisitions across a wide range of sectors, supporting clients on complex deal execution and business planning.

• Advised on the sale of a commercial and apprenticeship training provider to a venture capital-backed management team.
• Advised on the management buyout of HLA Services Group Limited.
• Acted on the purchase of a large boutique hotel business for the Apartment Group.
• Guided the management team of Explain Market Research Limited through its management buyout and subsequent business planning.
• Advised on the purchase of public houses and holiday accommodation for Inn Hospitality Grout Ltd.
• Advised on the acquisition, and subsequent sale, of Mark Toney & Company Limited.
• Acted for the seller of DP Fasteners and the sellers of KJ Fasteners to The Industrial Mandate Limited.
• Advised Old Mutual Wealth and Intrinsic Financial Services on the acquisition of financial adviser network, Caerus.

Anna acts for a wide range of clients in restructuring and insolvency and group reorganisations.

• Advised on a large reorganisation and subsequent demerger of a multi-million-pound family business.
• Acted for a large holiday company on the reorganisation of its portfolio companies to a more tax-efficient structure with fewer companies in the group.
• Provided advice on a large restructuring of several linked asset-backed finance investments.
• Advised on the restructure of several smaller companies prior to the implementation of EMI schemes.
• Advised Veolia Water on the post-acquisition reorganisation of group companies’ assets from Thames Water to integrate the acquired assets into the wider group.

Anna advises startups and established clients on fundraisings throughout the investment cycle, including startup investment and equity investment.

• Advised IoTech Systems Limited on its Seed, Series A and Series B fundraising, including on receipt of funds from Northstar Ventures and Scottish Enterprise.
• Advised Atom Bank plc on its first four fundraisings prior to and post-authorisation.
• Advised Arc Trinova Limited (trading as Arcinova) on an investment by BGF.
• Advised Troo Cost on the second-round investment from Mercia.
• Advising clients in relation to funding from Future Fund during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Advised OpSec Security on the PIPE transaction with Investcorp Technologies.

Anna drafts and negotiates shareholder and investment agreements, together with other constitutional documents, to set out ownership rights, decision-making powers, and exit arrangements.

• Advised a large property management group on its shareholder agreements for both the holding company and several partly owned subsidiaries.
• Advised the outgoing shareholder in relation to ongoing governance following a partial management buy-out resulting in multiple minority shareholders.
• Prepared the shareholders’ agreement governing ongoing relationships between parties following the joint acquisition of a hospitality business.
• Advised the shareholders of a hospitality business following receipt of funding by a minority shareholder.
• Advised the shareholders of a manufacturing business on their shareholders’ agreement and articles of association, in particular with regard to exit planning.

Anna advises companies in the manufacturing sector on exit planning, reorganisations and M&A transactions.

• Advised the shareholders on the sale of Tiger Filtration to Xebec.
• Acted for a shareholder on the sale of his shares in a uniform manufacturer to the remaining shareholders.
• Advising the shareholders of an international manufacturer of workwear on its constitution including ownership rights, decision-making powers, and exit arrangements for each of the individual and corporate shareholders.
• Working with the directors of a company specialising in CO2 purification systems on its medium to long-term exit plans.
• Advised on the sale of two separate fastening manufacturers.

Anna advises hospitality companies on M&A and shareholder agreements.

• Acted on the acquisition of an ice-cream manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer.
• Advised the corporate structuring and investment terms on the partial sale of Mark Toney & Company Limited.
• Acted on the acquisition of Tyne Bank Brewery out of administration.
• Advised on the acquisition of a large hotel by The Apartment Group.
• Provided advice to the sole shareholder in a company operating several cafés in the Northeast of England with regard to exit planning.