Alex is a corporate solicitor specialising in domestic and cross-border M&A, private equity, corporate restructuring, joint ventures, and commercial agreements.
Alex works with clients ranging from startups to multinational corporations and is experienced in advising on a variety of sectors with a particular emphasis on automotive, technology and education. He is also conversant with investing and conducting business in various South Asian jurisdictions.
Alex also assists in dispute resolution and both contentious and non-contentious competition law matters.
Expertise
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity and venture capital
- Joint ventures
- Business reorganisations
- Shareholder agreements
- Commercial agreements
- Dispute resolution
- Competition law
- Collector cars
Experience
Sales & Acquisitions
- Advised on the sale of Anson Limited, an oilfield services company to National Oilwell Varco, an American multinational specialised in providing equipment and components for oil and gas exploration and production, for £88 million.
- Acted for the shareholders of Ansible Motion Limited, a leading provider of advanced simulators to the global automotive market in the sale of the company to AB Dynamics Plc for £31.2 million.
- Acted for the shareholders of a UK-based specialist supplier of audio-visual equipment solutions on the sale of the company to EAV Group GMBH, a German-based international distributor for £14 million.
- Advised Liberata UK Limited, a leading business process services company, on the acquisition of Trustmarque Solutions Limited for £12 million.
- Advised on 8 separate acquisitions of children’s nurseries for private equity-backed Family First Nurseries Group, comprising share sales ranging from £1 million to £25 million to include single-site and dual site-nurseries to group acquisitions with up to ten sites.
- Advised Bell Microsystems Limited, a market-leading technology and IT managed services company, in the acquisition of workforce and shares across India, Slovakia and the US from Amelia Holdings Inc, a US-based business specialising in AI technology.
- Acted for Global Carbon Council, a Qatar-based voluntary carbon offsetting business, on the acquisition of shares in Global Carbon Registry Limited, from Global Environmental Markets Pty Ltd, an Australia-based company involved in the development of bespoke financial technology platforms.
- Advised Semcon AB, a Swedish provider of technology services on the sale of its UK subsidiary Semcon Engineering UK to ASM Technologies Limited, an India-based technology service provider.
Private Equity & Venture Capital
- Advised WealthOS, a UK-headquartered cloud-native wealth management infrastructure platform provider, on the successful closure of multiple seed funding rounds to include various regulatory and compliance matters concerning funding by Sri Lankan investors.
- Acted for a Hong Kong-based private equity fund on the acquisition of a 45% stake in the Ambootia Group one of India’s leading tea producers.
- Advised a UK-based subsidiary of an Australian broadcaster in providing telecommunications infrastructure to expand its UK operations through a private placement of shares to ten additional investors.
- Advised a serial entrepreneur on investments made into various UK-based early-stage startups in the recruitment and technology sectors.
Business Reorganisations
- Advised an international education group on a reorganisation where we assisted a big-four accountancy practice in effecting a revised group structure following the liquidation of certain group companies.
- Acted for a West End-based family-owned jeweller on reorganisation to effect succession planning.
- Advised a property developer on a £3.5 million reorganisation to extract profits tax-efficiently and streamline management.
Commercial Agreements
- Advised the Salisbury Diocesan Board of Education on agency agreements for the refurbishment of schools valued at £39 million.
- Advised a UK-headquartered fintech start-up on intragroup service agreements, software development agreements, and software testing and quality assurance agreements.
- Advised Coca-Cola and its independent franchisee bottlers throughout India on setting up a joint purchasing corporative for the procurement of inputs for aerated drinks.
- Advised on a three-way joint venture for the production and development of anti-ice coatings for the marine industry.
Dispute Resolution
- Represented Royal Bank of Scotland in relation to various investor group claims totalling £4 billion concerning a 2008 rights issue where a consortium of investors claimed that RBS misled them due to alleged inaccuracies in its prospectus concerning its overall financial health at the time of the rights issue.
- Acted for the Bank of America in assessing the extent of the Bank’s involvement in colluding to set the benchmark ISDAfix rate used in the sale of interest rate swaps for trades executed in the UK.
- Acted for a UK-based sportscar manufacturer in relation to various contractual disputes with suppliers and subcontractors.
- Represented an airline owned by the Regional Government of the Azores as the claimant in a contentious dispute. This case arose from client’s financial and operational restructuring, which included terminating an aircraft lease and subsequent legal complications concerning the distribution of financial obligations.
Competition
- Acted for a FTSE listed tile retailer in relation to an audit to highlight any internal anti-competitive practices.
- Acted for ComparetheMarket in relation to an investigation by the CMA on contracts entered into with home insurance providers.
- Represented Apollo Tyres in an investigation into an alleged tyre cartel, following findings of the Director General, Competition Commission of India.
- Represented Maruti Suzuki Limited in a series of investigations conducted by the Competition Commission of India on the supply and distribution of diagnostic tools, accessories and spare parts in the Indian automobile sector.
Other
- Advised on the sale and purchase of collector cars to include all aspects such as due diligence, verifying title, authenticity, taxation, importation and exportation.
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Career
Alex qualified as a solicitor in 2008. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2024, he worked at the following firms:
- Womble Bond Dickinson
- Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
- Moore Barlow