Florian is a corporate lawyer with experience acting for companies on international and domestic mergers, acquisitions, disposals, funding rounds and joint ventures; and for issuers and banks on IPOs and secondary fund-raisings.
Florian has also worked for in-house legal departments through secondments at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs in London, and Airbus Group in Paris.
Expertise
Florian advises on private equity M&A, acting on multi-jurisdictional acquisitions and disposals across defence, aerospace, marine, technology, and cybersecurity sectors, guiding clients through high-value, complex cross-border transactions.
Experience
Acted for mid-market US private equity firm J.F. Lehman & Company on numerous multi-jurisdictional transactions, both acquiring and selling companies in the defence, aerospace and marine sector.
Acted for FTSE 100 company Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation on the £3bn takeover by its majority shareholders.
Acted for STERIS Corporation on its $1.9bn takeover of Synergy Health plc.
Advised on corporate matters, including international acquisition issues for a global provider of AI-based edge video analytics, IoT technologies, and cybersecurity, in an acquisition of a global provider of video analytics technology.
Advised on corporate matters, including international acquisition issues for the acquisition of the technology of Sequeestor Limited, a cross-border acquisition by a NASDAQ company of the intellectual property rights of a UK-based global provider of video analytics technology.
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Recognition
Recognised in The Legal 500 2023 for Corporate and Commercial: M&A Smaller Deals up to £50M
Florian qualified as a solicitor in 2011. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2018, he worked at the following firms:
