Matthew Duggan

Matthew advises on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, fund-raising, and shareholder agreements, supporting private equity funds, venture capital investors, and fast-growing companies across multiple sectors.

• Acted for various European private equity funds and individuals in the sale of a company providing accounting and payroll services in Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine.
• Advises an AIM-listed biotech company on its corporate transactions.
• Long-term adviser to a well-known company in the leisure sector on its corporate affairs.
• Adviser to a company operating a chain of gyms on its fund-raising and corporate structure.
• Long-term adviser to a fast-growing company providing translation services on its corporate affairs.
• Long-term adviser to a business angel syndicate on its various investments in early-stage companies.

Matthew advises telecoms and technology clients on corporate and commercial transactions in the UK, Europe, US, Asia, and Australia, regularly acting for start-ups and fast-growing companies.

• Acted for a Cyprus company on the sale of its shares in a Swedish technology company.
• Acts for an Isle of Man technology start-up raising funds from various investors, including the Isle of Man Department of Enterprise.
• Long-term adviser to a fast-growing technology company on its shareholder structure and on its commercial contracts in the UK and Europe.
• Advises an early-stage company providing easy-to-operate mobile phones and contracts to the elderly and people with disabilities, on its fund-raising rounds.
• Advises a company developing stem cell technology to create human organs for transplant on its fund-raising from EU and UK funds and on its intellectual property licensing transactions.