Wallis is an associate within our corporate and commercial teams, assisting with the formation, buying and selling of e-gaming and other tech-based businesses for a wide range of clients.
Expertise
- Board and shareholders meetings minutes
- Completion arrangements
- Company incorporation and partnership formation
- Company House filings
- Company searches and filings
- Contract review and drafting
- Disclosure
- Due diligence
- Maintaining statutory books and issuing chare certificates
- Online data rooms
- Post-completion support
- Simple sales, purchasers and joint ventures
- Transaction and document management
- Preparing for/attending tribunal hearings
Experience
- Assisted a supervising solicitor in acting as legal counsel to an e-gaming games and platform provider during its pre-investment funding rounds prior to launching and operating in the UK, EU, Asia and US.
- Assisted in advising an e-gaming business, its Asia-based owners and an escrow agent regarding the formation of an escrow arrangement to fund the operation of the licensed e-gaming group.
- Assisted a telecommunications company and outsourcing service provider on a long-term basis, including the drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements with one of the world’s largest online poker companies.
- Assisted in advising an international business and its shareholders in relation to a potential unfair prejudice claim and employment matters arising in relation to settling with a departing shareholder founder and employee.
- Assisted in advising an online payments advisory and consultancy company on its formation, structuring and operations during its start-up and operations phases.
- Advising an Isle of Man regulated Pension Scheme in relation to its internal restructuring.
- Advising the restructured Pension scheme on its acquisition of an Isle of Man company holding mixed-use commercial property, including curing title issues on the target property.
- Assisted in the review and drafting of all commercial contracts relating to corporate law and dispute resolution in a shareholder dispute involving a departing founder who was also an employee and shareholder. Provided advice relating to potential unfair prejudice issues arising from the potential options for removing the departing founder, shareholder and employee and recovering the departing party’s shares.
- Carried out DSAR preparation of over 1,000 documents within the space of three weeks. Assisted in advising on matters including shareholder disputes, company law, commercial agreements, employment, UK immigration law, and data protection matters in relation to a UK-based manufacturing company and its shareholders, in relation to a departing chief executive officer.
- Assisted in a detailed commercial contract review to assist our client in the purchase of a Japan-based e-gaming business.
- Provided assistance in advising a high-net-worth individual on the establishment of an Isle of Man holding company and its subsidiary, on the preparation and negotiation of a funding escrow agreement. Reviewed and assisted in drafting the commercial agreements between the client and e-gaming service providers.
- Assisted in providing technological corporate and commercial advice to a well-known games developer, in relation to its cross-border plans to enter into software development sheltering agreements with three other parties.
- Worked as part of a larger team in advising a US-based client on their investment into a gaming company with head office in South Africa its and subsidiaries in the Isle of Man, Malta and other locations. Controlled the disclosure section of the matter and the associated data room via Safelinkhub. Provided assistance in drafting the complex corporate documents and associated agreements to protect the client’s initial investment and ongoing interests.
- Assisted in providing corporate and commercial legal advice to the senior management team of a manufacturing company and family members regarding their relocation from the US. Provided tailored and strategic advice to enable the processing of the applications around the busy schedules of senior company executives.
- Assisted in providing corporate law and dispute resolution advice in relation to a very complicated and adverse shareholder dispute involving one of the founders who was also an employee and a shareholder.
- Assisted in providing advice to a large educational trust client in successfully defending a claim from a former employee regarding disability discrimination and unfair dismissal.
- Assisted in providing corporate law and dispute resolution advice in relation to a very complicated and adverse shareholder dispute involving one of the founders who was also an employee and a shareholder and providing detailed advice regarding the potential unfair prejudice issues.
- Assisted in providing advice to a green tech engineering business on all aspects in relation to its acceptance of investment from a private equity investment company.
- Assisted in acting for a pharmaceutical client in successfully defending claims of unfair prejudice and unfair dismissal brought by a former founder.
- Assisted in advising a large Korea-based technology company in successfully defending claims from former employees who were bringing claims of unfair dismissal and disability, sex and pregnancy discrimination.
Career
Wallis joined Keystone in 2022.