Will Nash

General Corporate

• Acted for an Oxfordshire-based hi-tech engineering business on the corporate demerger of its property and trading interests and on securing a £10m growth capital investment from the Business Growth Fund.
• Acted for a UK biotech developing synthetic vaccines for infectious diseases on its Series A fundraising with a Singaporean venture capital investor and related investment rounds raising over $20m.
• Acted for a UK derivatives trading fintech on its exit from its incubating private equity partner.
• Acted for a UK data engineering fintech business on its $28m equity fundraising with three US and UK venture capital investors.
• Acted for a London-based fintech providing tech-driven curated content on a number of investor fundraisings and share incentive arrangements.
• Advised the UK and European family offices of an ultra-high-net-worth investor on several UK corporate and real estate acquisitions, investments and disposals.
• Acting on M&A and other corporate transactions for a number of leading UK specialist and social care operators.
• Advised on the founder shareholder agreements and related corporate matters for Equitbl, an Isle of Man tech start-up developing Web3, blockchain and NFT technologies to create the next generation brand, fan and consumer experience.

Corporate Real Estate

• Acted for a UK asset manager on the £25m corporate acquisition of a Central London commercial property for a Danish ultra-high-net-worth investor.
• Acted for a large Singaporean real estate developer on its acquisition and disposal of several London commercial real estate assets through UK and offshore SPV structures (value of £30m–£60m).
• Advised a UK super-prime residential developer on establishing offshore structures, backed by a club of UK and offshore ultra-high-net-worth investors, to acquire and redevelop London super prime properties.
• Advising a high-net-worth investor in relation to a holding structure for a co-investment in a European hotel.
• Acting for an ultra-high-net-worth family investor on the establishment of a multi-jurisdictional holding structure to invest in pan-European hotels and commercial real estate assets.
• Acted for a large US investor on the share sale to a leading European care homes operator of the UK operator of a portfolio of 28 care homes.

• Acting for a KSA family on its corporate acquisition of a UK office and retail park.
• Acting on the corporate acquisition of a ME super-yacht marina design consultancy.
• Acting for a KSA family on its corporate acquisition of a UK office and retail park.
• Acting for a Qatari UHNW family on the establishment of a tax-efficient multi-jurisdictional holding structure to invest in pan-European hotels and commercial real estate assets.
• Acting for a Middle East UHNW family on the restructuring of its equity investment in a London riverside real estate development project.
• Advised a UK super-prime residential developer on establishing tax-efficient offshore fund and JV structures backed by mainly MENA UHNW investors, to acquire, redevelop and sell London super-prime residential properties (in the £5 – £50m value range) and related acquisition and development debt financings (typically Sharia-compliant).
• Acting on the c.£50m equity investment in an Egyptian port development infrastructure project.
• Acting for members of a MENA royal family on the sale of 3 London super-prime residential properties through offshore corporate vehicles.
• Acting for the family office of a Qatari UHNW on the sale of an apartment in One Hyde Park, London via an offshore corporate vehicle.