Nick Pearey

"Strategic and determined." - Legal 500

Partner, Corporate Finance
London, UK

EXPERTISE

Nick specialises in private and public M&A and other corporate transactional work, such as joint ventures and group reorganisations, across a range of sectors with a particular focus on the Financial Services and Leisure / Retail sectors.

Experience

Advising Lloyds Banking Group plc on various acquisitions such as its GBP 1.9 billion acquisition of MBNA from Bank of America, disposals such as the sale of the Halifax Child Trust Fund business to Forester and Fin Tech investments such as those in Caura and Yoti.
Advising Marwyn Acquisition Company II Limited, a Main Market listed SPAC, on its proposed reverse takeover of SIPP provider, InvestAcc Group, and its related GBP 30 million placing and subscription of new shares.
Advising wealth management platform provider, FNZ Group, on certain strategic international acquisitions including its acquisition of The Hokus Platform and the disposal of its Luxembourg based fund platform, IFSA, to ODDO.
Advising Close Brothers plc on its integration of asset finance provider, Corporate Asset Solutions.
Advising Sanne Group plc on its GBP 1.5 billion takeover by the Apex Group.
Advising Experian plc on M&A projects across a range of its divisions including the acquisition of a strategic stake in Reward and the subsequent sale of Reward to Rezolve.
Advising Asda Group on transactions and projects including the sale of its sourcing business in Turkey to PDS Limited.
Advising wholesale specialist insurance broking firm Miller Insurance Services on its sale.
Advising Egmont subsidiary, Nordisk Games, on its acquisition of Until Dawn developer, Supermassive Group.
Advising Miniclip Group on mobile games acquisitions including the purchase of RPG game, Knighthood and acquisition of LessMore.
Advising Entain plc on various transactions including its GBP 4 billion takeover of Ladbrokes Coral Group plc. Nick and team were highly commended and runner-up at the Lawyer Corporate Team of the Year Awards for the Ladbrokes deal. Innovative aspects of that transaction were also highly commended at the FT's Innovative Lawyer Awards.