Rosenblatt’s Corporate team thrives on challenge. Whether we’re hitting the deadline on a crucial deal or meeting the demands of day-to-day business, we guarantee our clients far more than technical expertise.
Maintaining a consistent focus on the matter in hand – and on our client’s objectives – we take a dynamic approach, complementing our legal knowledge with sharp commercial insight.
A wealth of experience across diverse sectors informs our close collaboration with institutions, large and small companies (both public and private), start-ups and individual entrepreneurs.
Each of our project teams is under the personal leadership of a Rosenblatt partner, and the advice we offer is authoritative, lucid and practical. Identifying ourselves closely with our clients’ business, we aim to further their cause and even open the way to new possibilities – no matter how complex the issue.
We don’t see a transaction in isolation. Each project we undertake contributes to building and strengthening the working relationship with our client. Our practical, commercially-geared thinking applies to our fee structures too.
The City of London is our base, but on a global level our clients can draw on the resources of Rosenblatt’s network of trusted associates across throughout the world.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Rosenblatt’s Corporate team advises on all aspects of the acquisition and disposal of companies and businesses, and for both private and public companies. Backed by an impressive track record in M&A, and a close eye for detail, we offer clients valuable, commercially-focused support in handling the challenges of a deal.
Equity Capital Markets
We advise issuers, investors, sponsors, nominated advisers and brokers on equity capital transactions, including pre-IPO fundraisings, flotations and primary/secondary equity offerings on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market and AIM market. We also advise on regulatory obligations, public-to-private transactions and other City Code related matters.
Private Equity
Rosenblatt’s Corporate team has substantial experience of acting for private equity and venture capital houses, and a particular expertise in acting for sellers and management teams, on a broad range of private equity and venture capital transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, investments, management buy-outs and management buy-ins.
Corporate advisory
We advise private and public companies and other business entities on all aspects of company law, including: articles of association and other constitutional issues, directors’ duties and liabilities, company meetings, shareholder rights and shareholder agreements, share issues and buy-backs, schemes of arrangements and reorganisations.
Joint ventures
We advise on all types of arrangements for joint ventures, whether these take the form of an entity such as a joint venture company, or of a collaboration agreement or strategic alliance. Issues associated with the chosen structure can include: funding and other contributions to the joint venture; how to protect minority partners in the joint venture; commercial arrangements in connection with the joint venture; IP and IT rights; real estate; employment; and tax.
Other advisory services
In collaboration with other specialist teams at Rosenblatt, we advise clients on such matters as: establishing a business; trading and expanding, including financing via banks or via other routes; commercial agreements; IT and IP rights; real estate; employment; tax, and disputes amongst shareholders or with third parties.
Non-contentious insolvency and restructuring
We advise on all aspects of structuring and implementing corporate and business restructurings, including group-reorganisations, turnaround strategies, contingency planning, distressed M&A and insolvency workouts. Our clients include all types of stakeholders, advisers and other parties-in-interest across capital structures, including companies, directors, sponsors, funds, banks, bondholders, agents, insolvency practitioners and creditors. Our substantial experience includes acting on the full spectrum of complex domestic and cross-border restructuring, business advisory and insolvency matters.
Recent transactions undertaken by Rosenblatt’s Corporate team
Merger & Acquisitions
Clients we have recently advised include:
- Acting for Simon Cowell in buying out Sony Music Entertainment’s 75% stake in Syco, bringing an end to their longstanding joint venture.
- Northern & Shell in relation to the £170m disposal of its printing and publication business to Trinity Mirror (now Reach).
- Northern & Shell in connection with the £450m disposal of Channel 5 to US-based Viacom.
- Gerald Ronson’s Rontec Group in relation to the acquisition of Investec’s equity stake in the Group. Consideration £80m.
- Apogee Corporation, a leading print management business in connection with the purchase of Balreed Digetec Limited. Consideration £33m.
- AIM listed Market Tech Holdings Limited, a £1bn market cap company, in connection with an acquisition of a controlling interest in Gilspa GmbH, a leading German based international marketing business. Consideration €25m.
- Shareholders of Redleaf Polhill, a communications agency, in connection with its sale to Porta.
- Shareholders of Seren Design, a digital design and customer experience consulting business, in connection with its sale to EY (the first deal of its kind for EY’s UK advisory business).
- Selling shareholders of Dance Direct in connection with the sale of their shares to private equity back Revolution Dance LLC.
- Aberdeen Asset Management plc on a number of corporate transactions including its buy out of the minority stake in Aberdeen SVG Private Equity Managers Limited held by joint venture partner SVG Capital plc.
- Shareholders of Lockwell Electrical Distributions Limited, a electronics wholesale and distribution business in connection with the sale of the company to Marlowe.
- Shareholders of online blinds retailer Blinds2Go on the sale to Hunter Douglas N.V., the Netherlands based multi-national corporation.
- Owners of CommAgility Ltd on the sale to NYSE listed Wireless Telecom Group Inc.
Equity Capital Markets
Clients we have recently advised include:
- RBG Holdings plc on its acquisition of the business of Rosenblatt Solicitors and subsequent admission to trading on AIM.
- Liberum on the IPO of Film Finance Holdings plc and its fundraising on AIM, with a market cap of £450m.
- Cenkos Securities plc in connection with a £50m placing for IG Design Group plc.
- N+1 Singer in connection with the IPO of Applied Graphene and subsequent secondary placings for the company.
- Energy Technique plc (AIM listed) on the sale of Volution Group plc by way of a scheme of arrangement. Valuation £10m.
- Energy Technique plc (AIM listed) on the sale of Volution Group plc by way of a scheme of arrangement. Valuation £10m.
- The House of Britannia plc on the placing of its entire issued share capital on the GXG Main Quote Market.
- Mporium Group plc in connection with a number of placings and equity fundraisings.
- N+1 Singer in relation to a placing for AIM listed OneSpatial plc.
Private Equity
Clients we have recently advised include:
- Shareholders of Apogee Group in connection with the investment by private equity house Equistone Partners valuing the group at £185m.
- Management team of RDS Technology Limited in connection with the sale of their shares to Digistar UK, a management buyout vehicle backed by Bain Capital.
- Management in relation to the sale of Ingenious Asset Management to Permira/Tilney Best Invest. Consideration £40m.
- Senior management team of Ibstock Brick on relation to the sale of Ibstock Group Limited to private equity house, Bain Capital. Consideration £200m.
- Management in relation to the sale of Forterra Building Products Limited to Loan Star and subsequent IPO.
- Management in relation to the acquisition by Bain Capital of Ibstock Brick Limited and subsequent IPO.
- Apollo European Real Estate and Ares Management LLP in relation to the sale of Aspira Holdings BV and its subsidiaries.
- Senior management in relation to the £200m sale of the Parts Alliance Group by Hg Capital to Uniselect Inc., a Canadian Limited Company.
- Shareholders and managers of gifting specialist Paladone in relation to £13m investment by LDC.
