Chris is a 2016 UK-qualified senior associate in Dentons' UK Corporate team with broad experience in corporate M&A and private equity.

His focus is on national and international mergers and acquisitions, particularly those involving private equity houses and management buy-outs. He advises owners and management on acquisitions and disposals of private companies, offering a wide range of expertise and experience in M&A, corporate governance and financing, with strengths in owner-managed businesses, venture technology, start-up emerging growth companies, and buy-side and sell-side private equity.

Chris also has experience in corporate aspects of UK and cross-border solvent group restructurings and reorganisations. Recent experience includes:

• multi-investment into a provider of psychometric assessments designed for small business;
• simultaneous cross-border acquisitions of two UK-based data science services providers by a Canadian-listed group;
• disposal of a UK and US-based provider of regulatory compliance and operational due diligence services to a PE portfolio company;
• PE-backed acquisition of an independent provider of global commodity price data;
• purchase of a portfolio of UK and Spanish companies by a provider of end-to-end connectivity services;
• Anglo-French-Saudi joint venture establishing an ad-tech investment company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia;
• PE-backed acquisition of a UK and US security software group;
• management exit and disposal of a global digital marketing group having acted for the group on the acquisition of multiple subsidiaries in a 2-year buy and build strategy;
• merchant bank-financed sale of a road construction group;
• acquisition of a group providing window software and a connected restructuring of a supplier of high-performance commercial insulated glass units;
• PE-backed management buyout of security and performance specialist provider;
• refinancing and group restructuring of a sports marketing agency;
• acquisitions of three fire security companies by a PE-backed purchaser;
• uni-tranche credit facility and management buyout of a UK rotables manufacturer;
• acquisition of online education services company by PE-backed buyer;
• debt for equity swaps as part of the restructure of facilities provided to a direct carrier billing company and a manufacture advanced lightweight structural and non-structural composites;
• acquisition of a care home provider by a PE-backed purchaser; and
• venture capital joint investment into a Cambridge-based med-tech company.