Private equity

Hill Dickinson has extensive experience of advising private equity and venture capital investors, private equity-backed businesses and management teams. We have advised clients on MBO/MBIs, institutional purchases and public to private transactions. We are also experienced in early stage and further funding rounds, secondary buy-outs and bolt-on acquisitions and exits across all sectors.

Our private equity team offers a fully integrated service with our strong mergers and acquisitions practice. We also work in close collaboration with our tax and finance colleagues to unlock and realise value for our clients. We have strong links with the local and national private equity markets which can help furnish opportunities and introductions. We pride ourselves on the way in which we manage risk for our clients, protecting their investments and delivering deals on time and on budget.

 

Key contacts


Michael Jones
Partner
Michael Jones
Telephone
+44 (0) 151 600 8678
Email
mike.jones@hilldickinson.com
Ian Gillis
Partner
Ian Gillis
Telephone
+44 (0) 161 817 7297
Email
ian.gillis@hilldickinson.com
Craig Scott
Partner
Craig Scott
Telephone
+44 (0) 151 600 8568
Email
craig.scott@hilldickinson.com

Legal 500 2012 logo‘Excellent in all respects’, Hill Dickinson LLP has had the largest offering in Liverpool since it acquired the corporate practice of Halliwells in July 2010. Craig Scott has the ‘ability to communicate in non-legal language’, and has particular expertise in private equity matters. Other recommended partners include Sue Russell and Jonathan Brown, the ‘responsive, pragmatic and flexible’ Jane O’Sullivan; and new arrival from Squire Sanders Hammonds Ian Gillis. Recent highlights include advising Klarius Group on its acquisition from Affinia Holdings of the Quinton Hazell Automotive Group.

Chambers 2012 Leading Firm logoSources are appreciative that partners "make an effort to find out what is important to us."