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Matt Noon

Partner
Head of Office
+44 (0)151 600 8580
+44 (0)7920 218 178
matt.noon@hilldickinson.com
Liverpool
Matt is head of Liverpool Corporate, Banking and Commercial and has over 20 years of post-qualification experience. Matt has gained an extensive variety of corporate transactional experience both in the UK and overseas.
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Matt has acted for a wide variety of clients (including quoted public companies, private companies, entrepreneurs and institutional investors) and has extensive experience in a variety of industrial sectors. His main focus is in relation to mainstream mergers and acquisitions (M&A) work covering share and asset acquisitions and disposals, mergers and corporate joint ventures. Transactions include acting for Tactus Group on the recent acquisitions of Box Limited and CCL Computers, acting for Steve Parry MBE and Becky Adlington MBE on the sale of 60% of Total Swimming Limited to JD Sports, acting for the shareholders of Coeus Consulting Limited on the sale to Wavestone Group of the entire issued share capital of Coeus Consulting Limited and acting for Challenge TRG Group on the acquisition of PMP Recruitment.

Matt has a breadth of experience in the corporate market (both locally and nationally) and acts for a variety of different clients in a variety of sectors and locations. Well thought of by his peers (both internally and externally) he is recommended by both The Legal 500 and Chambers as a leading individual.

Matt went to school in Liverpool, read law at Durham University, completed the LPC at Chester Law School and then trained as a solicitor at DLA Piper in Liverpool before qualifying. After qualification, he worked for DLA Piper and Halliwells before joining Hill Dickinson in 2010, becoming a partner in 2013. Matt was on the Hill Dickinson LLP board as an elected member from May 2018 to April 2022 before accepting the role of head of Hill Dickinson’s Liverpool office. Matt has led the Liverpool corporate, banking and commercial team since 2020. He is a trustee of the Wirral Youth Zone (The Hive), the head of the Professional Liverpool Corporate Finance group, a member of the LEP’s professional and business services board and the skills and education board and recently stood down by rotation after being a director of Professional Liverpool for six years. 

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  • Experience

    • Acted for the shareholders of Bromborough Paints and Supplies Limited on the MBO backed by Cairngorm Limited in March 2021
    • Acted for the shareholders of Mannheim Limited on the sale to Brainlabs Limited in February 2021
    • Acted for UK Flooring Direct Limited in relation to BGF’s £8 million investment into the company in November 2020
    • Acted for Stobart Group Limited on the disposal of its Rails and Civils divisions to Bavaria Industries Group AG in July 2020
    • Acted for the Sellers of Apple Aviation Limited on the disposal to the US private equity backed STS Group in September 2019
    • Acted for Howell Gordon Limited in relation to the purchase for circa £5 million of the entire issued share capital of the transport business Lochace Limited in August 2019
    • Acted for Praetura Capital LLP in relation to a buyout and investment raise in relation to We Influence Limited in December 2017
    • Acted for Arch Weddings Limited in relation to the acquisition of the business and assets of the Holbrook House Hotel in November 2017
    • Acted for Peak Business Insight Limited in relation to the £2.5 million Series A Fund from MMC Ventures (and others) in October 2017
    • Acted for Praetura Commercial Finance in relation to the setting up of the PCF core funding arrangements in January 2017
    • Acted for Carr’s Group plc on the £36 million disposal of Carr’s Flour Limited in September 2016
    • Acted for the sellers and management team of ITC Luxury Travel Limited on the £30 million disposal in August 2016
    • Acted for the sellers of Noblet Municipal Waste Services Limited on the sale to NRG Group Limited in January 2015
    • Acted for the shareholders of Hobs Reprographics plc in relation to the £7 million investment made by Business Growth Fund in December 2014
    • Acted for Stobart Group Limited on the class one disposal of the Stobart Transport Division for circa £200 million in April 2014
    • Acted for Carr’s Engineering Limited on the acquisition of Chirton Engineering Limited in April 2014

  • Affiliations

    • Elected member of Hill Dickinson LLP Board
    • Member of the Law Society
    • Chairman of Professional Liverpool Corporate Finance Group
    • Professional Liverpool board member
    • PBS and Skills and Educational Board member for the Liverpool City Region
    • Trustee/board member of Wirral Youth Zone

Responsive, extremely knowledgeable, great at introducing other specialists, and always works to the fee he has quoted.

The Legal 500 2023 | Leading Individual

Matt Noon is our go-to adviser, but what makes Hill Dickinson important to us is the team behind him.

The Legal 500 2023 | Leading Individual

Matt Noon is active in handling private equity and growth financing transactions.

The Legal 500 2022 | Leading Individual

Matt Noon's Expertise

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