We used our experience of working with entrepreneurs to help the founders of a food business providing goods to UK high-street retailers as they sold their company. Our lawyers assisted with the commercial aspects of the sale to a private equity firm, handling complex UK remittance tax issues and US tax issues. We were also involved in our clients’ reinvestment in a new holding company.

We advised Jennifer Moores, an ultra-high net worth individual, in her investment in Harry’s of London, a luxury shoemaker and accessories house known for combining traditional craftsmanship with the latest footwear technology.

We advised Roger De Haan and his family office in relation to his charitable trust including charity and tax advice on the proposed building of the world's first multi-storey skate-park and education advice to academies sponsored by the trust. We also advise other charities connected with Roger De Haan, including the Creative Foundation, which aims to improve the town of Folkestone with the development of a creative quarter.

We advised a family office client in purchasing the interests of a venture capital fund with which it was a co-investor in a collective investment vehicle that owns an interest in a UK-based portfolio company in the film industry.

We advised founding members and current shareholders on the sale of AAM Advisory to Old Mutual Wealth. AAM is the largest expatriate advisory firm in Singapore with over 30 advisers and 3,500 clients offering financial planning and fund management advice.

We advised the former chairman of a publicly-traded consumer brands company in the formation of a new family office and associated investment vehicles company. Primary goals were to implement desired governance and create a structure that maximized deductibility of investment expenses and equity participation by family members/employees.

We advised an existing family office client in the negotiation of its participation in an investment syndicate led by two private equity firms to acquire cellular telephone spectrum and establish a cellular telephone carrier in Canada. The family office wished to 'syndicate' its investment within the syndicate, which required the simultaneous establishment of an affiliated registered investment adviser and the formation of an investment partnership.

We advised a multilateral agency on their equity investments in a Serbian bank, and a shareholders agreement with the Republic of Serbia including on a privatisation programme.