Stephen is the head of our Corporate division and a member of our board. He has significant industry experience from his timing working for multinational technology businesses – before joining the firm he was the general counsel at Orbital Software and then at IndigoVision. He has particular expertise in equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity.
He principally focuses on the technology and energy sectors. His work in the technology sector includes early stage and scale-up financings (for both investors and companies) and M&A (both buy- and sell-side). In the energy sector, Stephen has significant experience in both renewables and upstream oil and gas.
- Advising Epic Games on several acquisitions, including of Contex.AI, Cubic Motion, Loci, SuperAwesome and Tonic Games.
- Advising FanDuel on its equity financings.
- Advising IndigoVision on its equity financings, IPO and subsequent recommended takeover by Motorola Solutions.
- Advising Optoscribe on its sale to Intel Corporation.
- Advising TV Squared on its equity financings and subsequent sale to Innovid.
- Advising DeltaDNA on its equity financings and subsequent sale to Unity Software.
- Advising S2G Ventures, Ospraie Capital and Cleveland Avenue in their participations in the series A to C financings of Intelligent Growth Solutions.
- Advising Hummingbird Ventures on several equity investments.
- Advising Cambridge Nutritional Sciences on its cash box placing and open offer and on the sales of its C19 LFT business and its CD4 LFT business.
- Advising Kelso Pharma on its acquisition of Alturix.
- Advising Parsley Box on its equity financings, AIM IPO and subsequent placing and open offer.
- Advising BayWa r.e. UK on several windfarm sales, including of Inverclyde, Tralorg, Whitelaw Brae and Broken Cross.
- Advising Oil States Industries on several acquisitions, including of MR Inspections, RiserTec and E-Flow Control.
- Advising Capricorn Energy on several transactions, including its US$500 million VWAP tender offer, its US$400 million sale of PSC interests in Senegal, the acquisitions of Nautical Petroleum and Agora Oil & Gas, the sales of interests in the Catcher and Mariner oilfields, the IPO of Cairn India, and the subsequent sale of Cairn India to Vedanta.
Stephen's recent work includes:
- advising Omega Diagnostics on its cash box placing and open offer (2022) and on the sales of its C19 LFT business (2022) and CD4 LFT business (2022)
- advising Parsley Box on its placing and open offer (2022) and AIM IPO (2021)
- advising the selling shareholders of TV Squared in its sale to Innovid (2022) and advising TV Squared on its series C (2019) financing and series B (2018) financing
- advising the selling shareholders of Granfit Holdings in its £90m sale to Norcros plc (2022)
- advising Capricorn Energy on its US$500m VWAP tender offer (2022) and its up to US$400m sale of PSC interests in Senegal (2020)
- advising the selling shareholders of Optoscribe in its sale to Intel Corporation (2022)
- advising Epic Games on the acquisitions of Tonic Games (2021), SuperAwesome (2020) and Cubic Motion (2020)
- advising Bella & Duke on its series B (2021) and series A (2020) financings
- advising the board of IndigoVision on its recommended all cash takeover by Motorola Solutions (2020)
- advising BayWa r.e. UK on the sales of the Inverclyde (2020) and Tralorg (2019) windfarms
- advising S2G Ventures, Ospraie Capital and Cleveland Avenue in their participations in the £7m series A (2019) and £42m series B (2021) equity financings of Intelligent Growth Solutions
- advising Hummingbird Ventures on a number of investments, including Automata Technologies (2021 and 2019) and Basecamp Research (2022 and 2020)
- advising Oil States Industries on a number of acquisitions
- advising the selling shareholders of DeltaDNA in its sale to Unity Software (2019)
- advising Forsa Energy in the sale of its portfolio 350MW of onshore windfarm development assets (2019)
- advising Nucleus Financial Group on its AIM IPO (2018)
- advising Aminex on its US$40m farmout of interests in the Ruvuma permit, Tanzania (2018)
- advising Fortinet in its acquisition of Zonefox (2018)
