Tom is a Partner, who leads our Corporate & Private Equity team. 

Tom is a experienced mergers and acquisitions lawyer, specialising in private equity and venture capital, acting for private equity houses and management teams, as well as investee companies. Tom’s experience covers all aspects of private equity transactions, including management buy-outs and buy-ins, bolt-on acquisitions, investments, exits, restructuring and refinancing transactions, and he has taken on numerous management advisory roles on private equity-backed deals.

Tom acts for a number of private equity houses and is lead partner for WestBridge Capital, who he has advised on 20 management buy outs and several substantial exits.

Recent work

WestBridge
Advising WestBridge private equity house on 20 of its investments and numerous exits from its 1st and 2nd including its:

  • management buyout of international digital commerce agency Tryzens;
  • multi-million-pound management buy-out of Techex, a leading UK cloud and video over IP specialist;
  • £17m investment in Smart Capital Technology, a provider of rapid response IT infrastructure support (Inventory-as-a-Service) to the global IT channel;
  • £9.8m investment as part of a management buy-out of APEM, Europe’s leading independent environmental consultancy business;
  • management buy-out of Eque2, a market-leading provider of business management software to the construction, contracting and house-building industries as part of a £46.5m deal;
  • sale of AJM Healthcare, a supplier of mobility support products to the NHS via a secondary buy-out to Livingbridge;
  • sale of bChannels, a leading global marketing and data services agency specializing in the technology channel, to The Channel Company, backed by US Eagle Tree Capital.

TXO
Advising the management team on its TowerBrook backed MBO.

Averroes Capital
On its buy-out of and growth capital investment in Journey Hospitality.

Specialist healthcare businesses
5 multi-million pound sales of specialist healthcare businesses to national providers.

RJD Partners
On its investments in Survey Solutions and Improve International.

Multiple PE-backed businesses
A number of PE backed businesses on multiple bolt-on acquisitions including:

  • WestBridge backed APEM (Europe’s leading independent environmental consultancy business).
  • MML backed Veezu (UK’s fastest growing taxi and private hire technology platform with 16,000+ active driver-partners).
  • Livingbridge backed AJM Healthcare (a supplier of mobility support products to the NHS).

Acuiti Labs
Global SAP Consultancy firm Acuiti Labs on its investment from US PE fund Quilvest Capital Partners.

City Energy and Consumer Energy Solutions Group
The shareholders of the City Energy and Consumer Energy Solutions Group on the investment from Cairngorm Capital.

Testimonials

  • Capital Law are a key partner for WestBridge. We believe it is essential to have a deep working relationship with your legal partner to ensure a transaction is optimised. Tom and the team at Capital Law are pragmatic and commercial in their approach. They have an ability to successfully navigate through difficult discussions without resulting to an overly adversarial exchange but always finding an appropriate compromise for all parties. They have the strength in depth to support us on multiple transactions and are very much an integral part of our team.

    Guy Davies | Managing Partner
    WestBridge Capital

  • I had heard only wonderful things about you and Capital. Now I have experienced it first-hand. You are all a class act. You have been supportive, clear, calm and tough when needed. Thank you for navigating us to this point – the beginning of Moon&Back. Lots more to come.

    Dawn Airey | Co-founder
    Moon&Back