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Edward Robinson

Legal Director

Edward has experience of a wide range of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate finance.

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He has worked with clients from a variety of sectors, including real estate, technology, aviation and healthcare. Clients include listed PLCs with international interests through to fast-growing owner-managed SMEs. Edward has been involved in a large number of corporate transactions for a variety of client across sub-Saharan Africa. Edward also has a particular expertise in the area of Family Investment Companies (FICs).

Edward has worked closely with accountants and tax advisers at national and international level to create bespoke FICs for a wide range of high net worth and ultra-high net worth families.

Some of Edward’s experience includes:

  • Advising a Main List plc on its acquisition of companies in Malaysia and Italy, and drafting prospectuses for shareholder approval
  • Restructuring a client’s airline business
  • Assisting a newly incorporated company with initial fundraising rounds, investment agreements and employee share schemes

Recognition

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Our thinking

  • What assets can a Family Investment Company (FIC) hold?

    Edward Robinson

    Quick Reads

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  • Understanding Share Classes in Family Investment Companies

    Edward Robinson

    Quick Reads

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  • Family Investment Companies Explained: How Control Shapes Succession Planning

    Edward Robinson

    Quick Reads

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  • Family Investment Companies: family values, succession and wealth stewardship

    Edward Robinson

    Quick Reads

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  • How are FICs funded and what are the tax implications?

    Edward Robinson

    Quick Reads

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  • What is a Family Investment Company (FIC)?

    Mary Perham

    Quick Reads

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  • Mary Perham and Edward Robinson write for Wealth Briefing on why Family Investment Companies deserve a fresh look

    Mary Perham

    In The Press

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  • Ownership of family businesses and handing over the reins

    Edward Robinson

    Insights

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  • Investors' Chronicle quotes Tabitha Collett and Edward Robinson on the uptick of interest in Family Investment Companies

    Tabitha Collett

    In The Press

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  • Edward Robinson and Charlie Searle write for FT Adviser on key considerations when an individual inherits company shares

    Edward Robinson

    In The Press

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  • Charles Russell Speechlys advises Development Partners International and Verod Capital Management on investment into Pan African Towers

    Adrian Mayer

    News

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  • Charles Russell Speechlys advises M-KOPA in connection with its $250+ million financing round

    Adrian Mayer

    News

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  • Land Manager Collaboration for Environmental Delivery

    Tristram van Lawick

    Insights

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  • Charles Russell Speechlys advising Battery Ventures on the sale of SPT Labtech for £650 million.

    Jonathan Morley

    News

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  • Charles Russell Speechlys is advising Battery Ventures on the sale of Forterro to Partners Group for €1 billion.

    Jonathan Morley

    News

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  • Charles Russell Speechlys releases H1 2021 deal highlights

    David Coates

    News

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  • Temporary changes to stamping stock transfer documents - and a chance for permanent upgrades

    Edward Robinson

    Quick Reads

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