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Edward Robinson

Legal Director

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

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Edward has experience of a wide range of Corporate and Commercial transactions including mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate finance. He has worked with clients from a variety of sectors, including real estate, technology and healthcare. Clients include listed PLCs with international interests through to fast-growing owner-managed SMEs. Edward has a particular specialism of corporate transactions in sub-Saharan Africa, including recent deals in Nigeria, Ghana, Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire and Zambia.

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

Our thinking

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

    Edward Robinson

    In The Press

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

    Adrian Mayer

    News

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

    Adrian Mayer

    News

  • Land Manager Collaboration for Environmental Delivery

    Tristram van Lawick

    Insights

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

    Jonathan Morley

    News

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

    Jonathan Morley

    News

  • Charles Russell Speechlys releases H1 2021 deal highlights

    David Coates

    News

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

    Edward Robinson

    Quick Reads

  • Companies House filings and COVID-19

    Edward Robinson

    Insights

  • Companies House filings and COVID-19

    Edward Robinson

    Quick Reads

  • General meetings in a meeting-less age

    Edward Robinson

    Quick Reads

  • FICs under scrutiny - a corporate perspective

    Edward Robinson

    Quick Reads

  • Charles Russell Speechlys advises Growthpoint Investec African Properties on its acquisition of the RMB Westport Real Estate Development Fund

    Adrian Mayer

    News

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