Graeme has accumulated 30 years of expertise handling corporate transactions and commercial arrangements. He specialises in mergers, acquisitions and disposals, corporate restructures and MBO’s advising UK and international clients.
Expertise
- Company Secretarial (especially UK subsidiaries of foreign companies)
- Copyright, design right, trade mark and passing off stamp Duty and some SDLT
- Corporate restructuring and MBO’s
- Distribution, agency, franchise
- Finance/banking work; invoice discounting
- General knowledge of corporation tax and CGT in relation to corporate transactions
- Incorporations; shareholder/joint venture agreements
- Insolvency work
- Mergers, acquisitions and disposals
- Schemes of Arrangement and Capital Reductions
- Terms and Conditions
Experience
- Restructuring of Football Club including Scheme of Arrangement/Capital Reduction
- Acquisition of UK company for a French Pharmaceutical Group
- Acquisition of UK engineering company for substantial US private company
- Acquisition of UK plant breeding business for US plant breeding group
- Sale of specialist children’s care home
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Career
Graeme qualified as a solicitor in 1976. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2005, he worked at the following firms:
- Field Seymour Parkes
- CMS Cameron McKenzie
- Stephenson Harwood