Rupert advises on corporate and commercial law and is an expert in transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate finance. He has significant experience working on cross-border deals, including advising on investments into and from Africa. Rupert also advises on setting up investment structures and related incentives schemes. He also has significant general counsel-type experience in transaction and dispute management.
Clients include family offices, private equity investors, individuals, privately owned businesses, and public companies.
Expertise
Rupert advises on complex, high-value and mid-market M&A, including cross-border transactions for unlisted, listed and private clients. He also advises family offices on early-stage and direct investments.
Experience
Advised a private company on key aspects of a takeover offer for a listed company (2025).
Advising a family office on an early investment into a retail business and on various funding rounds.
Advised a listed UK company on its €365 million acquisition of a Finnish company.
Advised a family office in relation to a $5.1 billion sale.
Rupert structures and negotiates strategic joint ventures, including property and corporate partnerships involving listed counterparties, with expertise advising family offices and private companies on equity and debt-funded collaborations.
Experience
Advised a consortium of family offices on a debt and equity funded investment into a joint venture with a listed counterparty and then on the subsequent sale of that investment.
Advised a privately held company on a property development and investment joint venture with a listed company.
Rupert is instructed by individuals, family offices, and funds on direct investments, permanent capital vehicles, and incentive schemes, with experience structuring growth-stage and long-term investments across sectors and jurisdictions.
Experience
Advised on numerous direct investments by individuals and family offices in early-stage ventures and in established businesses.
Advised on the setting up of permanent capital vehicles and related incentive schemes.
Rupert advises on cross-border M&A and investment across Africa, with experience including multi-million-pound sales, mergers, and advising on fund structures and sector investments.
Experience
Advised the sellers on the $530 million sale of interests in a pan-African foods business – to a listed Japanese company.
Advised a leading multi-family office on its merger (by way of scheme of arrangement) with another leading multi-family office to form the largest independent multi-family office in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Advised two Africa-focused investment companies founded by a family office and a sovereign wealth fund in relation to their establishment and incentives schemes and on a number of investments in the FMCG and education sectors in various African countries.
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Recognition
Recognised by The Legal 500 UK for Corporate and Commercial: M&A – Mid-Market 2020
Recognised by The Legal 500 UK for Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Mid-Cap 2017
Rupert qualified as a solicitor in 1990. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2022, he worked at the following firms:
