Wallis is a trainee solicitor within our corporate and commercial teams, assisting with the formation, buying and selling of e-gaming and other tech-based businesses for a wide range of clients.
Expertise
- Board and shareholders meetings minutes
- Completion arrangements
- Company incorporation and partnership formation
- Company House filings
- Company searches and filings
- Contract review and drafting
- Disclosure
- Due diligence
- Maintaining statutory books and issuing chare certificates
- Online data rooms
- Post-completion support
- Simple sales, purchasers and joint ventures
- Transaction and document management
- Preparing for/attending tribunal hearings
Experience
- Assisted a supervising solicitor in acting as legal counsel to an e-gaming games and platform provider during its pre-investment funding rounds prior to launching and operating in the UK, EU, Asia and US.
- Assisted in advising an e-gaming business, its Asia-based owners and an escrow agent regarding the formation of an escrow arrangement to fund the operation of the licensed e-gaming group.
- Assisted a telecommunications company and outsourcing service provider on a long-term basis, including the drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements with one of the world’s largest online poker companies.
- Assisted in advising an international business and its shareholders in relation to a potential unfair prejudice claim and employment matters arising in relation to settling with a departing shareholder founder and employee.
- Assisted in advising an online payments advisory and consultancy company on its formation, structuring and operations during its start-up and operations phases.
- Advising an Isle of Man regulated Pension Scheme in relation to its internal restructuring.
- Advising the restructured Pension scheme on its acquisition of an Isle of Man company holding mixed-use commercial property, including curing title issues on the target property.
Career
Wallis joined Keystone in 2022.