After rounding up the final deals of 2024, regional top-100 law firm Moore Barlow has announced its supported deals with a total value of £350m.
This has seen the team assist with a range of transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, management buyouts and reorganisations in a wide variety of sectors, such as technology, media and telecommunications, hospitality, construction and commercial real estate.
Some highlights included:
- Acting in relation to the acquisition of London-based neighbourhood bar-restaurant business Darwin & Wallace by The Portobello Pub Company
- Advising the selling shareholders of Excalibur Communications Group, a leading IT and communications provider, on its sale to LDC-backed Onecom Group
- Advising award-winning European ultra-rapid charging company Fastned on its joint venture with Places for London (PfL), owned by Transport for London (TfL)
Jeremy Over, partner at Moore Barlow, said: “Whilst globally, M&A activity has never come close to the record figures of 2021, we’re the first port of call for entrepreneurs, management teams and key decision makers and executives on trade sales, MBOs, private equity and acquisitions on deals usually with a value between £1m to £50m.
“In this market, demand for our service depends not on global trade but on the quality of our services and our relationships with clients, accountants, banks and other referrers.
“We are delighted that we have closed over 100 deals across the team, and we continue to see, in particular, US and other overseas buyers investing in the UK.”
Speaking of the pipeline for 2025, Jeremy added: “We are already seeing a strong pipeline for Q1 and Q2 2025. We also work with a number of highly acquisitive clients, and we remain optimistic about the dealmaking climate in 2025.”
