The Private Equity team at Foot Anstey LLP reported a record level of activity for 2021, completing 30 private equity backed deals in the calendar year, despite continued turbulence and uncertainty. Highlights during this exceptionally busy period saw the team strengthen existing relationships with private equity firms August Equity and Livingbridge, and their portfolios, and support the Access Group on multiple acquisitions.
Private equity-backed buyouts and portfolio bolt-on acquisitions are a deep specialism for Foot Anstey's nationally focused private equity team and these...
The Islamic Finance team at national law firm, Foot Anstey LLP, has advised the Saudi based investment management firm Sidra Capital on a strategically aligned real estate acquisition worth £43.6m. This is the latest acquisition Foot Anstey's Islamic Finance team has advised Sidra on, having acted for the firm in 2021 on a real estate acquisition worth £19m.
In this latest deal, Sidra Capital has acquired Coca Cola Uxbridge Head Quarters for £43.6m, a prime located, 122,000 sq. ft., office asset let to Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC and representing a 7% net initial yield....
Foot Anstey LLP, the national law firm, has announced the launch of two new work experience programmes dedicated to activating and accelerating a new generation of lawyers and helping create more diversity in the profession.
The firm's Activate Programme is open to all Year 12 and 13 students, while its Accelerate Programme is aimed at Undergraduate students. Each scheme has 10 places on offer and will take place over 3.5 days in Foot Anstey's offices in Bristol, Exeter and Southampton.
Participants in each programme will gain a valuable insight of what it's like to work in...
Olupitan Aganga, Trainee Solicitor at Foot Anstey LLP, has used the firm's CSR hour initiative to volunteer with FoodCycle, the community project charity.
Olupitan, based in Exeter, joined FoodCycle as part of its kitchen staff where she helped cook meals for homeless and vulnerable individuals.
FoodCycle is a community project that brings people in need together through the power of good food. Its mission is to provide nourishing meals, using food which would otherwise go to waste, to the hungry and lonely in the local communities it operates in.
National law firm, Foot Anstey LLP, which has offices located in Bristol, Exeter, London, Plymouth, Southampton, Taunton and Truro, has advised London-based fintech start-up Nester Holdings Ltd on, what is believed to be, the first UK Peer2Peer Islamic Finance fintech deal worth £431,000, followed recently by a second deal worth £225,000.
Imam Qazi, Partner, and Leena Payyappilly, Associate, in Foot Anstey's Islamic Finance team advised on all legal aspects of the deal. This included drafting the Murabaha* and legal security contracts, as well as acting on behalf of Nester's...
The Property Litigation team at national law firm, Foot Anstey LLP has successfully advised and represented Spire House RTM Company in the Court of Appeal, to ensure it obtains the Right to Manage.
Spire House in Lancaster Gate, London is an exclusive set of residential apartments set in the ground of a historic church spire. The RTM Company was formed by the majority of its leaseholders seeking more direct control of the building's management.
The Foot Anstey team included Anna Phillips, Legal Director, and Marina Leigh, Associate, become involved in 2017. They commenced a...
Foot Anstey, the national law firm, is taking a big step to reduce its carbon footprint by incentivising its over 600 employees to drive electric vehicles (EV) or ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEV). The firm, which has offices across the South West, London and Southampton, has struck a deal with Tusker, the car benefit company, to offer an affordable way for its employees to lease one of these green machines.
The scheme creates an affordable way for Foot Anstey employees to drive an electric car and contribute to a greener transport system by paying some of their pre-tax salary...
National law firm, Foot Anstey, has announced that IP, IT and data privacy lawyer, Ashley Avery, will be joining as a Partner in its Commercial team. Ashley will be advising clients on complex data privacy and confidentiality issues, brand protection and exploitation and software development and licensing matters.
Ashley joins Foot Anstey from City firm Travers Smith, where she was Senior Counsel in the Commercial, IP and Technology Department. Whilst at Travers Smith, Ashley worked with a number of high-profile clients across the technology, pensions, retail and financial services...
The Islamic Finance team at national law firm, Foot Anstey LLP has advised on three major deals over the last month.
The team's trio of deals has included advising Bahrain-based institutional investor Black Sand Real Estate W.L.L on a £42m corporate acquisition, acting for Riyad Bank (London Branch) on a £17.5m refinance of a fully-let Grade A office asset, and advising Bank of London & The Middle East (BLME) on its new terms and conditions for the first Islamic international digital bank, Nomo.
Leading on the corporate acquisition for Black Sand Real Estate was Partner...
Many rural communities in the UK have been “left behind” and require a different approach to transport and mobility investment than those in urban areas, a new report says today.
National law firm, Foot Anstey LLP, which has offices located in Bristol, Exeter, London, Plymouth, Southampton, Taunton and Truro, has collaborated with global consulting firm WSP on ‘The 30-minute rural community’ which explores mobility within the UK's rural areas.
The report examines the challenges around rural mobility and the opportunities to create more productive, greener, healthier,...
