David Duhig

David Duhig is a senior associate in the Corporate team, where he advises a broad spectrum of clients on both domestic and cross-border corporate transactions. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and strategic investments.

David also has significant experience advising on joint ventures, shareholder arrangements and investment agreements, with particular expertise in the technology and hotel and hospitality sectors.

• Advising the Marvesting group (headquartered in France) on its acquisition of Stellar Global Holdings Ltd (Stellar).
• Advising Allenby Capital and Oak Securities on Pathfinder Minerals Plc’s reverse takeover of Rome Resources Ltd and £4m placing.
• Advising the Fashion Retail Academy on its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of the London College of Beauty Therapy.
• Advised Fuller, Smith & Turner PLC on its acquisition of Lovely Pubs, a collection of seven pubs in Warwickshire, for a total consideration of £22.5m.
• Advising the shareholders of Altitec Trading Limited and separately the shareholders of Obelisk Energy Limited (and their related group of international companies) on the sale of both groups to Danish-based energy group Swire Renewable Energy A/S.
• Advising the Fashion Retail Academy on its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of the London College of Beauty Therapy.
• Advising the members of chartered accountancy firm Carter Backer Winter (CBW) on its sale to Gravita, a portfolio company of European tech investor Tenzing. The sale means that CBW has climbed the ranks to become a top 30 accounting firm. Alongside the sale, advising CBW on its pre-sale reorganisation, including the divestment of CBW LLP’s corporate recovery and insolvency business and its financial planning business, each to a separate newly formed limited liability partnership.
• Advising the shareholders of Activate Solutions Group Limited (Activate), the parent company to a group of specialist field sales solutions businesses, including Field Sales Solutions, on the multi-million-pound sale of the entire issued share capital of Activate to France-based Impact Field Marketing Group.
• Advising longstanding technology client P2i Ltd on its £8m private equity fundraising from the sustainable investor Circularity Capital.
• Advised the shareholders of economics consultancy Vivid Economics and climate analytics platform Planetrics on the sale of both companies to management consulting giant McKinsey & Company.
• Advising longstanding client SDM Holdings Limited on its acquisition of The Chatham Archive & Document Storage Company Limited.