Maria Nadarajah

Maria advises clients across a range of sectors in relation to cross-border and domestic private company transactions, including M&A, venture capital and private equity deals.

Maria’s experience includes advising clients on joint ventures, corporate restructuring, equity capital markets transactions (in particular on AIM), shareholder agreements, investment agreements and general corporate law matters.

• Advising the shareholders of The Scale Factory, an Amazon Web Services advanced consulting partner on its sale to the Ten10 group.
• Advising the Marvesting group (headquartered in France) on its acquisition of Stellar Global Holdings Ltd.
• Advising Fuller, Smith and 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 its related group of international companies) on the sale of both groups to Danish-based energy group Swire Renewable Energy A/S.
• Acting on successful fundraisings for an AIM-admitted oil exploration company operating in the South Atlantic.
• Advising the Fashion Retail Academy on its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of the London College of Beauty Therapy.
• Advising on an approximately £30m debt for equity conversion in the aerospace engineering sector.
• Advising Schneider & Cie. AG Internationale Transporte, a private equity backed international road, air, sea and rail freight transport company, in connection with its acquisition of Global Freight Connections Limited, an independent freight forwarder.
• Advising Global Risk Partners, one of the leading independent insurance intermediaries in the UK and an operating unit of Brown & Brown, Inc.’s retail segment, on its biggest acquisition since becoming part of Brown & Brown’s operating unit in July 2022 of CC Flint and Company Ltd, a commercial insurance broker specialising in commercial business, motor fleet and private clients’ insurance.
• Advising Solventis Ltd, a leading chemical distributor, which also holds significant positions in both automotive fluids and aircraft de-icer markets, on its acquisition of Filtration Control Solutions Limited.

Maria is a member of March Women – women in M&A.