John Riddick

John looks after the transactional and governance needs of family businesses and private wealth funds, with particular expertise in supporting UK and international owner-managed businesses with day-to-day and succession matters.

His areas of expertise include share and asset sales and acquisitions; private equity and venture capital investments; management buyouts and buy-ins; corporate governance and board advisory; shareholder agreements and equity structuring; group reorganisations and demergers; corporate joint ventures and partnerships; and corporate tax structuring and advisory.

Alongside working with high- and ultra-high-net-worth entrepreneurs and families with extensive and diverse investment portfolios comprising a variety of financial, property and business interests, John also acts for UK and international companies and family offices – and, having spent 10 years in the Gulf, regularly works with a number of Middle Eastern businesses and investors.

Examples of John’s work include:

• Acting on a management buy-out of a fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) business in retail pharma involving a demerger and purchase from a founder.
• Acting for the owner of a website business in the educational sector in the sale of their shareholding to an international buyer.
• Advising the owner of a garage business undertaking more than 10 acquisitions and seeking external investment.
• Providing UK inward investment advice to a Gulf-based client in the luxury healthcare sector.
• Advising a London-based insurance accountant on their partnership agreement.
• Advising the board of a £75 million turnover logistics business on day-to-day matters.