Jay is a Partner in the Corporate team.

He has substantial experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, IPOs, and secondary capital issues on major European stock exchanges, with particular expertise leading large teams on cross-border transactions.

Jay has extensive experience of joint ventures, private equity deals, and buy and build and roll outs backed by Private Equity houses. He has worked on many complex reorganisations, workouts, and shareholder disputes, as well as takeovers under the City Code, including reverse takeovers, Rule 9 waivers and whitewashes.

Working with large private companies, public listed companies, and Private Equity-backed enterprises, Jay has experience across a range of sectors including cyber security, life sciences, insurance, energy, business services, real estate, complex manufacturing, media, and e-commerce.

Jay works on deal values up to 1 billion GBP, with typical deal values of 150 million GBP. He also advises on smaller deals for clients that have a large acquisitions or disposals programme, or where the transaction is a “once in a lifetime” event, such as family company sale.