Top-quality Corporate group as part of a full service firm

With lawyers handling a complete range of corporate finance work, Wragge & Co's corporate practice is "incredibly proactive" and wins praise for its "very quick responses" (Legal 500 2011).

Each year, it handles more than 100 deals at an average deal value of £50 million. In return, Legal 500 ranked Wragge & Co in tier two for lower mid-market Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) advice nationally.

The group's 18 partners include new partner David Marshall, who joined from Travers Smith. An M&A and private equity specialist, David worked in Russia where he advised on a number of deals in the energy sector.

Other sector specialists include Richard Haywood (energy and food & drink), Stuart Young (automotive), Baljit Chohan (technology), Maurice Dwyer (health), Ian Piggin (life sciences) and Kevin Jones and Sharon Ayres (funds).

Every year the group works on a number of cross-border deals. On many of these it provides both English law advice and manages the work of lawyers in the affected jurisdictions. These lawyers are drawn from a trusted network of leading independent law firms in each of the world's major jurisdictions.

Advising on a trio of deals totalling $1.03 billon for real estate developer Parkridge, the team co-ordinated advisers from 18 jurisdictions to deal with 125 separate legal entities across Europe.

Other international work includes advising Dollond & Aitchison's Italian parent company, De Rigo, on the merger with Boots Opticians, plus deals for Finnish, Japanese, Swedish, French, German and Swiss companies.

Clients include E.ON, TUI Travel, Phones 4U, AT&T, Johnson Controls, Misys, Enterprise Inns, Sanctuary Housing Association, Automatic Data Processing and Lloyds TSB Development Capital.

For more about corporate, contact David Vaughan (david_vaughan@wragge.com) or Richard Haywood (richard_haywood@wragge.com).