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 "rivals the major London firms for quality" and boasts "total partner availability", according to Legal 500 2009.

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, BP, 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).