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Private & public M&A
At a glance
Strand Hanson provides a full M&A offering with a dedicated M&A team advising corporate clients, financial sponsors and activist shareholders on all aspects of M&A, including both public and private acquisitions and strategic defence planning.
Strand Hanson is one of the most active UK Takeover Panel approved advisers, and has significant experience of working as a financial adviser, to both offerors and offerees, on all M&A-related matters.
Strand Hanson has advised on some of the most complicated, multi-jurisdictional transactions in the UK public market. Strand Hanson prides itself on creating innovative solutions to complex problems and has advised on c.£4.0bn of M&A since our MBO.
Strand Hanson has won a number of awards for M&A – including, Best UK Mid-Market Public M&A Adviser from M&A Today.
“Strand Hanson is a leading mid-market M&A adviser and our current team has advised on M&A transactions with an aggregate value of c.£4.0bn since our MBO in 2009.”
Recent M&A transactions
Metals Exploration plc
Advising Metals Exploration on its £90m acquisition of Condor Gold
Philippines
Nicaragua
Hummingbird Resources plc
Recommended Cash Offer for Hummingbird Resources plc by Nioko Resources Corporation effected by means of a contractual offer
Mali
Guinea
Aukett Swanke Group
Acquisition of Torpedo Factory Group Limited for a total consideration of £2.82 million
UK
Light Science Technologies Holdings plc
Acquisition of Injecta Fire Barrier for a total consideration payable of £1.75 million
UK
7digital Group plc
Recommended Cash Offer for 7digital Group plc by Songtradr, Inc. effected by means of a scheme of arrangement
UK
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Chaarat Gold Holdings Limited
Recapitalisation and cancellation of admission to trading on AIM.
James Spinney
Ritchie Balmer
Robert Collins
Imogen Ellis
Kyrgyz Republic
Chaarat Gold Holdings Limited
Recapitalisation and cancellation of admission to trading on AIM.
Kyrgyz Republic
Prospex Energy plc
Placing and Subscription of 55,633,333 new Ordinary Shares at 6p per share for gross proceeds of £3.34m
Rory Murphy
Ritchie Balmer
David Asquith
Imogen Ellis
Italy
Spain
Prospex Energy plc
Placing and Subscription of 55,633,333 new Ordinary Shares at 6p per share for gross proceeds of £3.34m
Italy
Spain
Savannah Energy plc
Completion of the Reverse Takeover of ExxonMobil's entire upstream and midstream asset portfolio in Chad and Cameroon
James Spinney
Ritchie Balmer
Rob Patrick
Robert Collins
Charlie Hammond
Cameroon
Chad
Savannah Energy plc
Completion of the Reverse Takeover of ExxonMobil's entire upstream and midstream asset portfolio in Chad and Cameroon
Cameroon
Chad
Wellnex Life
£21m dual listing on AIM
James Harris
Richard Johnson
Bertie Collins
Abigail Wennington
Harry Marshall
Australia
UK
Wellnex Life
£21m dual listing on AIM
Australia
UK
Agriterra Limited
Disposal of Mozambique Agricultural Assets
Ritchie Balmer
James Spinney
David Asquith
Edward Foulkes
Mozambique
Agriterra Limited
Disposal of Mozambique Agricultural Assets
Mozambique
Savannah Energy plc
£31m fundraise to advance company initiatives, secondary market share sale and restoration to trading
James Spinney
Ritchie Balmer
Rob Patrick
Harry Marshall
Nigeria
Niger
Savannah Energy plc
£31m fundraise to advance company initiatives, secondary market share sale and restoration to trading
Nigeria
Niger
Surgical Science Sweden AB
£45.2m all-cash acquisition of Intelligent Ultrasound Group plc by Surgical Science
James Dance
Christopher Raggett
Matthew Chandler
Rob Patrick
United Kingdom
Surgical Science Sweden AB
£45.2m all-cash acquisition of Intelligent Ultrasound Group plc by Surgical Science
United Kingdom
Fintech Asia Limited
Acting as Financial Adviser to Fintech Asia Limited on the £130m Reverse Takeover of ICFG Pte. Ltd
Rory Murphy
Abigail Wennington
David Asquith
Harry Marshall
Singapore
Fintech Asia Limited
Acting as Financial Adviser to Fintech Asia Limited on the £130m Reverse Takeover of ICFG Pte. Ltd
Singapore
RC Fornax
£18m IPO on AIM
Christopher Raggett
Rob Patrick
Harry Marshall
UK
RC Fornax
£18m IPO on AIM
UK
Metals Exploration plc
Advising Metals Exploration on its £90m acquisition of Condor Gold
James Dance
James Spinney
Matthew Chandler
Rob Patrick
Edward Foulkes
Philippines
Nicaragua
Metals Exploration plc
Advising Metals Exploration on its £90m acquisition of Condor Gold
Philippines
Nicaragua
Hummingbird Resources plc
Recommended Cash Offer for Hummingbird Resources plc by Nioko Resources Corporation effected by means of a contractual offer
James Dance
James Spinney
Ritchie Balmer
Matthew Chandler
Mali
Guinea
Hummingbird Resources plc
Recommended Cash Offer for Hummingbird Resources plc by Nioko Resources Corporation effected by means of a contractual offer
Mali
Guinea
Tessin Nordic
600m SEK (US$55m) credit facility for Tessin Nordic
Daniel Arques
Edward Foulkes
Sweden
Tessin Nordic
600m SEK (US$55m) credit facility for Tessin Nordic
Sweden
Wellnex Life
Mar 2025
March 7, 2025
Tessin Nordic
Dec 2024
December 9, 2024
RC Fornax
Feb 2025
February 10, 2025
Metals Exploration plc
Jan 2025
January 15, 2025
Winking Studios
Dec 2024
December 4, 2024
Pulsar Helium
Oct 2024
October 23, 2024
Worldview Capital LLP
Sep 2016
September 19, 2016
Satellite Solutions Worldwide plc
May 2015
May 14, 2015
Ruspetro plc
Nov 2014
November 14, 2014
Firestones Diamonds plc
Jan 2014
January 15, 2014
Zambeef Products plc
Jun 2013
June 23, 2013
Madagascar Oil Limited
Jan 2013
January 23, 2013
XXI Century Investments Public Limited
Dec 2010
December 16, 2010
Castle Support Services plc
Jun 2010
June 2, 2010
Sibir Energy plc
May 2019
May 29, 2019
Harwood Capital LLP
Oct 2016
October 21, 2016
AFI development
Mar 2017
March 31, 2017
FIH Group plc
Apr 2017
April 20, 2017
NetPlay TV plc
Jun 2017
June 10, 2017
SigmaRoc plc
Jul 2017
July 11, 2017
Hunt mining Corp. / Patagonia Gold plc
Jul 2019
July 23, 2019
Savannah Energy plc
Dec 2022
December 14, 2022
Southern Energy Corp
Sep 2023
September 1, 2023
Rosen’s Diversified, Inc.
Oct 2020
October 20, 2020