Nick is a highly experienced corporate lawyer with a focus on UK and cross-border mergers & acquisitions, private equity and venture capital. He joined Merali Beedle in 2021.

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Nick was previously a partner at Brown Rudnick LLP, leading on M&A transactions for real estate funds, private equity firms, venture capital funds, family offices and technology companies.

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His broad experience also includes private equity fund formation, shareholder & partnership agreements, debt finance, commercial contracts and insolvency & restructuring.

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Nick’s focus in the last few years has been on medium and large size real estate transactions, working closely with clients to appreciate and influence the commercial drivers to each deal.  His transactions include major acquisitions in the hospitality sector, including Generator hostel group and the complex purchase of four Grange hotels by a private equity group in 2019.

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He was a Recommended Lawyer in the UK Legal 500 rankings in 2018, 2019 and 2020 for M&A, Venture Capital and Property Finance, and a Notable Practitioner in the International Financial Law Review 1000 in 2020 and 2021 for Private Equity, M&A and Real Estate.

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Nick is originally from Gibraltar and is a fluent Spanish speaker. He has also worked as a freelance tutor teaching Private Acquisitions at BPP Law School.