Giles Chesher's particular expertise covers mergers and acquisitions and private equity, and he leads the private equity practice within the Manchester office. Giles has worked on a number of high profile private equity and M&A transactions in the local, national and international market, acting for a wide variety of corporate and institutional clients. Giles also acts as a trusted business adviser to corporate clients on structural, organisational and strategic legal matters, assisting with dynamic growth strategies, defensive cost cutting measures and everything in between.

Representative Experience

• Acting for the sellers on the £280m sale of the Survitec Group, a global player in marine, defence and aerospace survival technology with operations in Europe, USA and the Far East to US private equity firm Warbing Pincus;
• The sale of Jackson Lloyd Limited to Mears Group plc;
• Acting for Newco and the investor on the investment into Getting Personal Limited by ISIS Private Equity;
• The sale of an online gift retail business, acting for a major UK plc
• Advising an Urban Generation Company on its shareholder structure;
• Advising a manufacturing company on major management changes and an equity reconfiguration;
• Advising a telecommunications and outsourcing company on the acquisition of a competitor