Dentons

Dentons helps businesses grow, protect, operate, and finance their organisations by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal solutions. Dentons acts for numerous national and international corporates from sectors including financial services, food and drink, industrials, manufacturing, real estate, retail, technology, and energy. We have an extensive international footprint to support clients on a broad variety of domestic and international corporate mandates, including public and private M&A, equity capital markets, private equity, venture capital, listed and private funds, joint ventures, and restructuring.

• Represented affiliates of KKR in connection with their acquisition of the entire issued and to-be-issued share capital of Smart Metering Systems plc (SMS) by way of a recommended cash offer at 955 pence per share;
• Advised Thomson Reuters, the global technology and media company, on its acquisition of Safe Sign Technologies, a UK-based AI startup that is developing legal-specific large language models (LLM);
• A team lead by Dentons Corporate Scotland advised John Lewis Partnership on Waitrose’s acquisition of Dishpatch, the meal-kit delivery service that provides restaurant-quality home dining;
• Advised fast fashion retailer, Quiz plc, on its delisting from the AIM market;
• Sale of Aliter Capital-backed MARCH to funds managed by EMK Capital;
• Sale of Motherwell-headquartered Ascensos to Indian stock exchange listed global business process management group Firstsource.