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Richie Clark

Partner

Richie heads up the firm’s corporate department and is a partner in our capital markets group.

Richie advises companies and financial institutions on a broad range of corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, listings, financings, public takeovers and increasingly on activist investor and corporate governance issues. He advises clients in a variety of industry sectors including technology, natural resources, clean tech and financial services and has particular expertise in understanding the issues facing international companies entering the UK market to seek funding or make acquisitions.

Representative transactions include:

• Edge Resources Inc - acted for this TSXV Canadian oil & gas exploration and production company on its dual listing on AIM
• Trap Oil Group plc – acted for FirstEnergy Capital and Mirabaud Securities on the £4.3 million placing for this AIM-listed independent North Sea oil and gas company
• Fluormin plc – acted for Westhouse Securities Limited in connection with the admission to AIM of this fluorspar production and exploration company with operations in South Africa and Tunisia
• Water Hall Group plc - acted for this AIM-listed company on the sale of Water Hall (England) Limited, which was a fundamental disposal pursuant to the AIM Rules, and adoption of new investing policy
• London Capital Group Holdings plc – acted for nominated adviser and broker Cenkos Securities plc on the £8 million secondary placing for this AIM-listed online spread betting, foreign exchange and derivatives trading company
• Constellation Software Inc - acted for this Toronto Stock Exchange listed technology company on its unsolicited £18 million mandatory cash offer for AIM-listed Gladstone plc
• Just Retirement plc – acted for management of AIM-listed Just Retirement plc on its £220m takeover by way of a scheme of arrangement by Avalon Acquisitions Limited, an acquisition vehicle backed by private equity giant Permira
• Northleaf Capital Partners – acted for TD Capital Private Equity Investors on the spin-out of its global private equity investment firm to create Northleaf Capital, Canada’s largest independent global private equity fund manager and advisor managing over $2.8 billion in private equity fund commitments on behalf of institutional investors, including TD Capital. 
• San Leon Energy plc - acted for nominated adviser (Daniel Stewart and Company) on the AIM admission of this Irish oil & gas exploration company with assets in the Europe, Africa and North America, which had a market capitalisation of over £100 million on admission to AIM
• Coastal Energy Limited – acted for broker on $16 million secondary fundraising for this AIM and TSX-listed oil & gas producer with assets in Thailand
• Renewable Power & Light plc - AIM admission and £40 million placing, as well as a subsequent £10 million placing, fundamental disposal of two dual-fuelled power plants in the Northeastern United States, and two reductions and returns of capital to shareholders 
• Cardinal Resources plc - admission to AIM and $20 million placing; $20 million acquisition of Rudis Drilling Company; $50 million PIK Note financing with a US hedge fund; strategic investment and management agreement with Colombian-focussed Condor Exploration and $35 loan facility; $71 million sale of its Ukrainian assets to the Kuwait Energy Company

As well as being a director of the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce, Richie writes for numerous international business publications, has spoken at professional conferences and has been quoted in the press on topics related to UK public markets and corporate governance issues.   Richie is also a member of the International Bar Association and the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators.

Prior to joining Fox Williams, Richie was a partner at McCarthy Tétrault which he joined in 2001, after spending several years at Ashurst.

Richie received a first class B.A. with distinction from Mount Allison University in 1991 and an M.A. from Carleton University in 1992.  He received his LLB from Dalhousie University in 1995 and was called to the bar in Alberta in 1996.  Richie moved to the UK in 1997 and was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1998.

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