Our corporate team is committed to building strong and friendly long-term relationships with our clients.

We strive to become our clients’ trusted business advisors, with a focus on great client service and industry sector knowledge that is ingrained throughout our team. This enables us to anticipate our clients’ needs and proactively find solutions to help clients achieve their goals.

From entrepreneurs and start-ups to large mid-market deals, we cover a wide array of corporate transactions in terms of both complexity and size. We advise companies, financial institutions and investor clients on UK and international private and public M&A, listings and fundraisings on the Main Market and AIM, as well as on venture capital, private equity and other corporate transactions.

We also advise companies, advisers, boards and senior executives in relation to the full range of corporate governance and regulatory compliance issues.

Our ongoing corporate support to clients draws on specialist advice from colleagues across the firm, resulting in a consistent and dedicated multi-disciplinary team-based approach.

A substantial amount of our work has an international component thanks to our commitment to building relationships with independent law firms across the globe. This enables us to offer a seamless service in the jurisdictions relevant to you, and we are adept at working effectively with your existing advisers in those jurisdictions.

Key Contacts

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Corporate experience

  • Advised Spruce Energy, a SaaS company supporting the heat pump industry, on its £3 million seed funding round.

  • Advised a venture capital fund on its investment in an insurtech company developing automated analytics tools to support data-driven risk assessment and insights for insurers.

  • Advised The Alcohol Free Brewing Company Ltd, trading as UNLTD., on a £1 million fundraising round from a Malta-based family office. The investment supports UNLTD.’s continued growth in the hospitality sector and brings on board strategic expertise.

  • Advised a leading automated tip management platform used by major hospitality brands on its £4.5 million fundraising.

  • Advised a Singapore-based venture capital fund on its investment into a UK entity, following a referral from an international advisory group.

  • Advised a UK-based FinTech company on securing approximately £15 million in additional investment to support market expansion and brand growth.

  • Advised a biotechnology company on its $10.5m investment round led by a venture capital fund, alongside other investors.

  • Advised GB Bank on its £85m funding round, led by new investor Hera Holdings Limited and including a further £5m follow-on investment from existing shareholder Teesside Pension Fund.

  • Advised CapitalRise, a specialist property lender, on securing its fifth and largest funding facility, valued at £250m.

  • Advised the digital investment arm of a multinational financial services group on a £2m investment into a UK-based home ownership fintech company.

  • Advising a publishing services company in a trademark dispute with a major academic institution over use of a geographic term in its name, involving issues of acquired distinctiveness, co-existence, and geographic indicators

  • Acted for Emerald Publishing on its cross-border acquisition of Now Publishers’ assets, including the Foundations & Trends® series, advising on structure, IP rights and content strategy

Corporate FAQs

Yes. We have a strong team that is recommended by the legal directories for its mergers and acquisitions capability. We can also call in the expertise of several other specialist departments including tax and employment to deal with the legal issues which come up during the sale process.

Yes, with the world so international most of our transactions involve an element of cross border work, whether an overseas buyer or the seller having operations overseas. We have excellent relationships with a range of international law firms with whom we work closely to ensure that your transaction is handled in a “joined up” manner.

Yes. We have a strong team that is recognised for its venture capital capabilities. Our team will include tax and employment lawyers to advise on the range of legal issues which  occur  during the investment process.

Our partners are involved throughout the transaction and each partner is supported by a strong team of associates. This ensures that the work is done by the right lawyer to achieve a cost effective result.

Yes. Our capital markets group has extensive experience of AIM transactions and advise on a broad range of transactions including IPOs, secondary fundraisings, M&A, corporate governance, shareholder engagement and shareholder activism.

"Fox Williams have significant breadth of experience in the sort of transaction we are undertaking and they are able to advise on complex shareholder issues."


Chambers UK 2025

“The Fox Williams team is highly competent and is able to cover all of the issues in detail and explain them in relatively simple language for the benefit of those who lack a legal background.”


Chambers UK 2024

"Fox Williams is unique because they have a big pool of specialised departments. The most important factor is that the various teams work extremely well with each other."


Legal 500 2024