Last month, Waterfront’s Matt Cunningham and Sophie Price advised Wazoku Limited (Wazoku) on a £297,000 investment, closing its seed funding round at a total of £500,000. The investors included B&Q CEO Martyn Phillips, the founder of MultiMap.com Sean Phelan and Octopus Capital chairman, Matt Cooper. The investment will…
Earlier this month online retail company BrandAlley UK, the leading UK fashion private sales site, successfully completed a management buyout, backed by private investors, from its existing shareholders News International and BrandAlley France. Waterfront client and one of the private investors who backed the MBO, Bruce MacInnes, previously…
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Our Case Study We advised a client who acquired a studio portrait photography business which was part of a high-profile and successful national franchise (Business). For more information on franchises, see below. Our client set up a limited liability company (Company) to acquire the Business and the deal…
Waterfront Solicitors LLP acted for Michael Mew and Ian Service, the founders of Fertecon Research Centre (FRC), in relation to the acquisition of the company by the CRU Group. FRC is a phosphates and sulphur analysis and price-forecasting business that was founded in 1991 and which has a…
We’d like to introduce you to one of Waterfront’s long-standing clients, Find Invest Grow (FIG). We don’t harp on about all our clients, but they’re doing something rather exciting so we thought we’d help them spread the word! FIG is all about the entrepreneurs. They work with young…
Waterfront Solicitors LLP acted for Stewart Vassie, Julian Leach and the other shareholders of Botsphere in relation to the acquisition of the company by BetVictor. Botsphere was founded in 2005 by Stewart Vassie and Julian Leach and is a provider of automated trading solutions to gaming businesses.