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Michelle Gomes

T: +44 20 7809 2370 M: +44 7872 106 630 Email Michelle | vCard Office: London

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Michelle Gomes Managing associate

Contact details

Michelle Gomes

Michelle Gomes
Managing associate

T: +44 20 7809 2370 M: +44 7872 106 630 Email Michelle | vCard Office: London

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Michelle is a managing associate in the corporate team, specialising in private M&A, joint ventures and private company fundraising within a broad range of sectors, including life sciences, technology and green tech.
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Michelle advises clients across a broad range of sectors, with a specific focus on life sciences (having spent time on secondment with both BTG plc and Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd), technology and energy sectors. She advises on various matters including early stage fundraisings, joint ventures, M&A and general corporate advisory.

Michelle's recent experience includes acting for: Life sciences company on its divestment of a legacy product; Piramal Enterprises Limited on the sale of its molecular imaging business; AIM listed Focusrite plc on its acquisition of Linea Research Holdings; Anglia Maltings on their entry into a three way joint venture with Frontier Agriculture and Camgrain; Highview Power on their growth capital round which totalled $70 mllion; Sellers of Arcola Energy on their sale to Canadian listed company Ballard Power Systems; CLS Group on the sale of Future Climate Info to Canadian listed Dye & Durham; 3 Step IT on its strategic partnership with BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions to create a leading integrated IT leasing business across various European jurisdictions and various early stage companies on their equity funding rounds (from Series A onwards).

  • Public and private M&A
  • Corporate
  • Data protection and information
  • Commercial, outsourcing and technology

BTG plc

Advising BTG plc on its (up to) $475 million acquisition of PneumRx Limited.

Silk Healthcare

Advising the shareholders of Angela Swift Holdings Limited on the sale of luxury care homes operator Silk Healthcare to Methodist Homes.

Takeover of Superglass plc

Advising Inflection Management Corporation on its £13.2 million recommended public takeover of Superglass Holdings plc.

Investment in Gibraltan stock exchange

Advising Cyberhub Fintech Holdings Limited on its investment in GSX Group Limited, the parent of GSX Limited, which operates the Gibraltar Stock Exchange.

IPO – Hotel Chocolat

Advising Hotel Chocolat, the premium chocolate grower, manufacturer and retailer in relation to its IPO.

IPO – Arden Partners

Advising Arden Partners (as broker and NOMAD) on the listing of London-based law firm, Gordon Dadds.

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Data protection – pharmaceutical company

Advising a pharmaceutical company on the implementation of an intra-group data transfer agreement and a larger scale GDPR-readiness project.

Assisting on GDPR-readiness projects.

Data privacy risks and cloud software

Advising a client on the data privacy and confidentiality risks involved in using cloud based software.

Data protection – art auction house

Advising an art auction house on the implementation of an intra-group data transfer agreement.

General advice relating to compliance with data protection legislation.

More: Data protection and information

General commercial issues – life sciences company

Advising a life sciences company on various commercial agreements, including material transfer agreements, master services agreements and software agreements.

Art commission and art purchase templates

Experience drafting art commission and art purchase templates.

General commercial contracts – 5* hotel

Advising a hotel on a wide variety of agreements, including a spa collaboration and an access agreement for a broadcaster.

More: Commercial, outsourcing and technology

  • Life sciences
  • Art and cultural property

BTG plc

Advising BTG plc on its (up to) $475 million acquisition of PneumRx Limited.

Data protection

Advising a pharmaceutical company on the implementation of an intra-group data transfer agreement and a larger scale GDPR-readiness project.

General commercial issues

Advising a life sciences company on various commercial agreements, including material transfer agreements, master services agreements and software agreements.

General company law

Advice in relation to company law issues.

General commercial and data protection

Experience drafting art commission and art purchase templates.

Advising an art auction house on the implementation of an intra-group data transfer agreement.

General advice relating to compliance with data protection legislation.

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