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Direct and to-the-point, Adam Bradley is a commercially-minded corporate lawyer and robust negotiator who always looks to find solutions. His time is split between the firm’s offices in Cambridge and London and he has a particular focus on cross-border work.
He acts for entrepreneurially-focussed businesses and their stakeholders in different sectors and at all stages of the corporate life cycle, in particular:
- M&A, including cross-border
- early stage and follow-on investments
- restructuring, insolvency and business turnaround
- joint ventures
- LLPs and partnerships
- corporate governance, board and shareholder issues
- shareholder and partnership disputes
He remains the only lawyer in Cambridge who is also a licensed insolvency practitioner and is listed in two categories in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame 2022 – Corporate and Commercial: Cambridge and Insolvency: East Anglia.
Adam excels in the following areas:
- Applying extensive technical knowledge in a practical manner
- Proactively ensuring that deals get over the line by focussing on the key issues, not pedantic “lawyerly” points that add no value
- Constantly looking to effect beneficial introductions between clients and contacts, providing them with business opportunities
- Forging long-term relationships with stakeholders to advise on matters generally which concern them, beyond more specific transactional matters
Examples of recent work:
- Advising the sellers of leading technology services business, Sapphire Systems Limited, on the investment into it by Horizon Capital
- Advising the UK and India-based stakeholders of SaaS business, Topsource Global, on a further private equity investment made by Horizon Capital
- Representing the sellers of order automation tool company, Omprompt, on the sale to US-based digital supply company, Elemica
- Advising AMTE Power plc on its pre-IPO reorganisation
- Acting for NASDAQ-listed, Funko, on its UK corporate acquisition and commercial matters
- Representing leading US cloud-based business software company, ECI Software Solutions Inc., on numerous UK acquisitions and its ongoing UK legal requirements
- Representing the founder on the sale of specialist surveying business, Survey Solutions, to RJD Capital and advising the new entity on its subsequent acquisitions of further specialist surveying businesses
- Advising Zapier Inc, a market-leader in the automation of web applications, on its UK set up and its acquisition of Makerpad
- Representing fast-growing Atlanta-based accounting and advisory firm, Frazier & Deeter, on its UK set up, partnership and commercial trading matters
- Advising bespoke fine jewellery and diamonds brand, Vashi, on its corporate fundraising
- Representing the founders of Laser Clinics UK on their UK fundraising and establishment
- Advising renewables company, Elgin Energy, and its stakeholders on numerous solar/PV site acquisitions and the subsequent sale of the corporate vehicles holding them
- Advising Clearstone Energy on all aspects of site acquisition and the disposal of its renewables projects throughout the UK
- Advising a leading specialist property-based lender on the restructuring of its customers’ positions and on matters of security enforcement
- Advising FRP, as the administrators of alternative trading company, Twin Trading, on the administration and sale of the business and assets
Professional qualifications, bodies and associations:
- Licensed Insolvency Practitioner (2005)
- Winner of the highest placed lawyer prize in Joint Insolvency Examination Board (2005)
- Fellow of R3 (The Association of Business Recovery Professionals)
Adam is also a trustee and director of regional charity, Sports Aid Eastern, a director of Perfectly Spoken, an online language school teaching English as a foreign language and he is a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass.
