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Direct and to-the-point, Adam is a commercially-minded corporate lawyer and robust negotiator who always looks to find solutions. He is the head of the Corporate and Restructuring and Insolvency Groups at Taylor Vinters and the only lawyer in Cambridge who is a licensed insolvency practitioner.
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
- joint ventures
- restructuring
- LLPs and partnerships
- corporate governance, board and shareholder issues
- shareholder and partnership disputes
- insolvency and business turnaround
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
- 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 stakeholders in Underground Toys Limited, a creator, manufacturer and distributor of licensed products, on the sale of its business and assets to Funko UK
- Acting for NASDAQ-listed Funko on its further strategic acquisition of UK consultancy, A Large Evil Corporation Limited
- Advising renewables company, Elgin Energy, and its stakeholders on numerous Solar/PV site acquisitions and the subsequent sale of the corporate vehicles holding them
- Representing the sellers of Transworld Global on a group restructuring and sale of the international and overnight courier business to Citysprint
- Advising the minority sellers in fintech sector business, Treasury Capital Limited, on the acquisition by ASX-listed provider of Responsible Entity services, EQT Holdings Limited, of a 60% holding in TCL
- Representing the partners in the establishment of an LLP and transfer into it of substantial land interests
- Advising Clearstone Energy on all aspects of site acquisition and the disposal of small-scale gas power stations throughout the UK
- Advised Bionical Limited on the acquisition of contract research organisation (CRO), EMAS Pharma Limited
- Representing family office Fulbrook Thorpe Investments LLP on its co-investment with Lloyds Development Capital in the secondary buy-out of Midlands food producer, Addo Foods
- Acting for the sellers of City fintech company, Alphakinetic to Virtus Partners Holdings, LLC, a Texas-based provider of global solutions to alternative asset managers
- Advising on the purchase out of administration of the business and real property and other assets, of a worldwide supplier of environmental, industrial laboratory and life science products
- Advising a specialist real estate lender on the restructuring of its customers’ positions and on matters of security enforcement
Professional qualifications, bodies and associations:
- Licensed Insolvency Practitioner (2005)
- Winner of the highest place lawyer prize in Joint Insolvency Examination Board (2005)
- Fellow of R3 (The Association of Business Recovery Professionals)
Adam Bradley is also a trustee and director of local charity, Sports Aid Eastern and a director of online English language school, Perfectly Spoken.
