HFW grows corporate capability with partner hires

Giles Beale, James Wilson

Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) continues to grow its international corporate practice with the recruitment of partners Giles Beale and James Wilson who have joined the firm's London office from Reed Smith.

Beale and Wilson specialise in corporate finance and international mergers and acquisitions, in particular involving the equity capital markets. They advise a wide variety of issuers, investors and intermediaries on IPOs, secondary offerings and takeovers in London (both on the Main Market and AIM) and internationally. They have particular expertise in assisting overseas businesses and investors in their dealings with the London Stock Exchange, the UK Listing Authority and the UK's Panel on Takeovers and Mergers.

Beale led the first primary listing of a US corporation on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and the first dual listing of a company on AIM and the Toronto Stock Exchange.