Jack Letson

Work Highlights

The shareholders of Braid Logistics and Proflex Packaging in the cross-border sale to J.F. Hillebrand AG.

CCL Industries Inc. in its acquisition of McGavigan Holdings Limited, a supplier to the automotive industry.

Scottish Water in its first acquisition, which involved it acquiring the PFI companies that own various wastewater treatment facilities in the North East of Scotland.

SEM Energy in its award winning private equity investment from Energy Growth Momentum and its simultaneous acquisition of two tech companies.

Northern Ireland Water in its strategic acquisition of Kelda Group’s Northern Irish operations that supply ~50% of the country’s drinking water.

Honeywell in its disposal of a manufacturing business division.

Caldan Therapeutics in its investments by Life Arc, Epidarex Capital and the Scottish Investment Bank.

The shareholders in the sale of Gold Standard Simulations to NASDAQ listed Synopsys, Inc.

MacRebur in both of its Crowdfunding Investment Rounds.

The University of Glasgow in relation to its spin-out companies from incorporation and investment all the way through to exit.

InterBulk Group plc in its public takeover by Den Hartogh Holding B.V.

Weir Group PLC in the cross-border disposal of a renewables business.

Tarmac in its buy-out of Scottish Power's interest in a joint venture.

Practice Areas

Jack Letson is a partner in the Corporate/M&A Team. Jack specialises in public and private company work including: mergers and acquisitions; private equity; take-over bids; public issues and placings; corporate reorganisations; shareholder and joint venture arrangements; venture capital and crowdfunding investments; corporate legal audits and corporate governance matters. He is part of a corporate team that has been recognised as the leading legal deals team in Scotland in both 2015 and 2016.

Jack advises a broad range of clients from spin out/high growth companies all the way through to companies listed on AIM/the Main Market. Clients come to Jack for his 15 years’ worth of transactional experience. Having been on secondment to BAE Systems plc, he also has an in-depth understanding of the commercial aspects of high value transactions.

Since becoming a Partner, Jack has been consistently recommended by Legal 500 and ranked by Chambers UK, with the latter commenting on his experience in both domestic and international M&A and private equity work.

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