Saul is a corporate finance partner handling complex cross-border transactions. His practice covers a broad spread of areas including equity capital markets, general corporate, public and private M&A and joint ventures. He has experience of advising on a number of UK and cross-border transactions in a wide range of sectors including minerals and mining, clean-tech, advertising, software, life sciences and consumer products.

He has particular experience advising international businesses raising money in the London and European markets and in a wide range of transactions in the metals and mining sector. These ranging from negotiating project development agreements in sub-Saharan Africa to leading multi-billion dollar M&A transactions with mining majors.

Saul is endorsed as a leading lawyer in PLC's “Which Lawyer” for “Capital Markets: equity (small –mid cap)”.

Key Experience

Saul’s key experience includes:

Advising on a number of joint venture and development agreements for copper/cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Advising on the admission of numerous over-seas companies on their admission to AIM and associated fund-raisings

Advising shareholders on the disposal of a controlling interest in CAMEC plc to ENRC Plc

Advising Econergy on its bid from Trading Emissions plc and subsequently Suez South America

Advising Inspired Gaming Plc on its listing on AIM by way of an accelerated IPO and associated fund raising

Advising a consortium of international investors on a tender offer for Dolphin Capital Investors Limited

Career History

Partner, Mishcon de Reya
Partner, Reed Smith
Associate, Reed Smith
Trainee and Associate, Allen & Overy
University of Oxford (Exeter College)