Nicholas Foss-Pedersen is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the London office of Haynes and Boone. His practices includes advising on: mergers and acquisitions (buy side and sell side); pre-IPO fundraising (acting for both companies and brokers); Initial Public Offerings (Main Market and AIM); public company fundraisings (including accelerated book builds and cash box placings), open offers and rights issues; public company takeovers (contractual offers and schemes of arrangement); cash confirmations and whitewashes under the Takeover Code; private equity, venture capital and debt backed management buy outs and buy ins; investments (acting for both companies and investors); joint venture and shareholder structures and arrangements; LLP, LP and partnership structures and arrangements; and corporate governance including the Takeover Code, the Prospectus Rules, the AIM Rules, and general company law.

Bar Admissions
England and Wales, 2000

Education
LL.B. (Hons.), Law with German Law, King’s College London and Universitaet Passau, 1996
Legal Practice Course, The College of Law, 1998

Significant Accomplishments
Acted for London Stock Exchange Main Market listed company on acquisitions in Germany, Brazil, Russia and USA.

Acted for owner-managers on sales of companies to NYSE listed buyers.

Acted for closed-ended real estate investment company on sales of Brazilian assets.

Acted for buyers and sellers on private sales and acquisitions.

Acted for bidders, targets and financial advisers on Takeover Code regulated sales, acquisitions and auction processes.

Acted for Issuers, nominated advisers and brokers on admissions to trading on AIM and fundraisings.

Acted for companies, owners and managers on sales to and investments by venture capital and private equity funds and investee companies.

Acted for emerging market focused private equity fund on sales of African assets.

Acted for private equity fund on sales of UK assets.