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james Crossman
Senior Associate

James Crossman

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  • English

James is a Senior Associate in the Corporate Transactions team and is based in the Manchester office. He has experience in both national and international transactions, public and private M&A (including corporate auction processes), investment rounds and general corporate advisory. 

Relevant experience

  • RDI REIT P.L.C. on its GBP 467.9 million recommended cash takeover offer by an entity owned by a fund of Starwood Capital Group.
  • The Sellers of a 30% stake in UkFast.net Limited to Inflexion Private Equity, valuing the company at GBP 405 million.
  • Manchester Airport Group on the auction process and subsequent sale of its non-core property asset holding company to Columbia Threadneedle Investments. 
  • ActiveOps plc on its successful initial public offering and admission to trading on AIM with an initial market capitalisation of GBP 120 million.
  • JumboDiset Group (the leading European puzzles and games company) on its merger with British toy company, James Galt & Co Limited. 
  • Assura plc on a number of its recent and on-going acquisitions of corporate wrapped real estate assets. 
  • An on-line personalised gift company on three venture capital funding rounds, valuing the business at £10m million within the first 12 months of trading. 
  • Newable Capital on a number of its recent and on-going investments and mergers with UK SMEs, including the investments in ARC Building Solutions Limited and J.C. Atkinson and Son Limited. 

Education

  • 2014 – LPC, The University of Law, Manchester.
  • 2011 – LLB, University of Durham, Durham.

Insights by James

CMS advises easyHotel on €145m acquisition and financing of eight Benelux Hotels

24 Oct 2022 2 min read
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