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Gareth Jones

Partner, Dispute Resolution
Leeds, UK

Expertise

Gareth Jones joined Addleshaw Goddard in 2025. Prior to that he was a partner at Berwin Leighton Paisner and then Pinsent Masons. Gareth is a corporate lawyer specialising in capital markets and mergers and acquisitions matters across a broad range of sectors including energy, financial services, retail and consumer, technology, healthcare and real estate.

He has over 20 years' experience of advising on various corporate transactions including IPO’s and secondary offerings (both on the Official List and AIM), public takeovers and mergers and acquisitions, as well as advising boards of directors on their ongoing obligations and corporate governance matters.

Gareth also regularly advises investment banks on similar equity capital markets' transactions. More recently, Gareth has advised a number of clients on private capital fundraisings utilising a number of different structures.

When advising on such matters, Gareth successfully leads multi-disciplinary teams to manage cross-border issues.

Experience

Gareth experience includes:

advising subsea cable manufacturer XLCC Limited in connection with a £20m investment from Scottish National Investment Bank which followed on from an initial £20m investment from National Wealth Fund (with an option to provide an additional £67m of funding);
advising Elcogen Group plc on its various equity funding rounds with Hydrogen One Capital Growth plc, HD Hyundai, Baker Hughes and Mirae;
advising Booker Group on executing its recent M&A strategy, namely the acquisitions of Venus Wine and Spirit Merchants plc (share purchase) and Best Food Logistics (business and assets) and the disposal of Ritter Courivauld (share sale);
advising Strip Tinning Holdings plc on its AIM IPO and its follow on placing of new shares and unlisted convertible loan notes;
advising FireAngel Technology Group plc on its recommended cash acquisition by Intelligent Safety Electronics, the first UK public takeover to be called in (and subsequently approved) by the Secretary of State pursuant to the National Security and Investment Act 2021. This followed on from advising the company on a number of fully pre-emptive open offers, placings and subscriptions since 2017.

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