Oliver Kelly

Practice Areas

Oliver specialises in mergers and acquisitions, management buyouts, management buy-ins, buy-in management buyouts, private equity transactions and venture capital trusts. Throughout Oliver’s career, he has worked on numerous transactions, but developed a niche in the travel / leisure sector, in which he has advised on over 40 deals. He also has extensive sector experience in marine and transport / logistics, financial services, technology, digital infrastructure and electric vehicles and charging infrastructure. He also has expertise in other types of investments and fundraising, cross border transactions, corporate reorganisation and restructuring, demergers, shareholder agreements and issues relating to company constitutions.

His commercial advice covers commercial contracts, IT and technology contracts, outsourcing supply of goods and/or services contracts, distribution agreements and franchising.

Work Highlights

£120 million sale of HobbyCraft to Bridgepoint Capital and reinvestment by shareholders and management.

Buyout of a global travel business, The Appointment Group, by Apiary Capital.

Secondary buy-out of Specialist Journeys by Kings Park Capital.

Management buyout of World of Books by Bridges Ventures.

£72 million merger between Pro-Bel and Snell & Wilcox.

Acquisition of Trafalgar Wharf.

Management buy out of Distant Journeys.

Secondary buyout of ITS Technology group.