Nick Gabay
Partner
Specialisms and expertise
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Corporate finance
- Corporate restructurings
- Joint ventures
- Employee share incentive schemes
- Insolvency.
Past and present projects
- Advising on the acquisition and merger of a number of small wine producing companies, a subsequent private placing and then flotation on the Plus Market.
- Advising on a 25-year PFI project for the management of a city's highway network, then going on a part-time secondment at the client's premises to offer on-site advice and assistance with the implementation of the PFI project.
- Advising on the sale of a large letting agent company with 12 branches across Kent and Sussex to a fully listed purchaser.
- Advising an AIM-listed client on its acquisition of a Swiss-based technology manufacturing company.
- Advising on the sale of a security training and equipment company to an AIM-listed purchaser.
- Advising on the incorporation of a landscape gardening company, an EMI share option scheme for its employees and its acquisition of a competing company.
- Advising a number of clients on the acquisition and sale of regulated care homes.
- Advising on a section 110 reconstruction of a large property investment company.
- Advising a high street bank on financing a company's buy-out of a shareholder.
Achievements and other appointments
Nick is recognised as a "leader in the field" in the Corporate Finance section of the leading independent guide to UK law firms, Chambers UK, where he is described as having “a huge capacity for knowledge”. He is acknowledged in the 2011 edition for taking a "practical and commercial approach to issues". The 2009 edition praises Nick for providing “outstanding service with a calm, personable manner”.
Profile
Nick joined Thomson Snell & Passmore in 1997. He was appointed as a partner in 2008.