Nick Ducker

Expertise

Nick has a natural aptitude for understanding commercial issues, which makes him a welcome trusted advisor to the Management teams he advises. He advises on corporate and corporate finance transactions, and is completely focused on ensuring that the client’s objective from a transaction is at the forefront of everyone’s agenda. Nick advises on acquisitions, disposals, management buy-outs and buy-ins, private equity transactions, reverse takeovers, joint ventures, shareholder issues, capital reductions and buy-backs.

Nick Advises

• Entrepreneurial management teams
• Large corporates

Experience Highlights

• Advising the Management team of Busy Bees Nurseries on their sale to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Fund.
• Advising a NASDAQ listed industrial services group on a £90m acquisition.
• Advising the Management team or Klarius Products on their acquisition from administration.
• Advising AIM listed CBG Group Plc on its recommended takeover by Giles Insurance Brokers.
• Acting for the shareholders of HC Recruitment on its merger with Assist Recruitment.
• Advising an AIM listed Plc on a series of acquisitions and disposals.
• Acting for shareholders on the disposal of their catering business to an FTSE 100 listed company.
• Acting for the shareholders of Columbia Design & Build Limited on the sale of the entire issued share capital to AIM listed Formation Group plc instituting a reverse takeover.
• Acting on several sales of business and assets by an administrator.
• Advising on carrying out section 110 demergers as part of tax reorganisation.

Career History

Previous Law Firms

• Shammah Nicholls LLP

Previous Businesses

• Acting general counsel, Klarius Group 

Education

• College of Law, York, LPC
• University of Hull, Law with German; 2:1