Freddie is an associate in the Global Corporate Group, focusing on equity capital markets and private and public M&A transactions. He advises companies across sectors including life sciences, natural resources, technology, retail and financial services, and also acts for nominated advisers, sponsors, banks and brokers, with particular experience in IPOs, AIM admissions, secondary fundraisings and public company advisory work. Freddie has acted on a range of complex equity capital markets transactions, as well as on domestic and cross-border private and public M&A. He also advises on general corporate and transactional matters.
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
Acted for Urban Logistics REIT plc on the £700 million cash and share acquisition by LondonMetric Property plc (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith)
Acted for H&T Group PLC on its £297m acquisition by FirstCash Holdings, Inc. (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith)
Acted for RC Fornax on its placing and admission to AIM (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
2025
Acted for Urban Logistics REIT plc on the £700 million cash and share acquisition by LondonMetric Property plc (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith)
Acted for H&T Group PLC on its £297m acquisition by FirstCash Holdings, Inc. (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith)
Acted for RC Fornax on its placing and admission to AIM (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Acted for Strand Hanson (acting as nominated adviser) and Peel Hunt (acting as joint bookrunner and broker) on an approximately £11 million fundraise by Ondine Biomedical Inc. (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Acted for Dowgate Capital, Allenby Capital and SPARK Advisory Partners on a placing of new shares by Belluscura plc (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Acted for Cavendish Capital Markets Limited (acting as nominated adviser and joint bookrunner) and Oberon Capital (acting as joint bookrunner) a conditional fundraising by AIM-traded GENinCode plc (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Acted for Zzoomm Group on its merger with FullFibre (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Acted for TransAct Technology Solutions Holdings Limited on its sale to Presidio Inc. (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
2024
Acted for The London Tunnels plc on its listing on Euronext Amsterdam (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Acted for Pulsar Helium on its dual listing and £5 million fundraising (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Acted for Panmure Liberum on Optima Health plc's admission to AIM (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Acted for RBC Capital Markets and Singer Capital Markets on Ondine Biomedical Inc.’s £9.0 million fundraise (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Acted for Dowgate Capital Limited (acting as broker) and SPARK Advisory Partners Limited (acting as nominated adviser) on convertible loan note fundraisings for Belluscura plc (advised on prior to joining Reed Smith).
Credentials
Education
Education
- BPP University, 2020, LPC LLM
- University of Sussex, 2019, LL.B
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- England and Wales