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Ian Craig specializes in investment and financing transactions, including private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital investments. He represents hedge funds, private equity funds, investment banks, and other financial institutions in connection with complex investment structures relating to diverse companies both in the UK and internationally. He regularly provides strategic and regulatory advice to shareholders and to boards of directors of both listed and private companies. Mr. Craig’s experience also includes a wide variety of other transactions such as start-ups, joint ventures and the establishment of special purpose vehicles for inward investment into the UK and Europe. Mr. Craig regularly advises private equity and hedge fund clients in connection with club deals not only in the U.S. and Europe, but also in emerging markets across Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Some illustrative representations include:

• Representing the buyer of a group of companies established in RSA and Cayman Islands;
• Representing the lead investor in its investment in a real estate and resort development in the Caribbean;
• Representing a major investment bank and hedge fund as joint lenders to a group of companies established in the sub-Sahara region;
• Representing a group of investors in the reorganization of an investment vehicle incorporated in Guernsey;
• Representing a shareholder in a public company in connection with regulatory issues;
• Representing a joint venture partner in a joint venture formed with leading banks and credit card issuers for the offering of certain products internationally;
• Representing the family office of Swiss bank in relation to its private equity investments in the UK and EU;  
• Representing a private limited company established in England & Wales on a series of acquisitions including a take private strategy in relation to an AIM listed company;
• Representing a company established in the Netherlands in relation to finance raised to develop an energy and associated chemical manufacturing facility in Eastern Europe;
• Representing a I.O.M. investment vehicle in connection its acquisition of a holding company established in the Republic of Mauritius with its main business interests centred in the RSA;
• Representing a group of companies established in England & Wales in connection with a re-organisation and subsequent acquisition of 100% of the issued shares in certain FSA regulated entities, including advising on all regulatory aspects of the acquiring; 
• Representing a U.S. fund in connection with its proposed debt and equity investment in a substantial manufacturing facility based in Egypt;
• Representing the majority shareholders in an investment company established in England & Wales in connection with its restructuring, certain tax and regulatory issues arising out of recent statutory restrictions imposed on the prior structuring of the company; and
• Representing the shareholders of a company in connection with their sale of 100% of the issued shares in a sector specific agency to a listed company, with consequent residual earn out and convertible securities issues.

Mr. Craig was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1983.