Ian Brent Bio

I specialise in private company M&A. I have a sector focus on recruitment and technology, and I am one of the Recommended Lawyers for sub £50m deals in Legal 500 UK. I have been a lawyer for 30 years and a corporate partner for over 20 years. I love doing deals and that gets me out of bed in the morning (although my wife would say it’s the Peloton bike). I not only advise on deals but have managed to match many buyers and investors with target companies. I focus on the battles worth winning rather than point scoring and am happy to use my experience of over 300 deals to help clients get the best commercial outcome. I know the recruitment sector particularly well and am on one side or the other of many of the M&A deals in that space. I am very familiar with the PE landscape as I act both on the buy side for firms such as Nickleby Capital and the sell side for shareholders selling to PE houses.