Cripps Harries Hall

Nigel Stanford

Partner

Nigel Stanford is a corporate solicitor with 20 years' experience. He specialises in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions and has wide experience of advertising and media related corporate transactions.

Expertise

  • Corporate finance
  • Share sales/purchases
  • Management buy-ins/buy-outs
  • Joint ventures
  • Business acquisitions/disposals
  • Banking

Career

  • Partner, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2006
  • Consultant, Keystone Law, 2002
  • Solicitor, Tempus Group Plc, 1994
  • Solicitor, Nabarro, 1991
  • Trainee Solicitor, Nabarro, 1989
  • Acting for Clydesdale Bank in the closing of a multi-million pound deal to help expand the Holiday Extras Group. The facilities were negotiated as part of Clydesdale's 'Investment for Growth'. Transaction value £25m
  • Advising WFCA plc on a rights issue and related Rule 9 Takeover Code Waiver
  • Advising WFCA plc on the purchase of Williams Blake Reay Limited, leading specialist healthcare agency
  • Advising Vexed Limited on the purchase of Future Platforms Limited
  • Acting for a major bank on a £5 million facility for funding the purchase of a commercial property
  • Acting for a private equity fund in the purchase of a medical screening services business from a major NHS Trust
  • Acting for a property investment plc in relation to a £9.5 million debt facility to fund the purchase of a shopping centre
Legal updates view all
+ Media & advertising update - Breaching Advertising Guidelines? You're not when you're #spon
A marketing campaign by confectionary giant Mars has been cleared by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in its first investigation involving social networking site Twitter.
08/03/2012
+ Media & advertising law - Ofcom opens consultation into television advertising trading
Ofcom has opened a consultation into competition issues regarding the way in which television advertising is traded. In recent years there have been concerns that some of the particular features of television advertising trading are distorting competition in that particular market and Ofcom is now seeking views on whether it should make a market investigation reference to the Competition Commission.
 14/07/2011
+ Media and advertising update - Ofcom changes rules preventing product placement - February 2011
Product placement involves an advertiser paying a broadcaster to have its brand, products, services and/ or trade marks included in a programme. Broadcasters have to adhere to Ofcom's Broadcasting Code, which currently prohibits this form of advertising. However, on 28 February 2011, a new section of the Broadcasting Code will be implemented which will, for the first time, allow product placement in UK-produced programmes. Certain restrictions on product placement will remain in place so that programmes do not become distorted advertising mechanisms and there will be restrictions on different types of products and programmes to which the new
01/02/2011
+ Media and advertising update - advertising rules to be extended to cover website content - October 2010
UK businesses face increased regulation over their website content from 1 March 2011, when the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is extending its remit from that date to cover businesses' marketing communications on their own websites, as well as on social networking sites and other "nonpaid- for" space online.
 01/10/2010
+ Media and advertising law - New advertising codes - July 2010
In March 2009 the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) launched a consultation about a wide-ranging review of the advertising codes. This was the first time that CAP and BCAP had conducted a comprehensive, co-ordinated review of the advertising codes, covering both broadcast and non-broadcast advertisements.
 01/07/2010
In the press view all
+ Angel investment - Where do you put your money
Article written by Cripps Harries Hall partner, Nigel Stanford.
 09/05/2012
+ Business Angels
Due to the current economic climate, companies are finding it difficult, if not impossible, to raise finance through bank lending.
 01/02/2012
+ Cripps Harries Hall successfully support Clydesdale Bank PLC on their multi-million pound deal to help expand the Holidays Extras Group
A multi-million pound deal to help expand the Holiday Extras Group has been concluded by Clydesdale Bank in Kent, challenging the perception that well managed businesses are struggling to secure funding.
08/09/2011
+ Family handover is complicated
Nigel Stanford answers a readers business question
 23/05/2011