Sean Wright

Partner, Broadfield UK

Partner
Broadfield UK

  • Over thirty years of experience acting for equity providers, management teams and financial sponsors on M&A
  • Focuses his corporate practice on private equity transactions
  • Ranked in the top band in both Chambers and Legal 500 and praised for his ”commercial awareness” and ”negotiation skills”.
Sean Wright

About

A corporate lawyer of over three decades, Sean specialises in private equity, advising on transactions across the full investment life cycle. With a strong track record in complex, high-value transactions, he provides strategic and commercially focused advise on acquisitions, disposals and growth investments.

Sean is particularly known for his negotiation skills, allowing to navigate sophisticated deal structures. Further recognised by his inclusion in the Chambers 100 guide, he has been praised for his “hands-on personal service”

Sean has experience across a range of sectors including education, media, healthcare and retrial. Sean frequently acts on cross-border transactions between the UK and US.

  • Acting for management on the buyout of Ascenti Health by bd-capital partners.
  • Acting for the sellers on the acquisition of and management on the buyout of Phoenix Datacom by an LDC backed Newco.
  • Acting for the shareholders of Solent Group on its £117m sale to quoted Swedish corporate Humble Group AB (publ).
  • Acting for Cavendish Education Group on various acquisitions.
  • Acting for Dukes Education Group on various acquisitions.
  • Acting for Castik Capital backed TBAuctions on its acquisition of British Medical Auctions.
  • Acting for management on the sale of eCogra to Hanover Investments
  • Acting for LDC on the sale of Property Software Group to Zoopla for £75m, the £105m MBO of ByBox and its investment into Message Direct.
  • Acting for Management on the buyout of Phlexglobal by Vitruvian Partners from Bridgepoint Development Capital.
  • Acting for the sellers on the sale of a majority stake Platform Media and the Good, the Bad and the Rugby to PodX.
  • Acting for the shareholders of Hamleys on its £100m sale to China based C.Banner International
  • Acting for the shareholders of Ishka and Airfinance Global on its strategic merger backed by FIPL.

  • England and Wales

Testimonials

''Sean Wright is very bright, very experienced, a great client handler and very commercial.”

Chambers & Partners

“Meticulous on the detail and a persuasive negotiator.”

Legal 500

Areas of Focus

Education

Sheffield University
Chester Law College

Languages

  • English
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