Mike Matthews

Mike qualified with Roythornes in 2012 and was promoted to Partner in 2019.

He heads our Mergers and Acquisitions team and deals with a wide range of transactions, from the sale and purchase of small family businesses to the sale and purchase of businesses worth many tens of millions of pounds. These are a mixture of trade sales, private equity sales and management buy-outs/buy-ins.

Described by clients as “absolutely excellent. Intelligent, intuitive, hardworking and conscientious” and “a credit to the industry, making complex scenarios understandable and having a commercial approach to progressing deals”, Mike has developed a widely recognised specialism and is a trusted advisor not just to his own clients, but also to corporate finance advisors and accountants alike.  

Mike specialises in:

• Share purchase agreements
• Asset purchase agreements
• MBOs / MBIs
• Share for share exchanges
• Shareholders’ Agreement
• Finance arrangements

 A number of Mike’s matters have featured in the press, including:

• acting for the management team on the sale of a majority stake in a leading biogas producer to Macquarie Capital Principal Finance
• acting for the sellers on the sale of the distribution company Tesam Distribution Limited for £11.75m to public listed company, Clipper Logistics plc
• acting for the sellers on the sale of the well known technology company, ParentMail, to Iris Software
• acting for the manufacturer of many well known cereals, Pioneer Foods, when it acquired the Good Carb Food Company Limited and the popular Lizi’s granola brand