Thomas Davies

I am an associate in our international Corporate Group in London. I advise clients on a range of corporate transactions, with a particular focus on private M&A, VC investments, private equity, and corporate reorganisations.

I work with clients across a number of Bird & Bird's key sectors, including Technology & Communications, Energy & Utilities, and Media, Entertainment and Sports. Much of my work is cross-border in nature, utilising the firm's international network and involving collaboration with overseas counsel and specialists.

I particularly enjoy working with clients that are being changed or disrupted by technology and increasingly advise clients making acquisitions, fund raising, or investing in the AI space. I think it is vital that lawyers understand emerging technologies so that we can best advise our clients, who are often either at the cutting edge of these new developments, or whose businesses are being transformed as a result. As a corporate lawyer at Bird & Bird, I am able to draw upon the expertise of our market-leading specialist teams to provide our clients with the most up-to-date and insightful legal advice.

I have a keen interest in how technology is re-shaping the legal industry. I am a member of the firm's AI Steering Group and LegalTech Focus Group, and help lead the Corporate group's efforts in adopting new technology. I have developed tools and processes to streamline internal workflows and ensure we continue to operate more efficiently and provide cost-effective solutions to our clients.

I qualified as a solicitor in August 2022, having trained at the firm and worked in our corporate, finance and dispute resolution groups. As a trainee, I was seconded to Macquarie in its Commodities and Global Markets business, which gave me an invaluable insight into how we can best support in-house legal teams and provide practical and commercially focused advice to our clients.

• Advised Gamma Communications on numerous acquisitions including: (i) Bright Cloud Group, Cisco's leading European Enterprise partner for CCaaS; (ii) Satisnet, a leading provider of cyber security services and solutions to businesses across the UK and Europe; and (iii) EnableX Group, one of the leading providers to the UK wholesale channel in cloud communications.
• Advised GetHarley, a health-tech platform, on its $52M Series B financing round led by Index Ventures.
• Advised Endeit Capital as the lead investor on a $37m investment round into payment processing and software provider Nomupay.
• Advised Tract, a prop-tech startup using AI to revolutionise the process of sourcing real estate and obtaining planning permissions, on its pre-seed fundraise co-led by Ada Ventures and Concept Ventures.
• Advised a global telecommunications business on its acquisitions of a UK-based AI consultancy business and a UK-based internet performance monitoring company.
• Advised the shareholders of 2i, a software testing and quality assurance provider, on an eight-figure investment by private equity firm Rockpool Investments.
• Advised the management team on the sale of Kindred Education by management and Unigestion, the global boutique asset manager, to private equity investor Livingbridge.
• Advised a startup using AI to create predictive models of human audiences on its pre-seed fundraise.
• Advised the sellers of Infospectrum, an independent provider of counterparty risk appraisal reports & data, due diligence research and KYC intelligence, to Lloyd's List Intelligence.
• Advised the seller on the sale of one of the UK's leading solar operations and maintenance businesses.