Spencer  Summerfield

Spencer Summerfield

Senior Consultant

Spencer trained at Travers Smith and became a partner in 1997. He became Head of Corporate in 2013 having been Head of Corporate Finance since 2003. He retired from the partnership in June 2025 and is now a Senior Consultant.

Spencer has a broad corporate practice but his principal area of work is UK and international corporate finance, including mergers, acquisitions and disposals, flotations and underwritings, corporate joint ventures and general corporate advice. 

His clients include a number of large quoted and private companies, based in the UK and overseas, as well as several financial sponsors.

Selected deals

Macquarie Capital Principal Finance on its investment in Stark.

Wavenet on its combination with Daisy Corporate Services to create the UK’s largest independent IT managed services provider.

Ancala Partners on the sale of its interest in Dragon LNG Group.

Micro Focus on the US$375 million sale of its Digital Safe business.

Macquarie Capital Principal Finance on its acquisition of Wavenet Group Holdings Limited.

Bytes Technology Group plc on its £646.6 million Main Market IPO.

Conduit Holdings Limited on its $1.1 billion Main Market IPO.

Breedon Group plc on the acquisition of certain UK assets and operations from Cemex, the Mexican multinational building materials company.

Aggregated Micro Power Holdings on the £63.1 million by Fossa Holdco Limited.

Breedon Group plc on the acquisition of Lagan Group (Holdings) Limited for a consideration of £455 million.

Raindance Acquisitions Topco Limited, the holding company of the Green Highland hydro group (a project developer, owner and operator of hydropower sites), on the sale of their shares and loan notes to the SIMEC group.

Basalt Infrastructure Partners LP on its disposal of its interest in Alkane Energy to Infinis Energy Management Limited, the leading generator of landfill gas in the UK.

Dovetail Group Limited on the sale of the entire issued share capital to Fiserv, Inc.

Ancala Partners LLP on its acquisition of South Downs Capital Limited, parent company of Portsmouth Water Limited, from South Downs Trustees Limited as trustee of the South Downs Employee Benefit Trust.

Dovetail Group Limited on the sale of the entire issued share capital to Fiserv, Inc.

Ancala Midstream Acquisitions Limited, which has entered into an agreement with Apache Beryl I Limited to acquire Apache’s 30.28 per cent interest in the Scottish Area Gas Evacuation system.

UK Mail Group plc in relation to the recommended cash offer made by Deutsche Post AG to acquire the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of UK Mail.

Ancala Partners on the acquisition of the largest wind farm in Cyprus, Orites Wind Farm from Platina Energy Partners and a local entrepreneur.

Ancala Partners on the acquisition of a majority interest in Holmleigh Care Homes.

Ancala on the sale of their 72% interest in Dutch fibre business Fore Freedom.

Perseus Mining Limited in relation to its public takeover of Amara Mining PLC.

Pace on US$2.1 billion merger with Arris.

Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Partners on its acquisition of Wightlink.

Micro Focus on its US$2 billion merger with the Attachmate Group.

Pets at Home and Trainline on their “dual track” IPO/sale.

BLME's US$500 million listing on Nasdaq Dubai.

Micro Focus on its US$8.8 billion merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise's software business segment.

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