Andrew McGlashan

Andrew McGlashan

Partner

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Andrew is a Partner in our Corporate Team and also leads our Start-up Team.

He is an accomplished M&A, capital markets and corporate specialist with a City background, coupled with having trained at Fox Williams and previously practised at BDB Pitmans.

Andrew has extensive experience supporting private equity funds as well as advising both buyers and sellers on domestic and cross-border M&A deals valued up to £150 million. This has led Andrew to be nominated for Welsh Dealmaker of the Year 2025 and his work on BGF’s investment into PureCyber was awarded Private Equity / Venture Capital Deal of the Year 2025. 

Notably, Andrew is also extremely conversant with the UK start-up ecosystem, having spent a number of years advising start-ups, founders, university spinouts, universities and incubators. Furthermore, he works closely with a large number of universities and a variety of co-working spaces and incubators to provide legal help to their founders. In addition, he also acts as a mentor to early-stage founders and advises universities and founders in relation to the university spin-out process.

Andrew also handles general corporate and corporate governance matters.

Outside law, Andrew enjoys playing sports, including football, golf, rugby, cricket, as well as being an avid American football fan. He previously served as a director of Swansea City Supporters Trust, a shareholder of Swansea Football Club. Surprisingly, Andrew is a very average guitarist but keen music fan, and likes cooking so much he almost became a chef.

Expertise
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Advising founders, investors, university spin-outs, incubators and universities regarding early stage growth companies and fundraising rounds
  • Capital markets transactions
  • Private equity transactions
  • Corporate governance

Work Highlights

Advising the shareholders of Remit Training, the country’s largest automobile apprenticeship provider, on their sale to private equity backed Inspiro Learning.
Advising the shareholders of fast-growing cyber security company PureCyber on the £5m investment by BGF to grow its small and medium client base and increase its market share among global enterprises.
Advising the selling shareholders of Do-IT Solutions, a leading tech-led provider of neurodiversity and wellbeing screening assessments. on their sale to private equity backed Lexxic, a leading specialist in workplace neurodiversity assessment, training and accreditation services.
Advising the shareholder of an elevator maintenance company on a sale to a private equity backed buy and build group which included rollover equity in the acquiring entity.
Advising Chalkie, a UK-based AI platform for generating standards-aligned lessons and worksheets, with its £2m seed funding led by Triple Point Ventures.
Advising HealthKey, a London-based healthtech, on its £1.13 million seed funding round led by Aviva Ventures.
Advising an AI voice isolation technology company on its Series B fund raise from a consortium of private equity investors, which will enable it to commercialise its technology on a worldwide basis.
Advising TransHumanity, a spinout from Loughborough University creating the first agentic AI platform for transport data, with its £400,000 pre-seed investment round led by SFC Capital with additional investment from Silicon Valley-based Plug and Play.
Advising upLYFT, a health-tech innovator on its pre-seed investment round of £500,000 from Deepbridge Capital and TIME Interconnect (HK) Limited, to advance the commercialisation of its assistive-transfer and smart-wearable technologies for mobility-limited individuals.
Advising health-tech startup Lumin Solutions, which has developed child social care management software, on their significant six-figure pre-seed investment round, backed by SFC Capital, the Development Bank of Wales and a syndicate of business angels.
Advising owners of J Browne Construction, a water and utility services business. In this case, the company was sold to London Stock Exchange-listed Renew Holdings plc for £29.5 million.
Advising on the IPO of Sourcebio International plc to AIM. The company is a leading international provider of integrated laboratory services and products to clients in the healthcare, clinical and life science sectors. The IPO included a placing to raise £35 million.
Advising on the listing of tenpin bowling operator Ten Entertainment Group plc to the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange with a market cap of £110 million.
Advising private equity funds in relation to a number of deals over the past 10 years, including:
the MBO of Medica Packaging, a healthcare packaging business, which was backed by a private equity fund; and
the acquisition and take private of AIM Market-listed Source BioScience plc and Journey Group plc, both by way of a scheme of arrangement, for £63 million and £30 million respectively.

Accolades

Andrew was nominated for Welsh Dealmaker of the Year 2025 by Insider Media
Advised PureCyber and it’s shareholders regarding the Private Equity / Venture Capital Deal of the Year 2025
Andrew is listed as Recommended in the Legal 500 for M&A deals up to £50 million
Andrew is a former lawyer of the year at BDB Pitmans
The Corporate Team is ranked Tier 1 in the Legal 500

Legal 500

The Corporate Team is ranked Band 1 by Chambers and Partners

Chambers & Partners

Testimonials

“Andrew and the rest of the team at Acuity have been an incredible support in reaching this next phase of growth at HealthKey. We look forward to working with Acuity as we continue to change the way healthcare is paid for and widen access to health-related information and life-improving services so that people can be proactive about their health.”

Co-founder and CEO of Healthkey, David Joerring

“The support of Andrew and the team at Acuity Law throughout this investment process has been first class and we look forward to working with Acuity Law during our next phase of growth.”

PureCyber founder and CEO Damon Rand

“The Acuity team has provided us with invaluable advice throughout this process. We are incredibly proud of all that we’ve achieved at Do-It Solutions and wanted to ensure that going forward our legacy continues with this exciting union with Lexxic”

Professor Amanda Kirby, founder and CEO of Do-IT Solutions