Murray Macnab (LL.B, MloD, CF)
Associate Partner
Departments
Company, Commercial & Litigation
Charity Practice and Procedure
Main Areas Of Work
- Business and Company Sales (succession planning) , reorganisations, acquisitions, MBOs +JVs
- Outsourcing contracts
- Commercial contracts and advice( including agency, distribution, supply contracts and terms and conditions)
- IT (including Development, support and hosting contracts and Website and E-commerce packages
- Intellectual Property (including Brand and product acquisition and licensing
- Investment and funding arrangements (angel, VC and banking)
Professional Association and Memberships
Member of the Society for Computers and Law (former Midlands Committee member)
ICAE&W Corporate Finance qualified
Vice-Chairman of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Branch of the Institute of Directors (former Chairman and Secretary) and member of the East Midlands Regional Committee of the IoD
Former Chairman of the Greater Nottingham Business Alliance
Former Voluntary Assessor for the Connect Midlands Invored programme
Former Secretary of Derby Chamber of Trade
Interests
Murray is a member of St Alkmund’s Church, Duffield and sings in the Worship Group there. He is married with three children and although they occupy most of his spare time, he is also a member of the Duffield Squash and Tennis Club.
He otherwise just tries to stay in one piece while raising money for charity, e.g. Robin Hood Half-Marathon, 106m cycle ride from Derby to Skegness and in 2010 completion of ‘100 not out!’ (the 75m Nottinghamshire Bike Ride in June and the 25m Chatsworth Challenge Walk in September).
He is also a Non-Executive Director of Derby Loans Industrial Provident Society (trading as Midlands Community Finance) a provider of loans to the financially excluded and has been a Primary School Governor
Interesting Matters
1. Completing English and Overseas acquisitions with associated fundraising for a client quoted on AIM, allowing them to expand in line with their long-term strategy
2. Successfully negotiating the acquisition and licensing of intellectual property rights in products so as to allow a client to add to its product range and build value in the products and associated trademarks
3. Achieving an unusual outsourcing arrangement and joint venture over the critical IT capability of a plc
4. Working with numerous owner-managers and family companies to achieve their desired exit and realisation of value.
5. Advising a charity on a significant welfare to work training contract it has taken on.
Date Joined: 2011
Date Qualified : 1990
Became Associate
Partner : 2011
Contact Details
You may contact Murray at our Long Eaton office on 0115 972 5222, Ripley on 01773 744744 or on his direct line 0115 9835225 and Skype under ‘Murray_Macnab’.
Alternatively email him at m.macnab@ellis-fermor.co.uk.
