"Robert Bines-Black is an excellent corporate lawyer, and helped us navigate through a very difficult and novel deal process, with many issues cropping up that even the takeover panel had not seen before. "
Legal 500, 2025
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Expertise
Robert Bines-Black is a partner in the Corporate team at Memery Crystal. He specialises in capital markets transactions, acting for both UK and international companies, with a focus on the health technology and natural resources sectors. Robert has experience of acting on a wide variety of corporate transactions, from public company flotations, takeovers and fundraises to private company sales, acquisitions and reorganisations.
Outside of work, Robert plays the piano and enjoys spending time in his hometown of Brighton.
In detail
Recent experience
- Acting for AIM-listed Tungsten Network, a global electronic invoicing company, on its takeover by the California-based automation software provider Kofax, a process which involved competitive bids and a scheme of arrangement.
- Advising Chariot Limited, a transitional gas company, on a number of equity fundraisings, raising £50 million during 2021-22.
- Acting for AFC Energy, a provider of fuel cell systems for the generation of clean energy, on a £32 million equity fundraising.
- Acting for Graft Polymer on its listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange – the first of 2022 – and associated equity fundraising.
- Acting for Yamana Gold, a Canadian company with a $6 billion market cap, on its proposed listing on London’s Main Market.
- Acting for GAN, Tethyan Resources, Lombard Risk and Electric Word on their takeover schemes of arrangement.
Career history
- 2022 – Present: Corporate Partner, Memery Crystal
- 2019 – 2022: Senior Corporate Associate, Memery Crystal
- 2017 – 2019: Corporate Associate, Memery Crystal
- 2014 – 2017: Corporate Assistant, Rosenblatt
- 2012 – 2014: Trainee Solicitor, Rosenblatt
- 2010 – 2012: Studied the CPE and LPC at Sussex University and College of Law, Bloomsbury
- 2008 – 2009: Worked as a researcher for independent TV production companies
- 2005 – 2008: Studied English Literature at Oxford University
What our client think about us
“Robert Bines-Black is an excellent corporate lawyer, and helped us navigate through a very difficult and novel deal process, with many issues cropping up that even the takeover panel had not seen before.” – Legal 500, 2025