Piers Linney

Piers Linney, a Partner at Trafalgar Capital, is a qualified lawyer and experienced cross-border corporate financier, who has been actively involved in developing the UK alternative finance market. He has broad entrepreneurial and private equity experience across a variety of sectors.

Piers has a joint honours degree in law and accountancy from Manchester University and gained a wide range of corporate finance and private equity legal experience at SJ Berwin, one of the UK’s leading private equity law firms, as well as in commerce. He left law to join the investment banking group at Barclays de Zoete Wedd where he specialized in UK M&A. He then joined Credit Suisse, where he focused on cross border M&A, LBOs and transaction origination between continental Europe, the UK and the US.

After establishing a number of media companies, Piers became a founding shareholder and CEO of Tower Gate Capital, one of the first UK-based specialist alternative finance placement agents. He worked with UK companies to source finance from US PIPE funds, alternative debt financing and hedge fund investment in structured public vehicles. Piers was personally responsible for the largest variable priced note issued by a UK public company in recent years. Piers has been a speaker on specialist UK PIPE panels, including the 2006 and 2007 PIPE Conference in London."