Vanessa Joyner  Associate Corporate Qualifications: LLB; Diploma of Legal Practice; Postgraduate Certificate in Company Law Admitted a solicitor 2001 Contact:  +44 (0) 117 902 6335 vanessa.joyner@burges-salmon.com Vanessa joined the corporate finance unit at Burges Salmon in February 2004. She has experience of a wide variety of corporate work including flotations, mergers, acquisitions, disposals and private equity investments together with general corporate law and best practice advice. Her relevant experience includes: acquisition of SCOTTY Tele-Transport Corporate AG (an Austrian company) by Motion Media plc (now SCOTTY plc), associated fundraising and re-admission of enlarged share capital to trading on AIM admission of Michelmersh Brick Holdings plc and smart FOCUS Group plc to trading on AIM and associated fundraising acting for companies and individuals on business and share acquisitions and disposals, including for example: acting for International Power plc on its initial acquisition of a 30 per cent. equity interest in Opus Energy Limited together with a call option over the remainder of the shares acting for SeaChange International, Inc. (a NASDAQ listed company) on its acquisition of On Demand Group Limited, a technology based private UK limited company acting for Matrix Private Equity Partners on its investment in the buyouts of PastaKing and British International Limited the acquisition of a fund management company for £20.9 million the disposal of a property portfolio company to an investment fund for a consideration of £19.5 million the disposal of Sanctuary Connections Limited and an equity stake in the Sanctuary Spa Group Limited to HG Capital the disposal of Creative Learning Media Limited, an e-learning based company to Thirdforce plc, an Irish company listed on both AIM and IEX various intra-group reorganisations