Inside information: Legal insights on adviser acquisition deals

Having been a corporate lawyer for various sectors throughout his career, Dunning came into finance after getting "a taste for it". He was trained at Stephens Scown before being promoted to partner in 2016. He currently heads up Stephens Scown's corporate legal team in Exeter. "I acted on a few transactions [cases] about five years ago and you quickly get a feel for the sector," he says. "It's a busy sector but quite a small world, so you get a lot of referrals within the community." Over the past five years he as advised on 25 deals involving independent financial advisers and has wo...