Maurice is a corporate finance lawyer with over 30 years' experience. His practice covers cross border and UK M&A, acting for public and private companies and extensive experience of acting for private equity houses and management teams on leveraged buyouts (public and private), venture capital investments, disposals, and further financings. Maurice has advised many of the best-known private equity houses on investments and disposals. He is the author of the leading private equity manual "Private Equity Transactions" published by Sweet & Maxwell and many articles on corporate finance topics.

Maurice trained at Freshfields before joining Wragge & Co where he led both the private equity team and the overall corporate team. He served on the Legal and Technical Committee of the BVCA for many years and also spent a year in the legal department of 3i plc. Most recently, before joining Clyde & Co, he was a partner at Reynolds Porter Chamberlain and subsequently a Consultant at Shoosmiths.

Maurice is a hands-on deal doing partner, committed to ensuring that corporate finance legal processes and documents are handled sensibly and pragmatically with minimal disruption to the underlying business concerned.

Legal 500 states Maurice Dwyer is “very experienced and knowledgeable” and says, “he takes a hands on approach” and is “pragmatic, user friendly and low fuss”