Trusted Experience

Jon Divers joined RBG Legal Services (RBGLS) in February 2022. Prior to this role in Professional Services Jon held a variety of senior management and Managing Director roles in the transport and logistics sector. He has a strong focus on organic revenue growth and margin through cost control and believes all businesses have an opportunity for improved efficiency.

Jon’s background in industry has given him a broad range of experience working with international and time sensitive supply chains, union wage negotiations and demanding clients. He believes that these commercial skills transfer well into Professional Services as a sector that is transforming and changing rapidly and is excited by the opportunities that lie ahead.

Kevin McNair joined RBG Holdings in June 2023, initially as Interim Chief Financial Officer. He was appointed to the role permanently in November 2023. Kevin has over 30 years’ experience in financial management and capital markets. He has spent the past 20 years as CFO of various publicly quoted and privately equity-backed businesses, primarily in the professional services and industrial services sectors.

Kevin’s focus has been on transforming the performance of people-based businesses and improving their financial stability. He has worked closely with the institutional investment and corporate banking communities in the UK and across Europe for more than two decades. He has also worked extensively in heavily regulated industries. He believes that RBG can be a key player in the rapidly changing environment of legal services.

Marianne Ismail has worked in financial services for over 30 years in a variety of small and large regulated entities.

She was a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley for 10 years working in New York and internationally and has held senior positions in Citigroup and Standard Chartered Bank. She has a strong understanding of the management of growing companies and of corporate risk and is committed to ensuring compliance with appropriate regulations as well as the implementation of suitable organisational and management structures to meet these regulations. Marianne has held FCA significant influence functions throughout her career.

Until July 2020, she was Pro-Chancellor and Chair of the governing body of the University of Greenwich and is currently CEO of Microbira Ltd and a NED of Qatar Islamic Bank -UK, Town and Country Housing Group and Quilter Financial Planning.

Appointed 23 January 2019.

Patsy Baker stepped down as Chairman of Citigate Dewe Rogerson (as of 1st January 2023) but continues as Senior Group Advisor to the Accordience Group (including Citigate Dewe Rogerson and Grayling). She provides corporate affairs counsel to the Group’s international clients and oversees the delivery and coordination of integrated communication campaigns. Patsy is now able to pursue a more plural approach as a highly respected communications professional with a number of other strategic consultancies and financial services.

She joined Lord Bell as a director at Bell Pottinger Communications in 1994, has provided Senior Board Counsel to CEOs in the UK FTSE 250, and has promoted and protected the reputations of many well-known brands.

Patsy is a NED of aim listed RBG Holdings a professional services company where she sits on the RemCo and Audit committees. She also sits on the external affairs committee of the Design Museum.

Appointed 17 June 2021.

David Wilkinson is an experienced Non-Executive Chairman and Director, with a history of advising fast-growth, entrepreneurial businesses and professional practices. He is is Audit Committee Chair at Marks Electrical Group plc, an online domestic appliance retailer, which also floated on AIM last year. He chairs two private companies, CH Bailey, a formally AIM-listed business in overseas commercial and hospitality property, and Goal Group, a UK market leader in technology-based reclamation of withholding tax and legal class action proceeds. He is also a Non- Executive Director of Verso Biosense, a medical technology spinout from Southampton University.

Appointed 17 June 2021.

Nick Davis is a qualified lawyer with over 20 years of experience in practice. Nick was CEO of Memery Crystal LLP (trading as MC Partners LLP or “Memery Crystal”) at the time of its acquisition by the Group in May 2021. Nick joined Memery Crystal in 2000 and specialises in corporate finance with expertise in IPOs, equity capital markets and mergers & acquisitions. Nick sits on the AIM Advisory Group of the London Stock Exchange, a group that provides input and advises on matters affecting the operation and regulation of AIM. Nick was previously a Non-Executive Director of AIM Listed Shanta Gold Limited between 2012 and 2014, and a Director of a subsidiary of The Supreme Cannabis Company listed on the TSX.

Jon Lovitt joined Rosenblatt in 2005, having previously worked in boutique city corporate finance law firms. In 2021 he became a partner in the corporate department at Memery Crystal following its acquisition by RBG Holdings plc.

He has acted on a number of high value transactions across a number of industry sectors for many institutional, corporate and individual clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions; private equity fundraisings; initial public offerings; secondary issues; City Code takeovers; venture capital investments; joint ventures and partnership matters, and shareholder-related issues. Jon has also advised funders, vendors and management in relation to management buy-outs and buy-ins.

Jon was lead partner in the IPO by RBG Holdings plc and the acquisitions of the businesses of Rosenblatt Solicitors, Convex Capital and Memery Crystal.