Gee Lam

Director | Deal Advisory | Commercial Deal Negotiation | SPA Advisory

KPMG in the UK

Gee is a Director in the SPA Advisory team in the UK and has 15+ years of M&A transaction, audit and advisory experience with KPMG and another Big4 firm.

He has advised clients on more than 300 transactions, providing commercial, strategic and tactical advice, both pre-and post-deal, in respect of sale and purchase agreements and other transaction documents.

For the past 10+ years, Gee has been providing clients with strategic and tactical advice in respect of:

  • Negotiating sale and purchase agreements, particularly in respect of purchase price adjustment mechanisms such as completion accounts and earn-outs, as well as locked box structures;
  • Preparation / review of completion accounts and earn-out accounts, including identification of areas of potential dispute;
  • Commercial negotiations in respect of disputed items, including assisting the Expert Determiner on an objective assessment of the relative merits of such items;
  • Assisting with formal submissions to independent experts where such disputes reach a formal stage, including drafting accounting arguments to support a client’s position.
  • BSc Mathematics with Statistics for Finance (Imperial College London)

  • FCA – Chartered Accountant (ICAEW)

  • Pre-deal support (including price structuring advice, SPA advice, locked box paper, vendor assist)

  • Completion accounts preparation/review/negotiation support

  • Leakage reviews

  • Transaction dispute advice