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Pod Point is an LSE Main Market listed Company founded in 2009. The Company operates one of Britain’s leading EV charging networks, with over 250,000 charging points and strong commercial relationships with major automotive manufacturers, housebuilders, and fleet companies.

EDF Energy is a British integrated energy company, wholly owned by the French state-owned EDF (Électricité de France), with operations spanning electricity generation and the sale of natural gas and electricity to homes and businesses throughout UK. It employs 11,717 people and handles 5.22 million business and residential customer accounts.

On the 12^th June, 2025, the board of EDF and the Independent Pod Point Directors announced that they had reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash acquisition of the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of Pod Point other than the Pod Point Shares already held by EDF with the Acquisition implemented by way of a court sanctioned scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act.

Due diligence and deal process management

The data rooms team at Perivan was delighted to work with the financial advisory teams, who included Panmure Liberum who acted as Sole Financial Advisor, Sole Rule 3 Advisor and Joint Corporate Broker, Canaccord Genuity who acted as Joint Corporate Broker and Freshfields who acted as Legal Advisor to Pod Point and Barclays who acted as Financial Advisor and Clifford Chance who acted as Legal Advisor to EDF Energy with the provision of the Engage platform for the due diligence and deal process management.

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Perivan specialise in the production of investor shareholder and investor communications documentation and the provision of virtual data rooms to streamline complex transactions relating to Mergers & Acquisitions.