Corporate and commercial: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall

Stephen is a Partner in Michelmores’ Corporate team, specialising in M&A, Private Equity and straight talking commercial common sense. He is top ranked in the legal directories for Corporate and M&A work and has experience across most sectors. Stephens tends to focus mainly on private equity and investment work. Key sectors are the financial, technology and food sectors.

Partner and Head of the Corporate and Commercial Division.

Grant is a partner at Lester Aldridge who heads up the firm’s Commercial Group and Corporate Team. He is dual-qualified UK solicitor and South African attorney and has specialised in company and commercial law since qualifying in the UK. Grant has over 20 years’ experience advising on commercial and corporate matters.  His advisory scope includes joint ventures, commercial agreements and corporate transactions. He has particular experience in cross-border corporate transactions, having closed transactions involving buyers or sellers based in foreign jurisdictions such as China, Australia, Canada, USA, Brazil, French Polynesia and Europe. Grant has clients across a number of SME sectors and has specific specialism in advising clients in the software development, software licensing, manufacturing and export sectors. His clients regard him to be commercial yet tenacious in his approach.

Stephen is a Partner in Michelmores’ Corporate team, specialising in M&A, Private Equity and straight talking commercial common sense. He is top ranked in the legal directories for Corporate and M&A work and has experience across most sectors. Stephens tends to focus mainly on private equity and investment work. Key sectors are the financial, technology and food sectors.

Matt is head of our Corporate practice, a key part of which is our nationally recognised Private Equity team, which Matt founded and also leads. Our private equity group proudly represents a number of leading UK Private Equity houses and their portfolio companies and recently named winner of the Regional Legal Advisor of the Year 2020 at the Real Deals Private Equity Awards. Private Equity forms a key part of our go-to-market strategy, so is also recognised as a core lead sector for Foot Anstey, as we seek to build deep relationships with Private Equity backed management teams and portfolio companies. Matt also leads our market leading “GRIP” product, which is a tech-enabled solution to streamline and satisfy the core legal and compliance obligations of PE portfolio companies. Matt trained and qualified into the Private Equity department of the leading City firm Travers Smith and prior to joining Foot Anstey, spent several years at Kinmont, a corporate finance boutique in London acknowledged as a leader in advising management teams. Management advisory remains a core part of Matt’s practice. Our Private Equity team is recognised as a specialist in advising PE backed portfolio companies. We have built a significant specialism in undertaking bolt-on and buy-and-build M&A as part of PE backed investment propositions, often with an international element to it.

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Partner in the Corporate Team.

Emma is a Senior Associate in the Corporate Team. She deals with a wide range of corporate work, including mergers and acquisitions. Emma’s focus is on advising private equity backed portfolio businesses, with a particular specialism in bolt on acquisitions and implementing buy and build strategies. She is also a practiced advisor to the financial services sector and the retail sector, having acted for institutional and investor clients on national and international deals in these industries.

Danielle is an Associate in the Corporate & Commercial team at Lester Aldridge. She assists and advises on transactional M&A matters, where clients are either buying, selling or merging companies or partnerships, and also advises on share buybacks and company restructuring. In addition to drafting and helping to negotiate the transaction documentation, Danielle has experience managing the due diligence and disclosure process. She remains calm and level-headed in situations that can be stressful and time-critical. Danielle often reviews and reports to the client on a variety of commercial agreements and arrangements, highlighting the potential risks and incorporating new clauses to ensure that the document achieves the client’s desired outcome. Another aspect of the services she provides is corporate compliance and company secretarial services. She conducts reviews of the company’s corporate books, registers and filings and advises the client accordingly.