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James is a Partner in the Corporate Commecial Team. James is an experienced M&A lawyer with over 20 years’ experience advising on a range of M&A matters, specialising in sell-side transactional work for UK clients, acting for clients of all sizes and in all sectors. James also undertakes complex business reorganisations, demergers, capital reductions, share exchanges, share buy backs and shareholders’ agreements. He trained with and spent 5 years with a large regional practice. Work Highlights Advising shareholders of construction industry business on capital reduction demerger to separate non-core and core businesses. Advising an investor on disposal of UK green energy IP business to a US buyer including a share for share exchange. Advising shareholders on vendor initiated management buyout out in a manufacturing business. Advising North American software business on acquisition of UK software business. Advising shareholders of household name home furnishings group on a re-organisation. Advising shareholders of healthcare sector business on re-organisation and shareholder agreement. Advising management on acquisition of non-core business from employer.
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Joe is a Partner in the Corporate Commercial Team. He trained and qualified at an international firm in London and practised there for over a decade, and guides entrepreneurs and corporate clients through their transactions across a variety of sectors, including real estate finance, technology and private investment. He has been a specialist corporate lawyer for over 20 years, advising on all aspects of private company and business sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements, reorganisations and corporate governance. He is particularly experienced in public M&A, having acted on many takeovers, schemes of arrangement and AIM flotations. Joe spent almost a year on secondment to Hilton Group, gaining an insight into the priorities and requirements of in-house legal teams, which has informed how he works with his clients since. Work Highlights Advising the founders and management team on a £17.6m private equity backed MBO Advising the founder and shareholders of a leading 1-click customer survey business to Exclaimer Advising employee engagement platform WorkBuzz on an equity investment by the Midlands Engine Investment Fund and private investors Advising on the vendor initiated management buyout of a construction project management and cost concultancy
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Philip is a Partner at Gardner Leader and Head of the Corporate and Commercial Teams. He is a transactional M&A lawyer with over 30 years’ extensive corporate experience, acting mainly for sellers on share and asset deals. He also specialises in management buy-outs, joint ventures and reorganisations and increasingly is relied on by clients for overall strategic and commercial advice. He works with a mixture of regional, national and international clients. He is frequently recommended as a key individual in Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, the two main independent legal guides: “He is very pragmatic and solution-driven; he always comes up with viable and workable solutions.” “He’s excellent; he’s highly commercial, very strong technically and has a very calm manner.” Work Highlights Acting for the management team in a £12.75m private equity funded management buy-out of veterinary training business, Improve International Limited, from its listed parent company. Acting as legal advisers to the shareholders of Absolute Antibody Ltd (UK) and its sister company Kerafast on their sale to LSBio (USA). Advised the shareholders of Outsource UK Limited, one of the largest independent recruitment companies in the UK, on its management buy-out. Advising the shareholders of leading protective packaging specialists, GWP Holdings Limited, on their sale to Macfarlane Group Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of listed-company Macfarlane Group PLC for up to £15.1million, plus around £3 million of net assets.