Hill Dickinson LLP

Corporate.

With almost 30 years’ experience as a corporate transactional lawyer advising a wide range of public companies, large privately owned companies and SMEs, Jonathan has excellent experience in a wide variety of sectors, and a wide variety of clients undertaking transactions  in the UK and abroad.

Jonathan deals with all forms of corporate transactions including:

• Mergers
• Acquisitions
• Disposals
• Private equity
• Public equity
• Joint ventures
• Re-organisations
• His experience includes:
• Stobart Group - sale of 51 % of Eddie Stobart to DBay Capital
• Bibby Line Group - sale of Bibby Ship Management
• Edward Billington and Son Limited - acquisition of TSC Foods and Dunkleys Limited
• Cammell Laird - acquisition of A & P
• Carr's Group PLC - acquisition of Meneba Holdings including Class 1 transaction
• Cammell Laird Gibraltar - sale
• Highneal Group – section 110 re-organisation
• Benfield Sports - sale to IMG
• Swinton Group - sale of NI business
• Connect Airways/ Stobart Group – acquisition of Flybe Group plc
• Huaxiang Corporation - acquisition of Lawrence Automotive
• Systems Labelling – sale to Americk ( NI )

Qualified 1990; Addleshaw Sons & Latham 1990-93; DLA 1993-2005; Halliwells 2005-10;  Hill Dickinson 2010 to date and Non-Executive Chairman of Hill Dickinson since November 2018 ; Non-Executive Director of Derwent Lodge Estates Limited ; Non-Executive Chairman of Praetura Group Limited ; Non-Executive Director of Stobart Air UC and  formerly a director of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Chairman of Neston Cricket Club.

Law Society.

Liverpool College; Sheffield University (LLB Hons); Chester College of Law Sol (Hons); CF (ICAEW).

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