Mills & Reeve LLP

Corporate and public law.

Head of corporate and public law at Mills & Reeve in Birmingham. Specialises in corporate transactions and corporate governance, advising plcs, private companies, universities and public and private healthcare bodies. Experience includes the only private NHS franchising, the £435m public-to-private of McKechnie plc; the buyout, flotation and sale of ShareLink; and the only public offer made in Belgium by a UK company. Advised Imperial College London on establishment of the Imperial College London Diabetes Centre in Abu Dhabi. Currently advising on the first NHS foundation trust mergers and acquisitions.

Rollit Farrell & Bladon 1982-87; Edge & Ellison 1987-98 (partner from 1988); partner Garretts 1998-2003; partner, Mills & Reeve 2003.

Law Society; Birmingham Law Society.

South Hunsley School; Anglia Ruskin University (1981 BA Hons).

Music.