Teacher Stern LLP

Corporate/commercial.

Partner in corporate/commercial department.

Claire advises mainly family/owner/manager businesses on a wide range of matters.

Claire’s work examples include:

• commercial contracts: IT contract documentation for outsourcing/cloud computing/disaster recovery business division commenced by existing client of the firm; • advising upon contract documentation for appointment of technical partners, suppliers and approved manufacturers by precious metal manufacturer; • contract documentation for specialist sales company operating in the retail convenience sector; • customer contract documentation for International Wi-Fi access provider; terms and conditions of trading for various businesses in a variety of different industry sectors.

M&A/other: • advising purchaser of League One Football Club on takeover from previous owner and financial restructuring and subsequent sale; • advising on acquisition of manufacturer and distributor of character gift items on behalf of the UK’s largest watch company; • advising on acquisition of majority shareholding in national alarm monitoring business. • Shareholder/joint venture agreements: Facility agreements and re-financing packages.

Trained Wright Webb Syrett; qualified 1993; Butcher Burns LLP 1995; partner 2000; partner Teacher Stern 2013.

Nottingham University (BA (Hons) Law).