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Austin Moore & Partners LLP
7 THE ROPEWALK
NOTTINGHAM
NG1 5DU
England

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Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Nottingham and Derby Tier 3

Commended as ‘extremely diligent, highly skilled, and experienced’, the Nottingham-based team at Austin Moore & Partners LLP is overseen by Austin Moore. Moore has over three decades of experience in corporate transactions, including joint ventures, and start-up funding. Splitting her time between Nottingham and Derby, Dav Jaspal is often engaged in financing and secured lending mandates and enjoys a strong reputation in the engineering, healthcare, and technology sectors. Laura de Banke is noted for her strength in private equity matters across the bio-fuel, manufacturing, and technology sectors.

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Next generation lawyers

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Practice head(s):

Austin Moore

Other key lawyers:

Dav Jaspal; Laura de Banke; Rebecca Del Grosso

Testimonials

‘Austin Moore & Partners are extremely diligent, highly skilled, and experienced with an incredible ‘nothing is too much trouble’ attitude. They are a collection of professionals that I cannot recommend highly enough. ’

‘We have come to Austin Moore with a range of projects requiring some considerable legal input (quality and quantity), and they have risen to the challenge, and dealt with the issues in every case.’

‘They have a breadth of knowledge and experience. Particular thanks to the eponymous Austin and Davinder Jaspal.’

‘Whilst extremely knowledgeable about the intricacies of M & A/contract law, Laura de Banke took the time to explain our options in layman’s terms and offered us exceptional reassurance throughout.’

‘Austin Moore is always helpful and Dav Jaspal is very approachable. Both make a deal flow easily and at the same time this also keeps down costs, which is important.’

‘Austin Moore knows what the client requires and doesn’t procrastinate. Dav Jaspal is very precise, knows how hard to push, and doesn’t concede points which a lot of people would let slip.’

‘Dav Jaspal has an incredible way of cutting through the legal words and putting things in plain and simple language for us to understand. She is extremely commercial in guiding us, and Dav’s pragmatism and emotional intelligence make the relationship feel as though we’re all pulling together.’

‘Austin Moore and Laura de Banke are excellent in the quality of advice they provide and their legal knowledge to solve clients’ legal issues.’

Key clients

AW Lymn

Thrive Learning Limited

Clifton Packaging Group Limited

Smartway

Pharmaseal International Limited

Morvern Group

Durable Brands Limited

Lifeboat Capital Ltd

Embrace Steel Group

Stat Holdings Limited

Gerard Poly Mouldings Ltd

Hydroscand Ltd

Warlord Games

Rock Compliance Holdings Limited

Mornington Partners Limited

GEV Holdings Limited

MA Group Limited

Buster & Punch Holdings Limited

Primis Capital Limited

Clifton Packaging Limited

Foresight Independent Financial Planning Limited

Cloud Orca Limited

Work highlights

Advised exiting shareholder on the cross-border acquisition of Gerard Poly Mouldings Limited by US aerospace sector specialists, AE Industrial Partners.
Acted for the founding shareholders of SalamanderSoft on their exit to private equity backed Education Technology Services.
Advising Stat Holdings Limited on a series of share and business asset acquisitions as part of the group’s growth strategy.

Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby Tier 3

Austin Moore & Partners LLP is a boutique firm with extensive experience in a range of corporate transactions. The team is led by Lucy Carter, who has extensive knowledge of commercial real estate issues and a particular understanding of the education and agricultural sectors. Freya Bradley oversees a number of acquisitions, leases and development matters.

Practice head(s):

Lucy Carter

Other key lawyers:

Freya Bradley; Chloe Summers

Testimonials

‘This practice is unique as they make you feel very comfortable about every situation you may present to them, the personal touch is second to none, and they have an excellent customer relationship.’

‘Lucy Carter is an exceptional individual who has an outstanding customer relationship, her attention to detail is second to none. She stands out when it comes to wanting that extra personal touch.’

‘Knowledge, persistence, responsiveness. Thanks, in particular, to Lucy Carter.’

‘Broad experience and very practical approach.’

‘Friendly and practical advice. Great ability to simplify the process instead of over-complicating it. Lucy Carter has been and will continue to be our ‘go-to’ adviser for any commercial property advice.’

‘All the individuals have a level of knowledge which means they can speak to you in laymen’s terms, removing jargon and making legal matters understandable, which speeds up dealing with matters, preparing documents etc. Standout individuals advising on property matters most recently have been Lucy Carter and Chloe Summers. ’

‘The team was efficient and helpful. Communication was clear and the working process was easy.’

Work highlights

Advised White Hills Park in connection with its acquisition of land from Nottinghamshire County Council.
Advised Ivygrove Developments in connection with the site set up of its ‘Merlin Park’ industrial estate.
Advised Campus Overseas in connection with the acquisition of an industrial estate.

Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in East Midlands Tier 4

Noted for its strength in commercial property and employment matters, Austin Moore & Partners LLP is geared to handle corporate governance, private equity transactions, and reorganisations. Austin Moore leads the practice and is proficient in business and share transactions, joint ventures, and start-up funding. Dav Jaspal is frequently engaged in financing and secured lending, while Laura de Banke is noted for her private equity capabilities. All of the individuals that have been mentioned are located in Nottingham unless stated otherwise.

Practice head(s):

Austin Moore

Other key lawyers:

Dav Jaspal; Laura de Banke; Rebecca Del Grosso

Key clients

AW Lymn The Family Funeral Service

Thrive Learning Limited

Clifton Packaging Group Limited

Smartway

Pharmaseal International Limited

Morvern Group

Durable Brands Limited

Lifeboat Capital Ltd

Embrace Steel Group

Stat Holdings Limited

Gerard Poly Mouldings Ltd

Hydroscand Ltd

Warlord Games

Rock Compliance Holdings Limited

Mornington Partners Limited

GEV Holdings Limited

MA Group Limited

Buster & Punch Holdings Limited

Primis Capital Limited

Clifton Packaging Limited

Foresight Independent Financial Planning Limited

Cloud Orca Limited

Work highlights

Advised exiting shareholder on the cross-border acquisition of Gerard Poly Mouldings Limited by US aerospace sector specialists, AE Industrial Partners.
Advised Stat Holdings Limited on a series of share and business asset acquisitions.
Acted for the founding shareholders of SalamanderSoft on their exit to private equity backed Education Technology Services.

Established over a decade ago, Austin Moore & Partners LLP continues to build on its growth, offering “big firm experience” with a personable partner-led service, and boasting an extensive practice in both commercial property and corporate transactions. Renowned for offering straight-forward and commercially focused advice, whilst maintaining a price advantage over its larger rivals, the firm continues to thrive with eleven lawyers and seven support staff across its Nottingham and Derby offices. The firm also offers specialist employment, commercial and intellectual property expertise to its wide client base.

The firm addresses an appetite for advisers who are dedicated and technically agile yet approachable and pragmatic, providing legal advice at a reasonable cost, which is fixed from the outset where possible. The team prides itself on its ability to form solid relationships as trusted advisers, often seen by clients and intermediaries as an extension of their own management team. With roots firmly placed in the East Midlands, the individual lawyers at Austin Moore & Partners combine their considerable experience, connections, local knowledge and reputations to provide clients with unparalleled support wherever and whenever they need it, both commercially and legally.

Austin Moore & Partners work with a wider network of highly regarded lawyers to ensure that, where its client’s requirements fall outside the firm’s core specialisms, it is able to access an appropriate lawyer for the client’s specific needs.

Types of work undertaken: The firm has four main practice areas, corporate, commercial property, employment and commercial (including intellectual property). The client base varies from SMEs, high net worth individuals, individual lenders to pension funds, large companies and PLCs.

Corporate: Austin Moore & Partners’ corporate team is particularly well regarded and has a strong reputation for undertaking a variety of transactions including:

mergers and acquisitions
acquisition finance/refinancing
reorganisations and reconstructions;
management buyouts, including funding arrangements;
subscription and shareholders’ agreements;
employee share schemes;
private equity funding, including institutional and ‘business angel’ funding;
joint ventures and other new business structures;
commercial agreements; and
partnership law, including LLPs.

Commercial property: The commercial property team has comprehensive property experience in a range of transactions such as;

acquisition and sale of commercial property (with specific expertise in the care home sector);
leasehold – landlord and tenant;
property finance with a particular focus on property development (including site acquisition, site set up and development agreements);
work in the education sector (academy conversions and inter-academy transfers); and
agricultural work (farm acquisitions, disposals, farm and business tenancies).

Commercial and intellectual property: The commercial team works with a diverse client base, ranging from manufacturing and supply businesses to tech clients. It supports clients on a broad spectrum of contractual matters which include, NDAs, tenders, manufacturing and supply agreements, IT contracts, IP licensing and exploitation.

Employment: The employment team is renowned for advising on all areas of employment law with particular expertise in tribunal proceedings, discrimination issues, TUPE, complex restraint of trade cases, data protection, assisting with negotiated settlements and supporting on commercial transactions. The team also provides hands on HR support, training and HR planning through its retainer service ProActive.

Department	Name	Email
Managing Partner	Austin Moore	[email protected]
Employment	Natalie Thomson	[email protected]
Corporate	Laura de Banke	[email protected]
Property	Lucy Carter	[email protected]
Corporate	Davinder Jaspal	[email protected]

Name	Position	Profile
Miss Freya Bradley	Associate with expertise in: Land acquisitions and disposals with specific expertise in…	View Profile
Miss Emma Campbell	Corporate solicitor advising on a variety of acquisitions and disposals, corporate reorganisations…	View Profile
Miss Lucy Carter	Partner with expertise in: land acquisition and disposals, including options and conditional…	View Profile
Mrs Louise Firth	Consultant Solicitor specialising in all aspects of commercial work including advice and…	View Profile
Mrs Dav Jaspal	Corporate Partner advising on share and business acquisitions and disposals, MBOs, EOTs,…	View Profile
Miss Faiza Maryam	Employment Solicitor assisting with corporate support, dealing with all types of day-to-day…	View Profile
Mr Austin Moore	Partner specialising in a range of corporate transactions including share sale and…	View Profile
Mrs Shannon Mould	Corporate Solicitor providing support and assistance across all types of M&A and…	View Profile
Mrs Natalie Thomson	Partner specialising in employment law and human resources. Experienced in all area…	View Profile
Miss Darcey White	Employment Solicitor assisting with tribunal claims, HR matters, service and settlement agreements…	View Profile
Mrs Laura de Banke	Corporate Partner advising on a variety of acquisitions and disposal, private equity…	View Profile