Lawyers

Louise Eldridge

Louise Eldridge

Bristows LLP, London

Work Department

Corporate

Position

Louise advises on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings (including IPOs and secondary public offers) and joint ventures.

Louise is particularly experienced in domestic and international M&A, equity financings and other corporate transactions for clients in technology and IP-rich businesses.

Louise acts for both domestic and international clients from growth companies to financial institutions, global multinationals, venture capital and private equity investors.

She advises clients across a range of industries, with particular emphasis on technology, media & marcoms, and life sciences.

Louise is head of Bristows’ multi-discipline fintech practice in which role she acts for both UK and international clients across the sector from start-ups developing technology to investors and corporates investing in this rapidly expanding area. The fintech practice covers a wide range of fintech payment services, regtech, insurtech, digital transformation, A1, robotics and distributed ledger technology. Louise also has experience advising on a broad range of corporate insolvency matters including:

providing strategic and advisory support for company boards; advising on directors’ duties; and restructuring transactions, administrations and liquidations.

On insolvency related matters Louise acts for individual directors, company boards and insolvency practitioners.

Career

Qualified 2003Partner 2012Head of Fintech 2018 – present

Languages

French.

Memberships

Tech London Advocates

Education

Kings William's College, Castletown, Isle of Man;University of Reading, BA French 1998

Mentions

Corporate and commercial • London

M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m

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