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Carol Osborne

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Work Department

Corporate and Finance Transactions

Position

Partner and Global Department Leader – Corporate and Finance Transactions

Career

Carol is a dual-qualified lawyer in the UK and the U.S., who has more than thirty years of experience advising clients on the complex corporate legal issues that are critical to their business success, including high value commercial agreements, joint ventures, strategic alliances and cross-border M&A. Her style is commercial and pragmatic and her dual qualification means nothing gets lost in translation for her clients operating on both sides of the Atlantic.

Carol serves as BCLP’s Global Department Leader for Corporate & Finance Transactions, a team which comprises more than 650 lawyers across our international network. Prior to that, she was the Global Practice Group Leader for the Technology, Commercial and Government Affairs practice group which brings together several of the Firm’s key strategic practices including Data Privacy and Security, Franchising, Commercial Transactions, Technology and Outsourcing Transactions, Public Policy and Government Affairs.

She is also the Leader of our Retail and Consumer Products Sector which aligns with her own expertise representing manufacturers, retailers and private equity investors operating in the sector and enables her to coordinate multi-disciplinary projects across all of our offices with the 80+ lawyers focused on this important industry. Her key clients are in the luxury retail sector which continues to defy expectations for growth and innovation, but she advises a wide range of retail and consumer product clients covering food & beverage, beauty and personal care, apparel and accessories.

In addition, she previously held the position as co-head of M&A and Corporate Finance for EMEA, Carol’s middle market domestic and international M&A experience includes advising on investments, acquisitions, disposals and carve-outs (including for distressed or special situations) for private equity, venture capital and strategic investors. She has significant experience in both retail/consumer products and technology M&A transactions.

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London > Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts

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Carol Osborne – Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

With ever-expanding global capabilities, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner acts on a range of commercial issues, with continued excellence in the retail, tech, and fintech sphere. A key feature of the practice’s offering is helping big businesses’ strategic goal of improving customer reach, exemplified by Farfetch and Outlier Venture’s collaboration to launch a Web3 programme, and developing Estee Lauder’s loyalty programme in Israel. Richard Shaw and Marcus Pearl co-head the department, with the former primarily active on a litany of commercial agreements in the retail sector, and the latter concentrating on big-ticket telecommunications, tech and media matters, working with clients such as BT Group and Lumen. Carol Osborne‘s wide-ranging expertise has seen her advise on distribution agreements in the agricultural industry, global licence arrangements for retail giants, as well as transitional services agreements, while senior associate Kate Jeffery continues to provide valuable insight to a wide breadth of practice mandates.

London > Industry focus > Retail and consumer

Described by one client as an ‘exceptional team with unusual business acumen‘, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s multi-disciplinary retail and consumer products group is well placed to advise on the full spectrum of retail mandates, and counts several large grocers and luxury goods retailers among its clients. Under the leadership of Carol Osborne, dual-qualified in the UK and the US, recent work for the team has included advising on complex data flows, franchise agreements, and corporate transactions for large multi-national retailers. The firm has a long track record advising private and public companies on complex corporate issues, including cross-border M&A and private equity matters; Benjamin Lee is another key name here. Commercial and outsourcing contracts are handled by Richard Shaw.

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