Beverley Jones > Acuity Law > Cardiff, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Acuity Law Offices
3 ASSEMBLY SQUARE
BRITANNIA QUAY, CARDIFF BAY
CARDIFF
CF10 4PL
United Kingdom
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Beverley Jones
Work Department
Corporate and Banking & Finance
Position
Beverley leads our Banking & Finance team and co-leads our Corporate team.
She has dedicated her career to supporting clients with corporate transactions, corporate finance, and funding packages.
Beverley has specialist knowledge in advising both institutional lenders and borrowers on the full spectrum of banking and finance work, from routine working capital facilities to acquisition funding and complex project finance packages, as well as receivables and asset finance, and revolving credit facilities.
On the corporate side, she is highly experienced in leading complex and high-value corporate transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, mergers, investments, fundraisings and joint ventures.
Beverley has extensive expertise in the healthcare sector and acts for a number of highly regarded clients, including Hartford Care Group, LifeCare Residences Limited and Choice Care Group.
In addition, she is the lead legal adviser to Principality Building Society, the sixth-largest building society in the UK and the largest in Wales. She was a key player in its funding of an ambitious, £100+ million residential-led urban regeneration project on the site of an old paper mill.
Other noteworthy corporate and corporate finance clients include AIM-listed Brickability Group and Facilities by ADF plc.
For three years in a row, in 2019, 2020 and 2021, Beverley was shortlisted as Dealmaker of the Year in the Insider Wales Dealmakers Awards – the first female lawyer in Wales to have been nominated.
Expertise:
- Corporate deals and transactions – mergers, acquisitions and disposals
- Private equity-funded transactions and PE-backed buy and build strategies
- Banking and finance transactions, including complex and structured arrangements
- Commercial projects and contracts, including long-term contracts and joint ventures
Lawyer Rankings
Wales > Finance > Banking and finance
Acuity Law provides ‘proactive and solutions-focused’ advice to public and private sector borrowers, as well as traditional and non-bank lenders on the financing requirements associated with corporate activity, as well as on projects in the housing, energy and healthcare sectors. Team head Beverley Jones provides ‘excellent advice and support’ to many of the firm’s corporate clients on their funding requirements to facilitate M&A transactions and for working capital purposes. In addition, Jones is one of many in the team, including Christopher Agius and Sam Clarke that excels in property finance matters.
Wales > Corporate and commercial
Blending transactional strength with governance and commercial contracts prowess, Acuity Law provides an all-encompassing service to clients from a range of sectors, including healthcare and life sciences, technology, retail and education. Christian Farrow is well-versed at advising on domestic and cross-border transactions, including M&A and joint venture (JV) structuring in the financial services and renewables sectors. In addition, he has been pivotal to the firm’s pioneering use of technology to assist clients, including the firm’s long-standing Acuity Counsel subscription service and the nascent Document Assist product which enables companies to easily produce high-quality legal documents themselves. Beverley Jones co-heads the corporate side of the practice alongside Farrow, and as well as her M&A work in the healthcare sector, is also gaining traction among fund clients, including Warwick Capital for their investment activity. Jon Lawley has also developed a strong reputation within the healthcare space, most specifically as a result of his ongoing work for Portman Dental Care, the largest active acquirer of dental practices in the UK. As well as his work for university spin-out clients, Phil Pugh also handles commercial and transactional matters for technology and IT clients, an area of the practice which was strengthened at the beginning of 2022 by the arrival of Declan Goodwin from Vistra Corporate Law (he now heads up the commercial and technology sub-group). Senior associate Tom Saunderson continues to impress as a result of his private equity and early stage venture capital expertise, while at a more senior level, both Paul Lowe and firm chairman Stephen Berry are key resources for clients as a result of their vast knowledgebase which has been developed over their many years in practice.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Corporate and commercial
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Real estate > Commercial property
- Real estate > Construction
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Social housing