England - East Anglia • Corporate and commercial
Roythornes Solicitors
The Alconbury office of Roythornes Solicitors is the main base for the firm’s corporate and commercial practice, which is led by Martin Jinks, who frequently handles matters in the construction and engineering sectors, including those relating to the contractual issues involved in outsourcing. Notably, he recently advised shareholders of Naylor Nutrition Group on the creation of a €34m joint venture company. Mike Matthews leads the M&A sub-group and is ‘friendly, professional and thorough at every turn’. Commercial specialist Julia Seary and ‘exceptionally well organised, clear and impressive’ corporate restructuring practitioner Lizzie Walters also play central roles in the practice.
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Testimonials
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‘A great team who worked well together to achieve a good value and excellent result for us. Roythornes made sure that the right quality and standard of service was used at each turn to maintain sensible costs for us. Each team member was very professional and enjoyable to work with.’
‘Mike Matthews was excellent throughout, friendly, professional and thorough at every turn that gave me full confidence in the service I was being given.’
‘Mike Matthews and the team at Roythornes were great to work with throughout the whole M&A process, they adopted a responsive and practical approach which is refreshing to find in what can be a slow and cumbersome process.’
‘Mike Matthews was the lead partner that handled my case, Mike is an inspirational leader in the practice and his approach is clearly successful which shows through the wider team who work and support Mike.'
'Beth Wallace and Joanne Sinclaire complement Mike and together are a robust, dynamic and highly driven team of individuals who have a genuine desire to outperform and achieve their clients objectives.'
'I genuinely do not have an area where they need to improve, the whole approach exceeded my expectations in terms of transparancy of costs, communication and engagement and throughout and I felt that nothing was too much trouble for the team. They were responsive and engaged throughout and would respond at all hours of the day to ensure the matter did not stall.’
‘The Roythornes team were able to move incredibly quickly and offer a flexible service when our needs as a business were both significant and time-sensitive.’
‘Lizzie Walters was exceptionally well organised and her communications were clear and impressive. We valued greatly her professionalism.’
Key clients
- Ceres Rural LLP
- TC Bulley Davey Limited
- BA Bush & Son Limited
- FESA (UK) Limited
- Peterborough Renewable Energy Limited
- Frontier Agriculture Limited
- Pigeon Investment Management Limited
- Majestic Bingo Limited
- Inivos Scientific Limited
- Specialist Health Solutions Limited and group companies
- Lawrence David Limited
- S Holdings Limited
- The shareholders of Public View
- The shareholders of Euro Resin
- Sakata UK Limited
- Fortis Hire
Work highlights
- Advised a large group of companies with a value in excess of £20m in respect of a multi stage demerger and divisionalisation of various business units.
- Advised a £60m group of companies in respect of an MBO.
- Advised S Holdings Limited in respect of the sale of shares in Opals Group Limited.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Martin Jinks