The ‘highly commercial and pragmatic’ team at CMS is engaged by both sponsors and management teams for its capabilities in a range of mid-market transactions, advising on deals across a number of sectors, both domestically and internationally. Practice chair Jason Zemmel is praised by clients for his ‘responsive and concise’ approach to deals, most recently in the healthcare and professional services sectors. Martin Treagus is a key port of call for a number of sponsors, while Narinder Jugpal‘s regular workload includes platform acquisitions, exits, and investment deals. Edward Holmes left the firm to join A&O Shearman in June 2023.
Testimonials
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‘The CMS team we work with are highly commercial and pragmatic, which is a key differentiator. They take a real partnership approach to working with us and invest in the longer term relationship.’
‘Jason Zemmel and Jamie Burgess are a pleasure to work with. They are user-friendly, efficient, responsive and concise with their advice.’
'CMS have a practical and commercial approach to client advisory work, which differentiates them versus peers. I have worked with them across portfolio companies of different sizes and they have been consistently sensitive to differing fee budgets that each of the individual companies might have and have tailored the resourcing of projects accordingly, which has been appreciated. Consistency of the advisory team has also been maintained, which has significantly improved the efficiency of work and the level of client service versus other law firms we have worked with.'
Key clients
- Horizon Capital
- Synova Capital
- Queen’s Park Equity
- AnaCap Financial Partners
- August Equity
- Oakley Capital
- Partners Group
- Three Hills Capital Partners
- Providence Equity Partners
- Bridges Fund Management
- CBPE Capital
- Advent International
- Inflexion Private Equity Partners
- Risk Capital Partners
- Phoenix Equity Partners
- Bowmark Capital
- Limerston Capital
- LDC
- Livingbridge
- Mayfair Equity Partners
- Sovereign Capital Partners
- GMG Ventures
- Stirling Square Capital Partners
- HIG Europe
- Turn/River
- Madison Dearborn Partners
- Atlas Merchant Capital
- Sun Capital
- EQT
- Ocean 14 Capital
- Superstruct Entertainment
- Desotec Activated Carbon
- Talon Outdoor
- CapVest
- Epiris
- Montagu
- Oaktree
- Octopus
- Patron Capital
- BGF
Work highlights
- Advising Horizon Capital, Ares and the management team sellers on the sale of the Agribriefing Group to Mintec (a Five Arrows/Synova portfolio company).
- Advising Queen’s Park Equity on the management buyout of Republic M!, which covers the UK, DACH and Benelux regions.
- Advising August Equity on the platform acquisition of One Touch (based in Ireland) and the simultaneous acquisition of the Tri.x business from BGF-backed Antser Holdings.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Jason Zemmel