England - South East • Corporate and commercial
Shoosmiths LLP
Amit Nayyar, Robin Webb and Claire Checketts jointly lead the Milton Keynes-based practice at Shoosmiths LLP. The team provides an ‘exceptional level of support’ to a number of notable clients, including Nissan, Estée Lauder Companies and Mercedes Benz. Nayyar is a private equity expert who primarily assists investment funds, Checketts handles the corporate side of the practice, often advising on both buy and sell-side M&A matters, and Webb focuses on transactional issues within the financial services and automotive sectors. Sebastian Price is particularly adept at providing clients within the technology and logistics sectors with ‘solid, practical’ advice concerning multi-jurisdictional transactions. Aleksandr Bosch also contributes his broad experience in acting for management teams and PLCs to the practice.
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Testimonials
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‘The Private Equity team at Shoosmiths are extremely commercial and pragmatic. They have a deep understanding of the private equity sector and our needs as a client and work tirelessly to find solutions to ensure deals moves forward.’
‘Amit Nayyar runs a tight team - with an exceptional level of support and availability from the core team - equally matching availability from much larger city law firms.’
‘Team kept me well updated.’
‘Sebastian Price provided solid practical advice without legal jargon, demonstrated patience and supported my understanding of the key issues involved and practical help in distributing the final document.’
Key clients
- Rothschild & Co
- Estée Lauder Companies Inc
- Nissan Motor GB Limited
- Norland Capital LP
- Downing LLP
- Business Growth Fund
- Humble Group AB
- Volkswagen Group
- Mercedes Benz
- The White Company
Work highlights
- Advised Five Arrows Principal Investments IV Investment Holding Sarl (the investment arm of Rothschild & Co.) on its acquisition of Mintec, a global provider of food-related commodity prices.
- Advised Nissan Motor GB Limited in relation to the sale of 13 of its West Way branches across the UK.
- Advised Volkswagen Group on the outsourcing of warehousing and logistics services in respect of all vehicle parts for the five Volkswagen Group brands, pursuant to which vehicles parts are distributed to the entirety of the dealer network and trade parts centres in the UK.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Amit Nayyar, Robin Webb, Claire Checketts