Partner, Corporate/ Commercial Department

Qualifications and experience
• MA in Law, Queens' College, Cambridge
• Admitted solicitor 1976
• Joined BWB 2002
• Previously a partner in City and West End firms
• Six years experience in house with Ladbroke Group plc
• Member of Law Society Company Law Subcommittee; Association of Partnership Professionals
• Editor of Jordans/BWB “The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Law”

Recent work
• acting on sale of business and assets of Further Education college
• acting for firm of chartered accountants in relation to conversion to LLP
• acting for firm of chartered accountants in connection with merger with another chartered accountancy firm
• sale of home entertainment furniture manufacturer to AIM quoted company for up to £21 m on earn out basis in cash, shares and loan notes
• sale of recruitment business on earn out basis
• cross border merger involving UK and Australian based businesses
• advising on shareholder dispute and division of property company
• advising contemporary circus company on restructuring and raising of new funds
• advising on a considerable number of company and business sales and purchases in the UK and abroad in a wide variety of fields including hotels, restaurants, betting shops and casinos, engineering, design, financial services, insurance brokers, professional services, local media, recruitment retail and wholesale - involving earn-outs and a variety of structures
• joint ventures and shareholders agreements in numerous sectors including
• restaurants, hotels, nursing homes, insurance
advising on start ups and businesses setting up in the United Kingdom and overseas
• group reorganisations
• partnership matters including general partnership agreements, LLPs, mergers, dissolutions, retirement, incorporation
• information technology and intellectual property including computer software and hardware contracts, technology transfer
• a wide range of commercial agreements and advice including , agency and distribution agreements, terms and conditions of sale and purchase, e-commerce matters,data protection
• advising on minority shareholder interests and shareholder disputes
• employee share options
• general business advice and conduct of negotiations
• providing a first port of call in relation to employment, property, insolvency and other specialist business fields and estate planning for entrepreneurs