Expertise
Kate advises on a range of UK corporate mergers and acquisitions transaction work, including acquisitions and disposals, management buy-outs, investments, shareholders’ agreement, reorganisations and general corporate governance matters.
She has over 10 years of corporate transactional experience, acting for a wide variety of clients including start-ups, owner managed businesses and investors across a range of sectors.
How do you help clients?
I help and advise clients on their legal work, particularly on transactions including all stages of the deal life cycle from due diligence, drafting and negotiating transaction documentation through to post-completion integration. I enjoy guiding clients efficiently and effectively through the deal process, helping them to realise their goals.
Experience
- Acting for the shareholders of Sano Physiotherapy on the sale of the group to and investment by Bestport Private Equity.
- Acting for the shareholders of Excalon Limited, a utilities contractor to Renew Holdings PLC, a listed market leader in infrastructure maintenance.
- Acting for the shareholders of Equinox, a Leeds-based provider of IP management software to Questel, a French-based international legal technology company.
- Acted on the acquisition of a special purpose vehicle which owned the lease to a leading hotel in the North West, including arranging a buy-side W&I insurance policy.
- Acting for Sheffield-based Pneumatic Components Limited, a portfolio company of German SME investment specialist INDUS Holding, on the acquisition of Colson X-Cel.
- Acting for the shareholders of Advanced Coupling Limited on the sale of the company to Ideal Tridon Group, backed by US private equity firm TruArc Partners.
- Acting for New York-listed global software engineering firm DataArt on its acquisition of leading UK and Romania-based software development agency Lola Tech.
- Acted for management on the management buy-out of a lighting manufacturer in West Yorkshire.