Nicola Bennett

Expertise

Nicola specialises in all aspects of corporate law and has a broad range of expertise having gained experience in both in-house and private practice roles over the past 14 years. Her practice focuses predominantly on private company mergers and acquisitions, MBOs and MBIs. She has acted for a range of clients including start-ups, SMEs, owner-managed businesses and large corporates across various sectors including technology, hospitality and retail.

Aside from transactional work, Nicola also advises business owners on a wide variety of corporate restructuring matters including capital reductions, share repurchases, demergers and hive ups and has acted on some complex transactions involving cross border implications.

How do you help clients?

I help clients navigate the process of buying and selling businesses whilst managing risk and achieving the best deal possible.

Experience

1. Acting for Babble Cloud Holdings Limited in relation to its acquisitions of TechQuarters Limited and N.T.E. Holdings Limited.
2. Acting for the owners of Adamas Consulting (a GxP audit specialist) on its c.£26m sale to Ergomed Plc which was conducted by way of a competitive auction process.
3. Acting for the owners of a group of companies in relation to the proposed sale of a leading debt management company and a related debt management solutions software company to private equity. The transaction involved a complex demerger of the parts of the group being sold.
4. Acting for the owners of Brown & Miller Racing Solutions in relation to the sale of its UK business to a US private equity firm.
5. Acting for the owners of Crafty Clicks Limited (a click to address software company) on its c.£8m share sale to ClearCourse Partnership. This also involved providing advice on a pre-restructuring exercise and the grant of EMI options to certain employees.