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Laura Abbott has joined Shoosmiths to lead the firm’s Disputed Wills and Trusts team in Birmingham, bringing with her considerable expertise in claims using the Inheritance Act, disputes in relation to wills and trusts, claims against Executors and Trustees, proprietary estoppel and statutory wills. Working alongside Kelly Carr, who joined Shoosmiths in August 2020, Laura’s arrival means the national law firm now has a dedicated team based in and covering Birmingham and the Midlands ...
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Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has advised private equity house, Capiton AG via its investee company Dec Group on the purchase of Extract Technology. Established in 1981, Extract Technology is a worldwide supplier of containment and aseptic systems for the pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotech and chemical markets ...
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Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has appointed a new partner to its real estate team, one of the largest multi-disciplinary practices in the UK.Daniel Halstead joins the Thames Valley office, bringing 20 years of experience and with particular expertise in development, investment and funding work, including acting for a number of student accommodation developers and operators ...
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Shoosmiths has further strengthened its award-winning national family law team with the recruitment of Nicola Wilburn-Shaw who joins the firm as a partner with a remit to take the lead in growing the family law offering in Manchester.Previously a partner with the boutique Cheshire outfit, McAlister Family Law, Nicola has reputation for being a tenacious litigator whilst maintaining a compassionate and fair approach ...
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A team from Shoosmiths led by VC team head Alastair Peet with specialists Helen Burnell, Ellie Lishman and Sharon Nicholls has advised a British artificial intelligence (AI) company on its largest investment to date.Faculty, which helps organisations from all sectors adopt AI into their business, works with many different clients including the UK government, the NHS, Network Rail, Red Bull and Virgin Media ...
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Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has advised national real estate fund manager Moorfield Group on the disposal of The Forge to Grainger plc for approximately £57 million. The Forge is a Newcastle-based stabilised income producing Build-to-Rent asset, comprising 283 rental apartments and a ground floor commercial unit, and the disposal was transacted by way of corporate share sale ...
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Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths scooped two awards at the prestigious Managing Partners’ Forum virtual awards ceremony yesterday evening – ‘Best Shared Learning with Clients’ (Client Theme) and ‘Best Operational Continuity’ (Business Theme) ...
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The sale of travel fintech innovator Ixaris has been agreed with Nium, the next-generation payments platform, in a transaction advised on by leading UK law firm Shoosmiths.Singapore-headquartered Nium is one of the fastest growing business-to-business payment platforms globally, with more than 130 million customers in over 100 countries. Acquiring Ixaris will help Nium in its vision to provide one API integration to access the world’s payments structure ...
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UK law firm Shoosmiths has underlined its strategy for further growth in Scotland with the confirmation that seven solicitors and two paralegals have been appointed across several key teams in Glasgow and Edinburgh ...
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Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has today launched The Shoosmiths Foundation, a grant making body working to help address societal issues, empower sustainable change and improve the lives of the people and the environment in the UK.The Shoosmiths Foundation builds on Shoosmiths’ existing community investment programme which continues to support local charity partners through staff fundraising and firm donations, staff volunteering and provision of legal advice pro bono ...
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Shoosmiths has advised Five Arrows Principal Investments (Rothschild & Co) in the creation of a global company to be headquartered in Milton Keynes formed by the acquisition of White Clarke Group by IDS (a leader in enterprise mission-critical solutions for secured finance) in conjunction with private equity firm Thoma Bravo, which invests mainly in software and technology companies.The deal is multi-million in value, but full financial terms were not disclosed ...
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Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths LLP and national collections, recoveries and enforcement business, Chartsbridge, have today launched ‘Equivo’, a new dedicated recoveries business providing end-to-end collections, legal and enforcement services.The new company is a dedicated recoveries business majority owned by Shoosmiths and born out of the former Chartsbridge business ...
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The London corporate team at leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has experienced an exceptional and sustained busy deal period over the last twelve months, as the country has adapted to the continued disruption caused by the pandemic.Throughout 2020, whilst the team have all had to embrace remote working, the appetite of investors and business owners to consider, negotiate and close deals did not abate ...
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Highly experienced construction lawyer Ian Reid has joined Shoosmiths, one of the largest multi-disciplinary real estate practices within the UK, to lead the firm’s construction offering in London and the south of England.A specialist in construction law, Ian deals with both non-contentious and contentious construction matters, offering clients a strength in depth of knowledge throughout the entire life cycle of their projects from inception through to post completion disputes ...
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Wrisk, a leading UK insurtech has received a £4.6 million investment to boost the company’s ambitious growth plans in growing its team and scaling up its platform, in support of automotive brands adapting to evolving mobility trends.The investment was led by QBN Capital, with participation from investors Guinness Asset Management and Cell Rising Capital plus follow-on funds from existing investors including Oxford Capital and Seedrs ...
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Beer and cider drinkers can enjoy their pints in the knowledge that they are doing their bit to combat climate change thanks to the Molson Coors Beverage Company (the brewers of Carling, Coors and Doom Bar among other iconic beers) signing a power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply their UK operations with 100% green energy generated from the Tween Bridge wind farm in South Yorkshire ...
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Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has built up its tax offering with the hire of corporate M&A tax specialist, Laura Board. Laura, who has 11 years’ experience of advising clients on tax issues, will be based at the firm’s London office. She joins as a Partner from law firm Bird & Bird. Previous to that, Laura trained and practised at Nabarro ...
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Berkeley DeVeer has partnered with funds advised by Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited to acquire Avant Homes Group, one of the UK's leading residential property developers, to advance its growth plans ...
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Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has helped as one of the advisers on the management buyout (MBO) of a timber processor and distributor, Hawthorn Timber.Founded just under 70 years ago, Hawthorn Timber in Hull supports some of the highest quality machined softwood and sheet materials in the UK ...
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Stephen Dawson, head of financial services sector at leading UK law firm, Shoosmiths, has been asked to take a place on the Green Finance Institute’s Coalition for the Decarbonisation of Road Transport, which launches today ...
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Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has joined a new group which has been launched to support the growth of the clean hydrogen economy in Northern Ireland as a founding member. Hydrogen NI has been established to represent organisations with an interest in developing NI’s clean hydrogen economy. Other early members include Phoenix Natural Gas, B9 Energy Storage, Solo Renewables, Green Energy Hub and Evermore Group ...
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The Manchester Corporate team at leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has made a record-breaking start to the year by advising on more than a dozen deals worth over £1bn in the last three months ...
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Today the Queen’s Speech set out the government’s agenda for the next session and its plans to build back better from the pandemic and level-up opportunities across the country ...
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The promotions are across the firm’s divisions; corporate, real estate, personal advisory and business advisory. Shoosmiths’ new partners are: Real estate: Ellie Sandbach (litigation) Personal advisory: Lucy Taylor (wealth protection, Court of Protection) Corporate: Simon Procter Business advisory: Sarah Tedstone (commercial/privacy and data) In addition, Shoosmiths has promoted two to legal director and 13 to principal associate ...
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In the latest digital infrastructure deal handled by its specialist team, national law firm Shoosmiths represented Gresham House in a multi-million-pound investment through its British Strategic Investment Fund (BSIF) in Borderlink Broadband Limited, a Scottish based broadband company. The BSIF is one of a range of funds from the specialist alternative asset manager which aims to build a portfolio through investing in sustainable, smaller mid-market UK housing and infrastructure projects ...