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The corporate team at leading UK law firm Shoosmiths have made a record-breaking start to the year, increasing its ranking to 3rd in the volume of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals made in the UK in the first half of 2021. The national team are on track for a record year, advising on over £4 billion worth of high profile and complex transactions in the last 6 months ...

Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has today announced its move to a state-of-the-art office in the heart of the City of London.The firm’s commitment to London expansion is client-led, and the new office - based at No. 1 Bow Churchyard, EC4M- will provide the fast-growing firm the permanent base required to significantly increase its presence, support the firm’s strategic growth ambitions and enhance its client experience ...

Shoosmiths specialist digital infrastructure team has advised Equitix, one of Europe’s leading infrastructure investors, on its £75m investment into Grain Connect Limited (a multi-brand ISP and fibre broadband operator) based in the north-west of England.Grain Connect is a leading provider of fibre-optic internet access services largely to new-builds as well as existing homes, working with developers in well over 100 locations across the UK ...

Shoosmiths has advised Kortext, the Bournemouth-based university-focussed digital teaching and learning platform, in securing a £15m series B investment from DMG Ventures, the venture capital arm of Daily Mail and General Trust plc, that has previously backed companies including Cazoo and Zoopla.Kortext has been a Shoosmiths client since its founding by James Gray in 2013. The firm has acted for Kortext in all its prior funding rounds, raising £19m since it began trading ...

Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has taken strides towards its goal for its operations to reach net zero by 2025 with the release of its 20/21 carbon footprint.Shoosmiths is committed to a net zero emissions future with a target for its operations to achieve net zero emissions by 2025 and a commitment made to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to set science-based emissions reduction targets across the entire value chain that are consistent with limiting global warming to 1 ...

Shoosmiths has again been recognised for its work in advising high net worth (HNW) clients on a range of matters in this year’s Chambers & Partners High Net Worth Guide.Steady organic growth has delivered a wealth protection team that is going from strength to strength, with Charlotte Dunn (based in Milton Keynes) and Adam Draper (based in Manchester) retaining their Band 1 rankings with Melissa Maple (Thames Valley) retaining her Band 3 ranking ...

Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths continues its ambitious growth strategy in Northern Ireland with the appointment of rising star corporate lawyer Grant Edwards as a partner.Grant is dual-qualified in Northern Ireland and England and Wales and has worked with venture capital and private equity funds across the UK on their investments in Northern Ireland ...

The non-legal advice arm of leading UK law firm Shoosmiths, Shoosmiths8 Connected Services (Shoosmiths8), has added two new products to its roster since launching in March this year.Shoosmiths8 provides non-legal products to its clients, complementing the firm’s existing legal services ...

Paula Swain, head of Shoosmiths’ national business debt recovery team and head of the firm’s Solent office, has been appointed as the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) representative on the Solent Freeport Consortium Board.The Solent is one of eight regions in England selected to be a Freeport, potentially unlocking billions of pounds’ worth of investment. The Solent region already contributes £31 billion to the UK economy ...

Shoosmiths has signalled its intent to further expand in Scotland after signing a deal for a permanent office in the heart of Glasgow’s innovation district.The firm will lease c.5000 sq ft of space on the 5th floor of The Garment Factory – a restored historic city centre building on Montrose Street. Other tenants include broadcaster Channel 4, digital transformation firm Incremental Group, and software firm AutoRek ...

Shoosmiths has signalled its intent to further expand in Scotland after signing a deal for a permanent office in the heart of Glasgow’s innovation district.The firm will lease c.5000 sq ft of space on the 5th floor of The Garment Factory – a restored historic city centre building on Montrose Street. Other tenants include broadcaster Channel 4, digital transformation firm Incremental Group, and software firm AutoRek ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...