Michelle Davenport
Legal Director
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020 7405 2000
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Michelle is in a different league. Michelle is always very efficient and thorough, whilst explaining every step of the legal process in positive and precise, user-friendly terms.
Michelle takes a solutions orientated approach to advising clients in buying and selling businesses and in respect of their other corporate and company law requirements.
Main area of practice
Michelle advises clients on a range of corporate matters, notably exit strategies, mergers and acquisitions, shareholders’ agreements and joint ventures. Michelle provides commercial and pragmatic advice on a range of corporate and commercial issues.
Clients
Michelle acts for owner-managers and decision makers of companies particularly in the Tech, retail, hotels and leisure industries.
Expertise
Career
Michelle speaks fluent French having spent a year in Lyon, France, learning French law as part of her degree. Post graduation, she spent a further year in Paris teaching English.
Contact details
020 7405 2000
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Accreditations
Significant Experience
- An owner manager client in respect of the £50m sale of an IT company
- A Tech entrepreneur in the sale of his business and his shareholding and integration into the buyer’s newly expanded business
- On the internal restructuring of an art gallery company
- An owner manager client in the sale of their family run beauty company to a private equity firm
- A corporate client in the acquisition of a travel business
- On the transfer of a general partnership to a private limited company for a hotel chain
- Property investors and developers on the structuring of, and investment into, joint ventures
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