Michelle Davenport

Legal Director
Contact details

020 7405 2000

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.

Legal 500, 2022

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

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

Quotes


Michelle Davenport is noted for her experience in property and retail M&A.

Legal 500, 2017

Insights by Michelle


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24 January - Michelle Davenport

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23 January - Michelle Davenport

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24 October - Michelle Davenport

After many years of supporting the Prize behind the scenes, we are delighted to announce Blake Morgan is now a partner of, and the Official Legal Provider to, Women's Prize...

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