Joe is a Partner and Head of Corporate, Commercial and Employment Teams.
Corporate
He advises entrepreneurs and business owners at all stages of their development from start-up to exit, including start-up capital, angel financing and private equity investment. His practice covers private M&A, management buyouts, shareholders’ agreements and joint ventures, reorganisations and corporate governance.
He has experience of capital markets transactions, including flotations, introductions and fundraisings, having acted for numerous UK and international issuers.
Charity
Joe also has experience in the Charity sector, providing business advice to charities in order to help them with the creation and development of respective charities. He is also an experienced trustee, having served on the board of a hospice charity in Swindon.
Work Highlights
- Advising the founders and selling shareholders of IT and digital transformation consultancy Leading Resolutions on an MBO backed by NVM Private Equity
- Advising the founder and shareholders of leading 1-click customer survey business Customer Thermometer to email signature management software provider, Exclaimer
- Advising employee engagement platform WorkBuzz Analytics on a series of fundraising rounds, including angel investment, early stage equity investment from Mercia and Foresight (investing via the Midlands Engine Investment Fund) and private investors and Series A fundraising round led by YFM Equity Partners
- Advising on the vendor-initiated management buyout of a leading national construction project management and cost consultancy and subsequent secondary buyout.