Kathryn Paisley

Kathryn advises companies and their owners on business sales and purchases using a variety of transaction structures, corporate governance (including articles of association and shareholders’ agreements), business formation and structuring, investment, company restructuring and group reorganisations, and joint ventures, partnerships and LLPs.

Kathryn works collaboratively with other professional advisers engaged on a transaction to ensure that deals are as commercially effective and efficiently executed as possible.

She works across a wide variety of business sectors, supporting clients including business start-ups and entrepreneurs, owner-managed companies and partnerships, investors and large corporate businesses.

Kathryn supports clients through every stage of a sale or purchase transaction, from readying a company for sale; drafting and negotiating heads of terms and confidentiality obligations; through to due diligence; document drafting and negotiation; to execution of documents and post-transaction guidance.

She has an extensive network of professional services providers in the UK and legal contacts across Europe and beyond, and is a fluent German speaker.

Examples of Kathryn’s work include:

• Advising in relation to a complex employee-ownership trust transaction involving external lending and shares being gifted to family members pre-transaction.
• Advising the independent corporate trustee in relation to an employee-ownership trust sale.
• Supporting clients to establish a network of business angels.
• Advising clients on an internal group reorgansation including assets in the Middle East.
• Advising on company purchases with National Security and Investment Act implications.