Bio
Jo is a Corporate Associate.
Jo advises entrepreneurs, business owners, management teams, and investors across a range of UK and cross-border corporate transactions.
Her practice encompasses private M&A, joint ventures, reorganisations and equity investments, with particular expertise in transactions involving complex structuring, multiple stakeholders, and tight execution timelines.
Jo regularly advises on residential development joint ventures, acting for developers and investors on both private company and LLP structures (including transactions involving institutional capital and Homes England funding). She is also experienced in drafting and negotiating shareholders’ agreements and LLP agreements, as well as advising on governance, profit-sharing and exit arrangements across the lifecycle of developments.
Jo has also acted on various buy-and-build transactions in the MOT and automotive services sector, including advising on bolt-on acquisitions, integration considerations, and structuring for scale.
Examples of Jo’s work include:
- Advising on the £80 million disposal of a 50% shareholding in a UK property management business, including a pre-sale demerger.
- Advising on a £12 million joint venture for a student accommodation development in Oxford with a Singapore-backed investor.
- Advising on residential development joint ventures (company and LLP structures), including projects supported by Homes England funding.
- Supporting a US private equity buyer on the acquisition of a UK software business.
- Advising on a £17 million sale of a League One football club.
- Supporting cross-border reorganisations and project refinance work involving the UK, Singapore and the Cayman Islands.
- Advising on a series of acquisitions as part of a buy-and-build strategy in the MOT sector.