Karen Procter

Karen advises businesses across a wide range of sectors including hotels, hospitality and leisure, sport, retail, healthcare, and manufacturing.

Karen has extensive experience with both private and public companies on a wide breadth of M&A transactions including acquisitions and disposals, complex international and cross-border deals.

She also regularly advises growing technology companies and IP-rich businesses and works with fin-tech, bio-tech and ed-tech businesses.

Karen works predominantly with business owners and boards of directors. She specialises in advising businesses at all stages of their strategic growth assisting them with private and public equity funding rounds, corporate governance and boardroom issues.

She also acts for brokers, NOMADs and companies on flotations and secondary issues and public company M&A.

She is also a trusted adviser to selling shareholders on their ultimate exits.

Examples of Karen’s work include:

• Advising the family shareholders of a cake decorating supplies business on the sale of the company to Dr Oetker Group for circa £20 million.
• Leading on the acquisition of Oldham Athletic Association Football Club by The Rothwell Family together with the separate acquisition of the football stadium associated facilities and land.
• Advising AIM-listed transport technology group Journeo plc on its £8.7 million acquisition of IGL Limited and subsidiaries IGL and Infotec and associated equity placing on AIM.
• Leading the legal processes on the acquisitions and disposals of several private equity backed hotel assets.
• Leading on the corporate aspects of the launch of Skof – the Manchester Michelin starred restaurant of renowned chef Tom Barnes.