Bio
Rachel is a Corporate Partner.
With more than 25 years’ experience, Rachel specialises in LLP and partnership law, with particular expertise in on complex SRA regulation, M&A and private-equity transactions in the legal sector, and the use of LLPs and partnerships in co-investment and fund vehicles.
Working with a range of professional services businesses including law firms, accountants and fund managers, Rachel advises on a range of matters including profit and equity sharing structures in partnerships and LLPs, succession planning issues such as the appointment and retirement of partners, transactional work involving law firms, SRA regulations, and bespoke co-investment structures.
Examples of Rachel’s work include:
- Acting for Seddons on its merger with GSC to create a leading West End practice.
- Advising on governance, profit and equity sharing, underperformance and non-contentious exits of partners, for numerous professional services firms.
- Advising on the acquisition of Avantia Law by US tech giant Carta.
- Advising Bowery Europe on the creation of a co-investment vehicle for real estate transactions.
- Advising English, French and Luxembourg investors on the establishment of a co-investment partnership within a private-equity backed joint venture.
- Advising a high-profile Southern American family an on a substantial restructuring of its LLP-based holding platform, including the reorganisation of various LLP assets in Luxembourg, Canada and the BVI.
- Advising on the reorganisation of a substantial agricultural farming partnership and solar farm business for the purposes of wealth management and succession planning.
- Advising a fund manager on the termination of its management contracts with a Luxembourg SCS and transfer of assets to a UK LLP.