The Payne Hicks Beach team included Corporate Partner Jonathan Gatward and Corporate Legal Director Isobel Symonds.

Bonnier acquires the business and assets of The Salariya Book Company
Payne Hicks Beach advised its longstanding client Bonnier Books UK on its post-liquidation purchase of the assets of The Salariya Book Company, including trademarks and the backlist rights to all its IP-owned projects, for an undisclosed sum. Prior to liquidation, the Salariya Book Company was an independent children’s publishing company founded in 1989 and based in Brighton, publishing children’s non‐fiction, fiction and baby books, both domestically and internationally.