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Overview
Jamie is an Associate in the Corporate Department, advising entrepreneurs, private companies, family offices and investors on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate structuring and reorganisations, secured lending and shareholder arrangements.
Jamie supports clients on domestic and cross-border transactions and works closely with Private Client colleagues on matters involving family-owned businesses and family offices.
Jamie is known for his pragmatic approach and his ability to deliver clear, commercially focused advice on complex matters.
Expertise
Jamie has experience with:
- Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
- Private Equity Investments and Exits
- Family Businesses and Family Offices
- Corporate Structuring and Reorganisations
- Shareholders’ Agreements
- Secured Lending
- Corporate Governance
Work Highlights
- Advised Eon Productions Limited and members of the Broccoli family in forming a joint venture with Amazon MGM Studios concerning intellectual property rights attaching to the iconic James Bond franchise.
- Advised Merck Mercuriadis, founder of Hipgnosis Song Management, in connection with Blackstone’s £1.3 billion takeover of Hipgnosis Songs Fund.
- Advised senior executives in the quantitative trading sector in forming a joint venture with a leading American quantitative trading firm to develop and operate automated quantitative trading strategies across global financial markets.
- Advised a family on the restructuring of the vehicle holding the family’s aviation business.
- Advised four non-UK family trusts in connection with the restructuring of a complex multi-jurisdictional corporate group with interests in a number of South American manufacturing businesses.
- Advised in relation to the restructuring of a Swedish family-office’s family investment funds and the establishment of a UK family office.
- Advised a family office on its co-investment with Graphite Capital in Storal Learning Ltd.
- Acted for the shareholders of Poppins Nurseries Limited, trading as Pippa Pop-ins, on the sale of the entire issued share capital to leading national education provider, Dukes Education.
- Acted for a longstanding client shareholder in Oxford Semantic Technologies Limited in relation to the sale of the entire issued share capital to Samsung Electronics.
Qualifications & Accreditations
Jamie studied Law at the University of Exeter before completing the Legal Practice Course (LPC) together with an MSc in Law, Business and Management at the University of Law. He qualified as a solicitor in 2022 at a leading charity law firm before joining Payne Hicks Beach in 2023.
