Chambers Review
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Corporate/M&A: £5 million and above - East Anglia
What the Team is Known For
Howes Percival is a full-service firm able to draw on a national network of offices when handling corporate matters for clients, including family-owned businesses, individual shareholders and larger corporates. It can advise on M&A and demergers along with corporate reorganisations and management buyouts.
Strengths
The Howes Percival team is very commercial and quickly gets to the nub of the issue.
The team was excellent throughout. It had a very strong grasp of the nature of the deal, was very supportive and provided sensible advice and interventions at the right time.
Howes Percival thought ahead, communicated very well with the client and kept to a very tight timetable.
Howes Percival is outstanding, reliable, dependable, always there when I need them and a pleasure to work with.
Howes Percival is always commercial and practical in its advice.
Work Highlights
Howes Percival advised the shareholders of Schoolblazer on the firm's sale to Australian-listed investment company Hancock & Gore.
Notable practitioners
Oliver Pritchard is a partner in the corporate team with a wide range of transactional experience. His work includes acquisitions, mergers and disposals, with a notable focus on the healthcare sector.
Oliver and his team were first-class. He had a strong understanding of all of our needs, was always on hand and this was all underpinned by clear commercial awareness.
Oliver always has excellent and practical commercial advice delivered in a friendly, timely and reasonable way. He is assertive when needed but deals with fellow professionals in a reasonable way.
Oliver is great to work with: down to earth, commercial, pragmatic and reliable. We trust him and he delegates well.
Richard Turner offers experience in a variety of corporate legal matters, including acquisitions, mergers, MBOs and disposals.
Richard is a valued adviser.
Richard gives good commercial guidance and good interaction with the other legal firms we are dealing with.