Chambers Review
Provided by Chambers
Corporate/M&A - North East
What the Team is Known For
Sintons provides advice on M&A as well as insolvency, restructuring and corporate finance. The firm frequently advises SMEs, private companies and owner-managed businesses. It has notable experience across a range of industries, with a strong focus on the health sector.
Strengths
They are totally proactive.
Sintons always deliver; they work professionally and all the partners get on well with clients.
Sintons offers excellent legal and commercial skills, delivered speedily and with ease.
Work Highlights
Sintons acted for Maymask in a transaction to bring the northern entities of Haines Watt accountants under a sole holding company and then sell the firm's entire issued share capital to wealth management group Evelyn Partners.
Notable practitioners
Chris is superb: extremely knowledgeable and skilled. He can always think around the issue to offer successful solutions. He inspires confidence and is a pleasure to deal with.
Chris proved invaluable, helping us navigate a series of thorny challenges and was able to keep us on track when emotion may have coaxed us nearer a riskier route.
Chris is trusted 100% by the shareholders who like his honesty, impartiality and how he respects client confidences.
Chris is exceptional and a key part of my team.
Adrian Dye is head of the corporate department at Sintons. He has notable experience in employee ownership transactions and private equity fundraisings and exits as part of a broad practice, which also incorporates a wide variety of M&A.
Adrian provided an outstanding service and was very professional and knowledgeable on all aspects. The level of detail and attention was first-class and he explained legal issues in layman's terms.
Adrian is very experienced and knowledgeable. He has assisted us on a variety of areas and is hands-on, but also passes work to others of the appropriate level to deal with it.
Adrian has been very helpful whenever required. He always provided excellent engagement.
Adrian is a pleasure to work with, commercially astute, personable and balanced.
She is very efficient, technically knows what she is doing and her client manner really comes across well.
Emma was amazing in what she achieved for us.
Matt Collen is a corporate and commercial partner at Sintons. He works on mergers, acquisitions and disposals for buyers and sellers across a variety of sectors, including financial and customer services.
Matt is very responsive, pragmatic and commercial.
Matt retains a watching eye on our progress and supports the business, going the extra mile. He is a real champion of our organisation and of the region.
Matt is a great lawyer who I trust implicitly.
Matt is one you want on your team.