About

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Our award winning team of experienced corporate lawyers provide highly practical advice to help ambitious businesses develop and grow.

We offer a comprehensive service, combining true business acumen with in-depth legal knowledge, helping accelerate growth and transformation for our clients.

We regularly advise on highly complex (and often cross-border) transactions, for both domestic and international clients, with particular expertise in the mid-market space.

Our expertise:

  • M&A - mergers, acquisitions and disposals
  • Private equity and venture finance, including MBOs and MBIs
  • Exit and succession planning
  • Cross border transactions
  • Starting up and managing joint venture arrangements
  • Shareholder arrangements
  • Corporate restructurings & demergers
  • Company law and corporate governance advice
  • Advising borrowers and lenders on banking and finance transactions 

Our approach

We understand that each client requires a bespoke approach, in line with their unique aims and goals. We seek to develop an understanding of our clients’ businesses and their commercial strategy. We then harness our expertise and experience to provide advice that contributes to this, and we work tenaciously with our clients to help them achieve their objectives.

Many of our client relationships are long lasting and in-depth which gives us an ever-increasing knowledge of what they want to achieve and the business environment in which they operate.


Chambers Review

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Corporate/M&A: £5 million and above - The South

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Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Thomson Snell & Passmore is a solid regional practice with a strong focus on acting for owner-managed businesses based throughout the UK and internationally. The team has further expertise in advising the UK subsidiaries of large international companies on M&A and other corporate matters. It has notable experience of transactions in the transport, food and beverage, and technology industries.

Work Highlights

  • Thomson Snell & Passmore advised Nurture Landscapes on its acquisition of Tivoli Group.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Joanne Gallagher
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Joanne Gallagher
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Band 1
Head of department Joanne Gallagher consistently operates at the highest level of the market. She has a depth of expertise in M&A, private equity deals and matters of corporate finance.

Joanne is an excellent overall leader on legal work.

Joanne is one of the best lawyers I have ever had the privilege of working with.

Joanne is a rock of support. My anxiety levels are contained because I know she is a phone call away.

Faye Cook
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Faye Cook
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Band 2
Faye Cook is recognised for her work in M&A, joint ventures and corporate restructurings, among other matters. She acts for owner-managed businesses and larger private companies.

Faye is a superb lawyer with a solution-driven approach.

Faye has a true understanding of my group.

Faye and her team were a pleasure to work with. She was professional, showed strong commercial awareness and was highly attentive.

Jason Varney
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Jason Varney
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Band 3

Jason Varney is head of the firm's technology group. He offers excellent counsel to clients across a breadth of corporate transactions including joint ventures and corporate governance.

Jason is an exceptional lawyer. He has firmly won my trust through his diligence, knowledge, commercial drive and ability to reassure clients.

Jason has huge experience across a wealth of deals and is responsive, knowledgeable, pragmatic and great to work with.

Ranked Lawyers at
Thomson Snell & Passmore

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The South

Corporate/M&A: £5 million and above

Joanne Gallagher
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Joanne Gallagher
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Band 1
Faye Cook
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Faye Cook
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Band 2
Jason Varney
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Jason Varney
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Band 3

Members

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Joanne Gallagher

Joanne Gallagher

Head of Department

Sebastian Jones