Joe Lewis > Gardner Leader LLP > Swindon, England > Lawyer Profile
Gardner Leader LLP Offices
HARDWICK HOUSE
PROSPECT PLACE
SWINDON
SN1 3LJ
England
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Joe Lewis
Work Department
Corporate Commercial
Position
Joe is a Partner in the Corporate Commercial Team.
He trained and qualified at an international firm in London and practised there for over a decade, and guides entrepreneurs and corporate clients through their transactions across a variety of sectors, including real estate finance, technology and private investment. He has been a specialist corporate lawyer for over 20 years, advising on all aspects of private company and business sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements, reorganisations and corporate governance. He is particularly experienced in public M&A, having acted on many takeovers, schemes of arrangement and AIM flotations. Joe spent almost a year on secondment to Hilton Group, gaining an insight into the priorities and requirements of in-house legal teams, which has informed how he works with his clients since.
Work Highlights
- Advising the founders and management team on a £17.6m private equity backed MBO
- Advising the founder and shareholders of a leading 1-click customer survey business to Exclaimer
- Advising employee engagement platform WorkBuzz on an equity investment by the Midlands Engine Investment Fund and private investors
- Advising on the vendor initiated management buyout of a construction project management and cost concultancy
Lawyer Rankings
South West > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire
Gardner Leader LLP, based in Swindon, provides advice to a wide range of both domestic and multinational corporations on their transactions in the South West. Praised for its ‘specific and detailed experience’, corporate and commercial mandates are handled by two distinct teams, which work closely together on transactions. Philip Humphreys oversees both teams and is regularly engaged to act on share and asset deals on behalf of vendors. The corporate department is headed by Joe Lewis, while Peter James leads on commercial work. Jeff Jenkins retired in June 2022 and Belinda Walters left for Moore Barlow in October of the same year.