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Francesca Ainsworth

+44 (0)20 7074 8278 francesca.ainsworth@lewissilkin.com View profile View profile

Work Department

Corporate

Position

Legal Director

Career

Francesca is a Legal Director in the firm’s Corporate legal practice group and a member of their Retail, Hospitality & Leisure and Media & Entertainment sector focus groups.

Francesca is Strategy Lead for Lewis Silkin’s network for decision makers of luxury, lifestyle and premium brand businesses – The Collective. Francesca advises clients on the full spectrum of corporate issues across a broad range of sectors, but specialises in the creative industries (with a particular interest in luxury, digital, publishing and advertising).

Corporate
Francesca joined Lewis Silkin in 2017 from a Magic Circle firm, where she trained and spent three years as an Associate (including six months in Hong Kong). She advises companies and individuals on corporate transactions (in the UK and overseas) and corporate governance issues.

Her experience covers the full breadth of corporate advisory and transactional work. This includes advising business owners and investors through debt and equity funding and structuring, internal reorganisations and incentive arrangements, and private M&A.

The Collective by Lewis Silkin
Francesca is Strategy Lead for The Collective by Lewis Silkin – a network for decision makers of luxury, lifestyle and premium brand businesses. The Collective by Lewis Silkin helps to drive commercial understanding and foster valuable relationships. Bringing together leading individuals and insights, they talk about the issues that matter and help their clients and contacts overcome them.