Alistair Hammerton > Shoosmiths LLP > Birmingham, England > Lawyer Profile
Shoosmiths LLP Offices
103 COLMORE ROW
BIRMINGHAM
B3 3AG
England
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Alistair Hammerton
Work Department
Corporate, Partner
Position
Alistair works in the corporate department advising on all aspects of corporate law, with particular specialty around mergers and acquisitions, growth and venture capital, private equity and joint venture arrangements.
Alistair is one of the country’s leading and most active venture capital lawyers – advising on early stage seed investments to series A and later rounds and through to exits.
Alistair works with a variety of clients including for prominent investors such as Octopus Ventures, BGF, Triple Point, Hambro Perks, Blackfinch and Mercia on a serial basis, private companies (from start-ups to large corporates), listed plcs, founders and management teams.
Having read law at the University of Sheffield, Alistair completed his LPC at Nottingham Law School with distinction. Alistair trained at Irwin Mitchell and joined Shoosmiths on qualification in September 2010.
Career
Having read law at the University of Sheffield, Alistair completed his LPC at Nottingham Law School with distinction. Alistair trained at Irwin Mitchell and joined Shoosmiths on qualification in September 2010
Lawyer Rankings
West Midlands > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Birmingham
(Next Generation Partners)Jointly helmed by VC specialist Alistair Hammerton and experienced commercial contracts lawyer Simon McArdle, Shoosmiths LLP’s Birmingham team draws high praise from clients for its ‘strong commercial acumen’ – especially in the manufacturing, recruitment, tech, infrastructure, retail and data sectors. The team is especially noteworthy for the strength of its venture capital practice, anchored by the efforts of VC team head Alastair Peet. National corporate chair Ben Turner – who splits his time between the firm’s London and Birmingham offices – works with various household names on M&A and PE-driven work, often with a cross-border element. Helen Burnell focuses especially on VC and infrastructure sector matters, advising on a slew of investment transactions.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners West Midlands > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Birmingham
- Corporate and commercial: Birmingham West Midlands > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Environment
- Employment > Health and safety
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Birmingham
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Birmingham
- Public sector > Education
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Birmingham
- Real estate > Social housing
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Employment > Pensions