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Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

PARK GATE, 25 MILTON PARK, OXFORD, OX14 4SH
Tel:
Work 01235 823000
Fax:
Fax 01235 823030
Web:
www.wilmerhale.com

Jonathan Loake

Tel:
Work +44 20 7645 2535
Email:
WilmerHale

Work Department

Corporate.

Position

Senior counsel in corporate department. Advises on corporate affairs, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, MBOs and joint ventures. Also focuses on corporate transactions in the music business. Practice includes private placements and venture capital investments. Has considerable experience with inward- and outward-bound acquisitions, and with establishing European operations for US companies. Clients include companies in a variety of technology sectors. Also acts for one of the ‘major’ record companies and one of the UK’s leading independent record companies. Has been named as a leading corporate practitioner in ‘Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession’, ‘The Legal 500’ and ‘Commercial Lawyer’.

Career

Career: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr 2000; senior counsel, Oxford.

Member

Member: Thames Valley Commercial Lawyers Association; Law Society of England and Wales.

Education

Education: Trinity College, Oxford (MA English Literature); College of Law, Chester.

Practice Areas

Corporate and commercial; M&A; Private equity

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