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DMH Stallard LLP
Griffin House
135 High Street
RH10 1DQ
England
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Helen Mead

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01483 467431 helen.mead@dmhstallard.com View profile

Work Department

Corporate

Position

Partner

Career

Helen is a partner in our Guildford office and has more than 20 years’ experience as a corporate and M&A lawyer.  She specialises in share and asset acquisitions and disposals, mergers, corporate structures / restructuring, joint ventures, investments, private equity and management buy-ins and buy-outs and is a highly skilled adviser in respect of corporate structures and transactions.

Helen has been involved in transactions in a variety of industry sectors including travel, aviation, retail, insurance and IT / technology; her expertise supports entrepreneurs and owner managers, corporate businesses and those looking to invest in or start a new business. She is very well known and highly regarded within the corporate finance community in the south east in particular.  Her interest and experience in the travel sector has resulted in a number of presentations at ABTA training events.

Helen joined DMH Stallard in April 2019 after a 20-year career with another regional firm where she headed up the corporate team.

 

Work highlights

  • Advising the shareholders of Atelier Ten, an award-winning environmental design consultancy as it joined the Surbana Jurong Group
  • Advising British bicycle manufacturer, Whyte Bikes, on significant private equity investment
  • Advising on sale of shares of family-owned leisure adventure provider, In2action
  • Advising the management team of the secondary MBO of Viande Group, the largest independent wholesale butcher and poulterer in the south east
  • Acting on the merger of two vineyards and winery businesses
  • Acting on the sale of a business performance improvement (via cognitive and emotional activities) company
  • Acting for the management team on a partial MBO of a design, graphics and 3D production business
  • Acting on the sale of a cyber security, testing, consultancy and training business
  • Advising the shareholders of Chandlers Building Supplies on their merger with Parkers creating a builders merchant with combined revenues of £180 million and over 750 employees
  • Acting for Global Risk Partners on their acquisition of the Birrell Group (the group comprises Kingsway Insurance Services and Bausor Hall Associates) and on a number of other acquisitions
  • Acting for the buyer on the purchase of AFTA Tours Limited

Languages

English

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex

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Helen Mead – DMH Stallard LLP

DMH Stallard LLP excels in complex and high-value deals for national and multinational brands in the e-learning, vineyard and travel sectors. The firm has grown a local Brighton M&A practice through its merger with Griffith Smith LLP in March 2022. Heading up the team from Gatwick is corporate expert Jonathan Grant, who has significant experience in transactions involving management buyouts and buy-ins as well as business sales, and commercial lead John Yates, who regularly acts on IP projects, complex IT contracts and data protection matters. Based in Guildford is Helen Mead, who specialises in share and asset acquisitions and disposals, investments, and private equity matters. Abigail Owen is also noted for her work in complex regional, national and international M&A transactions across a range of industries. Debbie Venn is another key lawyer.

London > Transport > Travel

The ‘stellar’ commercial and regulatory practice at DMH Stallard LLP is headed up by Brighton-based ‘excellent travel specialist lawyer’ Debbie Venn. The team has a strong reputation for its capabilities advising its plethora of clients on matters that range from advising on package holiday travel terms and arrangements, to related privacy policy and data protection advice. Within travel, ‘expert in her field’ Rebecca Thornley-Gibson and solicitor Abigail Maino both have an employment specialism, their work often featuring overseas worker issues and jurisdictional issues in relation to seasonal work abroad, for example. Helen Mead and Crawley-based Danos Athanasi have a focus on the corporate side of the sector, advising on such work as brand sales, restructuring and buy back schemes.

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