Penelope Garden > Field Seymour Parkes LLP > Reading, England > Lawyer Profile
Field Seymour Parkes LLP Offices
1 LONDON STREET
READING
RG1 4QW
England
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Penelope Garden
Work Department
Corporate/Private Equity & Venture Capital
Position
Head of Private Equity and Venture Capital and partner in the corporate team.
Penelope regularly advises both companies and investors on venture capital and trade investments as well as private equity backed buy-outs. She also has extensive experience advising buyers and sellers on M&A transactions across a range of sectors.
Penelope also advises clients on general company matters such as shareholder agreements, group reorganisations and share buy backs.
Career
Trained Field Seymour Parkes; qualified 2005. Partner 2012. Field Seymour Parkes, solicitor, corporate qualification to June 2007. Olswang LLP, associate, private equity team July 2007 – June 2010. Field Seymour Parkes LLP, corporate July 2010 – present.
Education
Heathfield School; Reading University (LLB law 2:1); College of Law, Guildford (LPC, distinction).
Lawyer Rankings
South East > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
Field Seymour Parkes LLP advises healthcare, online marketplace, and telecoms clients with cybersecurity, GDPR, and terms and conditions. Cathrine Ripley leads the team, while Penelope Garden is seasoned in corporate transactions and Francesca Lombardi deals with a breadth of intellectual property matters. All of the individuals that have been mentioned are located in Reading.
South East > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
Field Seymour Parkes LLP represents entrepreneurs, owner-managed small and medium enterprises, and VCs on trade sale M&A mandates, in addition to fostering a fast-growing private equity practice that advises on investments and private equity backed buy-outs. Rachael Maunder leads the Reading-based team, advising on M&A and disposals. Penelope Garden continues to focus her practice on private equity and venture capital investments.
Lawyer Rankings
- Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40 South East > Corporate and commercial
- IT and telecoms South East > TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Family: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Public sector > Public sector