Phil Baigent > Freeths LLP > Nottingham, England > Lawyer Profile
Freeths LLP Offices
CUMBERLAND COURT
80 MOUNT STREET
NOTTINGHAM
NG1 6HH
England
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Phil Baigent
Work Department
Corporate finance and banking.
Position
Member
Career
Phil is a highly regarded and well respected corporate lawyer who specialises in corporate transactions. He has over 20 years experience advising sellers and buyers (both corporates and individuals), investors, funders and management teams on the full breadth of corporate transactions. This has included both SMEs and the mid-market arena. Phil has a particular expertise in private healthcare; acting for a number of the UK’s leading operators, investors and funders in the sector.
Trained Harvey Ingram Owston; qualified 1997; Harvey Ingram Owston 1995-99; Freeths LLP 2000, partner 2004.
Education
Leeds University (LLB (Hons)); College of Law, Chester (Diploma in Legal Practice, commendation).
Leisure
Football (playing and supporting Leicester City FC); snowboarding, fitness.
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Finance > Banking and finance
Freeths LLP is particularly recommended for acquisition, mezzanine, real estate, public sector and healthcare financing. It also frequently works with challenger banks and several overseas banks across Europe and the Middle East. Its development finance practice is led by Nottingham-based team head Chris Freeston and Katie Hillier. Senior associate Gary Richardson is active across all forms of lending. Other specialists include John Heaphy
, also in Nottingham, for acquisition finance, and Phil Baigent in Leicester for funding in the healthcare sector.
East Midlands > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in East Midlands
Distinguished for its healthcare and care sector-focused offering, Freeths LLP‘s practice is headed by corporate partners Thomas Golding in Nottingham and Phil Baigent in Leicester. Baigent has over 20 years of experience advising sellers and buyers, banks, REITs, mid-market SMEs and management teams in the care sector.
Lawyer Rankings
- Banking and finance East Midlands > Finance
- Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in East Midlands East Midlands > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Nottingham and Derby
- Employment > Employment
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector
- Real estate > Social housing
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in East Midlands
- Private client > Family
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate