Max Lesser > Machins Solicitors LLP > Luton, England > Lawyer Profile

Machins Solicitors LLP
28 Dunstable Road
LUTON
LU1 1DY
England

Position

Partner

Career

Max qualified as a solicitor in 1990.  He joined Machins in November 2021 as a partner in the Company Commercial team following a diverse career working in private practice for small and large city law firms and as general counsel in the Insurance industry.

At his previous firm he was a business corporate, commercial and employment law partner focusing on sales and purchases of private companies and businesses, advice to investors taking shares in private companies, corporate and asset finance, shareholder partnership and LLP agreements, joint venture arrangements, agency and distribution agreements, IT contracts, terms and conditions and general commercial contracts.

Over the course of his career, Max has also been head of company and commercial law at a boutique law firm in Islington as well as heading up the company commercial and employment law team at a 12 partner London law firm advising SMEs on their business needs.

He was a partner for 10 years at a niche commercial law practice specialising predominantly in the insurance sector. This included numerous high profile eight to ten figure transactions working with magic circle and silver circle law firms and a number of pre-eminent US law firms.  He has also been general counsel for Swire/EW Blanch Insurance responsible for legal, secretarial and regulatory matters and leading various acquisitions and disposals including the acquisition of a major City based Lloyd’s insurance broker.

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx

Machins Solicitors LLP is jointly spearheaded by Jon Alvarez and Max Lesser: Alvarez is an important contact for a broad range of transactions including M&A, disposals, solvent construction, corporate insolvency and distressed sales as well as corporate governance, corporate finance, and private equity investment; Lesser is an M&A expert but also acts for clients on corporate and asset finance, and private investment transactions, among many others. Elsewhere within the group, Sarah Liddiard predominantly handles commercial contract drafting, data protection law and employee share schemes.