BBS Law

Corporate

Partner

Rebecca is a partner working in the corporate team and based in the Manchester office. Rebecca has been working in corporate law since she qualified in 2006 and has always found the work to be challenging and enjoyable, with no two transactions ever being the same.

Rebecca specialises in all types of corporate transactions, including acquisitions and mergers, joint ventures, corporate finance and company reorganisations.  She works with businesses involved in a number of sectors with a particular focus on acting for entrepreneurs and small to medium sized owner managed businesses. Rebecca especially enjoys working with her clients to find practical, commercial solutions to their problems.

Rebecca’s clients comment particularly on her commerciality and ability to complete complex transactions in a professional and efficient manner.

Recent experience

• Acting for an international freight logistics and express courier specialist in relation to a £15million investment by growth capital investor.
• Advising the management team of a UK property and construction consultancy in relation to a minority investment by an overseas trade competitor as a prelude to a full merger of the businesses.
• Acting for the founder of an IT support services specialist in relation to the sale of the company to an employee ownership trust, the latest in a series of EOT transactions which the BBS Law corporate team has been involved with over the past two years.
• Advising the shareholders of a Cheshire based provider of accessible showering, general bathrooms, daily living, and kitchen solutions to a trade buyer.
• Acting for both sellers and buyers on a number of transactions involving the sale and purchase of a property in a corporate wrapper working closely alongside the BBS Law property team.
• Working on numerous group reorganisations and demergers including share for share exchanges, capital reduction demergers and section 110 demergers.

Rebecca trained with DLA Piper and qualified in 2006 into the corporate team of their Manchester offices.  She subsequently worked for Semple Fraser LLP and Weightmans LLP before moving to BBS Law Ltd in 2013.  She was promoted to partner in 2024.

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Rebecca graduated with honours from the University of Sheffield with a BA in Law with Spanish in 2003. She was the recipient of a Law Society prize as the valedictorian of her Legal Practice Course also at the University of Sheffield in 2004.