Amit Nayyar > Shoosmiths LLP > Milton Keynes, England > Lawyer Profile

Amit Nayyar, Robin Webb and Claire Checketts jointly lead the Milton Keynes-based practice at Shoosmiths LLP. The team provides an ‘exceptional level of support‘ to a number of notable clients, including Nissan, Estée Lauder Companies and Mercedes Benz. Nayyar is a private equity expert who primarily assists investment funds, Checketts handles the corporate side of the practice, often advising on both buy and sell-side M&A matters, and Webb focuses on transactional issues within the financial services and automotive sectors. Sebastian Price is particularly adept at providing clients within the technology and logistics sectors with ‘solid, practical‘ advice concerning multi-jurisdictional transactions. Aleksandr Bosch also contributes his broad experience in acting for management teams and PLCs to the practice.

With a ‘very experienced team with good depth‘, clients praise Shoosmiths LLP for its broad capabilities in mid-market transactions, where the team acts for a host of PE firms and portfolio companies. The group’s regular workload includes a number of multimillion-pound acquisitions and disposals, as well as investment deals and reorganisations. The team is jointly headed up by Amit Nayyar, a ‘commercial and pragmatic’ figure who divides his time between London and Milton Keynes, and national PE head Sean Wright, who works between the firm’s offices in London and Solent. Other key figures include Sanjeev Sharma, who also heads up the firm’s Corporate South team, and Kiran Dhesi, who leads the London-based private equity offering, working closely with a number of the firm’s leading sponsor clients.