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Isabella Roberts

Work Department
Corporate.
Position
Isabella is a partner in the corporate group in London. She has experience in a wide range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and public and private fundraisings, including in particular advising in connection with listed funds on infrastructure investments particularly in the renewables sector.
Career
Trained Simmons & Simmons 1997; qualified 1999; partner in the corporate department 2008; two and a half-year secondment in the Abu Dhabi office; returned to London office 2011.
Languages
Portuguese.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
(Leading partners)Working across a host of sectors, including financial services, healthcare, and TMT, Simmons & Simmons‘ M&A practice handles a range of complex and multijurisdictional matters. A key contact for asset managers and financial institutions, practice head Arthur Stewart‘s broad offering spans domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures, and commercial agreements. Head of the private market sub-group, Ania Rontaler focuses on the asset management sector, handling corporate restructurings and M&A, including minority stakes sales. Isabella Roberts is noted for her renewables sector focus, while Stephanie Featherstone is an expert in the TMT sector, assisting businesses with domestic and international M&A, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations, and private fundraising. Gideon Sharp acts for institutional investors, private equity, and real estate clients, while Jason Daniel – former head of the firm’s corporate and commercial practice throughout Asia – frequently leads on transactions involving Japanese corporates and financial institutions. David Parkes leads the firm’s corporate team within the fintech sector group and has extensive experience acting on M&A deals, disposals, equity investments and raisings, and refinancing. Other key practitioners include Raghav Ghai and Kim Farrar.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Artificial intelligence
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Investment fund formation and management > Retail funds
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Finance > Securitisation
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Industry focus > TMT
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets: mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Real estate > Property litigation