Mrs Mary Anne Fedeyko > Thompson Smith and Puxon > Colchester, England > Lawyer Profile

Thompson Smith and Puxon
STABLE 6, STABLE ROAD
COLCHESTER
CO2 7GL
England

Work Department

Corporate and Commercial

Position

Senior Partner, Solicitor

Career

Mary Anne, who originally qualified in Canada, has practised at both a large Canadian firm and at Freshfields. She is the director of Mary Anne Fedeyko Limited, a partner in TSP. Mary Anne specialises in corporate, corporate finance and commercial law, and has wide experience of company restructurings, mergers and acquisitions. She has exceptional technical expertise in large industry acquisitions and contracts. She acts for clients in local industry and commerce as well as those with parent-companies based outside the UK – in Canada, the United States and Europe – and as such is often involved in multi-jurisdictional transactions.

In 2015 Mary Anne continued her extensive cross-border work, as well as advising on a number of UK-based transactions. She also qualified as a mediator and expects her experience in large corporate and commercial transactions will be an asset in this field.

Mary Anne leads the firm’s Quality & Compliance Team and is the firm’s COLP (Compliance Officer for Legal Practice). The team oversees adherence across the firm to practices and procedures designed to ensure we provide the most effective and efficient service possible to all our clients. The team also has responsibility for compliance with Lexcel, the Law Society’s quality mark for excellence in legal practice management and client care. TSP is proud to have held the Lexcel accreditation since 2006.

Mary Anne completed her law degree at the University of Western Ontario in 1983, qualifying as a lawyer in Alberta in 1984. She practised at a large Canadian firm before transferring her skills to the UK and worked at Freshfields in London whilst qualifying in this country (1989). She left Freshfields in 1991, joining Thompson Smith and Puxon and became a partner of the firm in 2001. When the structure of the firm changed in 2006 Mary Anne became a director of Mary Anne Fedeyko Ltd, a corporate partner in Thompson Smith and Puxon. In January 2016 Mary Anne was appointed as TSP’s Senior Partner.

Languages

English

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Essex

(Leading individuals)

Mary Anne FedeykoThompson Smith and Puxon

Thompson Smith and Puxon‘s ‘highly skilled’ corporate and commercial department  in Colchester is led by Mary Anne Fedeyko, who is well known for her expertise in complex reorganisations and demergers. The team advises clients from a range of industries, with strong connections to the agricultural sector in Essex. Another focus sector of the department is healthcare, where Nick Mayles offers expertise in the sale and acquisition of dental practices. With a background in insolvency law, Nicola Rout handles debt restructurings, members’ voluntary liquidations, as well as corporate acquisitions and disposals, and has built a niche practice in charity law. Claire Powell  joined Tees Law in September 2023.