Karen Lord > Healys > Brighton, England > Lawyer Profile
Healys Offices
8 & 9 OLD STEINE
BRIGHTON
BN1 1EJ
England
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Karen Lord
Work Department
Corporate & Commercial Services
Position
Partner and Head of Corporate & Commercial Services.
Career
With 20 years of experience working closely with business owners, Karen is a commercially minded lawyer with significant expertise in providing the full range of corporate transactional work for UK and international clients.
Karen offers advice and assistance in all corporate matters, including; cross-border transactions, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, demergers and private equity investment. She can advise owner-managers, MBO teams and corporate acquirers, and has extensive experience assisting with intellectual property protection, in particular trademark portfolio management.
Karen acts for both buyers and sellers on deal values ranging up to £15 million, and has been involved in a number of management buy-outs. An area of her work that she finds particularly rewarding is providing assistance and guidance to start-up businesses with early-stage funding, and to those planning to grow their company or to buy a bolt-on business.
Karen has been involved as the lead legal adviser in two deals which have won Insider Deal of the Year, and has been recognised as a “leader in her field” by both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500.
Languages
English
Memberships
Law Society of England and Wales
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
In Brighton, the ‘solid and reliable’ team at Healys has recently advised on management buy outs, joint ventures, franchising work and sales of share capital. ‘Very capable and experienced corporate commercial lawyer’ Karen Lord leads the team and has expertise in acting for owner managers in M&A transactions. Samantha Oakley has extensive experience, particularly in the media and technology spaces.