Karen Lord > Healys > Brighton, England > Lawyer Profile

Healys
8 & 9 OLD STEINE
BRIGHTON
BN1 1EJ
England

Work Department

Corporate & Commercial Services

Position

Partner and Head of Corporate & Commercial

Career

With 25 years of experience working closely with business owners, Karen is a commercially minded lawyer who provides advice on 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 £30 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 in addition to Legal 500, has been accredited by Chambers and Partners UK.

Languages

English

Memberships

Law Society of England and Wales

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex

Healys has broad sector experience acting for care home operators, childcare providers, film and TV producers and manufacturers. The firm’s corporate focus lies in investment, ESOPs, buy outs, joint ventures, and share incentive schemes. Commercial work includes contracts, franchising agreements, sale of goods and services agreements as well production agreements. The practice is split across London and Brighton and is led by Karen Lord. Tim Sadka recently joined the firm from Rix & Kay Solicitors LLP.