Paul Hardman > Shakespeare Martineau LLP > Bristol, England > Lawyer Profile
Shakespeare Martineau LLP Offices
6 QUEEN SQUARE
BRISTOL
BS1 4JE
England
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Paul Hardman
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Partner
Career
Paul has over 30 years’ experience, specialising in corporate finance work covering mergers and acquisitions, management buy outs and buy ins, joint venture arrangements and shareholder agreements.
Paul is well regarded by clients for confidently and competently pulling deals together. He is highly skilled in recognising what will work and what has been missed and knowing when to hold firm and when to concede to achieve his client’s goal.
Paul trained in Bristol and then spent 11 years with Lyons Davidson’s corporate and commercial team before moving to Thrings, Clarke Willmott and Blake Morgan. He was head of corporate Bristol at Clarke Willmott.
Corporate deal highlights include completing his first deal, a £1m pub sale, as a trainee whilst his supervisor was on holiday. Paul helped Grafton Group with its first UK acquisition and went on to deal with a number of their subsequent acquisitions (Grafton trade as Buildbase, Plumbase etc and are a UK top 3 builders’ merchant). Paul completed the acquisition of Bristol Rugby for a consortium of local businessmen he helped assemble.
Paul’s team works with clients ranging from start-ups to well-established companies on corporate transactions and commercial contracts matters.
Memberships
Paul is a Director of the Business and West of England China Bureau.
Lawyer Rankings
South West > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Bristol
Shakespeare Martineau LLP works with a wide array of SMEs on various corporate transactions, including management buyouts. Corporate and commercial chair Paul Hardman is a ‘knowledgeable, collaborative and pragmatic’ advisor with over three decades of experience in the market, particularly in the corporate finance space. Nic Barker – praised for her ‘excellent service’ – is regularly turned to by a number of owner-managed businesses, whom she advises on acquisitions, management buyouts, and restructurings, among other matters.