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Goodwin Offices

Goodwin
Sancroft, 10-15 Newgate Street
London
EC1A 7AZ
England
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Gemma Roberts

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44 (0)20 7447 4204 [email protected]

Position

Partner

Career

Gemma Roberts is a partner in Goodwin’s Private Equity group and co-chair of the London office. Gemma specializes in representing private equity sponsors and private companies in leveraged buyouts, growth equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, and joint ventures. She has extensive experience with cross-border transactions, complex carve-outs and representing senior executives in corporate transactions as well as undertaking corporate and commercial advisory work for a broad range of corporate clients and private equity portfolio companies. Gemma works with clients in industries ranging from software, technology, financial and business services, to food and consumer products.

Education

Legal Practice Course, 2006, BPP Law School (with Distinction); BA Hons Law, 2005, University of Cambridge

Lawyer Rankings

London > Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)

(Leading partners)

Gemma Roberts – Goodwin

‘A strong team with a good depth of knowledge’, Goodwin combines M&A and PE expertise with embedded European and US debt finance skill to serve a growing roster of financial sponsors, funds and management teams across a range of sectors. Regularly engaged on a number of complex domestic and cross-border transactions, practice head Richard Lever is noted for his M&A, corporate finance, and investment fund work. Gemma Roberts is praised as an ‘outstanding lawyer’ with a far-reaching transactional practice, while Michael Miranda has recently added a series of cross-border disposals to an already varied deal sheet. Carl Bradshaw also comes recommended for his multi-sector specialism and his skill in financial restructuring. Christian Iwasko, Michelle Tong, and Priya Rupal left to join Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in March 2024.

London > Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)

(Leading partners)

Gemma Roberts – Goodwin

‘Strong, knowledgeable, always available’, Goodwin combines M&A and PE expertise with embedded European and US debt finance skill to serve a growing roster of financial sponsors, funds and management teams across a range of sectors. Regularly engaged on a number of complex domestic and cross-border transactions, practice head Richard Lever is noted for his M&A, corporate finance, and investment fund work. Gemma Roberts is praised as an ‘outstanding’ lawyer with a far-reaching transactional practice, while Michael Miranda has recently added a series of cross-border disposals to an already varied deal sheet. Carl Bradshaw also comes recommended for his multi-sector specialism and his skill in financial restructuring.

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