John Spratt > SE-Solicitors > Banbury, England > Lawyer Profile

SE-Solicitors
52-54 THE GREEN
SOUTH BAR STREET
BANBURY
OX16 9AB
England

Work Department

Corporate & Commercial

Position

John is a Founding Partner of SE-Solicitors and a highly regarded Solicitor in the Corporate & Commercial team. John’s role since retiring as Chairman and the Head of Department is a Consultant, sharing his 30 plus years of experience in a wide range of corporate transactions and agreements.

This experience includes drafting and negotiating complex and high value commercial agreements for UK and international clients, negotiating, and completing sales and purchases of shares and businesses and management buy-ins and buy-outs; shareholders’ agreements and group re-organisations and has particular expertise in advising clients in the security industry.

Career

John Spratt is a Recommended Lawyer in The Legal 500 2023.

Memberships

John is a trustee of both Banbury Museum Trust and Tooleys Boatyard Trust, and is also Chairman of Hanwell Parish Council.

Education

Keble College, Oxford (BA Jurisprudence).

Leisure

His other interests include tennis, stalking, fishing, shooting, opera and old cars.

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40

SE-Solicitors‘s ‘efficient and extremely knowledgeable’ company commercial team advises regional, national and multinational clients across a wide range of corporate and commercial legal services including M&A, business sales, restructures, contracts and competition law. Founding partner Hitendra Patel now heads the team, after John Spratt stepped back to a consultant role. Patel is an expert in M&A, partnership law, corporate finance and agency agreements. Catherine O’Riordan has particular expertise in warehousing and logistics agreements, as well as website terms and policies and distance selling legislation.