Profile
Work Department
Position
Lee has extensive experience in advising companies, institutional investors and management teams in the structuring, negotiation and financing of purchases and sales. Lee’s particular specialist area is private equity transactions. Lee’s clients include LDC, Maven Private Equity and Finance Birmingham. Lee has recently acted for LDC on their investment to support the management buy out of Forest Holidays, advised on the Investor buy out by Inflextion Private Equity of CTC Aviation. Lee also advised Maven Private Equity on its investment in Lawrence Recycling and Waste Management and advised the management team of Halfords when on the management buy out, supported by CVC.
Career
Qualified 1998.
Content supplied by Freeths LLP
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘Very responsive and knowledgeable in identifying issues with pragmatic solutions.’
‘Tom Brown - hands-on partner who knows when to delegate and when he needs to be involved, highlighting the fee implications of doing certain actions.'
'Baljit Atwal - always looking to progress a deal with comprehensive support, has really evolved in the last few years.’‘Freeths is a committed, diligent and cost-effective practice. Their quality of work & timeliness is excellent. They are flexible around a client's need and their diligence in finding solutions through complex challenges is fantastic. Their team diversity is really good and they fit around a client's ways of working, indeed very well.’
‘Lee Clifford and Olivia Johnson were fantastic in their work with us. Their quality of work and timeliness is excellent. They are flexible around a client's need, and their diligence in finding solutions through complex challenges is fantastic. Their team diversity is really good, and they fit around a client's ways of working, indeed, very well. Both are extremely trustworthy, and we would definitely work closely with Freeths across our personal investments as well. Fantastic track record of delivery.’
‘The team at Freeths provides the perfect combination of top-tier legal advice with commercial acumen. Whenever a legal issue is identified, the Freeths team provides the commercial context, provides options and guides me through the considerations and a sensible commercial position. The team looks at the engagement as a collaborative affai,r and they clearly understand the wider transaction and my goals - I find this can be quite unusual in legal firms.’
‘Lee Clifford and James Dyson are absolutely stand-out partners in the Freeths practice. Lee and James provide a clear differentiation and make it an easy decision for me to select them as my preferred legal partner. Lee and James provide superb customer service - they are always available and provide their advice in the wider context of the transaction, having real appreciation for the commercial aspects. Further, I really value their wider exposure to the transactions market, which helps to understand market norms/outliers.’
'What make the team different and so valuable to us as an business is their ability and desire to be a natural extension to us as a team, providing an invaluable 'critical friend' based service proposition, and helping us design the future evolution of the business to realise our objectives.'
'Commercial, pragmatic responsive team, always looking for for effective solutions without getting tied up in legalese.'
'Lee Clifford : gets to the heart of the matter quickly and addresses key issues. Leaves no stone unturned.'
Key clients
- Chaiiwala Tarmac Group Fastlane Paint & Body Now Education Alumasc Group Hydrock Group Funeral Partners Lloyds Development Capital Star Live YFM Private Equity Lloyds Development Capital (LDC) Funeral Partners Carbon8 Hydrock Group Stone Technologies EH Smith Flow Communications Tarmac Group Shaken Udder Cardel Group TerraQuest Panesar Foods Replay Maintenance Cardel Group Montagu Private Equity Skewb BGF Clifton Packaging Group Holovis Theorem Solutions Flexspace Santa Maria UK Limited St Helens Borough Council Ibstock PLC Horsham District Council Gore Street Capital