Freeths LLP’s corporate and commercial team acts on extensive supply chain issues, with particular knowledge of the manufacturing and engineering industries in Sheffield. The practice is well versed in acting on private acquisitions, disposals, and investments, with vast experience advising on complex private equity transactions. Team head Peter Crawford is an ‘excellent, experienced lawyer who is easy to work with’, with broad experience acting on company acquisitions and disposals. Roger Gough also heads up the ’very hardworking, reliable, high quality and client-focused team’. Lisa Wallis is ‘always positive and proactive’, and a key name in the department, along with Caroline Thomas.
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Testimonials
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‘Efficient, knowledgeable, commercial and a pleasure to work with.’
‘Very hardworking , reliable, high quality and client focused team. A pleasure to work as a team with on deals. Clients always find them responsive and easy to get along with, whilst looking after their interests and getting the deal done. Clients are generally full of praise for them post deal. An easy firm to recommend.’
‘Peter Crawford - an excellent, experienced lawyer who is easy to work with. Commercial approach that is appreciated by clients.'
- 'Lisa Wallis - always positive and proactive - a real pleasure for us and our clients to work with, we never hesitate to recommend her. Highly competent.’
- 'Peter Crawford's love of law is apparent, he is really approachable, jovial and knowledgeable and will always have a solution. In terms of delivering a deal, Peter is spot on.'
- 'The team is very responsive and efficient and the gearing is good. They are also a good bunch of people which makes a big difference when you're working with them on intense deals.'
- 'It was clear from our initial dealings with Lisa Wallis that she wanted to support us to achieve the very best outcome we could. The fact she cared sincerely about our case and possessed such an empathetic nature provided us with great reassurance throughout the whole process.'
- 'In our opinion, what makes this company differ from other legal practices we have used was the way they delivered their advice and guidance in an unambiguous and supportive manner. In our case, we were offered the support from various specialist legal experts who explained what options were available to us.'
Key clients
- MLA Restaurants Limited
- Cars 2 Limited
- Westbrook Holdings Limited
- The Floow Limited
- UniHomes and Bills Limited
- InfoTrack Limited
- Howmet Aerospace Inc.
- SynGenSys Limited
- TES Global Limited
- Advanced Manufacturing (Sheffield) Limited
- High Value Manufacturing Catapult
- LKQ Group (UK) Limited
- A-SAFE UK Limited
Work highlights
Advised the CEO of The Floow Limited, and The Floow Limited on the divestiture of a majority 51% interest in the share capital of The Floow from Urgent.ly Inc.
Advised Cars 2 Limited on its acquisition by an employee ownership trust.
Advised the MLA Restaurants Group on the purchase of multiple restaurants including Salt House Tapas, Hanover Street Social and Boheme.
Lawyers
Leading partners
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Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Practice head
Peter Crawford; Roger Gough
Other key lawyers
Lisa Wallis; Caroline Thomas