The Team

Jeremy Whiteson

I focus on corporate transactions for successful private companies (start-ups, development finance and sales/acquisitions); and restructuring transactions and advice for distressed businesses.

Areas of Expertise

Corporate Law
Restructuring & Insolvency
Corporate Real Estate
Venture Capital
Investment Funds
Technology
Life Sciences & Healthcare
Financial Services
Private Credit

Our Service

I focus on corporate transactions for successful private companies (start-ups, development finance and sales/acquisitions); and restructuring transactions and advice for distressed businesses.

Business issues rarely come in neat boxes.

After qualification I started dealing with insolvency work at a leading London firm. I then chose to broaden this with experience of general corporate, finance and commercial agreements. Throughout, I have taken a hands on approach and enjoyed broadening my knowledge of commercial law and transactions. I have been recognised in legal directories in M&A, insolvency and finance work as well as contributing to text books or publishing articles in a number of these areas.

I can now draw on the breadth of this experience to find the best way to address clients’ needs. Whether the issue starts as a new start up, acquiring or disposing of a business, raising funds, or going through a restructuring process, I enjoy helping businesses come up with creative solutions to their issues. In a fast changing environment this breadth of approach can open new options for clients. I try to find the order in apparent chaos.

I regularly act for UK and overseas operating businesses, property companies, investors, insolvency practitioners and funders.

And out of work I enjoy cycling round London and surrounding country with friends, spending time with my lovely wife and two children, reading history books, listening to blues and rock guitar and catching up on sleep.

Experience

Acting for the founders of the highly successful Platform 9 ¾ Harry Potter shops on the sale to Warner Brothers.
Advising digital healthcare provider, Huma Therapeutics, on the acquisition of two medical technology businesses- Tarillian and Biobeats.
Advising many administrators and buyers on sales by way of pre-pack or other sales by administrators in a wide range of sectors.
Advising many property investors on sales of property holding corporate vehicles and joint venture structures.
Advising on receivership appointments, company voluntary arrangements and other insolvency procedures for property owners and users.

Jeremy Whiteson – always contactable, very approachable, very knowledgeable, always feel he is looking after our interests and has wide resources available internally to assist.

Jeremy Whiteson is clever, very knowledgeable and focused in his approach, as well as constructive and strategic in his thinking about the best way to achieve the requirements of his clients. A very good pair of hands to be in.

Drawing upon his broader transactional corporate knowledge, as well as his core restructuring expertise, the 'calm and considered' Jeremy Whiteson is appreciated for his ability to 'find solutions not problems'.

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