Blake Morgan LLP has led on corporate transactions in areas spanning healthcare, professional services and finance, and work also includes advising on licensing, equity fundraisings, and international market entries. With a breadth of focus and depth of expertise, leading names in the corporate group include Mathew Wilson, a corporate finance specialist, Mark Hepworth, who has acted on private equity acquisitions and share disposals in the residential care and physiotherapy sectors, and Stephen Archibald, who advises on M&A for both buyers and sellers in the retail, tech, and financial services sectors. Other key contacts in the team are Gemma Spiceley, Jasmin Taylor and Katie Newham.

Paris Smith LLP represents corporate clients, including public and private companies, selling shareholders, and private-equity backed investors and acquirers. Manufacturing, healthcare and distribution are industries in which the practice has an established presence on high-value transactions. With a large dedicated team, Michael Moore and Ryan Mitchell co-lead the firm’s efforts, acting on mergers, sales and exits in addition to data protection compliance, contractual agreements, and employee share schemes. Amanda Brockwell and Jonathon Roy are both highly experienced practitioners in the sector on transactions, and Crispin Dick has a broad corporate and commercial offering.

Shoosmiths LLP advises on corporate instructions spanning strategic investments and by banks and private equity funds, management buyouts, divestments, as well as M&A. With a broad sector focus, the firm has acted for leading global clients in technology and software, logistics and infrastructure, and manufacturing and engineering. Lisa Sigalet is the head of the corporate team, and leads on VC investments, internal restructurings, and share capital disposals, while commercial specialist Julia Ishak advises on sales model development and re-evaluations in the automotive sector, and national head Stephen Porter has established relationships with corporate clients. Other leading names in the group include Kerry Coomer and Emma Livesey. Sean Wright left the firm in December 2025.

Trethowans LLP (part of Lawfront)

Specialising in all elements of major cross-border corporate acquisitions and investments in a range of industry sectors, Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP‘s corporate offering has a wide reach of capabilities at a global scale. The firm brings together expertise in employment, tax, property and IP to act on instructions, and areas in which the practice is prominent include financial services, retail and hospitality, and energy and natural resources. Practice head Ian Holden has experience in acquisitional finance, private equity investments and joint venture and shareholder agreements for financial services clients, while Stephen Pierce has a nationwide focus on partial sales and complex restructurings. Sebastian Briggs is an expert in the energy sector, where he advises on project development and investments, asset and share purchase agreements, and SPV management, while Carly Holt has a broad corporate practice.

With a client roster spanning manufacturing, tech and AI companies, as well as investors and shareholders, Herrington Carmichael LLP has a comprehensive corporate offering. The group counsels sellers on high-value acquisitions by PE investors and national consolidators, and other corporate work spans high-value capital disposals, minority stake investments and commercial operation agreements. Yavan Brar   and Mark Chapman collectively lead the group’s efforts: Brar specialises in corporate transactions, while Chapman leads on the regulatory and corporate governance fronts. Also of note is Cesare McArdle, who advises on commercial agreements and UK market entries, and Alex Canham, who has led on high-value share sales.

Moore Barlow‘s corporate and commercial practice is active in areas ranging from tech, IT and telecoms to professional services and property development and management. The group handles acquisitions and share purchase agreements, cross-border incorporations and investments as well as restructuring and consolidation processes. Practice head Jeremy Over leads on sales and acquisitions for PE investors and serial acquirers, while Roger Bailey advises on NSIA clearances and corporate governance amid transactions. Kirsty Leary is a specialist in investment transactions.

Broadfield Law UK LLP works for corporations, shareholders and private equity firms on an array of sales and acquisitions, also leveraging dedicated commercial and regulatory expertise to advise clients across the tech and software, hospitality and petrochemical sectors. Oliver Kelly leads the office in this sector on transactional and regulatory instructions, including employee share scheme reallocation and share capital sales, and he is assisted by Sean Kelly and Dorothy Agnew on corporate work. Sean Wright joined the firm in April 2026, strengthening the firm’s corporate and commercial offering.

Lester Aldridge LLP has an increasingly established corporate and commercial offering in Hampshire. Recent highlights have spanned equity funding rounds and PE investments, as well as post-acquisitional reorganisations across a range of sectors, and clients range from SPVs to owner-managed businesses, to company directors. Jamie Earley joined the group in February 2025 from Trethowans LLP (part of Lawfront), and has a practice focused on the tech sector, while Edward Adamson‘s transactional work spans the healthcare and real estate sectors.

Particularly prominent in the real estate, leisure and hospitality and distribution sectors, Phillips Law leads on a range of transactional and regulatory instructions, including share sales and acquisitions, data protection regulatory advice, internal reorganisations, and private equity investments. Jack Gardener heads the corporate offering, leading on cross-border and domestic M&A and investments, while Jacqueline Drury has led on contractual and joint venture negotiations. Joanna Moroney joined the group from Addleshaw Goddard in July 2025, adding strength in depth on share sales and group restructurings.

Russell-Cooke LLP's corporate practice leads on an array on investments, acquisitions and sales and internal reorganisations, and is strong in the tech and manufacturing sectors. Peter Jeffery is a corporate specialist, leading on cross-border share purchases and divestments, as well as restructuring and insolvency processes. The firm’s corporate capabilities were further strengthened in July 2025 by the arrival of Thomas Clark from Doyle Clayton, who bring significant experience in matters concerning employee ownership trusts and shareholder management amid internal restructuring processes.