Corporate

From 'start ups' and small businesses to multi-million pound deals with some of the country’s leading ‘blue chip’ companies, we aim to build strong relationships with our clients.

The corporate department at Harrison Clark are a large regional full-service corporate team with a core value of delivering a high quality service with total commitment to the client. Our focus is on the client and the transaction. We fully appreciate the personal involvement of the client with their business and it is therefore essential that clients feel confident in our ability to manage the transaction in line with their expectations.

There is no substitute for experience and we have plenty of it built up from doing all types of corporate transactions locally, nationally and internationally. Members of the corporate team have worked with many of the UK’s leading city law firms. It is this experience that gives us an edge and the capability to make our business understand your business, whatever it is and wherever it is located – we pride ourselves on this as being key to our service and our complete commitment to the client and transaction.


Our services

  • Share and asset acquisitions and disposals
  • Private equity - management buy-outs and buy-ins (acting for the institution, private investor or management), start-up/development capital transactions and portfolio management
  • Healthcare (Click here for the Healthcare Section)
  • Corporate finance including debt and equity funding, regulatory matters, corporate governance and floatations
  • Corporate joint ventures and shareholder agreements
  • Corporate restructuring and re-organisations
  • Company incorporations (including international) and Company Secretarial

Our clients

  • Acquisition by an AIM-listed plc of a technology company for £10.75m, constituting a 'reverse takeover'.
  • Sale of a family owner managed poultry processing business for £11.5m.
  • £36m refinancing and corporate restructuring of a national healthcare sector group.
  • Sale of a prominent Gloucestershire leisure business for £14.5m.
  • Flotation of a telecommunications company and fundraising by way of private placing of £1.5m.
  • Acted for management in secondary buyout following £484m sale to Land Securities.
  • Acted for management in an institutional sale of Sanctuary Spa, Covent Garden.
  • Sale of a company providing daily living products for people with mobility difficulties for £82m.
  • Acquisition of a logistics and outsourcing business for £2.1m with a customer base across the UK and Europe.


The corporate team is supported by a full service offering from the rest of the firm’s departments, which is essential for covering all angles on corporate transactions. The corporate team also has the ability to offer specialist banking and tax advice.

Guy Hopson
CHELTENHAM

Guy Hopson

Partner

Cheltenham T. 01242 268027

Arrowghopson@harrison-clark.co.uk
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Rod Thomas
WORCESTER

Rod Thomas

Partner

Worcester T. 01905 744888

Arrowrthomas@harrison-clark.co.uk
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other contacts

Richard Wilkey

Partner

Worcester T. 01905 746489

Arrowrwilkey@harrison-clark.co.uk

Charlotte Thornton-Smith

Partner

Worcester T. 01905 744811

Arrowctsmith@harrison-clark.co.uk

Arpinder Dhillon

Senior Associate

Worcester T. 01905 744810

Arrowadhillon@harrison-clark.co.uk

Clare Emery

Senior Associate

Worcester T. 01905 746472

Arrowcemery@harrison-clark.co.uk

Alison Scott

Senior Associate

Worcester T. 01905 744819

Arrowascott@harrison-clark.co.uk

Suzanne Gilhooly

Associate

Worcester T. 01905 744826

Arrowsgilhooly@harrison-clark.co.uk

Rebecca Leask

Associate

Worcester T. 01905 744845

Arrowrleask@harrison-clark.co.uk