Michael Hatchwell

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Corporate & Commercial

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Expertise

Michael is an English qualified solicitor specialising in corporate and commercial matters. He works for UK based and overseas clients and often on overseas transactions and issues.

Michael has over 30 years’ experience in M&A and generally assisting his clients with their businesses and assisting them to achieve their business objectives.  This includes putting teams of lawyers together for multi-jurisdiction transactions and other matters.

Michael enjoys providing pragmatic sensible advice to his clients some of whom he has been advising for 30 years.  He strongly believes that creating strong professional partnerships gives his clients the business edge.

Michael also has extensive experience in advising on commercial matters, including business structuring, IP and employment matters.  He is business development chair and director of Globalaw, the leading international network with over 85 law firms, of which gunnercooke is the member for England and Wales.  In this way he connects and services his clients globally.

Experience Highlights

  • Acting for one of the fastest growing start up creative agencies in London and handling all their legal affairs
  • Selling one of the UK’s leading independent events companies to a US led PE fund
  • Selling a prominent data collection business based in Cyprus and Dubai to a listed French insurance company
  • Acquiring largest care home group in Scotland
  • Acquiring River Thames hospitality business
  • Buying and selling the oil port depot of Odessa
  • Co-ordinating 18 country due diligence exercise for $1bn pharma acquisition
  • Acting on acquisition largest locally secured real estate acquisition in Kiev, a transaction involving 5 jurisdictions
  • Acting for Count Alfons-Mensdorff Pouilly, charged with conspiracy to corrupt in the SFO enquiry into BAE

Career History

 Previous Law firms

  • Child & Child (2018–22) and Head of Corporate (2020–2022)
  • Gordon Dadds, Partner (2015–2018)
  • Davenport Lyons, Partner (1988–2015) and Head of Corporate (2004 – 2011)
  • Gamlens, Trainee (1986–1988)

Memberships

  • Law Society
  • RORC
  • Cruising Association
  • Director and Officer of Globalaw (leading international law firm network)

 Education

  • Nottingham Trent University (1980–84)
  • College of Law (Guildford) (1984–85)

Expertise

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Michael is an English qualified solicitor specialising in corporate and commercial matters. He works for UK based and overseas clients and often on overseas transactions and issues.

Michael has over 30 years’ experience in M&A and generally assisting his clients with their businesses and assisting them to achieve their business objectives.  This includes putting teams of lawyers together for multi-jurisdiction transactions and other matters.

Michael enjoys providing pragmatic sensible advice to his clients some of whom he has been advising for 30 years.  He strongly believes that creating strong professional partnerships gives his clients the business edge.

Michael also has extensive experience in advising on commercial matters, including business structuring, IP and employment matters.  He is business development chair and director of Globalaw, the leading international network with over 85 law firms, of which gunnercooke is the member for England and Wales.  In this way he connects and services his clients globally.

Experience Highlights

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  • Acting for one of the fastest growing start up creative agencies in London and handling all their legal affairs
  • Selling one of the UK’s leading independent events companies to a US led PE fund
  • Selling a prominent data collection business based in Cyprus and Dubai to a listed French insurance company
  • Acquiring largest care home group in Scotland
  • Acquiring River Thames hospitality business
  • Buying and selling the oil port depot of Odessa
  • Co-ordinating 18 country due diligence exercise for $1bn pharma acquisition
  • Acting on acquisition largest locally secured real estate acquisition in Kiev, a transaction involving 5 jurisdictions
  • Acting for Count Alfons-Mensdorff Pouilly, charged with conspiracy to corrupt in the SFO enquiry into BAE

Career History

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 Previous Law firms

  • Child & Child (2018–22) and Head of Corporate (2020–2022)
  • Gordon Dadds, Partner (2015–2018)
  • Davenport Lyons, Partner (1988–2015) and Head of Corporate (2004 – 2011)
  • Gamlens, Trainee (1986–1988)

Memberships

  • Law Society
  • RORC
  • Cruising Association
  • Director and Officer of Globalaw (leading international law firm network)

 Education

  • Nottingham Trent University (1980–84)
  • College of Law (Guildford) (1984–85)
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