Partner

Corporate & Commercial

Expertise

Neale is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer, specialising in private M&A transactions including company and business sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, business angel and private equity investments, shareholder agreements, restructurings and general corporate law advice.

Neale also advises on commercial law matters including business contracts, supply and purchase contracts, framework and master service agreements, agency and distributorship contracts, outsourcing and general business contracts and agreements, including IP and IT licences.

He has over 35 years’ experience in corporate and commercial law and has been recognised in both The Legal 500 and Chambers directories.

Neale Advises

  • Owner managed businesses
  • Large national and international corporates
  • Business angels and private equity investors
  • Joint venture partners
  • Corporate officers and shareholders

Experience Highlights

  • Advising a family owned company (Foss Holdings Limited) on the sale of its trading subsidiary, Britaniacrest Recycling Limited, in the waste management and recycling sector and subsequent to that the management buy out of the retained family business and the implementation of a new shareholders agreement;
  • Advising the owner managers of Payment Solutions Limited on the sale of their payment services company;
  • Advising Kingston Technology on the UK aspects of its US$425m sale of its global Hyper X Division to Hewlett Packard;
  • Assisting the shareholders of Cotswold Roller Hire Company on their sale of the company to Fox Brothers; and
  • Advising the shareholders of Cubiks Group on their sale of the company to PSI Holdings.

 

Career History

Previous Law firms

  • Knights plc, partner (2021 – 2023)
  • Mundays LLP, partner (and Managing Partner) (2008 – 2021)
  • Laytons LLP, trainee, solicitor and partner (1986 – 2008)

Memberships

  • Law Society
  • English Speaking Union

 Education

  • Alleyns School, Dulwich
  • Tabor Academy, Marion, Massachusetts, USA.
  • University of Leicester
  • College of Law Chester

Expertise

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Neale is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer, specialising in private M&A transactions including company and business sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, business angel and private equity investments, shareholder agreements, restructurings and general corporate law advice.

Neale also advises on commercial law matters including business contracts, supply and purchase contracts, framework and master service agreements, agency and distributorship contracts, outsourcing and general business contracts and agreements, including IP and IT licences.

He has over 35 years’ experience in corporate and commercial law and has been recognised in both The Legal 500 and Chambers directories.

Neale Advises

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  • Owner managed businesses
  • Large national and international corporates
  • Business angels and private equity investors
  • Joint venture partners
  • Corporate officers and shareholders

Experience Highlights

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  • Advising a family owned company (Foss Holdings Limited) on the sale of its trading subsidiary, Britaniacrest Recycling Limited, in the waste management and recycling sector and subsequent to that the management buy out of the retained family business and the implementation of a new shareholders agreement;
  • Advising the owner managers of Payment Solutions Limited on the sale of their payment services company;
  • Advising Kingston Technology on the UK aspects of its US$425m sale of its global Hyper X Division to Hewlett Packard;
  • Assisting the shareholders of Cotswold Roller Hire Company on their sale of the company to Fox Brothers; and
  • Advising the shareholders of Cubiks Group on their sale of the company to PSI Holdings.

 

Career History

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Previous Law firms

  • Knights plc, partner (2021 – 2023)
  • Mundays LLP, partner (and Managing Partner) (2008 – 2021)
  • Laytons LLP, trainee, solicitor and partner (1986 – 2008)

Memberships

  • Law Society
  • English Speaking Union

 Education

  • Alleyns School, Dulwich
  • Tabor Academy, Marion, Massachusetts, USA.
  • University of Leicester
  • College of Law Chester