Slater Heelis - Corporate Commercial Team

Slater Heelis - Corporate Commercial Team

Corporate Commercial

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Simon Wallwork Partner & Head of Corporate Commercial Simon Wallwork is a corporate partner based in Manchester and Head of our Corporate and Commercial team. With over 28 years’ experience advising on acquisitions, disposals, fundraising, private equity and public market transactions, for a wide variety of clients including public and private companies, banks, venture capital funds and partnerships, Simon also has considerable client side experience spending a number of years working in-house with Pilkington plc. In addition to general corporate work, Simon specialises in the Technology and Life Sciences sectors. He has built up expertise in these sectors developing a deep understanding of their drivers. Simon was ranked the most active corporate lawyer in the North West in the Corpfin Deals Review 2015 produced by Experian, with 18 deals completed in that year. Simon is recognised as a leading individual in both the Legal 500 law directory and the Chambers Guide. Katharine Mellor Partner Katharine Mellor is a corporate partner based at our Sale Commercial Office. She is a former corporate partner in DWF LLP who joined Slater Heelis in 2013. Katharine’s client service offering in the healthcare, education and professional services sectors enhances the firm’s expertise in corporate and commercial matters. With over 40 years’ experience of mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations, partnerships and LLPs, and charities, Katharine was the former senior and managing partner at Elliotts in Manchester who ultimately merged with DWF in 2007. Katharine was the first female President of the Manchester Law Society and has held non-executive director positions on the National Blood Authority and South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She is currently a member of the Association of Partnership Practitioners and a trustee of the Brockbank Foundation. Katharine is recognised as a leading individual in the Legal 500 law directory.

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Nicky Collins

Partner Nicky is a corporate and commercial partner and joined Slater Heelis in 2016. She has over 20 years’ experience advising clients on their acquisitions, disposals and restructures as well as their banking facilities and re-finances and commercial contracts. In addition to general corporate and commercial work, Nicky has a keen interest in the health and education sectors and, in particular, advises numerous GP Federations which are emerging around the country in response to the ever-increasing pressures in the health sector. Nicky is a trustee and director of the Alder Hey Children’s Charity and a member of its Spending Committee and director of its trading subsidiary. She has also recently taken on Non-Executive position on the Board of PRASIS, which is a specialist indemnity scheme established for plastic surgeons. Nicky is described in the Legal 500 in connection with her work with healthcare clients as being “exceptional in providing the benefit of her wisdom and expert knowledge in a non-patronising and readily understandable manner”.

Get in touch: [email protected] 0161 672 1532

Rhian Owen Partner

Rhian Owen joined as an associate in the Corporate team in October 2014. Rhian undertakes a wide range of corporate work and has particular experience advising on acquisitions and disposals, private equity transactions, company reorganisations and joint ventures for a wide variety of clients. In addition, Rhian, a medical science graduate, has a strong focus on the life sciences sector and has advised numerous biotech start-ups from early stage spinout (whether that be from academia or pharma), to funding rounds, R&D, commercialisation and exit.

Get in touch: [email protected] 0161 672 1527

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Jim Tully Partner

Jim joined Slater Heelis in April 2019 and is a corporate partner based in Manchester. With over 25 years’ experience, Jim has broad corporate, transactional and commercial experience which he employs to make a difference to the full range of businesses, focusing in particular on family owned business, entrepreneurs, OMBs and management teams Jim joined the firm from the Co-op. Having acted for the group during the 2008/9 £1.6 billion acquisition of Somerfield, Jim became AG’s Co-op client partner and he was then seconded over during the Co-op’s troubles in early 2014. Jim joined the Co-op as Director of Legal and General Counsel Retail from 1st January 2015. In his five years there, Jim was heavily involved in the rescue of the now independent Co-operative Bank, the complete rewrite of the Co-op’s governance structure, the expansion of its wholesale business and setting up its new franchise business, and successful mediations and litigation in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. He was both principal and also the main lawyer on numerous transactions – including the £143m acquisition of Nisa from its 1190 members, the £620m sale of its pharmacy business, the £249m sale of its farms business, and many smaller acquisitions and disposals. Jim also had a commercial role as a member of the executive leadership team for the £10bn Food business that (uniquely, save for the discounters, in a very competitive and changing market) delivered 5 years’ continuous like for like profitable growth. Prior to his time with the Co-op, Jim spent 15 years at Addleshaw Goddard where he led hundreds of transactions, acting mainly for private equity houses, entrepreneurs, management teams and family-owned and owner managed businesses. He led the team which built a market-leading private equity practice in the North West, which came to act for 9 out of 10 of the private equity houses then in the market.

Get in touch: [email protected] 0161 672 1548

Richard Riley Associate Solicitor Richard joined Slater Heelis in 2011.

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