Debra Martin > Geldards LLP > Derby, England > Lawyer Profile

Geldards LLP
Cubo
1 Pride Place
Pride Park
DE24 8QR
England
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Work Department

Corporate

Position

Debra heads up the Corporate practice in the Midlands. She specialises in corporate finance and has worked on a range of transactions including mergers and acquisitions, disposals, private equity deals, transitions to employee ownership and joint venture investments and shareholder arrangements. Her clients range from corporate bodies, owner managers, family-run companies, management teams, employee ownership trusts, business angels and institutional funds. Debra’s strength and depth of experience is reflected by the broad range of needs she manages for her diverse client base.

Debra regularly undertakes transactions for owner managers and corporates looking for investment to grow their businesses, either organically or through a buy and build strategy, and business angels and institutional funds looking to make equity investments in privately owned companies in the UK. Transitioning the ownership of businesses is also a regular feature of Debra’s work, either to a third party by way of a sale, or to a management team through a Management Buy Out, or to employees by transition to an Employee Ownership Trust.

Lawyer Rankings

East Midlands > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Nottingham and Derby

Operating out of Derby and Nottingham, the team at Geldards LLP focuses on M&A, restructuring issues, and commercial contract negotiations. Debra Martin heads up the corporate team, with expertise in capital investments and restructuring issues across the legal and retail sectors. Alongside Martin, Jamie Goldberg leads the commercial team, and specialises in handling specialist commercial agreements for high-profile individuals and corporations within the sports and music industries. Part of the corporate team, Paul Feenan leads on employee ownership trust issues, while Peter Seary specialises in cross-border acquisitions for food and drink companies. Simon Davers often handles acquisitions for motor clients, while Jenny Chatten is knowledgeable of management buy-outs, and Manjot Shokar works on a broad range of acquisition matters.