Geraint Tilsley
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Corporate/M&A
About
Provided by Geraint Tilsley
Practice Areas
Partner: Geraint is a partner in the firm’s Corporate legal practice group, based in the Cardiff office but working with clients throughout the UK and internationally. He is well-known in the Welsh market as an experienced transactional lawyer.
His practice is focused on Private M&A, with a particular focus on cross-border transactions
Venture capital and private equity, acting for both investors and investees); joint ventures; and corporate advisory matters.
Geraint has worked on transactions across a wide range of sectors during his career, and has developed significant expertise over the years acting for clients active in the technology/IT and high-value manufacturing and engineering sectors. Those clients range from entrepreneurs through to large corporations and funders, from both the UK and further afield. In particular, Geraint works regularly with clients from the United States, France, Germany and Spain.
Geraint is also Head of the Lewis Silkin French Desk.
Chambers Review
UK
Geraint Tilsley is well regarded for his transactional capabilities, having advised on a number of significant cross-border corporate and private equity deals across his career. He is the head of the corporate team at Lewis Silkin in Cardiff.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"We were highly pleased with the advice provided by Geraint."
"Geraint Tilsley is great to work with: he learnt and understood our industry quickly, which helped us move faster in the deals we did with him."
"He is very commercial, can deal with complex situations and is very responsive. I would highly recommend him."
"He's an exceptional lawyer whose client relationship skills are very strong."
"Geraint is really effective and I appreciate his counsel; I would use him again in a heartbeat."
"We were highly pleased with the advice provided by Geraint."
"Geraint Tilsley is great to work with: he learnt and understood our industry quickly, which helped us move faster in the deals we did with him."
"He is very commercial, can deal with complex situations and is very responsive. I would highly recommend him."
"He's an exceptional lawyer whose client relationship skills are very strong."
"Geraint is really effective and I appreciate his counsel; I would use him again in a heartbeat."