Joanne Gallagher

Practice Areas

Joanne has many years of deal experience advising on all aspects of corporate transactions (M&A and Private Equity), from initial planning to completion and beyond. Her work involves corporate transaction planning (structure and heads of terms), mergers and demergers, pre and post sale structuring (acquisitions, disposals, hive-ups), management buy-outs, private company sale and purchase, business and assets sale and purchase, private equity, seller and buyer due diligence, and a variety of sale transactions to Employee Ownership Trusts. She has expertise in corporate group restructuring, joint ventures, share schemes/options, corporate governance issues and share buybacks/capital reductions.

Joanne routinely undertakes transactions in the corporate mid-market space, dealing with UK and cross border transactions. Her approach is to work collaboratively, to get the deal completed on time and on budget. She project manages the deals closely acting as lead corporate partner working closely with her team of project lawyers, taking a balanced pragmatic commercial view to drive the transaction forward.

Career

Joanne qualified in 1994; promoted to Partner in 2006, and is Head of the Corporate & Commercial Department. She won South East Insider Media Dealmakers Awards Corporate Lawyer of the Year in 2021; the team won Corporate Law Firm of the Year in 2022; and has been recognised in legal directories since 2011. Joanne sits on the firm's Management Board.