Ranking tables

Corporate/M&A: SME/Owner-managed Businesses | UK

North West

This section covers both public and private company transactions. Typical work includes M&A, private equity, joint ventures and share acquisitions. It also includes dispositions, capitalisations, entity selection and formation, operating and partnership agreements, and securities and governance matters. Priority is placed on the representation of buyers and sellers.

Rankings overview for Departments

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Band 1

  1. Simon Wallwork
    Simon Wallwork Slater Heelis15 Years Ranked
  2. Kirsti PinnellKuits Solicitors
2

Band 2

  1. Andrew Curwen Gorvins Solicitors10 Years Ranked
  2. Edward Foulkes
    Edward Foulkes Clarke Willmott LLP11 Years Ranked
  3. Akeel LatifMyerson
  4. Michael WalbyBurnetts
  5. Robert BuckleyKuits Solicitors
  6. Stuart Scott-GoldstoneAaron & Partners LLP
3

Band 3

  1. Paul Matthews
    Paul Matthews Woodcocks Haworth and Nuttall1 Years Ranked
  2. Jamie HawleyAaron & Partners LLP
  3. Jeremy OrrellSAS Daniels LLP

All Departments profiles

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Band 1

  1. Slater Heelis Limited
    1
    Slater Heelis Limited
    Corporate/M&A: SME/Owner-managed Businesses
    2025 | Band 1 | 8 Years Ranked
    Slater Heelis provides advice on a broad array of M&A transactions and represents a wide range of clients in significant deals. The department handles acquisitions, disposals, mergers and demergers, as well as advising on private equity investment. It demonstrates key expertise in the life sciences, technology and property sectors.
  2. Burnetts
    Corporate/M&A: SME/Owner-managed Businesses
    2025 | Band 1
  3. Kuits Solicitors
    Corporate/M&A: SME/Owner-managed Businesses
    2025 | Band 1
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Band 2

  1. Clarke Willmott LLP
    2
    Clarke Willmott LLP
    Corporate/M&A: SME/Owner-managed Businesses
    2025 | Band 2 | 4 Years Ranked
    Clarke Willmott’s Manchester corporate team is able to act for buying and selling clients across a range of sectors, including financial services and healthcare. Frequently assisting SMEs, its lawyers advise on M&A, management buyouts and reorganisations, as well as equity investments.
  2. 2
    Gorvins Solicitors
    Corporate/M&A: SME/Owner-managed Businesses
    2025 | Band 2 | 10 Years Ranked
    Based in Stockport, Gorvins Solicitors advises owner-managed businesses, SMEs and entrepreneurs, along with public and private companies. It handles M&A and MBOs along with a wide range of other corporate and investment transactions. The team has a particular focus on the media and publishing, financial services and healthcare sectors.
  3. Aaron & Partners LLP
    Corporate/M&A: SME/Owner-managed Businesses
    2025 | Band 2
  4. Myerson
    Corporate/M&A: SME/Owner-managed Businesses
    2025 | Band 2