James Wilkinson

James advises on business succession planning, mergers and acquisitions, corporate advisory, restructures, and guides investors and businesses through investments, capital raisings, and strategic growth transactions

• Advised on the restructure of a large family-owned childcare business to facilitate a smooth transition to the next generation.

• Advised a leading tree nursery in the UK on a management buyout to help support the management team’s ongoing vision for the organisation and to expand and grow its operations throughout the UK and Europe.
• Acted on a sale of a leading catering hire business in the south of England.
• Advised a substantial construction business in the east of England on its transfer of day-to-day control and management to the next generation whilst continuing to make provision for the founders’ future needs.
• Advised on the hive-across of a successful financial training business and subsequent sale to a global derivatives trading and education company.
• Raised significant funding for multiple clients, including in the EV space and a Cambridge-based science and technology business.
• Acted on a merger between two high-growth media businesses.
• Acted on the sale of a service station by a family business to a national operator.
• Advised multiple complex, multi-generational businesses on their structure required to ensure an orderly and efficient transfer to younger generations.
• Advised on various buybacks of shares, usually in connection with a re-balancing of shareholders responsibilities within a business.
• Advised businesses and individuals in connection with the exit of senior/founder members of the management team.
• Advised on shareholders’ agreements for early-stage and high-growth businesses.
• Advised on restructure of a multi-site children’s nursery group.
• Advised the client on a pre-pack acquisition of certain assets from a supplier. This was a very high-profile deal in the Suffolk area.