James leads the firm’s corporate offering from our Southampton footprint, providing commercially relevant and astute advice in relation to shareholder and financing issues and generally on corporate governance matters.

Dan is an experienced Partner in the Corporate Team specialising in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and joint ventures.

Dan has over 15 years’ corporate finance experience and acts for wide range of clients including, mid-market corporates, PLCs, litigation financing companies, OMBs and education institutions.

Dan has more recently acted as director of a European litigation business backed by an international credit fund.

Dan is based in our Nottingham and Leicester offices with a great reputation as an active member of the East Midlands business community.

Daniel is a corporate transactional lawyer, who supports his clients with their corporate and commercial needs across the full lifecycle of their businesses from start-up fundraising to private or public market exits and global reorganisations.

Dean works with owner managed businesses and larger corporates on a wide range of corporate deals/transactions, domestic and international business reorganisations, and corporate governance matters.

Helen leads the company secretarial team in the London Office, which provides board support, entity management and statutory compliance support to large and small private and publicly listed companies.

Kamal Chauhan is a Partner of Shakespeare Martineau and Member of AMPA. He has worked on numerous high-profile and complex regulatory matters across multiple sectors. Having trained at DLA Piper and worked at global law firms CMS Nabarro and Kennedys, Kamal brings with him significant experience to help him lead and build an exceptional regulatory service line.

Michael is a corporate lawyer who brings clients’ goals to the fore, understanding their objectives and meeting their aims in a thorough, timely and pragmatic manner.

Paul has a deep understanding of the issues affecting SME businesses and their owners.

Marie-Therese advises businesses and their owners on a wide variety of corporate transactions and complicated reorganisations to help them achieve their objectives.

As a solicitor in our core Education team, Sophie helps our further and higher education clients on a wide variety of student-related and corporate governance matters including complaints and appeals, discrimination and equality law issues, policies and procedures and regulatory compliance.

Han Nee leads our compliance team in our London office, providing entities management and statutory compliance support to a wide range of companies.

Reva is an experienced Company Secretary with a proven track record in corporate governance, regulatory compliance and strategic board support. With a career spanning FTSE-listed companies and complex governance environments, Reva plays a pivotal role in enabling clients and boards to operate with confidence and integrity.

Taking an idea on a journey from concept to reality is challenging but really interesting. I’m an adrenaline junkie who is happy riding the ups and downs of that process, but I have done it enough times now to be a safe pair of hands.