Katie Taken

Katie is a Partner in the Corporate team at Shakespeare Martineau. She supports clients across a range of sectors, with a specific expertise in the healthcare sector (in particular in the pharmacy, dental and childcare sectors).

Supporting clients with a broad range of corporate work through the life of a business from start-up to exit including mergers, acquisitions and disposals, management buy-ins and buy-outs, corporate restructuring (including hive-ups and share buy-backs), corporate governance and advice on corporate decision making.

Katie acts for both individual buyers/sellers and corporate acquirers as well as PE backed investment funds.

Recent examples include:

– Acting on the buy side for an acquisition of a group of four nurseries for a corporate acquirer with a deal value of £12 million
– Acting for a medium sized pharmacy group on their growth plan over a 5 year period which has included the acquisition of 30 pharmacies
– Supporting numerous first time buyers purchasing dental practices, many requiring the transfer of an NHS dental contract.