I am a partner in the corporate team, specialising in pragmatic, commercial, solution-led advice.
With over 15 years’ experience, I advise business owners on reorganising and restructuring their companies to create the most beneficial structure.
I work closely with teams of advisors and key stakeholders to map out and put in place the processes and steps required to achieve the clients’ goals in the most efficient and practical manner.
Areas of expertise:
- Corporate restructurings and reorganisations
- Corporate simplifications
- Demergers
- Debt restructuring
- Complex and cross border reorganisations
- Post-acquisition integration of businesses
- Shareholder arrangements
- Acquisitions and disposals
- Group rationalisations
Qualifications and memberships
- Admitted as a solicitor in September 2007
If I'm unavailable, please contact:
Grecia Gonzalez
Legal Secretary +44 (0)1892 506 024 [email protected]
My experience
Advised on the restructure of various companies in the Czech Republic and USA to create a group structure and to pass ultimate ownership to a family investment company.
Advised a UK company on the separation of the trading and property businesses in preparation for a sale to a third party involving equity and debt restructuring.
Acted for a prominent fruit supplier on the restructuring of its group via a solvent section 110 Insolvency Act reorganisation and non-statutory demerger.
Reorganised a corporate structure to facilitate the exit of some original founders by way of a management buyout.
Sale of a large insurance business to an intermediary group with several categories of selling shareholder.
Implemented lifetime tax planning advice and the separation of several diverse businesses owned by the same company by way of a section 110 demerger.
How we made a difference
Katie Haylock is fantastic. Extremely personable and knowledgeable, super responsive and diligent, a pleasure to work with and just all round positive character.
Legal 500 2024
Knowledgeable, efficient and friendly team, mitigates potential issues and works to time
Davidson-Roberts Holdings Ltd
Katie’s work on the demerger was seamless; she worked well with the tax accountants, involved me at appropriate time points and delivered the project to the required timeline.
Jane Roberts
Founder of Davidson-Roberts Ltd
This was a complex project involving share transfers, a hive up of assets, releases and assignments of intercompany debts and striking off companies. Katie and the team at Cripps were able to draw on their previous experience to guide us through the process and come up with a structure that will work for our business going forward.
We are extremely happy with the service provided by Katie and her team. They worked extremely hard to ensure that deadlines were adhered to and the sale completed on time. They were a pleasure to work with.
We very much appreciated having experienced lawyers to guide us through the intricacies of the restructuring and sale processes, and who were always available and worked around the clock to make sure that we completed within our desired timeframes. Having worked with Cripps for a long time, they really understood our business, and importantly are good people to deal with.
The Cripps team were efficient, prompt and client focused. The multi-disciplinary team approach was a real benefit and the key reason why the Trust and I choose the firm. The team provided excellent advice throughout.
My thinking
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