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Gillian White

Gillian White is a partner and head of the M&A team. She is an experienced corporate solicitor who is committed to her clients and their commercial success. She is Head of the M&A team and takes the lead on corporate governance services at Howard Kennedy. Gillian's clients appreciate her commercial acumen, pragmatism and common sense. Gillian acts for entrepreneurial clients, larger companies and institutions looking to acquire or invest in entrepreneurial businesses. Many of her clients are based in the US and Scandinavia. Gillian works with businesses with valuable intellectual property and those in the creative, retail and leisure industries working closely with Howard Kennedy's IP and Commercial team to offer innovative solutions and opportunities to clients. She additionally collaborates with Howard Kennedy's Private Wealth team on helping clients with succession planning, governance structures and family investment companies and dealing with valuable corporate assets that form part of marital assets or an estate. Her transactional experience means that she is adept at managing complex projects and drawing advice from multiple professional advisers and clients' commercial teams. Her corporate governance experience means that she is adept at uncovering and understanding competing stakeholder needs and providing commercial and sensitive guidance. · Howard Kennedy LLP

EnglandCorporate / M&A, Corporate Governance

About

Partner and Head of the M&A team at Howard Kennedy LLP, Gillian White is an experienced corporate solicitor who leads corporate governance services and heads M&A. She advises entrepreneurial clients, larger companies and institutions—many based in the US and Scandinavia—on acquisitions, investments and governance, and works with clients in creative, retail and leisure sectors and those with valuable intellectual property, as well as on succession and family wealth structures.

Practice areas

Corporate / M&ACorporate GovernancePrivate WealthIntellectual PropertyCommercial

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Expertise

Entrepreneurial businessesCross-border M&A (US, Scandinavia)Creative industriesRetailLeisureIP-driven businessesSuccession planning and family investment companiesManaging complex multi-adviser transactions