Natalie Jones

Natalie was promoted to Legal Director in 2022 in recognition of her extensive experience as a corporate and commercial lawyer. She has very strong technical and project management skills, which are deeply valued by the clients with whom she works on complex transactions and commercial arrangements. On the corporate side, Natalie frequently advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, disposals, fundraisings, joint ventures, developments and commercial frameworks, often with a cross-border aspect. She has a particular focus on disposals, fundraising and project planning and has worked on a number of high-profile and substantial deals, including the £160m battery storage project to be developed at Uskmouth Power Station and the sale of IX Group subsidiaries to Kester Capital. Natalie also has extensive experience in the information technology sector, and on the commercial front, she is valued for her extensive expertise in advising on a range of IT contracts such as, SaaS agreements, software reseller agreements, IT support, servicing and outsourcing arrangements, software development agreements and software licence agreements. She gained significant experience in the renewable energy sector following a 13-month secondment with a renewables developer. Expertise: Corporate deals and transactions – mergers, acquisitions and disposals Private equity funded transactions and equity arrangements Corporate restructuring and reorganisations Commercial contracts, including, assignment and licensing of intellectual property rights, SaaS arrangements, development agreements, distribution agreements outsourcing arrangements and manufacturing agreements between the private and public sectors · Acuity Law