Cripps Harries Hall

Liz Barton is a solicitor in the corporate transactional team, with a particular focus on corporate finance matters. She regularly advises clients on the sale and purchase of businesses and companies and advises lenders and borrowers on their financing arrangements.

Expertise

• Share sales/purchases
• Business acquisitions/disposals
• Corporate finance
• Secured lending
• Asset sales/purchases
• Company formation/administration
• Banking
• Management buy-ins/buy-outs
• Contract
• Commercial agreements

Memberships

• West Kent Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Career

• Associate, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2010
• Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2005
• Trainee Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2003

• Acting for a further education college on a facility to refurbish their listed London premises. Transaction value £20 million
• Acting for AmBank on a loan to an AIM Listed plc to acquire overseas assets. Transaction value £12 million
• Advising a CT scanning company on two agreements with private healthcare providers (a private hospital group and a healthcare insurance company) to supply CT scanning services to their patients/customers
• Acting for the shareholders of a London estate agents on the sale of the company to a household name chain of estate and letting agents
• Acting for an operator of soft play centres for children on the acquisition of a number of sites from the Administrators of a competitor company that had become insolvent
• Acquisition of a UK business by a Canadian group, leader in Europe and North America in the provision of Product Life Cycle Management ('PLM') solutions and agile software development services for the aerospace & defence, automotive (F1), consumer goods and life science industries