Leo Shrimpton
Associate
Services
Corporate
Leo is an associate in the corporate team in Oxford. His work is primarily focused on the technology and life sciences sectors.
He has acted on university spin-outs, venture capital funding transactions, mergers and acquisitions and exits (often with an international element), the use of employee incentives such as enterprise management incentives, corporate restructuring and group reorganisations, shareholder and board advisory matters, general corporate governance, and other corporate law matters. Leo’s clients range from start-ups and owner-managed companies to large corporations. He has a pragmatic and commercial approach to advising on transactions, which is informed by his previous experience of working in-house.
I am a corporate lawyer with a particular interest in innovative life sciences and technology companies, and the entrepreneurs who run them. I enjoy getting to know my clients and their businesses, and developing a strong working relationship that allows me to really understand their unique challenges, and help them achieve their aims.
Leo studied law as a post-graduate at the University of Bristol. He then worked at a start-up, following which he trained and qualified at a major national law firm in 2020. After qualification, he spent a year working as an in-house solicitor at the family office of a high-net-worth individual, gaining experience of a wide variety of legal work and transactions. He joined Penningtons Manches Cooper in 2021.
Recent work highlights
Spin-out seed funding
Specialist acquisition
Series B funding
Private equity acquisition
Series A funding
International funding
Oxford acquisition
Oxford acquisition
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