Sophie Protheroe
Solicitor, Corporate
Sophie is a Corporate solicitor, specialising in employee ownership trusts (EOTs), and employee incentive schemes. Sophie’s work includes advising on and drafting the documents necessary to facilitate EOT sales. In addition to this, providing advice to companies looking to implement incentive schemes and preparing legal documents to implement incentive schemes.
In Sophie’s spare time, she enjoys baking, going to the gym, and spending time with friends and family.
Experience
- £5.6m sale of a Hampshire-based IT service provider to an EOT following a complex de-merger of its subsidiaries.
- £27m sale of a London-based professional serviced office provider to an EOT.
- Sale of a large construction group with multiple group entities to an EOT.
- Implementation of an exit-only EMI scheme in an electrical installation management company.
- Implementation of an exit-only EMI scheme in a company specialising in cyber security.
- Implementation an exit-only EMI scheme and a time and performance EMI scheme in a company providing computer networking services.
- £9.8m minority acquisition of an education technology provider.
- Advising The Key Group, an educational support services group providing services to over 20,000 schools throughout the UK, on the acquisition of October Resolutions Ltd, a UK software company providing the ‘TimeTabler’ software, to expand the group’s offering to schools throughout the UK.
- £5m sale of an agronomy services and customer support provider, and the acquisition of certain company assets.
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