Sean Jackson is a Corporate Partner, based in the firm’s Stockton office. Sean works with business owners, entrepreneurs, investors and management teams, helping them navigate the opportunities and challenges that come with growing, buying, selling and investing in businesses. His approach is straightforward and pragmatic, focusing on finding practical solutions and building long-term relationships with clients and their trusted advisers. He advises businesses at every stage of their journey, from ambitious start-ups seeking investment through to established companies undertaking acquisitions, restructuring projects or shareholder succession planning.
Sean is particularly valued for his ability to make complex transactions feel manageable, providing clear, commercial advice that helps clients make confident decisions. Sean has significant experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, investments, management buyouts, corporate restructures and general corporate matters. Having spent his career advising businesses across Teesside, the wider North East and beyond, Sean understands the commercial realities facing owner-managed and family-owned businesses, growth companies and established corporate groups. Many of his clients return to him time and again as their businesses evolve, viewing him as a trusted adviser rather than simply their corporate lawyer.
Expertise
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Business disposals and exits
- Corporate investments and fundraising
- Private equity transactions
- Management buyouts and ownership transitions
- Shareholder agreements and governance
- Corporate restructures and reorganisations
- Group reconstruction and simplification projects
- Company formations and constitutional matters
- Succession and ownership planning
- General corporate advisory work
Key experience
- Advising the shareholders of a gaming studio on the sale of the company to a multi-billion dollar Canadian video game developer and publisher.
- Acting for a regional business specialising in building material and construction supply on numerous strategic acquisitions.
- Advising the management team of a transport and logistics company in connection with a management buyout.
- Acting for the shareholders of a pharmaceutical business on its sale to a private-equity backed PLC consolidator.
- Advising the shareholders of various businesses in relation to private equity investments, including in the hospitality, ecology and technology sectors.
Relevant experience
- Technology and software
- Advanced manufacturing
- Engineering
- Digital and technology-enabled businesses
- Pharmaceuticals
- Professional services
- Logistics and transport
- Hospitality and leisure
Professional memberships & accolades
Legal 500
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