Jasmine is a trainee solicitor at Shoosmiths, currently in her third seat with the Banking & Finance team where she is gaining valuable experience in leveraged venture and corporate lending.
Prior to this, Jasmine has spent three years as a paralegal in Shoosmiths' Corporate team where she actively led the legal due diligence and disclosure processes in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate disposals, private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) transactions. Jasmine has also assisted with institutional reorganisations and corporate governance.
Jasmine's recent experience includes:
- acting for YFM Equity Partners on their acquisition and investment into Tamworth Holdings (Stacatruc Limited), a business that sells, supplies and services forklift trucks. The deal value was in the range of £10-15m;
- acting for the co-founder and majority shareholders of The Local Data Company Group Ltd on their disposal to Green Street Advisors (UK) Limited, a pre-eminent provider of commercial real estate intelligence and analytics in the US and Europe;
- acting for Downing LLP on its acquisition and investment into Katey's Nursery and Pre-School, an early years education provider with five nurseries in South-West London;
- acting for Chevron Traffic Management on several bolt-on acquisitions. Chevron Traffic Management is part of Trition's Ramudden Global network of infrastructure safety companies. Trition is a leading European mid-market sector-specialist investor;
- supporting Indian retail company, Reliance Brands, on its exchange of contracts for a joint venture with Superdry UK for £40m;
- acting for LDC on its acquisition and investment into Message Direct Limited, a leading outsourced communications solutions provider to SMEs and large corporates;
- acting for Upp Technologies Group Ltd on an investment from American-based investors, Bonfire Ventures Inc., including a conversion of existing convertible loan notes and advance subscription funds; and
- supporting Cenkos Securities Plc (as Nominated Advisor) and Dowgate Capital Limited (both as joint Brokers) on the listing on the AIM market of a non-cellular investing company based in Guernsey, Onward Opportunities Limited. The capital raised on admission was £12.8m. This was the first new London Stock Exchange listed fund to IPO since 2021 and was the largest initial public offering IPO of the year by March 2023 at the time of completion.