Hitendra has over twenty years' experience in a broad range of Corporate transactions, including:
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Corporate Finance
- MBO's and MBI's
- Insolvency and Corporate Restructures
- Joint Ventures
- Partnership Law
- Limited Liability Partnership
- Distributorship Agreements
- Agency Agreements
- Franchises
Transactional Experience:
- Sale and purchase of care homes
- Purchase of companies for an American listed client
- Section 110 Insolvency Act 1986 reorganisations, including dividing the assets of companies into two separate new companies and subsequently disposing of the new company into which trading activities would transfer
- Venture Capital investments
- Company buy back of own shares
- Grant of Options under the Enterprise Management Incentive Scheme
- Transfer of museum by local authority to a charitable incorporated organisation
- Acquisition of businesses and assets from administrators including pre-packs
About Hitendra Patel:
- Hitendra studied at the University of Lancaster and the College of Law in Chester.
- He trained with a leading West Sussex practice and on qualification joined Mishcon De Reya.
- He had also worked for Brabner Holden (now Brabners) before joining Shoosmiths in 1996.
- He was promoted to partner in 1998.
- He is one of the founding Partners of Spratt Endicott, when the firm demerged from Shoosmiths in 2002.
- He is a former director of the Banbury Chamber of Commerce, and is the firm's representative on the Banbury Corporate Finance Initiative, a network of professional advisers in the Banbury area providing corporate finance advice and support to entrepreneurs, investors, lenders and company directors.
- Hitendra is a recommended lawyer in The Legal 500 UK 2018-19.
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Interests:
Interests outside work gravitate around (in order of priority) his children, wife, the garden and himself! Hitendra admits with pride that he does not play golf, tennis, cricket, football or other sport.