Diane has considerable experience of advising businesses, charities and social enterprises, helping clients to ensure their products and services deliver revenue and to manage risk.
Diane’s experience covers a broad range of matters, such as commercialising products through exploitation (licensing IPR), securing channels to market (distribution, agency, franchising, framework agreements, procurement, terms and conditions (B2B and B2C)), outsourcing, competition and sales promotions, compliance and risk management, joint ventures, data protection, NDAs and website compliance.
Diane has advised on a range of corporate projects, including mergers and acquisitions (with transaction value experience ranging from sub £1million up to £135million and where competition issues have been relevant), group restructurings, non-market fundraising, shareholder arrangements & exit, managing stakeholder relations, banking and re-financing (including intragroup and external facilities with values up to $100m) and company secretarial matters.