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Legal expertise and hands-on delivery

Complex legal change needs both legal expertise and hands-on delivery. Most advisers give one. We give both, embedded in your team, and see it through to completion.

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Since 2008
Delivering for leading organisations
Three services
Legal, M&A and governance, connected
One team
Embedded with you, start to finish

Delivering for leading organisations since 2008

What we do

Three connected services.

They join up: M&A creates governance work and often triggers rationalisation in its wake.
One team across all three.

Legal Entity Rationalisation

Complex structures, simplified.

Groups accumulate entities they no longer need, each adding cost, filing burden and risk. We analyse what you actually have, agree what stays and goes, deliver the wind-downs, internal mergers and share sales, and put the governance in place so the sprawl doesn't return.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Complex deals, delivered.

A deal runs legal, financial, tax, people and operational workstreams at once, and closing is only the start. We take on the whole programme, from pre-deal structuring through due diligence, signing and closing, to the integration after the ink dries, where value is kept or lost.

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Governance

Governance that works.

Practical governance support at board and subsidiary level, reviewed, improved and embedded. We keep it proportionate, and we implement the changes rather than leave them in a report on a shelf.

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Selected work

What we've delivered.

A sample of recent programmes across the three services.
More available on request.

Legal Entity Rationalisation

Johnson Matthey

13jurisdictions

Led a global legal entity rationalisation programme across 13 jurisdictions, combining dedicated programme management with legal support, including UK pre-liquidation restructuring and coordination of external advisers.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Oxford Instruments

10+jurisdictions

Led the operational carve-out and separation of the NanoScience business across the UK and ten international jurisdictions, providing senior programme management, legal execution and finance advisory support, including TSAs, value allocation and global contract novations.

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Governance

BAFTA

18month review

Reviewed and improved BAFTA's governance framework over 18 months, covering board and committee structures, roles, decision-making and alignment with the Charity Governance Code, then worked with senior leaders to implement the recommendations.

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Governance

Pearson

Globalsubsidiary portfolio

Provides ongoing subsidiary governance and company secretarial support across Pearson's global subsidiary portfolio, keeping compliance on track and the right oversight in place across jurisdictions, built on the legal entity master data we established across Oracle and GEMS and the global simplification programme that followed.

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Legal Entity Rationalisation

bp

100sentities removed

Over more than a decade, supported the elimination of hundreds of legal entities and wider corporate simplifications, and led the legal and programme delivery of a significant multi-jurisdictional downstream restructuring.

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Legal Entity Rationalisation

Acteon

Globalprogramme

Supported a global legal entity rationalisation programme with programme management, due diligence oversight and legal advice, including mergers in Brazil, intragroup cash-pooling transactions and UK business restructuring.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Revalize

Europeanintegration

Led the European post-merger integration for a US manufacturing software group that had expanded rapidly through acquisition, standing up its European legal team and processes. The work spanned rationalisation, including several domestic mergers of German entities, a European governance review, and an outsourced services arrangement across multiple territories.

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How we work

Scope. Deliver. Complete.

1

Scope

We map the work and agree the plan with your team.

2

Deliver

We embed and run every workstream alongside you.

3

Complete

We stay until it is done, including what comes after.

Why us

The difference is that we finish.

Both halves, one team

Legal and delivery together, not two suppliers to coordinate.

Embedded, not arm's length

We work as part of your team for the whole programme.

Through to completion

We stay until it is done, not just until the advice is given.

Our people

People at the centre of every programme.

The people who scope your programme are the people who deliver it. We embed with your team, so you always know exactly who you are working with, from the first conversation through to completion.

Same peopleFrom scoping to completion
18 yearsWorking together as a team
One teamWe embed alongside you
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The team

The people who deliver.

Broad expertise across all three services. Filter by what you need.

Keith Bottomley

Keith Bottomley

Director of Legal; Corporate Lawyer

Legal

Keith Bottomley

Keith is an England and Wales qualified corporate and energy lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience across governance, restructuring and M&A. He previously led PwC’s UK Energy Legal team and specialises in global entity rationalisation, carve outs, post-deal integration and energy transition projects.

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Victoria Ten

Victoria Ten

Corporate Lawyer

Legal

Victoria Ten

Victoria is a corporate and commercial lawyer qualified in England and Wales and Israel, with international experience spanning M&A, due diligence, financing, commercial contracts and company secretarial matters. Fluent in six languages, she brings a particularly strong cross-border perspective to her work.

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Rachel Wall

Rachel Wall ACG

Principal, Corporate Governance

Governance

Rachel Wall ACG

Rachel is a chartered governance professional with more than 12 years’ experience advising boards, committees and trustees across the corporate, public, education and charity sectors. Her expertise covers board and committee support, meeting procedure, policies, compliance and company secretarial practice, and she also teaches Boardroom Dynamics for the Chartered Governance Institute.

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Jenni Braunhofer

Jenni Braunhofer ACIS

Company Secretary

Governance

Jenni Braunhofer ACIS

Jenni is a chartered company secretary whose previous experience includes roles with PwC, Deutsche Bank and Pearson. Her work covers corporate governance, board effectiveness, restructuring and entity reduction, including helping organisations strengthen their governance framework, delegations and contracting processes.

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Carolina Cervera Munera

Carolina Cervera Munera

Analyst, Paralegal and Programme

Legal

Carolina Cervera Munera

Carolina combines legal training with project and programme management experience across pharmaceuticals, global mobility and legal services. She holds an LLB, is completing an LLM and has experience coordinating projects involving different jurisdictions, professional disciplines and stakeholder groups.

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Artiom Bendelston

Artiom Bendelston CG (Affiliated)

Principal, Programme Delivery

LegalProgramme

Artiom Bendelston CG (Affiliated)

Artiom has experience across financial services, technology, organisational transformation, subsidiary governance and legal entity restructuring. He has supported FTSE 100 reorganisation and M&A projects, including work with Pearson, and is working towards completing the Chartered Governance Qualifying Programme.

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Mick Edmondson

Mick Edmondson

Director of Programme Delivery

Programme

Mick Edmondson

Mick founded Complete Projects in 2008 and brings more than 30 years of experience across project, programme and operations management. He specialises in complex international programmes, including legal entity restructuring and digital and organisational transformation.

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Kirsty Howe

Kirsty Howe

Principal, Finance and Programme Delivery

ProgrammeFinance

Kirsty Howe

Kirsty is a chartered accountant with more than 20 years’ experience across financial reporting, audit and finance transformation. She has worked with global teams in the UK and US and specialises in process simplification, standardisation, automation and effective business partnering.

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Ali Tomblin

Ali Tomblin

Principal, Finance and Programme Delivery

ProgrammeFinance

Ali Tomblin

Ali brings more than 25 years’ project and programme-management experience, with particular strengths in M&A, restructuring and governance. Ali is experienced in coordinating complex, cross-functional programmes and translating strategic requirements into manageable delivery activity.

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Stephen Blythe

Stephen Blythe

Principal, Tax and Programme Delivery

ProgrammeTax

Stephen Blythe

Stephen has more than 30 years’ experience in the oil, gas and energy sector and was formerly BP’s Head of Tax for Upstream and EMEA. His expertise spans tax and subsidiary governance, tax-risk management and policy development, and he has also managed several legal entity restructuring programmes.

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Rob Griffiths

Rob Griffiths

Principal, Programme Delivery

Programme

Rob Griffiths

Rob brings more than 30 years’ project and programme-management experience, with particular expertise in legal entity restructuring. He coordinates complex programmes across legal, tax, finance and governance workstreams, and has also managed the tender and transition of global statutory accounting and tax-compliance services.

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Jacqui Townsend

Jacqui Townsend

Principal, Programme Delivery

Programme

Jacqui Townsend

Jacqui has more than 15 years’ experience managing complex projects and PMO activity across government, technology, financial compliance and energy transition. Her work includes enterprise cloud implementation, function transformation and programmes involving large and diverse stakeholder groups.

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Maryam Negm

Maryam Negm

Principal, Programme Delivery

Programme

Maryam Negm

Maryam has delivered projects across banking, construction and the not-for-profit sector. Her experience spans governance and compliance, risk management, data analysis and portfolio operations across legal restructuring and governance programmes.

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Cheryl Holmes

Cheryl Holmes

Principal, Programme Delivery

Programme

Cheryl Holmes

Cheryl brings more than 20 years’ programme, project and change management experience, with particular expertise in M&A and business transformation. She has led acquisition and divestment portfolios, due diligence and functional M&A planning, alongside major technology implementations, reporting transformation and organisational change.

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Elly Sainsbury

Elly Sainsbury

Principal, Programme Delivery

Programme

Elly Sainsbury

Elly has a wealth of project management and leadership experience covering a wide range of sectors and industries. She has a proven track record of managing complex client relationships, leading and developing teams and delivering tangible results.

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Coren Hall

Coren Hall

Analyst, Programme Delivery

Programme

Coren Hall

Coren brings strong project and programme management skills to her subsidiary governance, rationalisation and M&A work. Her background includes business development, operations, events and sales.

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Marina Stoyanova

Marina Stoyanova

Analyst, Paralegal and Programme

Legal

Marina Stoyanova

Marina has a legal background and a master’s degree in International Human Rights Law. Her experience spans corporate governance, regulatory compliance and data analysis, including governance reviews and coordinating changes to board composition across groups of entities.

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Daria Polovina

Daria Polovina

Principal, Programme Delivery

ProgrammeTechnology

Daria Polovina

Daria has more than 16 years’ experience in project, programme and PMO management. Her work spans transformation, systems implementation, risk management and organisational improvement across local government and the not-for-profit sector.

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Craig Trevor

Craig Trevor

Principal, Programme Delivery

Programme

Craig Trevor

Craig brings a practical approach to programme delivery, with experience in process simplification, global transformation, outsourcing, operational improvement and PMO development. He has also delivered work across risk, ethics and compliance and business continuity.

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Shehan de Silva

Shehan de Silva

Principal, Programme Delivery

Programme

Shehan de Silva

Shehan brings more than 20 years’ experience in project and programme delivery. His experience includes M&A, legal entity restructuring and governance programmes involving multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.

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Azra Aslam

Azra Aslam

Principal, Programme Delivery

ProgrammeTechnology

Azra Aslam

Azra has more than 20 years’ experience in IT and systems, including over 16 years focused on project management and business analysis. She has delivered system implementations, upgrades and integrations alongside process redesign, modernisation and organisational change.

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