Neale Andrews.

Managing Partner and Head of Corporate and Commercial

Neale is the Managing Partner of Mundays and is also head of the Corporate and Commercial Department. Neale’s primary focus is to ensure that the firm’s clients receive not only the very best legal advice but also a first rate service to meet the expectations set for each engagement.

Providing the very best service to our clients requires attracting and developing talented team members. A significant part of Neale’s role is ensuring Mundays’ has the necessary talent and that the team is able to deliver its services to clients efficiently and with added value.

Neale has over 30 years of experience advising clients on their most complex, challenging and rewarding projects.

His advisory work covers the full range of corporate transactions with a particular focus on advising on mergers and acquisitions, corporate and business sales and joint ventures, as well as advising clients on secured lending and commercial contracts.

Neale always seeks to tailor his advice to meet each client’s specific commercial and financial objectives, enabling business owners and managers to achieve their longer term ambitions.

Neale is also part of Mundays’ banking and insolvency teams.

+44 (0)1932 590617

neale.andrews@mundays.co.uk

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Neale Andrews is head of the corporate team at the firm and deals with a broad range of complex transactional matters. Sources note that "he is calm and does a good job."

Chambers and Partners UK

Headed by Neale Andrews, is 'excellent to deal with - much better value than London firms and just as good'.

The Legal 500 UK

We have worked with Neale for over 10 years on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters and have always found him to be very responsive. His counsel is both thorough and pragmatic and he has become a highly valued member of our external advisory team.

Terry Jones, CEO SmartDebit

Neale and his team at every corner had our interest at the forefront of everything they did. Explained legal terminology into something we could understand and digest. Neale and his team attended many out of hours meetings and reacted very quickly to urgent matters that arose during the process. Neale wasn't afraid at any time to challenge the other party when he felt things were bias.

Daniel Townsley, CEO Cruise 1st

Neale steered us expertly through extensive and complex negotiations. His diligence, keen focus, and wise counsel were crucial to achieving a successful outcome.

Caspar Moore, Finance Director, Travel 1st Limited

Neale brings a very practical approach to dealing with complex commercial challenges which is of particular importance when working with smaller businesses. His style of communication whether written or oral is easy to understand and his advice is invariably based on a common sense approach which is highly effective.

Malcolm Hughes, Chairman, Payment Solutions Limited

Neale's calm and insightful management of a number of challenging transactions was very welcome, as was his ability to express issues in plain and uncomplicated terms, along with the various resolutions open to us. A great asset to my team.

Jonathan Bruce, Managing Director, Prestige Nursing Ltd

I have always found Neale and his team to be very professional and responsive. They are very easy to work with.

Steve Shotton, Kingston Technology

Neale and his team provided excellent advice, support and management to our business throughout an important transaction. Both Neale and the team were a pleasure to work with and always managed even the tricky parts of the negotiations in a professional and positive manner. At the end of the day they really know what they are talking about.

Ruth Marshall, Vice President, International Legal Counsel, Royal Caribbean International

Mergers & Acquisitions→

The key to success for a corporate transaction is thorough planning and structuring. We work closely with our clients and their advisers to ensure that the relevant steps are taken to implement the proposed structure, and that this carries through to the running of the business following completion.

Banking & Finance→

Our Banking and Finance team has broad experience advising on corporate banking facilities, acquisition finance transactions, working capital facilities and asset based secured lending matters. We act for lenders, borrowers and investors. Over the past years the department has grown rapidly, acting for a number of the leading banks and financial institutions

Private Equity→

Mundays has a dedicated Private Equity team consisting of lawyers from all core disciplines including corporate, commercial, banking, employment, and property. We offer advice across the whole spectrum of private equity transactions including fund formation, venture capital, investment and shareholder agreements, buy outs, and secondary funding.

Franchising→

Our franchise lawyers provide specialist legal advice and support to franchisors, master franchisees and franchisees across many industries.

Education, Charities and not for profit→

We act for a wide range of charities and other not for profit institutions including trusts, schools, charity companies, registered social landlords, clubs and other unincorporated associations.

Family run businesses→

Managing a family run or family owned business presents a number of interesting and unique challenges that are rarely present in other private businesses.

Company Secretarial→

We are able to provide cost effective and comprehensive company secretarial services and our experience in acting across a range of corporate transactions ensures that we are able to deliver both basic company secretarial services but also more comprehensive documentation in an efficient manner

Partnership and LLP’s→

We act for partnerships and LLPs in all areas of professional practice, from mergers, acquisitions, demergers and strategic alliances to partnership disputes and exiting partners. We also advise on the use of partnerships and LLPs for wealth management, investment, tax or other structuring purposes, particularly in relation to property matters.

Corporate Recovery and Reconstruction→

Our team works with directors, individuals, insolvency practitioners, security holders and investors to provide a service tailored to our clients' needs in both contentious and non-contentious matters.

Personal Insolvency and Bankruptcy→

If you are facing personal insolvency, we will assist you to set down a clear plan of action to deal with the issues that confront you.

International→

We have considerable experience in advising overseas clients in respect of commercial and corporate transactions in the UK and assisting our UK based clients with transactions involving cross border elements.

Leisure→

Thanks to our strong connections with leading industry agents, valuers, surveyors, bankers and accountants we understand the leisure industry.

Technology→

Keeping up to speed with technology is essential. Our knowledge and experience of technology industries enables us to provide practical and commercial advice for both technology producers and users.

Intellectual Property→

We deal with the full range of IP disputes, in all forms of dispute resolution, from mediation to arbitration to expert determination and, where necessary, litigation. We have extensive experience of advising on a whole range of IP disputes and we aim to resolve disputes quickly and cost effectively.

Advising Royal Caribbean Cruises and Travel 1st on the sale of Sunshine Cruise Holidays to Dreamlines GmbH
Acting for the shareholders of Safeskys on the sale of the company to Air Partners PLC
Acting for the shareholders of Nebulas Solutions Group on their sale to Investcorp backed SecureLink, a cybersecurity specialist operating across Europe
Advising the shareholders of Orb Financial Services on their sale to US financial services giant AJ Gallagher
Acting for a Middle East based purchaser of a niche technology company in the recycling sector
Representing the shareholders of Baines Simmons on their sale to Air Partner PLC
Advising Global Logistics Group on its MBO of B&H Worldwide airline logistics group
Advising Royal Caribbean on the sale of its subsidiary, Sunshine Cruise Holidays
Acting for ChannelAdvisor on its acquisition of E-Tale Holdings Group
Advising Malino Development on its acquisition of Bodmin Jail
Acting for a number of property developers and financiers on the structuring of property development funding
Advising Deveq on its project development funding for a new 30+ unit residential development in South East London.
Acting for Carmel (Group) Ltd when restructuring its banking facilities
Advising Destiny Wireless on its rights issue and restructuring
Assisting Workplace Futures Group on its share buy back from former directors of the group.
Advising the UK subsidiary of a Japanese owned global group on its European distribution arrangements
Advising Smart Debit on its suite of commercial agreements
Acting for a start-up niche invoice finance company on its loan and security documentation

Away from the office, Neale is a keen cyclist and occasional golfer. Neale is an Alleyn’s old boy and graduate of Tabor Academy Massachusetts.

Neale studied law at Leicester University and The College of Law, Chester.

Neale is Deputy Chairman of Governors at Prior’s Field School in Godalming, Surrey.

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