Emma Cameron

Emma Cameron

About Emma

Emma Cameron joined Matthew Arnold & Baldwin in 2006 from the London office of Denton Wilde Sapte (now Dentons) and became a Partner in 2010.

Emma specialises in all areas of corporate finance and advises businesses, banks and high net worth individuals on share and business acquisitions and sales. She advises on joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, fundraisings and share schemes. Clients Emma has worked for include Avondale Group, Steak Media Group, ESRI UK, Santander, HSBC and Porcelanosa.

Emma has been on secondments to two large companies which allowed her to experience legal matters from the perspective of the client.

Emma is also a member of the firm’s professional practices sector group and regularly advises on partnership matters and has a particular expertise in advising professional practices converting to limited liability partnerships.

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NAPF calls on FTSE 350 companies to create a more robust link between executive pay and company performance

Last month, the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) published an open letter to the chairmen of the remuneration committees at FTSE 350 companies. The NAPF is the main organisation representing the interests of 1300 occupational pension funds in the UK; it also represents and provides services for those involved in designing, operating, advising and… Learn more

Court of Appeal confirms that goodwill generated by individual partners and LLP members belongs to their firms

Although Templeton Insurance Ltd v (1) Thomas (2) Panesar [2013] EWCA Civ 35 relates to the goodwill of a company, it is equally relevant to the goodwill of professional practices, whether they operate as companies, limited liability partnerships or traditional-style partnerships. The background to the case was that an insurance company issued legal proceedings against… Learn more

House of Lords vote against “employee shareholder contracts”

I blogged yesterday about the changes to buy backs of shares which the Government had proposed so as to make its concept of “employee shareholder contracts” more workable. This concept meant that employees would give up certain employment rights in exchange for shares in their employer. However, the House of Lords has voted against this… Learn more

Draft regulations on share buy backs published

In February 2013, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published its response to comments received on its October 2012 consultation paper on the proposed relaxations to the regime which currently applies when a company acquires its own shares (a “share buy back”). A revised draft of the regulations amending the relevant parts of the… Learn more

Veterinary practices and restrictive covenants

In a recent unreported case, Scott v Scott, the High Court has refused to grant an injunction preventing a veterinarian from setting up another veterinary business within a 10-mile radius of her former practice. The applicant (A) and respondent (R) were husband and wife (although they were in the process of divorcing) and had been… Learn more

The UK company charge registration regime will change in April 2013

Last month, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) published a revised version of the draft statutory instrument, the Companies Act 2006 (Amendment of Part 25) Regulations 2013. The original draft Regulations were published in August 2012 and followed a series of Government consultations on a new company charge registration regime. These new draft… Learn more

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