Vincent Billings Partner | Corporate & Commercial Team

Expertise

I’m a highly experienced corporate partner specialising in mergers and acquisitions, helping businesses move decisively and achieve their commercial goals.

I regularly advise on transactions valued at up to £50 million, bringing clear judgment and control to complex deals.

I support clients with the purchase and sale of businesses, as well as a wide range of significant corporate transactions. This includes group reorganisations, investments, corporate finance, joint ventures, and management buyouts and buy-ins.

I also advise clients on company law, ensuring they meet their obligations under the Companies Act 2006 with clarity and confidence.

Alongside this, I provide preparatory transaction support, working with clients to make their business sale-ready. Drawing on deep mergers and acquisitions experience, I advise on, and where needed, implement the steps a buyer will expect to see in place well before a transaction begins.

In all my work, I work closely with you to understand your organisation and the value within it. That insight allows me to provide advice that is practical, proportionate and focused on what matters, helping you achieve your goals while managing cost and risk.

Key Experience

• Leading Partner on a complex sale of a nationwide commercial landscaping business, with a deal value in excess of £50 million.
• Lead Partner on the sale of a software company to private equity, including the carve‑out of a subsidiary, with a deal value in excess of £15 million.
• Lead Partner on a range of corporate finance transactions, acting for high street lenders on deals valued at up to £15 million.
• Advising shareholders and directors on Companies Act 2006 matters, including acting for a high‑value freehold company in proceedings before the High Court, with a successful outcome.