Faye Cook

Faye Cook

Senior Associate, Corporate & Commercial

Specialisms & expertise

Mergers & Acquisitions
Management Buy Outs
Due Diligence
Corporate Advisory
Joint Venture Agreements, Shareholders Agreements and bespoke Articles of Association
Buybacks & Share Option Schemes
Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency
Partnership & Limited Liability Partnership matters
Succession & Exit Planning.

Client stories & examples of work

Advising UK subsidiary of German listed company on acquisition of further UK targets
Advising various buyers on several purchase transactions of Golf Clubs in the South East
Advising the buyer on the management buy out of Kent based chartered surveyor firm
Advising the seller of specialist theatrical chandler company
Assisting lead partner with advising:
- a £600+ million automotive group in connection with regular business acquisitions of motor dealerships around the country
- a £100 million+ specialist construction services group in connection with a variety of acquisitions
- the sellers on share sale to leading worldwide sports-goods retailer
- the sellers of a family run Kent based tyre business to US tyre giant
- the sellers of a clinical randomisation and trial management services business to a US based global biopharmaceutical services organisation
- the buyers on the purchase of the assets of a national charity, in administration
- a historic Kent based printing company in financially distressed management buy out.

Types of client

Faye’s clients include private limited companies, owner managed businesses of all sizes and UK subsidiaries of major foreign companies.

Achievements & other appointments

Winner of the Kent and East Sussex JLD Junior Lawyer of the Year Award 2016/2017; and Winner of the Kent and East Sussex JLD Trainee Solicitor of the Year 2015/2016.

A client recently said they “received excellent service, particularly working with Faye who was extremely professional and efficient throughout the whole transaction.”

Profile

Faye joined Thomson Snell & Passmore as a trainee solicitor in 2013 and joined the Corporate & Commercial team upon qualification in September 2015. Prior to that Faye studied at the University of Nottingham and graduated with a 2:1 degree in Law with Australian Law. Faye went on to complete the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law where she achieved a distinction.

Early on when they were pitching to win our business, they were very upfront, very honest and we liked the people we met, and we are still dealing with all of those people, which is great.

Glen Obee, Chairman, Motorline

Thank you for a great service with a lot of patience!

Client

Many thanks to Jo, Faye and the team for all their help and support during this transaction. We received excellent service, particularly working with Faye who was extremely professional and efficient throughout the whole transaction. We would highly recommend TSP to potential clients.

Bill Sanderson, Compton Pool Farm

TS&P have been working for us over 25 years and have been thorough and competent on all matters they have dealt with for us. And all done in an extremely courteous and caring way. We have had to work with other practices in fields TS&P do not cover such as immigration and criminal and TS&P distinctly stand out as way ahead of others.

Client

Thank you for confirmation that completion has taken place, I am delighted with the outcome and for all the hard work that you and your team have put in to get the deal done on time.

Client

Extremely helpful throughout the whole process, very reliable, responsive and efficient. Faye and Joanne are both very reliable and quick to respond, resolve matters efficiently and effectively

Client

They have a very broad scope of skillsets. There isn’t a department we have yet managed to exceed or not have advice where we need it.

Glen Obee, Chairman, Motorline

Thomson Snell & Passmore have been working for us for over 25 years and have been thorough and competent on all matters they have dealt with for us, and all done in an extremely courteous and caring way. We have had to work with other practices in fields TS&P do not cover such as immigration and criminal and TS&P distinctly stand out as way ahead of others. The contracts were very thorough and well explained and all follow up documents timely sent. Also and this is important - the busy schedule I have personally at the moment leads to me overlooking things I need to respond to and TS&P colleagues all remind me what I need to do without me feeling hassled or harassed! They are polite, discreet and just firm enough to illicit my timely responses. Have recommended in the past and would still.

Client

Everything handled highly professionally, yet friendly and explained in "lay man" terms.

Client

I just wanted to put in writing how very pleased I have been with the service provided to me by Faye Cook – and indeed all the team. It’s not been an easy transaction, but she’s been absolutely brilliant throughout, with an amazing amount of patience dealing with a very difficult family, and explaining everything to me in a really clear and concise manner, making the whole thing pretty seamless.

Client

I would like to take this opportunity to express my thanks to Joanne Gallagher, Faye Cook and the rest of the team at Thomson Snell & Passmore’s Corporate and Commercial Department for their assistance in relation to a recent acquisition of a book of intermediated investment assets. Given a relatively tight time schedule, they worked efficiently and tirelessly, sometimes late into evenings to ensure everything was agreed and in place prior to the completion deadline. I cannot speak highly enough of the service I received. They are professional, knowledgeable, diligent and also very nice people to deal with!

Client

When we have asked our lawyers to work counterparts in other legal teams, at no point have we had any reservations that Thomson Snell & Passmore can’t hold their own and have always done an excellent job.

Glen Obee, Chairman, Motorline

The contracts were very thorough and well explained and all follow up documents timely sent. Also and this is important - the busy schedule I have personally at the moment leads to me overlooking things I need to respond to and TS&P colleagues all remind me what I need to do without me feeling hassled or harassed! They are polite, discreet and just firm enough to illicit my timely responses.

Client

As our first major acquisition, the support and knowledge of our advisors was something we knew would be critical to the success of the transaction. We turned to Thomson Snell & Passmore after working together for several years as the external legal counsel on a range of corporate matters. We knew the firm would deliver, especially under the current limitations of the working environment. The team constantly kept us informed throughout and worked to deliver the transaction seamlessly and we were delighted with the service provided.