Elaine Hackett

Elaine has been working in the area of corporate law since she qualified in 1987.  Elaine provides her clients with a high quality and responsive service and has a reputation for always putting her clients first.

Elaine specialises in a broad range of corporate finance issues, including transactional work, acquisition and disposals, MBO’s and MBI’s, joint ventures, investments and restructuring. 

Elaine has worked very closely with a number of clients over many years and particularly enjoys helping clients achieve practical and commercial solutions to their challenges.

Elaine’s clients often comment on her devotion and dedication to the tasks in which she is involved and her ability to handle complex and technical matters in an efficient and friendly manner.

Recent experience

• Advising a national oil and fuels distribution company on a series of transactions including the demerger of part of their group.
• Advising a client on a series of care home acquisitions across the UK.
• Advising the management team of a UK professional services company in relation to an investment by a German competitor.
• Advising a UK project management company in respect of a series of acquisitions over recent years.
• Acting for both buyers and sellers on numerous transactions involving the acquisition of properties within a corporate wrapper.
• Advising a number of larger group companies on reorganisations and demergers which included capital reductions and section 110 demergers.

Career history

Elaine trained in a niche corporate law firm in central London and qualified in 1987.  Following qualification, she moved to Eversheds in Birmingham where she became a Senior Associate and stayed for 10 years.  In 1997 Elaine moved to work for an international company who were a large client of Eversheds until 2003.  She subsequently moved to Manchester and joined BBS Law where she has remained ever since.