Joe Cooper

Joe is an associate in the Corporate, M&A and Capital Markets group. He advises private and public companies on a broad range of corporate matters, including acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and company reorganisations.

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Career

Since 2018	Associate, Taylor Wessing
2016 - 2018	Associate, Clifford Chance
2014 - 2016	Trainee Solicitor, Clifford Chance

Education

2016	Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales
2014	LPC, University of Law
2013	LLB, Queen Mary University of London

2011

Bachelors, Russian, Spanish and French, Durham University

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Additional languages

English

Expertise

Experience

GTI Corporation's sale to Kanwal

The sellers of GTI Corporation Limited, a manufacturer and designer of specialist systems and tools to the automotive industry (with a particular focus on high-performance and luxury cars) on its sale to Kanwal UK Holdings. The transaction represented the culmination of years' of strategic collaboration between GTI and Taylor Wessing and was entered into in connection with the settlement of litigation proceedings between GTI and a major automotive manufacturer.

Tritax Big Box REIT plc on the GBP370m acquisition of db Symmetry

Tritax on its acquisition of an 87% economic interest in db Symmetry, which owns one of the UK’s largest strategic land portfolios for the development of Big Box real estate assets and related logistics facilities.The acquisition, which attributes an enterprise value of GBP370 million to db Symmetry, is being funded with a mixture of equity and cash raised pursuant to a placing and open offer underwritten by Jefferies.We have advised Tritax on numerous real estate acquisitions, forward fundings, debt financings and capital markets fundraisings, including its IPO in 2013.Tritax is the only real estate investment trust dedicated to investing in very large logistics facilities in the UK.