Isabelle Balch

Isabelle is a Senior Associate in the corporate team, specialising in a wide range of corporate matters. Having joined the firm following experience across corporate and transactional work, she has a strong focus on delivering pragmatic and commercial advice.

Isabelle helps guide businesses and individuals through the complexities of mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, and all things corporate, from shareholders’ agreements to share buybacks.

How Isabelle can help you

Isabelle specialises in advising on corporate transactions and governance matters, providing clear, commercially focused guidance on buying and selling businesses, restructurings, and shareholder arrangements to help clients achieve their strategic objectives efficiently and with confidence.

Specialisms:

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Share and asset sales and purchases
• Share buybacks
• Financing
• Management buyouts
• Disclosure and due diligence

Experience

• Supported the shareholders of a specialist consultancy business on its sale to an overseas acquirer as part of the buyer’s international growth strategy.
• Advised on the sale of an IT managed services business to a strategic acquirer on behalf of the shareholders.
• Played a key role in a series of acquisitions and financing transactions for a rapidly growing fire and security group, supporting its national expansion.
• Structured and implemented a capital reduction demerger and wider shareholder reorganisation for a family-owned construction group.
• Advised on a complex family business restructuring involving trusts, succession planning and the tax-efficient separation of business interests.
• Assisted the shareholders of a multi-entity insurance brokerage group with its sale to a national insurance consolidator, facilitating a strategic exit and integration into a larger platform.