Kim Klahn

Kim is a corporate solicitor and trusted adviser to owner‑managed, family and high-growth businesses across the UK. Kim regularly advises clients on mergers and acquisitions and other strategic corporate transactions that shape their businesses and future growth.

Kim acts on a wide range of corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions and disposals, private equity and investment transactions, joint ventures, corporate governance, shareholder arrangements, family investment company formations and group restructurings. Kim regularly advises both buyers and sellers at critical inflection points in their business journeys.

A significant part of Kim’s practice is dedicated to advising owner‑managed businesses, SMEs and family businesses where legal, commercial and personal considerations are often closely intertwined. Kim understands the unique dynamics of family enterprises including generational transitions, differing stakeholder priorities, emotional attachment to the business and legacy considerations, and tailors her advice accordingly.

Kim is particularly well known for her ability to balance technical excellence with emotional intelligence. She understands that for sellers, a transaction can be the sale of a lifetime’s work or a family legacy. When acting for buyers, she supports ambitious entrepreneurs and management teams as they take strategic steps to build and scale their businesses.

Kim’s advice is pragmatic, commercially driven and grounded in a clear understanding of risk. Although sector agnostic, Kim has developed a strong reputation in the healthcare sector, with particular expertise in the acquisition and disposal of residential and nursing homes for the elderly. She regularly advises on complex care transactions and brings a deep understanding of sector‑specific challenges, including regulatory requirements, operational structures and management arrangements.

How Kim can help you

Clients value Kim’s ability to guide them efficiently through the process while keeping momentum and commercial objectives firmly in focus. She is approachable, straight‑talking and highly supportive. She communicates clearly and regularly throughout transactions, providing calm, decisive leadership and ensuring clients always understand their options and the implications of key decisions. Kim’s focus is not just on the law, but on adding value and achieving the best outcome for her clients.

Experience

• Acted for the sellers (including an employee benefit trust) in the sale of 100% of the share capital of a software production and audit company in the travel industry.
• Acting for the seller in the sale of 50% of his shareholding in a food franchise company.
• Acting for the purchaser in the acquisition of care homes from a major care home provider with a management services agreement arrangement with the freehold owner of the properties.
• Acted for the buy-in team buying the shares of a manufacturing group.