Mae Salem is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in Leeds. Mae has experience in private acquisitions and disposals, private equity investments, corporate restructuring and generally advising clients in a corporate setting.
Examples of Advising Private Equity
- Advising Endless on its investments in the Wonder Group, Victoria Plum and Sewtec Automation and its exit from the Adare Group and Sewtec Automation.
- Advising Elysian Capital on its investment in the Activate Group.
- Advising Growth Capital Partners on its investment in, and exit from, the DMW Group.
- Advising Mobeus Equity Partners on its investments in Star Brands, Orbital Net and Redline Assured Security.
- Advising Nimbus on its investment in the Customade Group.
- Advising Perwyn on its investment in Killer Ink.
- Advising Inflexion on its investments in Independent Transition Management and PMC Treasury.
- Advising ECI Partners on its investment in the Clear Insurance Group.
- Advising the management team of Operam Education Group on Three Hills’ investment.
- Advising the management team of IP Integration on Ethos' investment.
- Advising the management team of IDHL on Bridgepoint's investment.
- Advising the management team of Global Autocare on LDC's investment.
- Advising the management team of Zyro Fisher on Palatine Private Equity's investment.
- Advising the management team of E-days on Palatine Private Equity's investment.
- Advising the shareholders of Linksap Europe on the sale to Oxford Global Resources.
- Advising the shareholders of Sewtec Automation on the sale to Automated Industrial Robotics Inc.
- Advising Punter Southall on its sale of PSDCC to Foster Denovo.
- Advising the shareholders of Infoshare on their sale to Omnicom.
- Advising the shareholders of Nimble on their sale to SCC (Rigby Group).
- Advising the shareholders of Experian on their sale to Experian.
- Advising Hippo Digital on its acquisition of The Data Shed.
- Advising the shareholders of Marlin Green on their sale to K2.
- Advising the Operam Group on its acquisitions of Provision Recruitment and Horizon Teachers.
- Advising Progeny on its acquisitions of Chartered Wealth Management, Carbon Financial, Fiscal Engineers, Lewis Brownlee and Balmoral Wealth Management.
- Advising Sunbelt Rentals on its acquisitions of PKE Lighting and Acorn Film and Video.
- Advising the shareholders of Ultimate Packaging on their sale to ProAmpac.
- Advising Investec Wealth and Investment on its acquisitions of Murray Asset Management and other wealth management businesses and its sale to Williams de Broe.
- Advising KONE Plc on its acquisition of Consult Lift Services.
- Advising Redmayne-Bentley LLP on various acquisition, including of Havelock Hunter.
- Advising the shareholders of Redline Assured on the sale of its shares to Air Partner Plc.
- Advising the Tilney Group on its share acquisition of the Index Wealth Management Group.
- Advising the Punter Southall Group on the acquisition of Towry's pensions consulting business and the acquisition of JDP Financial Services.
- Advising the 2 Sisters Food Group on the £67 million sale of the Matthew Walker Christmas pudding business to Valeo Foods Group.
- Advising Mayborn on its acquisition of the Gro Company.
- Advising TransUnion on multiple divestments.
- Advising the shareholders of the Chaucer Foods Group on the US$130 million disposal to Japan-based food group, Nagatanien.
- Advising NSI-MI Technologies, an Atlanta, Georgia-based corporation, on its acquisition of Sheffield based Frequensys Limited.
Education
- College of Law, York, L.P.C., 2010
- University of Hull, LL.B., 2009
Admissions
- England and Wales, 2012
- Named in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 List for 2024
- Awarded Thompson Reuters® Stand-Out Lawyer (2021 and 2024)
- Winner of the Young Lawyer of the Year Award – 2023 Insider's Yorkshire Young Professionals Awards
- Winner of the Emerging Dealmaker of the Year Award – 2022 Insider’s Yorkshire Dealmakers Awards
- Winner of the Rising Star of the Year Award – 2022 TheBusinessDesk's Yorkshire Rainmaker Awards
- Recognised and recommended in Legal 500 UK for M&A/Corporate and Commercial
- Private Equity team named Team of the Year (Transactions) at the Unquote Private Equity Awards 2022
- Interviewed, Pratap Partnership, 8 December 2022.
- Quoted, “Building the Careers of the Next Generation in the North”, TheBusinessDesk.com, 22 March 2024.