Katy Poole

Senior Associate

I am an experienced Senior Associate with more than 14 years’ experience working with commercial and private clients. I specialise in the sale and purchase of businesses and companies as well as corporate restructures. Working with predominantly owner managed businesses, my client base extends across Europe and North America. I also work closely with our wealth preservation team within our private client department on the restructuring of family companies as part of their future planning.

In my spare time, I enjoy walking with my dog, growing my own fruit and vegetables, and playing badminton.

  • Katy advised and managed our sme sale, hours and weeks of negotiations, 50+ documents and comforting ‘hand holding’. She was forever, understanding, informative, professional and very human in a tough time for us. Exceptional!
    Robin Carlisle
  • I have worked with the Buckles Corporate Team on a number of occasions, both on acquisitions and company sales. They have a brilliant corporate team and I am fortunate to have them on my doorstep. They do all the heavy lifting on our deals, and they get us to focus on the main commercial points, whilst delivering the project to tight deadlines. I have worked with Nigel Moore for many years and more recently Katy Poole and Nichola Stephens and they make a very strong team. They not afraid to disagree with me which I like as I trust their judgement and I appreciate their humour, which you need on a complex transactions.
    Simon Stephenson, Partner, BCF Equity Partners
  • Your undoubted tenacity in achieving the goal clearly made for as-smooth-a process as we could have asked for, something we were grateful for. Your Company was selected on the recommendation of another of your customers and well founded it was for anyone wanting to “make the sale happen"
    R. David Isaac, Johnsons Garden Centre
  • We had an initial meeting with Nigel [Moore] at which he ran through various scenarios and highlighted the main points when selling a company. When we did meet with our future purchaser, we followed the guidance given by Nigel which proved to be invaluable and enabled us to start off on the right foot in the right direction. Throughout the whole sale and due diligence process, the team headed up by Katy Poole, ran the operation like clockwork. We had a very tight deadline and at each stage with Buckles guidance we hit each deadline and successfully completed on time.
    Tim Robson, founder of Robsons (of Spalding)
  • One of the key reasons we selected Buckles and particularly Katy [Poole] to represent us was that we wanted someone we could trust implicitly. Someone who would challenge us but solely with the intention of getting the best result for the family. We were working to a very tight timeline, on a virtual sale with multiple shareholders so it wasn't easy yet Katy helped keep all the parts moving along. Katy was extremely thorough and patient with our many questions. I was constantly amazed at the effort and hours she put in to protect our interests.
    Crispin Moger, founder of Marmalade Insurance

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