Jocelyn Ormond

Jocelyn advises public and private companies and financial investors on a broad range of corporate and private equity  transactions, financing arrangements, commercial contracts and corporate governance issues. He has particularly notable expertise in relation to private and public M&A, joint ventures (particularly public private partnerships) and AIM fund-raisings.  He also heads the firm's independent sector health group and plays a leading role in the firm's thought leadership activities in the health & social care sector.

His experience at DAC Beachcroft since 2006 has included leading the team advising:

• Spire Healthcare on its commercial joint venture with CancerPartnersUK and other key coporate and commercial transactions
• Developer Deeley Freed Estates on a £100m property fund
• Fabian Romania on its admission to AIM and €40m placing and on the £48m recommended public takeover bid for the company by Black Sea Global Properties
• Shore Capital and its AIM-quoted fund St Peter Port Capital in relation to various transactions
• a FTSE-250 wealth manager on various corporate finance matters

Jocelyn was seconded to Bupa in 2007 to assist with the separation of Bupa Hospitals from the rest of the group.

Jocelyn joined legacy firm Beachcroft from the private equity group at Allen & Overy LLP, where he focused on the pharma bio sector as well as advising insurers, other financial institutions and TMT and energy companies. Jocelyn trained as a company/commercial lawyer at Slaughter and May between 1995 and 2002, and worked on the healthcare brief in the Conservative Party Leader's Policy Unit from 2002-3.

Jocelyn Ormond "is very commercial and client-focused," and "his negotiation skills are second to none" Chambers UK, 2011 Edition, Corporate/M&A, South West.

Beachcroft LLP's corporate and commercial practice is "outstanding" with John Williams and Jocelyn Ormond both highly recommended. Legal 500 UK, 2010 Edition, Corporate, South West.