Bio

Robert Phillips is a partner in the Newcastle corporate finance team with over 25 years’ experience of advising clients on regional, national and international private and public company mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, private equity investments, corporate governance and strategy. In over 20 years working in the North East corporate marketplace as part of an award winning regional firm, Robert has advised on some of the most significant transactions in the region and worked with some of the region’s best known entrepreneurs. Robert’s specialisation is working with owner-managers, shareholders and corporates around strategic direction and maximising value when exiting their companies and also on the other side of those transactions, acting for corporates acquiring new businesses and companies as part of growth strategies. He has been named Insider’s North-East corporate lawyer of the year on three separate occasions – and worked on 5 of the awards’ ceremony “Deal of the Year” in the North East Region. Following outstanding client feedback Robert was named as a star lawyer in the ‘Acritas Stars’ global database 2017, 2018 and 2019. Robert is one of the leads in our Manufacturing Sector Team. Much of Robert's experience in the M&A and advising arena has been with manufacturing sector companies – so in addition to deep M&A corporate experience Robert has an insight into the specific challenges and issues advising in the manufacturing sector. Robert has lead on manufacturing sector trade visits to and from the USA with North East based manufacturing sector businesses.