Adam Kudryl joined Harper James in April 2018 as a Corporate Partner. He is a highly experienced corporate and commercial lawyer.
In the corporate field, Adam helps businesses ranging from micro and start-up businesses and high growth businesses to large corporates, including some household names. This work includes making and receiving strategic investments, company and business acquisitions, company and business sales (mostly of niche businesses to large PLCs), helping negotiate the terms of debt funding and structuring joint ventures.
In the commercial field, he specialises in helping niche businesses to negotiate with larger often global businesses (both as customers and suppliers to the niche businesses), helping them to get a good deal and on fair terms.
Adam trained and qualified in to a boutique corporate law firm in 2003 and went on to spend the majority of his senior career in Top 100 law firms.
He’s had substantial previous experience in the following sectors:
- Technology, including software and digital commerce
- Creative industries, including media, entertainment & publishing, and advertising & marketing
- Life sciences and healthcare, including partnership/practice agreements, pharmaceuticals and the dental industry
- Retail and luxury brands, including fashion and consumer goods
- Manufacturing mergers & acquisitions
Adam has also taken part in our Spotlight on a Solicitor series, sharing his journey into law and proudest career moments. Read the interview to hear about his life in law.
In his spare time, when not chasing around after his wife and two sons, Adam is an avid CrossFit athlete and Olympic weightlifter, regularly competing in both sports. He recently won Gold medals in the Masters 73kg bodyweight category at the British Masters Weightlifting Championships (2020), and at the English Weightlifting Championships (2021). During the first lockdown he won outright the Spartan Race Virtual Ireland event (beating 527 other worldwide competitors) and is now training for his first in-person Spartan Race. He also came 18th in age group of the recent HYROX Virtual World Championships and is hoping to do an in-person HYROX event in the future.
Areas of Expertise
Asset Finance & Asset Based Lending
Construction & Development Finance
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Employee Incentive Arrangements
Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs)
Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) & Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS)
Insolvency & Corporate Recovery
Legal Advice For Buying A Franchise
Limited Liability Partnership Agreements
Non Tax-Advantaged Share Plans
Pre-Seed & Seed Funding Legal Support
Venture Capital Legal Services
Sector Experience
Manufacturing & Engineering Solicitors
Retail & Luxury Brand Solicitors
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Our solicitor Sarah has been fantastic, as have Stephen and Adam.
Both Adam and Callum worked tirelessly with other advisors and principals to sensibly solve problems as they arose during the transaction and were integral to seeing the deal through to a successful completion.
Having conversations professional-to-professional about my business made a difference from the start. Our buy-out was a pressured process, but Adam kept me feeling calm and considered throughout.
We’d like to thank Harper James for all of their support throughout the investment deal process. As well as providing vital legal advice, Adam and the team at Harper James gave us guidance on the next steps of our growth, and we look forward to working with the team on a variety of projects in the future.
It was an absolute pleasure working with Harper James and the efforts of Partner, Adam Kudryl, were simply herculean! The sale was complicated and made against tight time scales but, with much work and long hours, Adam brought everything to a successful conclusion within the deadline.
