Keith Kennedy
Keith qualified as a solicitor in 2001, having started his career in 1999 at Manchester firm Berg & Co, which merged with international firm Kennedys in 2017. He qualified into Berg & Co’s corporate team in 2001, became a Partner in 2009 and remained there until he joined Pearson in September 2015.
Keith works closely with our Commercial Litigation and Commercial Property Departments on shareholder disputes and the corporate aspects of property deals respectively.
He also assists the firm’s Employment Department with contracts and settlement agreements involving shareholdings, and our Financial Services Department, who help Keith’s clients who have sold companies to invest sale proceeds.
Areas of Expertise
Keith has over 20 years’ experience of advising on:
- private company mergers, acquisitions and disposals;
- management buy-outs;
- share buybacks;
- shareholders’ agreements;
- articles of association;
- investment agreements;
- LLP members’ and partnership agreements;
- company formations; and
- corporate group formations and re-organisations.
Keith has particular expertise in the telecoms, software, manufacturing and retail sectors. He has helped multiple clients build groups of companies through bolt on acquisitions, before advising the shareholders on their exit.
Many of his client relationships span more than twenty years and include entrepreneurs and acquisitive private companies.
Career & Education
- 2015 – Pearson Solicitors & Financial Advisers Ltd
- 1999 – Berg & Co (merged with Kennedys in 2017)
- Legal practice course, College of Law, York
- Teacher, British Council and Al Nahda National School, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- LLB (Hons) (English law), The University of Dundee