Beverley Jones

Beverley Jones

Senior Partner

Corporate Team | Banking & Finance Team

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Beverley Jones is a senior and experienced M&A and corporate finance dealmaker. She co-leads our Corporate team and also heads up our Banking & Finance team.

She has spent more than two decades developing and nurturing long-standing relationships among clients closing complex and high-value deals, including acquisitions, disposals, mergers, investments, fundraisings, refinancings and joint ventures.

She is the “go to” dealmaker and legal adviser for a significant number of high-profile Wales-based clients including Facilities by ADF (AIM-listed), Brickability Group (AIM-listed), Principality Building Society and Bluestone Resorts, highlighting her solid reputation in the Welsh corporate market.

Nationally, she is well-respected in the health and social care sector, advising leading UK care home operators and social care providers including Choice Care Group, Achieve Together, Cygnet Healthcare and Consensus Support Services on their acquisitions, and supporting their growth strategies.

Her work in 2024 included the high-profile acquisition by AIM-listed Facilities by ADF PLC of Autotrak Portable Roadways Ltd for up to £21.3 million and its associated fundraising which raised gross proceeds for ADF of £10 million via a placing. She also completed a substantial number of deals in the social care sector, including Choice Care Group’s acquisition of EL Marsh, and the acquisition of Creative Care by Consensus Support Services.

Beverley led the Acuity team in advising Principality Building Society, the sixth-largest building society in the UK and the largest in Wales in its funding of an ambitious, £100+ million residential-led urban regeneration project to transform the site of an old paper mill into a thriving community, in a decade long development scheme that finally completed in 2024 and was delivered in partnership with Welsh Government, Tirion Homes, Lovell and Cadwyn Housing Association.

Beverley was shortlisted as Dealmaker of the Year at the Insider Wales Dealmaker Awards for three years in a row in 2019, 2020, 2021 – and again in 2023 and 2025.

 

Expertise
  • Corporate deals and transactions – mergers, acquisitions and disposals
  • Private equity-funded transactions and PE-backed buy and build strategies
  • Banking and finance transactions, including complex and structured arrangements
  • Commercial projects and contracts, including long-term contracts and joint ventures

Work Highlights

Acting for Warwick Capital Partners LLP on its debt and equity investment in Eden Living, an exciting new private rented sector business focusing on the acquisition and subsequent letting of newly built houses in South Wales and the Southwest of England, as part of its European Opportunities Fund III. We advised Warwick on its equity investment in Eden Living and on the associated term loan facility for Eden Living with Lloyds Bank plc and initial property acquisitions into the portfolio.
Advising Choice Care Group subsidiary Care Without Compromise Limited in ts acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Aspire (Swansea) Limited and its subsidiary, Aspire Support Options Limited.
Advising national care home operator Choice Care Group on its acquisition of Care Without Compromise, a specialist care provider based in south-west Wales – its first foray into the Welsh care arena. Choice Care Group is a longstanding client of Beverley, who has advised the group for almost 20 years.Advising Choice Care Group in acquiring Derbyshire- and Nottinghamshire-based Quality Care, and Witham Valley Care Group, based in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.
Representing Facilities by ADF plc, the leading provider of premium serviced production facilities to the UK film and high-end television industry, on its acquisition of Location One, the UK’s largest integrated TV and film location service and equipment hire company.
Representing Brickability Group plc, one of the UK’s largest construction materials distributors, on its acquisition strategy.
Acting for Sinclair Motor Group in its strategic acquisition of Shukers from Rubery Owen Group.
Advising the shareholders of Lenstec Optical Group on the sale of it shares to optical giant EssilorLuxottica Group.
Advising Warwick Capital Partners on its investment in Eden Living.

Accolades

Beverley is listed as Leading Partners by the Legal 500 for their Corporate work

Legal 500

Beverly is listed as Recommended by the Legal 500 for their work in Banking & Finance

Legal 500

The Banking & Finance Team is ranked Band 2 by Chambers and Partners

Chambers & Partners

The Banking & Finance Team is ranked Tier 2 in the Legal 500

Legal 500

The Corporate Team is ranked Band 1 by Chambers and Partners

Chambers & Partners

The Corporate Team is ranked Tier 1 in the Legal 500

Legal 500

Testimonials

Beverley provides very solid advice on banking and financing and contracts.

Beverley Jones has great knowledge of our business. She is always proactive, responsive and supportive. Excellent advice and support.

The best decision we ever made in selecting a legal partner was to appoint [Beverley] as our legal adviser. It has been – by a country mile – our largest and most complex deal we have ever participated in. [She has] been at our side every step of the way and it has given us enormous comfort to know [she has] been our adviser. The quality of advice has been consistently out of the top drawer and whilst I know [she has] fielded a bigger team of widely talented colleagues along the way I recognise [she has] done some of the heaviest lifting by far.

Amidst all the commercial changes that occurred throughout the process [she] always offered a very thoughtful and reasoned approach to matters and that is very much appreciated at our end.

She’s very helpful, knowledgeable and trustworthy. She’s very supportive and keeps things to understandable language.