Tim Gladdle
Senior Partner & Head of Corporate
Tim qualified as a solicitor in 1983, giving him 40 years of legal experience. He specialises in advising a wide range of companies on corporate affairs and transactions.
Expertise
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Group reorganisations and reconstructions
- Management buy-outs and buy-ins
- Joint ventures
- Corporate governance
- Shareholder arrangements
- Partnerships and Limited Liability Partnerships
- Commercial agreements
Approach
Tim is an experienced corporate lawyer who has extensive experience of advising on corporate transactions and affairs. He has clients across a wide variety of sectors and has worked with owners of businesses of all sizes providing advice on legal issues that have helped them to grow to become the successful organisations they now are. He has also advised the owners of many companies and partnerships on exit strategies and acted in the sale of those businesses to realise their value and their owners’ aspirations.
Career Highlights
- After qualifying Tim joined Bray & Bray where he has remained, becoming Senior Partner in 2000 and was then very pleased to be part of the merger to form Rothera Bray LLP
- His professional highlight was leading the Bray & Bray corporate team in 2021 in the sale of a business in the logistics industry at a sale price of £98m
Experience
Experience
40 years
Qualifications
- Tim attended the University of Bristol – Degree in Law (LLB)(hons)
- He then attended the Law School at Guildford
Positions Held
- Leicester
- t.gladdle@rotherabray.co.uk
- 0116 204 5304
Experience
Year Qualified
1983
Experience
40 years
Qualifications
- Tim attended the University of Bristol – Degree in Law (LLB)(hons)
- He then attended the Law School at Guildford
Positions Held
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