Jack Horwitz

Jack provides professional and high-quality advice to clients on a variety of corporate and commercial matters, including, in particular, acquisitions and disposals, equity investment, corporate restructuring, and drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements. In addition to this, he has specialist experience and knowledge on a range of data protection issues.
Corporate and commercial matters Jack can assist with include:

• Share and business acquisitions and disposals (including trade sales, management buy-outs and Employee Ownership Trusts);
• Share reorganisations and company restructuring;
• Corporate finance;
• Investment and fundraising (including seed investment and follow-on investment rounds);
• Shareholders’ agreements;
• Employee share incentive schemes;
• Contract reviews and negotiation; and
• Drafting bespoke and complex commercial agreements.

In addition to his work within the Corporate and Commercial Team, Jack also deals with LP Sports matters.
Outside of work, Jack enjoys playing football, tennis, sailing, following Norwich City FC and is passionate about all things American football.

Corporate matters Jack has acted on include:

• Advising the shareholder of a well-established tyre and automotive services business to a national buyer in a transaction worth in excess of £800k.
• Advising on the sale of the UK’s leading gas engine repair and overhaul specialists ABC Power to landfill site operator Enovert.
• Advising the sellers on the sale of a food products wholesale business in a transaction worth in excess of £1.5m.
• Advising the sellers on the sale of a domain name to a US buyer for a purchase price in excess of £1m.
• Advising a technology company on multiple investment rounds.
• Assisting with the merger of two London-based promotional agencies.
• Assisting on the sale of a well-known environmental contractor to a large independent consultancy firm in a transaction worth in excess of £6m.
• Assisting a consortium of investors on the acquisition of The New European newspaper title from the Archant Group.
• Assisting on the sale of a long-standing engineering business to a multi-national waste management service provider for a purchase price in excess of £3m.

Reported deals:

• Leathes Prior advises Lincoln City Football Club on landmark Stadium Naming Rights Agreement
• Leathes Prior advised on the merger of Stellar Global Ltd and Mash Staffing Holdings Limited
• Leathes Prior advise on the sale of ABC Power to landfill operator Enovert
• Leathes Prior assist in the sale of Salix River & Wetland Services
• Leathes Prior advised Canham Consulting on becoming Employee Owned
• Leathes Prior advises on the sale of Norfolk Holiday Properties
• Leathes Prior advises on the sale of Bawdeswell Garden Centre

• Graduated from Loughborough University with a first-class Economics Degree in 2014
• Achieved Distinction in the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and awarded the UEA Law School Prize for best performance in the GDL final assessment in 2015
• Achieved Distinction in the Legal Practice Course at Nottingham Law School in 2016
• Jack carried out his training contract here at Leathes Prior before qualifying into our Corporate & Commercial Team in September 2018
• Promoted to Associate in May 2022
• Promoted to Senior Associate in May 2024