Adèle Librae

Professional Profile

Adèle Librae leads the corporate team. She specialises in corporate and commercial transactions with a particular focus on private company matters. She has advised on a vast array of corporate transactions including company acquisitions and disposals, business and asset sales (including transactions involving administrators and liquidators), private equity transactions, joint ventures, management buy-outs and group reorganisations.

Adèle is also experienced in the negotiation of key commercial contracts including long term supply, distribution, franchise and agency agreements and the preparation of terms and conditions.

Adèle’s has developed a niche in private equity work advising institutional investors. However her clients are wide ranging and span several sectors including retail, professional services, construction, IT, manufacturing and e-commerce.

Adèle is regularly consulted by the media and her voice on women in business was recently published in the Manchester Evening News. She has been interviewed on the radio a number of times and has appeared as a featured speaker on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Professional Memberships

• Law Society
• Panelist on the Business Desk’s “Deal of the Month”
• Organisation of Jewish Lawyers

Career History Timeline

• 2000 – 2002 - Trainee solicitor, Chaffe Street and Pinsents
• 2002 – Admitted as a solicitor
• 2002 – 2004 Solicitor - Pinsents
• 2004 – 2006 Solicitor - Halliwells
• 2006 – 2007 Consultant - Kuit Steinart Levy
• 2007 – 2009 Consultant - Lewis Hymanson Small LLP
• 2009 to present - Partner, Lewis Hymanson Small LLP

Personal Profile

Adèle’s interests include playing the piano and singing and she has appeared in several amateur dramatic musical productions. She is a regular runner and enjoys skiing and dancing. An avid lover of all things feminine, she has a particular weakness for shoes.