Laura Freestone
Director, International Business Reorganisations
PwC United Kingdom
Laura is a director in PwC's corporate legal international business reorganisations team. She specialises in strategic global corporate structuring.
The types of transactions and projects that Laura advises on include, pre and post deal structuring, carve out or spin projects, legal entity reduction, cash repatriation or management, as well as UK corporate transactions including share and asset transfers, dividends and share capital transactions.
Laura works as part of a truly fantastic team of lawyers both in the UK and across the PwC network and they work closely with other PwC specialists, including consulting, tax and accounting to provide a holistic approach to clients.
She takes a pragmatic approach to delivering projects for clients and loves coming to work with a positive attitude. Laura balances her work life with her wonderful family.
“Laura Freestone – highly intelligent, engaged with a calm authority and great grasp of technical issues.”
Legal 500, client testimonialAt a glance
Areas of focus
- Corporate legal advice
- Global legal transactions
- Pre separation carve out
- Post deal integration
- Legal entity simplification
- Cash repatriation and cash/debt optimisation
- Corporate share capital transactions
- Distributions
- Corporate legal structuring
- Intra group structuring
Experience
- Providing corporate legal support on a debt simplification project to simplify its accounting, intragroup balances and to reduce exposure. We provided legal support in 25 jurisdictions and over 2 months eliminated over 10,000 balances.
- Supporting a global IT distributor with its post deal integration and alignment.
- Supporting a UK engineering and consultancy business on with a legal entity reduction project, including, design of the elimination steps and implementation.
- Supporting a global consumer good company on its transformative carve out, including support with a technology tracking and insights tool and on a legal managed service to provide additional resource to the client.
- Preparing a global advice memo on the roles and responsibilities of directors.
Credentials
- Solicitor (qualified in Scotland)
