Mike Ward

Mike is experienced in a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, predominantly advising limited companies; drafting bespoke articles of association, shareholder agreements and employee options.  He also counsels on more technical corporate reconstructions and succession issues including demergers, reductions of capital, share exchanges and share buybacks.

Mike also provides contracts advice for businesses covering terms of business with customers and suppliers and routes to market as well as more specialist areas such as software development, intellectual property assignment/licensing and all aspects of e-commerce including cloud computing.

The Legal 500 2022 edition, Rising Star, Corporate and Commercial

The Legal 500 2021 edition, Rising Star, Corporate and Commercial

 The Brigid Cotter Prize in Law 2001, University of London

“Mike Ward is both a talented and imaginative corporate lawyer. His greatest asset is not only his ability to thoroughly understand the needs of our business but to provide appropriate advice in a language we can understand. In addition to more routine work, Mike is not afraid of a big challenge and has successfully undertaken significant groundbreaking Trust work on our behalf.”

“Although Mike is our ‘external counsel’, the expertise and service that we receive is as focused if not more so than any internal team would provide. 

The responses are timely, based on the associated risk of the situation and fully understandable. We are a boutique business and we need a level of expertise across client contracts, company matters, share ownership and employment. 

In lockdown, there has been no diminution in service, and even with urgent requests, we have received excellent professional support.”