Panoramic: Automotive and Mobility 2025
Jo Robinson
Partner Corporate & Finance
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Overview
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Experience
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Insights and events
Chambers and Partners UK 2026, Banking & Finance: Mid-Market"Jo is an excellent all round lawyer who is both commercial and technically gifted. She's the best banking lawyer in London."
Credit funds, banks and borrowers turn to Jo when they need advice on a wide variety of financing structures such as senior, unitranche/super senior, FOLO and PIK financings structures on acquisitions and other leveraged finance transactions. Jo has been instrumental in developing our market-leading private credit practice and she has been at the forefront of the unitranche product, working with clients such as Ares on the product for more than 17 years. Alongside acting for credit funds in the upper-mid market, Jo is an expert in ARR growth financing to tech businesses, particularly in the ‘SaaS’ space.
To deal with Jo is commercial, practical and user‑friendly. Jo is ranked Band 1 in Chambers for Mid-Market Leverage Finance and has just been named in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 for 2025 (having previously been included in the Hot 100 in 2015 and in Financial New’s 40 under 40 in the same year).
Chambers UK, 2018"Jo Robinson has a growing reputation for her work with both banks and alternative lenders in complex leveraged acquisitions, LBOs and unitranche matters."
Representative experience
Acting for Ares Management in relation to the acquisition of VetPartners by BC Partners and subsequent refinancings
Acting for Ares Management in relation to the financing for Exponent’s take private of Natara Global
Advising the lenders in relation to the financing for the take private of Lougers plc by Fortress
Advising AshGrove in relation to the financing to Xtremepush
Advising AshGrove on the financing for Position Green
Acting for the Bestway Group in connection with their various financings
Recognition
News
Press releases
12 August 2024
Press releases
05 July 2023