Smith Hamilton was founded in 2014 as a boutique firm focused on corporate and commercial law, with expertise in fund management and advising senior executives, shareholders and entrepreneurs.
In 2023, the firm became part of MEUM Group, a multidisciplinary platform supporting ultra-high-net-worth individuals, their families and their businesses. During this period, our practice broadened significantly to include family, private client, education, charities and regulatory work, employment, and dispute resolution.
The law firm is now building on that growth to operate independently once again under the Smith Hamilton name. This transition reflects a natural progression in our growth and allows us to focus fully on delivering an integrated legal service under a single specialist brand, while retaining the expanded expertise developed over recent years.
For our clients, it remains very much business as usual – the same team, the same relationships, and an even broader depth of capability.
Kailie De Zoysa
Consultant Solicitor
Real Estate Advisor
Corporate & Commercial
Kailie specialises in corporate and commercial law, advising businesses, founders, shareholders and investors on transactions, commercial arrangements and day-to-day corporate matters.
She advises clients across the business lifecycle, from start-ups and growing owner-managed businesses through to established companies and investors. Her corporate practice includes mergers and acquisitions, investments, corporate restructurings, shareholders’ agreements, joint ventures, share issues and transfers, employee share schemes and corporate governance.
Kailie also advises on a broad range of commercial matters, including the drafting, review and negotiation of commercial contracts and agreements governing relationships between businesses, shareholders, suppliers, customers and other commercial partners. She works closely with clients to understand their wider commercial objectives and provides practical advice focused on protecting their position while enabling them to do business effectively.
She has particular experience advising entrepreneurial, owner-managed and family businesses on matters involving ownership, investment, growth and succession, and regularly works alongside other professional advisers to deliver commercially focused solutions.
Alongside her corporate and commercial practice, Kailie has significant experience in real estate, including high-value residential and commercial property matters. She advises property owners, investors, landlords and businesses on a range of property issues, with particular experience in licences to alter and matters concerning the ownership, occupation and development of property.
Her experience across corporate, commercial and real estate matters enables her to advise clients where these areas intersect, particularly in relation to property-owning companies, investment structures, acquisitions and disposals, and businesses with significant real estate interests.
Expertise
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Corporate & Commercial
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Mergers & Acquisitions
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Commercial Contracts
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Shareholders’ Agreements
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Investments & Joint Ventures
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Corporate Restructuring
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Employee Share Schemes & Incentives
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Corporate Governance
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High-Value Residential Property
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Commercial Property
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Licences to Alter
