Karen Edwards

Partner, Head of Corporate & Commercial

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Karen's journey to becoming a solicitor started with undertaking a LLB law degree at Surrey University and following that, the Legal Practice Course at the London College of Law. She subsequently completed her training contract with Frettens, qualifying into the corporate and commercial team. Since then, she has progressed from Assistant Solicitor to Associate status, and she is now Head of Department and Partner of the firm. She specialises in all aspects of non-contentious company transactions including mergers, acquisitions and sales and can also assist with internal company reorganisations from share exchanges or share buybacks, to capital reduction demergers. She has a wealth of experience in a variety of commercial contracts, covering areas such as terms and conditions, franchising, shareholder, partnership and LLP arrangements, personal guarantees, facility and security related agreements and joint venture development agreements.

  • Regulated by: The Solicitors Regulation Authority

  • Regulator ID: 436809

  • Based in Wimborne, Dorset
  • Licensed for 15 years

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Karen's journey to becoming a solicitor started with undertaking a LLB law degree at Surrey University and following that, the Legal Practice Course at the London College of Law. She subsequently completed her training contract with Frettens, qualifying into the corporate and commercial team. Since then, she has progressed from Assistant Solicitor to Associate status, and she is now Head of Department and Partner of the firm. She specialises in all aspects of non-contentious company transactions including mergers, acquisitions and sales and can also assist with internal company reorganisations from share exchanges or share buybacks, to capital reduction demergers. She has a wealth of experience in a variety of commercial contracts, covering areas such as terms and conditions, franchising, shareholder, partnership and LLP arrangements, personal guarantees, facility and security related agreements and joint venture development agreements.

  • Regulated by: The Solicitors Regulation Authority

  • Regulator ID: 436809

  • Based in Wimborne, Dorset
  • Licensed for 15 years

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  • Frettens LLP

    Partner and Head of Corporate & Commercial

    January 2022 - Present 4 years and 6 months

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  • English

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Monday 09:00–17:15
Tuesday 09:00–17:15
Wednesday 09:00–17:15
Thursday 09:00–17:15
Friday 09:00–17:15
Saturday (Closed)
Sunday (Closed)

7-8 Church Street, Wimborne, BH21 1JH

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4.8 /5 16 Reviews
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Matthew

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Company & Commercial

Commercial selling

Karen has been amazing would highly recommend,her in selling or purchasing a business

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A representative from Frettens LLP responded to this review

Thank you for leaving us a review Matthew, we appreciate all the feedback. We are always pleased to hear that Karen was able to assist you with the sale of your business. We have passed your kind words onto the team :)

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Jamie

Company & Commercial

Share purchase and new business start up

Karen Edwards was great from the first chat we had, during the 4 month process Karen always kept me full updated and explained matters in non-solicitor speak to help me make informed and correct decisions. Karen also reined me in when I would get a little hot under the collar, and made me feel like she always had my best interests in mind. Which of course Karen did.

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Thank you for the feedback Jamie, we appreciate the kind words. We will be sure to pass your review onto Karen and we look forward to working closely with you again soon :)

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Hannah Hunter

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Company & Commercial

Brilliant

What could have been an incredibly stressful situation was made immeasurably easier with the help of Michelle, Karen and Hannah. All of them giving sound advice, great with communication and clarity in navigating the unknown for us as a company. Could not recommend more highly.

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Thank you for leaving us such a lovely review Hannah. We appreciate all the feedback. Your kind words have been passed onto the team and we look forward to working closely with you again soon :)

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Kieran

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Company & Commercial

Very smooth and straightforward experience

Karen provided a very smooth and straightforward service from beginning to end. I cannot fault the experience and we were able to complete in good time.

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Thank you for the review Kieran, we appreciate all the feedback. We are always glad to hear that you had a straightforward experience with us. Your kind words have been passed onto Karen and the team :)

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Saieja

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Commercial Property

Care home purchase

I wasn’t given the service I was promised and charged more than Initially quoted and the contact promised wasn’t scalable and had to deal with juniors rather than the solicitor was said she would personally deal with my case . It was a horrible experience and sufficient advise wasn’t given

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Saieja Karen has worked with you over a number of months, often in very challenging circumstances, to get your transaction completed. She was extremely disappointed to read your review having worked so hard to get the deal over the line. To provide some clarity: It was highlighted to you at the outset that some more junior solicitors would work on your transaction under Karen’s supervision. This is standard on this size of transaction. To claim you were not given sufficient advice is completely untrue. You were given some very specific and detailed advice (both verbally and in writing) that you chose to ignore. You insisted on pressing ahead with a transaction against your solicitor’s explicit advice not to proceed. It then went wrong in the exact way you were advised that it would. Your transaction then required significantly more work due to further complications from third parties involved, none of which were due to our own failings. Despite all of this, and us spending more than double the originally estimated amount of time on your file, you were still charged no more than originally quoted.

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Mandy

Company & Commercial

Mandy

Excellent service and very thorough taking a lot of stress out of the sale of my company

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Thank you for leaving us such a positive review Mandy, we appreciate all the feedback. We are pleased to hear that Karen was able to assist you with the sale of your company. We look forward to working with you closely again in the future and will be sure to pass your kind words onto the team :)

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