Caroline's practice spans a broad range of corporate work with a particular emphasis on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. She has been involved, as adviser to both companies and to investment banks, in numerous takeovers, international mergers and acquisitions, international share issues, initial public offerings, flotations, rights issues and placings. She has also advised on a number of cross-border transactions and complicated international joint ventures as well as providing strategic advice to company boards on corporate governance issues. She has also acted as an adviser to HM Government.
Caroline advises Herbert Smith's mergers & acquisitions practice having previously led the corporate division for five years.
Caroline has for many years been recommended by Chambers UK Directory as a leading lawyer for corporate finance (larger deals) and by Chambers Europe and Global as a leading lawyer for Corporate/M&A.
Caroline is a member of the Law Society's Company Law Committee and has been involved in that capacity in discussions with the Department of Trade and Industry in relation to the drafting and implementation of the Companies Act 2006. Caroline is also a member of the CBI Companies Committee.
From 2005 to 2008, Caroline has also been an Associate Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and a member of the College's Governing Body.