Jessica Adam Partner

Jessica is co-head of the corporate and M&A group.

She has a broad practice focusing on private equity and private M&A and advises a range of clients from private equity houses and asset managers to large financial institutions.

Jessica heads up Macfarlanes’ management advisory practice which works with executive boards of large cap private equity backed companies.

Jessica also has considerable experience of M&A and private capital investment into the professional services sector, particularly legal services.

Jessica is a partner champion of the firm’s Balance network, a forum for all staff managing commitments both within and outside of work, promoting discussion, support and the exchange of information and ideas, to enable successful and sustainable careers.

She is also a member of the Diversity Champions Committee, which supports the firm’s diversity and inclusion action plans.

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"Jessica Adam is a standout lawyer in the team. She is exceptionally commercial and experienced and puts the client first always. I trust her advice and consider her an extra member of our management team."

The UK Legal 500 2022

"The unique issues surrounding professional partnership and LLP structures require specialist industry and market knowledge to negotiate most effectively. "

The UK Legal 500 2022

"Jessica's market and commercial knowledge are very strong. Her ability to maintain sight of the entire structure [of a deal] allows in-house lawyers to focus on individual issues and rely on Jessica to pull the team back to the 1,000-foot plan when we start to go off-piste."

The UK Legal 500 2022