Michelle Davenport

Partner

020 7405 2000

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Michelle takes a solutions orientated approach to advising clients in buying and selling businesses and in respect of their other corporate and company law requirements.

Main area of practice

Michelle advises clients on a range of corporate matters, notably exit strategies, mergers and acquisitions, shareholders’ agreements and joint ventures. Michelle provides commercial and pragmatic advice on a range of corporate and commercial issues.

Clients

Michelle acts for owner-managers and decision makers of companies particularly in the Tech, retail, hotels and leisure industries.

Expertise & Services

Michelle Davenport is our 'relationship manager' and she is an approachable, reliable, supportive 'professional friend' who represents us and our needs within Blake Morgan.
Legal 500, 2027

Career

Michelle speaks fluent French having spent a year in Lyon, France, learning French law as part of her degree. Post graduation, she spent a further year in Paris teaching English.

Michelle was promoted to Partner in May 2026.

020 7405 2000

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Significant Experience

An owner manager client in respect of the £50m sale of an IT company
A Tech entrepreneur in the sale of his business and his shareholding and integration into the buyer’s newly expanded business
On the internal restructuring of an art gallery company
An owner manager client in the sale of their family run beauty company to a private equity firm
A corporate client in the acquisition of a travel business
On the transfer of a general partnership to a private limited company for a hotel chain
Property investors and developers on the structuring of, and investment into, joint ventures

Quotes

Michelle is in a different league. Michelle is always very efficient and thorough, whilst explaining every step of the legal process in positive and precise, user-friendly terms.
Legal 500, 2022