Wake Smith Solicitors’ corporate team has been shortlisted in the Yorkshire Rainmakers Awards 2025.
The team, headed up by director Rebecca Robinson, is shortlisted in the new category of South Yorkshire Team of the Year at the event which takes place in Leeds on June 5.
Yorkshire’s Rainmaker Awards brings together the region’s deals community to celebrate the best transactions and teams from the past 12 months, as voted for by the corporate finance community themselves.
The shortlisting adds to the team’s three nominations at the Business Insider’s South Yorkshire Dealmakers Awards, happening on the same night in Sheffield. Here the team is a finalist in the National/International Deal of the Year; the Deal of the Year £10m plus category, and in Corporate Law Firm of the year.
Between April 2024 and March 2025, the team completed deals with a cumulative value of over £60m, which included 18 substantive transactions over the course of 12 months – more than £15m up on the previous year.
The team supported numerous founders and business leaders in achieving their goals by negotiating the best investment deal, company restructuring, navigating corporate governance, or successfully buying or selling a business by delivering sound, technical and practical advice.
Wake Smith Solicitors is the only South Yorkshire legal member of the UK200 Group, a leading UK professional services group of independent quality-assured chartered accountants and law firms.
Director Rebecca Robinson lead the team, assisted by associate solicitor Tom Haywood, solicitor Joe Creasor and then trainee solicitor Charlotte Wallage.
Rebecca said: “We are extremely pleased to make the Rainmakers’ shortlist for South Yorkshire Team of the Year, and are the only law firm to be featured in the list.
“We are a key player in the Sheffield and South Yorkshire area, in both market share and transactional exposure, and the addition of new category shows the strength of the sector in the region. Our experienced, capable and efficient team has shown confidence, hard work and maintained a positive momentum, with a commitment to perform, often going above and beyond.”
For further advice on company matters contact Rebecca Robinson, head of company commercial and director at Wake Smith Solicitors on 0114 224 2025 or email [email protected]