Joe Moulding

Joe joined Culbert Ellis’s Corporate and Commercial team in 2022, and was promoted to Associate in 2024. He advises a diverse range of corporate clients across different markets, with a strong focus on the tech and food and beverage sectors. Joe’s key practice areas include:

• Cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions
• Joint ventures
• Investments
• Corporate governance
• Commercial contracts
• Intellectual Property agreements
• Finance documents
• Restructurings and reorganisations

Recognised as a “key lawyer” in the Legal 500 in 2025 and 2026, Joe always seeks to achieve the best outcome for his clients by providing commercially sound advice and taking a practical approach to each instruction.

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Notable recent experience:

• Advised on the sale of a 45% holding to a private equity investor of a business in the technology services sector at a £40m valuation
• Advised on the £30m refinancing for one of the country’s largest fresh food logistics businesses
• Regularly advising one of the UK’s leading game audio sound engineers on the licensing of its intellectual property as well as in relation to its service agreements
• Advised on the $20m sale of an educational marketing agency to a US private equity firm
• Advised on £7m of fundraising rounds for the UK’s leading ready-to-drink premium cocktail brand
• Advised on the restructuring of a group of companies with a value of £37m
• Advised on the £24m acquisition of the entire issued share capital of a major logistics business in the fresh food sector
• Advised the shareholders of a digital health company on the sale of their shares to a US corporation in consideration for the issue of an equal amount of common stock in the buyer
• Advised on the £17m sale of a group of companies focused in the asset appraisal, disposal and advisory sector
• Advised on the restructuring of a private equity firm within the real estate sector with a value of £5m
• Advised rapidly growing UK cyber security business on its £6m seed and Series A investment rounds
• Advised shareholders on the £20m restructure of a parent company’s issued share capital
• Advised on the £12m sale of a large regional family law firm to a private equity backed legal practice