Betsan Powell

Betsan Powell

Director & Head of Commercial Services

Betsan joined JCP as a Director in October 2013 from Redkite. Prior to that Betsan was a Partner at Acuity Legal in Cardiff. Now the Head of Commercial Services for JCP Solicitors, Betsan works alongside the team, offering expertise in corporate and commercial transactions for businesses across South and West Wales and beyond. Betsan is also the Data Protection Officer for JCP Solicitors, in charge of overseeing the company’s data protection strategy and its implementation.       

Betsan’s expertise covers a broad range of corporate and commercial matters including, acquisitions, disposals, mergers, joint ventures, investments and funding.

She has worked on transactions across a range of sectors but has particular experience in the healthcare sector.

Described as "attentive and knowledgeable" (Legal 500 2022) and known to “provide knowledgeable and practical solutions to whatever issue is put in front of them” (Legal 500 2024), Betsan continues to be recommended in the Corporate & Commercial section in the Legal 500 Wales guides.

Betsan is heavily involved in the Pembrokeshire Four Seasons Lunch, an event formed to bring together the local business community in Pembrokeshire, and is a trustee of the charity Women In Wales supporting children’s charities and projects in Wales.

Betsan is a fluent Welsh speaker and in her spare time enjoys walking in the Preseli hills.

Expertise

  • Corporate deals and transactions - mergers, acquisitions and disposals (including MBOs)
  • Private equity funded transactions and equity arrangements
  • Debt funding
  • Corporate restructuring and reorganisations
  • Commercial contracts

Work Highlights

  • Advising shareholders of leading engineering business Spencer ECA Group on the sale of the company to RSK Group
  • Advising founder of specialist haulage company N R Evans on the sale of the company to private-equity-backed NFT Distribution
  • Advising founder of Victorian Sliders on exit funded by BGF investment

Betsan Powell is 'pragmatic and assertive' and co-heads the company and commercial team alongside Michael Williams.

Legal 500 2022 Edition

Mae Betsan yn arbenigwraig mewn cyfraith cwmnïau a chyfraith fasnachol, a chanddi brofiad eang o drafodion corfforaethol. Mae hi’n delio gydag ystod eang o faterion gan gynnwys gwerthu a phrynu busnesau a chwmnïau, cyd-fentrau, soddgyfranddaliadau, cytundebau cyfranddalwyr a phartneriaeth, bancio corfforaethol a chytundebau masnachol.

Ymunodd Betsan â JCP o gwmni Redkite yng Ngorllewin Cymru ym mis Hydref 2013.  Cyn hynny roedd Betsan yn Bartner gydag Acuity Legal yng Nghaerdydd.

Disgrifir Betsan fel “dibynadwy, cywrain ac effeithlon”  (Legal 500 2009) ac yn “dda mewn trafodaethau masnachol” (Legal 500 2010). Mae’n rhugl yn y Gymraeg ac yn cynghori sawl un o’i chleientiaid trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg.

Mae Betsan yn ymddiriedolwraig gyda Sefydliad Paul Sartori ac yn rhedeg rhwydwaith merched yn Sir Benfro o’r enw “Honey”.

Yn ei hamser hamdden, mae Betsan yn mwynhau cerdded ei chi, Siôn, ym mynyddoedd y Preseli.