Corporate / M&A

Our corporate team is able to provide advice and assistance across a broad range of matters, including:
  • Company and business acquisitions and disposals
  • Reorganisations and corporate restructuring
  • Insolvency procedures and buying business from administrators, including pre-packs
  • Partnerships, joint ventures and shareholders agreements
  • Private equity and venture capital investment
  • Foreign and offshore investments into the UK
  • Debt and equity raises
  • Corporate governance, legal and regulatory risk management

Our collective experience allows us to anticipate possible issues, minimise any associated risks and maximise the value of your transaction. We also work with a selection of preferred overseas law firms in the event that our clients require solutions to cross-border transactions. We have experience working with a diverse client base which ranges from multi-national corporates and financial institutions to early stage businesses, partnerships and joint ventures as well as high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs and investors.

M&A

Buying or selling a business is often a complicated process with many important decisions to be made by all parties. The right legal advice can help a business make the most of a merger or acquisition transaction and ensure the deal runs as efficiently as possible. Our team will work with you to identify your objectives and concerns so that you can proceed with a transaction in a manner and at a pace that suits you and your business. Our corporate solicitors’ M&A expertise includes:
  • Share sales and purchases
  • Business and assets transactions
  • Funding for acquisitions
  • Management buy-outs and buy-ins
  • Cross border transactions
  • Strategic acquisitions and disposals
  • Leveraged bids
  • Group restructurings and accelerated M&A.

We work with clients both in the UK and overseas, utilising our network of preferred overseas law firms, and our M&A lawyers work with various sector specialists to provide comprehensive advice. This approach allows us to take on a broad range of complex transactions.