Mergers & acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions legal advice

Milestones in the lives of companies can often involve disposals and/or acquisitions of companies and businesses. This kind of corporate activity represents a huge investment of time and money for your business and you will want to know that your investment is getting the best chance of success possible. Our highly regarded corporate and commercial team offers you clear and practical advice on the various complex legal issues which arise at the different stages of these transactions.

Our experience in mergers & acquisitions

Our dedicated, partner led teams are fully aware that every transaction is unique and of great significance to our client and this is reflected in the way in which we project manage and deliver our advice and services. With this in mind, we work with speed and precision to get the deal done on time and within a budget agreed with you. Importantly we seek to ensure that you understand and are part of each step of the legal process in a mergers and acquisition transaction.

Our corporate and commercial team has acted on a wide variety of M&A deals ranging from the sale and purchases of family businesses, subsidiaries of larger organisations, sales to and from foreign sellers/buyers, sales involving numerous jurisdictions and sales to and from public companies. Whatever your objective we will be able to assist you in achieving it having acted for entrepreneurs, SMEs, large UK private and public companies, multinationals and FTSE 350 companies.

About mergers & acquisitions

As in all corporate transactions, the sooner advice is taken the better – it will help you to negotiate the best possible deal from the outset.

We draw on a broad expertise from across our highly experienced commercial and transactions team and so can offer clients a range of relevant support services, such as advice on employment, pensions, property, litigation, commercial, intellectual property, tax.

Our corporate and commercial transactions teams can help with:

• the sale and purchase of all or part of groups or companies, acting for both sellers and buyers
• the buying and selling of all or some of the shares in a company
• the sale and purchase of business assets of all descriptions
• banking/debt funding
• MBOs/private equity
• joint ventures

Call us now on 0870 1500 100 to arrange a consultation, or use the links above to drop us a line.