Corporate and Commercial
Intro
Our Corporate and Commercial specialist team of solicitors is experienced in the complex matters of acquisitions, mergers and disposals of businesses to achieve your desired outcome, including issues such as structuring of the transactions, negotiations of contracts and warranties and setting up of the corporate acquisition vehicles. We work closely with other professional advisers to ensure the legal documentation meets your objectives.
Typical Work
- Sales and purchases of shares and assets
- Acquisitions and Mergers, Management buy-outs/buy-ins
- Incorporations and partnership agreements
- Intellectual property rights
- Commercial contracts
- Joint ventures
Our Lawyers
Recent Transactions
- Transfer of a Limited Liability Partnership owned by individual and corporate bodies providing domiciliary care throughout the south-east of England with over 300 employees, including retaining and preserving pension fund assets for the outgoing owner
- Acquisition of customer contracts and associated transfer of staff under TUPE for a hygiene and cleaning services company
- Acquisition of real estate in an offshore corporate vehicle set up to avoid higher rate stamp duty land tax and other domestic tax liabilities
- Acquisition from the administrator on a prepack basis of the business and assets of a call centre, complicated by a hostile debenture holder
- Advising and negotiating on service level agreements with the public sector incorporating regulatory requirements, data protection issues and Freedom of Information Act disclosures and the handover of staff
