Corporate legal services
We give straightforward expert advice on how to harness the corporate legal opportunities in your business. Our particular specialism is owner-managed or family-owned SMEs, and we’ve worked within sectors as diverse as sports clubs to care homes.
Maybe you’re looking to ensure the robustness of your structure, considering how to make an acquisition, need support meeting your long-term business goals, or are considering exit strategies.
Wherever you are in your business success journey, we have the corporate legal experience you need.
Buying a business
Buying a business can be an exciting entrepreneurial challenge, but not without risk, which is why we offer proactive and clear legal advice and support throughout the buying process.
We can assist with your offer to purchase, making sure you get off on the right foot, and help you to understand the business you are buying by asking legal due diligence questions and interpreting the seller's responses to increase your knowledge of the business. We assist with drafting and negotiating the sale agreement and other key documents, finding solutions to help minimise any exposure or risk you are taking on.
Our experienced team will understand how this purchase fits with any existing business and what the opportunity means for you - both if successful or less so - to ensure that you get the advice and professional support you need to make the risky, less so, and the unsure, informed.
Selling your business
Selling a business can be a challenging, emotional, and stressful process, which is why we offer proactive and clear legal advice and support throughout the sale process.
Our experienced team can assist with preparing the business for sale by providing guidance on deal structures and help you to respond to the buyer's legal due diligence requests. We assist with drafting and negotiating the sale agreement and other key documents, finding solutions to help maximise and protect the value you have created.
We understand that the process can appear overwhelming, particularly if it is your first or only sale. We aim to understand what the sale means for you to ensure that you get the advice and professional support you need to make the complex, simpler, and the stressful, easier.
Managing business relationships
Nurturing a clear and effective relationship between stakeholders is often one of the most important parts of a successful business venture, which is why we offer proactive and clear legal advice and support in regulating that relationship.
We can assist with drafting and reviewing partnership and shareholders' agreements, together with company articles of association. These will clearly define obligations, roles, and responsibilities, to support - but not restrict - the operation of the business.
Our experienced team will collaborate to ensure trust and open communication, understanding the positions of the stakeholders to suggest protections and solutions to potential challenges or risks, to ensure that you get the advice and professional support you need to make the difficult discussions, candid, and the uncertain, known.
Optimising your business structure
It can be difficult to understand how best to optimise your business structure to protect against risk and equip to grow, which is why we offer proactive and clear legal advice and support in optimising your business structure.
We understand the intricate nature of group structures and can assist with reviewing and advising on business and group structures, including setting up holding and subsidiary companies and the separation of core assets from trading activities, to help limit risk and provide a platform for growth.
Our experienced team will work closely with you to understand your operations, structure, and business objectives. We will ensure that you get the advice and professional support you need to make business risks, manageable, and the intricate, uncomplicated.
Fancy a chat?
Why not drop us an email or call us on 0115 7080154 and we can get the conversation started about how we can help you.