Corporate & Commercial

We advise clients on all stages of company development and all aspects of commercial law. Areas of particular expertise include:

• UK and cross-border mergers and acquisitions
• Private equity transactions
• Joint ventures
• IPO work (Initial Public Offerings and listings)
• AIM/Plus Markets & OFEX
• Shareholders’ agreements
• Commercial contracts
• Group reorganisations and share capital reconstructions
• Unsecured and secured financings
• Intellectual property
• Competition law

Our clients include multinational companies, owner-managed businesses and entrepreneurs. We have considerable experience in relation to the Hotel and Leisure Sectors.

We handle a volume of work for non UK based clients, and frequently act on complex cross-border acquisitions. A number of lawyers are bi-lingual. We have particular expertise in advising management teams on private equity deals. We also advise companies on an extensive range of commercial contracts, from drafting and negotiating new contracts to interpreting and advising on existing ones.

Where necessary, we are able to draw upon a large pool of expertise from other practice areas within the firm, such as property, employment law and insolvency/corporate restructuring, in order to provide clients with practical, commercial solutions, tailored to meet their specific needs.