Business Structures

Our company solicitors advise on the following:

Formations and setting up in business

• Advising on the incorporation of public and private limited companies
• Advising on the formation of partnerships and limited liability partnerships
• Shareholders agreements
• Corporate constitutional documents (memorandum and articles of association)
• Partnership agreements
• Limited liability partnership agreements
• Joint ventures, whether a corporate structure, a partnership structure (general, limited or limited liability) or by way of contractual arrangement

Company secretarial services

• Acting as company secretary
• Registered office service

Directors, shareholders, partners and members

• Advising directors of companies and partners / members of partnerships (general, limited or limited liability) on their statutory and fiduciary duties
• Advising shareholders on their rights and obligations, including contractual claims under the company’s articles of association, unfair prejudice and derivative claims

Our commercial solicitors also provide ad hoc advice on issues such as:

• Commercial law
• Contractual liability – warranties, indemnities and exclusions
• Consumer law
• Product liability
• Sales promotion and advertising
• Competition and antitrust issues (both domestic and EC)

How our company solicitors can help you:

• Advise on the most appropriate business structure for your circumstance
• Draw on the skills and advice of colleagues in other teams including, employment and commercial property
• Work with your other professional advisors

Some of our recent projects:

• Demerger of Kent based veterinary partnership
• Iconic British record store Rough Trade reorganise business
• Danish listed DLH dispose of share capital of UK subsidiary
• NuSA ‘phoenix from the flames’
• London IT consultancy completes corporate restructuring