Our corporate solicitors provide a full corporate law advisory service for companies (including limited liability partnerships (LLPs)) on compliance, private equity transactions, financing and reorganisations.
Our corporate lawyers regularly advise companies, directors, investors, management teams and lenders on the following:
Compliance and general advisory
- General meetings, including notices of meetings.
- Corporate governance issues, including issues relating to the board and directors’ duties
- Share capital, including redenomination and subdivision of share capital, class rights and conversion rights
- Shareholder rights, contractually under the company’s articles of association, unfair prejudice and derivative claims
- Private equity
- Investments into companies by way of venture capital, including by way of SEIS, EIS, VCTs, ECFs or other investment funds or trusts
- Management buy-outs (MBOs)
- Management buy-ins (MBIs and BIMBOs)
- University spin-outs
Financing
- Acquisition finance
- All necessary documentation, including loan / facility agreements, security documents and inter-creditor subordination and priority arrangements
- Perfecting security
- Factoring and invoice discounting
Reorganisations
- Purchase of own shares (“buybacks”), including from distributable profits, out of capital or by way of a fresh issue of shares
- Demergers
- Hive-ups and hive-downs of assets between group undertakings
- Reductions of capital
- Schemes of arrangement
How our corporate solicitors can help you:
- Use our network of international lawyers, Alliance of Business Lawyers, to procure the best contacts and expertise for the deal
Some of our recent projects:
