Mergers & Acquisitions

If you are looking to sell your business or expand by a merger or acquisition, our specialist commercial solicitors can advise you on preparing for the sale or purchase, and can handle negotiations, documentation and due diligence throughout the whole process.

Our M&A lawyers have considerable experience in dealing with a full range of corporate transactions, whether company share or asset acquisitions or disposals, within a variety of different industries, from multi-million pound sales of established corporate groups to purchases of small sole-trader businesses. We advise sellers, buyers and funders.

Merger & acquisition legal services:

• Legal due diligence investigations
• Negotiating and preparing documentation
• Managing risk
• Post-acquisition integration

How our mergers & acquisitions solicitors can help you:

• Advise you on preparing for sale or purchase
• Handle negotiations and documentation throughout the whole process
• Work closely with your other professional advisors, including tax, banking, accountancy and corporate finance advisors
• Call upon expertise from our property and employment lawyers to provide guidance on any legal issues in these areas that may arise
• Work closely with local counsel to assist in foreign transactions where necessary
• 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:

• Broadgate Marketing merges into Mainland
• BIMBO on promotion and sale of bio-fuels
• MBO ‘enlightens’ Fluorel
• AIM listed 21st Century completes sale
• RSR Tyres and Wheels acquired by Stapleton’s
• Leading periodontal specialists acquire Perio South
• Flexible approach facilitates international deal
• Blaze – Administrators purchase
• Warners completes international acquisition
• Sale of CarweB Limited to HPI Limited
• Sale of Air Management Systems (AMS)
• Specialist surveyor sale

Examples of Industries we’ve served:

• Creative Industries
• Food & Drink
• Healthcare
• Technology, Media & Telecoms
• Financial services
• Retail
• Agriculture & Estates