Corporate and M&A

The chapter

What we advise on

• Acquisitions and disposals
• Joint ventures and investment
• Corporate structure and governance

Acquisitions and disposals

Buying or selling a company or a business is rarely a single question. We advise on how the transaction is structured, on the due diligence that informs it, on the terms of the agreement and on the steps between signing and completion.

Joint ventures and investment

When two businesses decide to work together, or when a company takes in or makes an investment, the terms agreed at the outset govern what happens when circumstances change. We help clients settle those terms with that later day in mind.

Corporate structure and governance

Boards and shareholders need to know who decides what. We advise on group structure, constitutional documents, arrangements between shareholders and the duties that directors carry.

How we work

A partner leads each transaction from the first conversation to completion, and the client knows from the start whom they are dealing with.

Transactions seldom stay within one area of law. Where a sale raises questions about employees, property or data, colleagues from those chapters join the work under the same roof on Chancery Lane, so the advice arrives as one view rather than several.

We write advice to be read by a board, not filed: plain, considered, and clear about what matters and what does not.