How we help
We help shareholders and management boards with matters that change a company: buying and selling shares or a business, bringing in an investor, mergers, demergers and conversions. We also provide ongoing corporate support – resolutions, amendments to the articles of association and filings with the register.
In each of these matters we look at law and tax at the same time. The same transaction can be set up in several ways, and each has different consequences for the price, liability and tax. We show these differences before a decision is made.
From review to agreement
Before a transaction we examine the company: its contracts, tax affairs, books, disputes and liabilities. We describe the result briefly and clearly – what affects the price, what needs fixing before signing and what should be covered in the agreement.
We turn the findings into specific provisions: the seller’s warranties, the rules on liability, and how the price is set and paid. After signing, we help carry out the changes in the company and in the register. We describe the whole process on the Buying or selling a company page.
What we cover
- Buying and selling shares and businesses
- Legal and tax review of the company before a transaction
- Transaction agreements and safeguards
- Mergers, demergers and conversions
- Shareholders’ agreements and arrangements
- Ongoing corporate support for companies
When to talk to us
- You are considering buying a company or selling your own.
- An investor or a new shareholder is joining the business.
- The group has grown and its structure could do with simplifying.
- You want to prepare the business to be handed over to your successors.
