Mergers & Acquisitions

We act on both the buy and the sell side in acquisitions, disposals and mergers. We like to be involved at the Heads of Terms stage to help shape the transaction in collaboration with the client and their other professional advisers. Our aim is to provide swift and accurate advise and be an important part of the transaction team.

Our transactions are usually the purchase and sale of small to medium sized private companies or the transfer or merger of charitable bodies. We are used to assisting with the due diligence and preparation of due diligence reports, drafting and negotiating non-disclosure agreements and heads of terms before moving onto the main transaction documents (share purchase agreement, asset transfer agreement, articles of association, shareholders' agreement and disclosure letter).

As part of our business offering we will bring in our commercial real estate, IP/IT, and employment teams to assist with the transaction as necessary.

Our mergers and acquisition work is multi-sector but commonly in food & beverage, retail, education and technology.

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Although we are a London firm, we are fortunate to have international reach thanks to our long-standing membership of the MSI Global alliance. This provides us with trusted legal and accountancy/tax colleagues in firms across the globe and allows us to partner with them in cross-border work and access high quality advice from other jurisdictions.