Corporate transactions

We help you close strategic, transformational and high-pressure deals.

When the stakes are high, you need commercial, pragmatic counsel from experienced advisors who understand your business, why you are transacting and what you are aiming to achieve. Our award-winning corporate team offers quality and strength to rival the City, with the benefits of a personal and responsive service from hands-on partners.

The leading independent directories consistently rank us in the top tier and we are trusted on the full range of corporate and corporate finance work by listed companies, major foreign companies and their UK subsidiaries, growing businesses of all sizes and their owners. Our comprehensive expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, private equity and other fund raisings, reorganisations, accelerated/insolvency-led transactions, joint ventures and corporate advisory.

We are also well-positioned to support cross-border transactions. We have significant international reach, working with tried and trusted partner firms in major jurisdictions around the world.

Our experience includes:

  • Advising Davies Group, an insurance, financial services and regulated market technology specialist, on strategic acquisitions.
  • Advising on the USD188m sale of Seal Software to DocuSign, having acted for Seal Software and its shareholder from incorporation, through multiple funding rounds, to exit.
  • Advising Lisbon-based Harland & Poston Group on the acquisition of Formby Hall Golf Resort & Spa.
  • Acting for specialist secure paper manufacturer Drewsen Spezialpapiere GmbH on its strategic acquisition of Portals Paper Ltd (originally a spinout from DeLaRue, including a UK banknote paper printing facility) from private equity firm Epiris.
  • Advising Clínica Baviera S.A., which is listed on the Madrid stock exchange, on its entry into the UK ophthalmology market with its acquisition of Optimax.