Our experienced team is trusted by companies of all sizes, partnerships, joint ventures and other trading entities, as well as their owners, directors and shareholders.
How we help
- Streamlining corporate structures, ensuring compliant share issues, buy-backs, reductions and restructurings.
- Establishing effective governance frameworks, including authority levels, reporting obligations and committee terms of reference.
- Enhancing board effectiveness, including practical guidance and training on directors’ duties and best practice.
- Advising on the composition of Boards and committees and terms of appointment of their executive and non-executive members.
- Advising on constitutional issues such as articles of association and shareholders’ agreements.
- Understanding regulatory compliance requirements and developing appropriate procedures.
- Supporting through financial distress and insolvency.
- Resolving shareholder and board conflicts.
- Reputation management including IP protection.
- Monitoring developments, tailored updates and training.
Our experience includes
- Providing equity investor AUCTUS Capital Partners AG with English law support and advice on a transaction, including advising on the nuances of a joint venture arrangement further down the chain of acquired companies with DHL.
- Advising Rock Rail, an investor-developer of rolling stock and other rail infrastructure, on its joint venture with Infracapital to develop opportunities in the German rail market.
- Providing company secretarial support, ad hoc company law advice and early-stage investment documentation to TEK Optima Research.
- Advising a major UK trade organisation operating through a range of companies limited by guarantee and limited by shares on group corporate governance and constitutional matters.
- Advising an architects practice on succession issues in relation to the partnership, whether its LLP agreement was fit for purpose and on whether an LLP would provide the appropriate corporate vehicle out of which to operate in the future.
