Our experienced team advises clients on all aspects of setting up, documenting and changing business and transaction structures. Whether you’re starting a new business, entering into a joint venture or professional partnership, simplifying your corporate structure or building an international group, we provide clear, pragmatic and tailored advice.
For cross-border ventures or reorganisations, we work seamlessly with your advisors or assemble a team from our trusted international network. This ensures efficient handling of multijurisdictional issues, saving you time and resources.
How we help
- Advising on all aspects of partners or members agreements, including new partners, retirement or expulsion of partners and dissolution agreements, restrictive covenants and limiting liability.
- Advising on acquisitions, sales and mergers of limited liability partnerships (LLPs), including conversion of partnerships to companies.
- Advising on all aspects of joint venture negotiation and management, including selecting the appropriate form of joint venture structure, entry, exit and termination, capital and funding, provision of labour and acquisitions and disposals by the joint venture vehicle.
- Resolving disputes arising in partnership and joint venture arrangements.
- Managing competition risks associated with business, joint venture and partnership structures.
- Navigating tax considerations of changes to business structure, joint ventures and partnerships.
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.
- Advising a pub company on a joint venture with another pub group to launch a new concept, including advising on new constitutional documents (its shareholders’ agreement and articles of association), and drafting and negotiating an intercreditor agreement and reviewing the client’s bank facilities.
- Acting on the buy-out of minority partnership interests in a Caymans limited partnership, alongside the contemporaneous rationalisation of certain holdings in a UK company, by way of capital contribution of those holdings to the LP.
- Advising on the restructuring, reorganisation and LLP agreements to separate an architecture business out into two distinct legal entities.
