Our specialist M&A team advise all types of mergers and acquisitions including:
- Private company acquisitions and disposals (both shares and assets).
- Public company takeovers and mergers, including recommended and hostile offers and takeovers by scheme of arrangement.
We tailor our approach to our clients’ expertise and experience and are equally familiar with advising serial acquirers on a series of business acquisitions, to acting for management teams or business owners on their first or only acquisition or disposal.
We are experienced in acting for buyers and sellers of privately owned businesses. We help buyers assess the risks presented by a transaction and protect them from potential liabilities. We ensure sellers maximise value and exit their business on their terms.
We also advise on the acquisition of quoted companies, ensuring our clients comply with regulatory requirements such as the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers, structure the transaction appropriately and employ tactics that will deliver the deal.
All our transaction teams are Partner-lead, which means that your deal will benefit from an experienced corporate lawyer who will manage the process from start to finish, ensuring that potential problems are anticipated and dealt with before they arise. Our M&A lawyers lead the transaction, often from a very early stage, proactively managing interdisciplinary teams of lawyers each bringing specialist expertise. This ensures our clients receive commercially attuned, bespoke advice and solutions which have been tested by a lawyer who understands the commercial drivers of the transaction.
We also frequently advise on M&A transactions with an international dimension and transactions in our specialist sectors including Energy and Technology.