Mergers & Acquisitions

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Whether you’re pursuing growth through acquisition or planning your exit strategy, our experienced corporate team can help you navigate complex mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions with confidence.

Drawing on City expertise and regional insight, we deliver sophisticated solutions that drive business success.

Our corporate lawyers successfully deliver high value and complex transactions for clients in a variety of sectors. The team also regularly support owner managers considering succession and exit opportunities, along with businesses on a buy and build/aggregator strategy.

Our corporate solicitors advise clients on a range of M&A services, including:

• Share sales and purchases
• Business and asset sales and purchases
• Management buy-outs / buy-ins (MBOs and MBIs)
• Sales to PE firms and trade buyers
• Disposals to Employee Ownership Trusts
• Venture capital and private equity fundraising and investment

As part of a full-service firm, members of our corporate team draw on the specialist expertise of the firm’s larger business practice group when advising on transactional matters, including employment, tax, property and litigation.

Sectors in which we have specific M&A experience include, recruitment, healthcare and dental, along with education, technology and financial services.

See the corporate team’s latest periodical review for further detail on the recent M&A work we have assisted clients with.