-
Corporate Legal Services
As a business, being adaptable and resilient is paramount, and having the right legal team at hand can be integral.
Our corporate law expertise
With expert guidance from our market-leading team of corporate lawyers we can help you to successfully achieve your business goals.
We invest time to get to know you and understand how we can best support your business. Whether you are a start-up company backed by investors, entrepreneurs and venture capital, a growth company looking to scale-up and win new investment, or a large multinational with full-service legal requirements, we are here to help you. We create bespoke teams to ensure your needs are met and you are provided with a cost-effective solution.
We provide clarity on the priorities for each individual transaction or project - where law and business are complex, we aim to be clear.
Transactions and project we work with our clients on include:
- Mergers, acquisitions and disposals of companies
- Public takeovers of companies listed on the UK Main Market and AIM
- All types of private equity transactions
- Venture capital and venture debt funding
- Innovative equity and debt financing arrangements
- Fund formation and the regulation of financial institutions
- Establishing LLPs and other forms of partnership
- EU and competition law
- Corporate governance and company secretarial matters
Our International Corporate Teams
Our international Corporate teams can offer you a comprehensive range of legal services. In Paris, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and the Middle East, we work with both public and privately owned companies, private equity houses, entrepreneurs and family offices, as well as their shareholders, executives and management teams.
Our corporate teams deal with the full range of business transactions – structuring, financing, buying, selling, investments, governance, shareholders’ activism and compliance. We regularly advise on domestic and international corporate (re)structurings and (re)financings, (de)mergers and acquisitions (including distressed or insolvent targets), joint ventures, management incentive plans and corporate governance.
Our Paris team's M&A work encompasses French and cross-border acquisitions and divestments, complex reorganisations and restructurings, corporate rescues and distressed transactions.
Our highly experienced Private Equity team has an in-depth knowledge of advising on legal, tax and financing aspects of private equity transactions including MBOs, MBIs, secondary buy-outs and exits. Their experience includes advising French and international investment funds on the acquisition and disposal of their investments as well as management teams, on both legal and tax aspects, in such transactions.
Other areas on which we advise include:
- corporate governance, commercial contracts
- legal, tax structuring and due diligence advice in relation to the acquisition of companies and assets (including real estate)
- contentious issues arising out of commercial contracts, licensing agreements, competition issues, and
- the establishment and tax structuring of entities including private equity, venture capital and real estate funds.
Our corporate services
Capital Markets
Whether you are an issuer, investment bank or investor, an AIM or main market listed company, our team can support you and work seamlessly with other advisers.
Company Secretarial
We will tailor our dedicated company secretarial service to your requirements.
Corporate Restructuring & Recovery
We offer pragmatic and commercially driven solutions to the legal problems you face, both domestically and internationally.
EU & Competition
We will work with you to ensure that your company is fully compliant and avoids sanction.
Corporate Governance
If you're Head Office, a General Counsel or a Company Secretary, we will support your team in dealing with governance issues.
LLPs & Partnerships
Whether you are a business owner, management team, investor, partner or corporate member we can advise you on all LLP agreements and structures.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Our team can assist you with the full range of transactions from UK and cross-border acquisitions and divestments.
Private Equity & Venture Capital
Whatever stage of the corporate growth journey, we can support you on all aspects of private equity transactions.
Meet our corporate lawyers
-
-
-
Jean-Baptiste Beauvoir-Planson
Partner, Corporate, Intellectual Property
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Corporate deal highlights: H2 2023
- Corporate deal highlights: H1 2023
- Capital Markets deal highlights: H2 2022
- Private equity, venture capital and growth companies deal highlights: H2 2022
- Mergers & Acquisition deal highlights: H2 2022
- Capital Markets deal highlights: H1 2022
- Corporate/M&A deal highlights: H1 2022
- Private Equity, Venture Capital & Growth Companies deal highlights: H1 2022
- TMT Corporate transactions - 2022
What's important to you is important to us. Let's talk
If you would like to speak to a member of our Corporate team or to find out more about how we work, please get in touch
More corporate articles
-
Takeover Panel consults on narrowing the scope of the Takeover Code
Jodie Dennis
Insights
-
James Broadhurst writes for the Financial Times’ Your Questions column on inheriting company shares
James Broadhurst
In the Press
-
Charles Russell Speechlys bolsters corporate and commercial offering with the appointment of Shirley Fu in Hong Kong
Simon Green
In the Press
-
Charles Russell Speechlys advises Give Back Beauty Group in the acquisition of INCC Parfums
Dimitri A. Sonier
News
-
Charles Russell Speechlys advises Countryside Partnerships on its joint venture with Abri to develop 1,500 homes in West Sussex
Sarah Wigington
News
-
Charles Russell Speechlys boosts international private wealth offering with the arrival of Amira Shaker-Bortman
Amira Shaker-Bortman
News
-
Mark Howard writes for the Evening Standard on the blocked Telegraph takeover, the NSI Act and the Enterprise Act 2002
Mark Howard
In the Press
-
Charles Russell Speechlys grows its rankings in The Legal 500 EMEA directory
Frédéric Jeannin
News
-
The Lawyer covers the recent growth and strategy of our corporate practice
David Collins
In the Press
-
Charles Russell Speechlys advises on three secondary fundraises across three different markets
Paul Arathoon
News
-
Charles Russell Speechlys advises Vitro on a major international restructuring project
David Cordova Flores
News
-
Will new powers at Companies House stop or slow down fraudsters?
Peter Carlyon
Quick Reads
-
Charlie Ring and Ross Youngs write for FT Adviser on where wealth managers should look to for their own financial advice
Charlie Ring
In the Press
-
Take-aways for UK firms from ESMA’s consultation on reverse solicitation
Cheryl Tham
Insights
-
Post-sale planning: The Maximisation and Protection of Private Wealth following a Business Sale or Exit Event
Tabitha Collett
Insights
-
Edward Robinson and Charlie Searle write for FT Adviser on key considerations when an individual inherits company shares
Edward Robinson
In the Press
-
Sifted quotes Victoria Younghusband on a boardroom disagreement involving Klarna and Sequoia Capital
Victoria Younghusband
In the Press
-
Charles Russell Speechlys advises Entrepreneurial Food Group on the sale of two food production businesses to The Compleat Food Group
Hamish Perry
News
-
The Global Legal Post quotes Mike Barrington on Tesco’s decision to sell its banking practice
Mike Barrington
In the Press
-
-
Charles Russell Speechlys advises the management sellers of Membr on its sale to Xplor Technologies
Andrew Clarke
News
-
Les entreprises en difficulté ou en croissance peuvent-elle se passer des equity lines? Can distressed or growth companies do without hybrid bonds?
Dimitri-André Sonier
Quick Reads
-
Venture capital funds agree 'investment compact' to increase investment in UK high-growth companies
Mike Barrington
Quick Reads
-
Is the opening up of Nexity's services division capital a consequence of the difficulties facing the French property sector?
Dimitri-André Sonier
Quick Reads
-
New Governance Guidelines for family-owned businesses in the UAE
William Reichert
Quick Reads
-
Treasury Committee endorses mandatory venture capital diversity policies from 2025
Lia Renna
Quick Reads
-
Has the Orpéa plan impaired shareholder's consent? - Le plan de sauvegarde d'Orpéa n'a-t-il pas vicié le consentement des actionnaires historiques ?
Dimitri-André Sonier
Quick Reads
-
Will the downturn in the Paris region property market lead property companies to turn to ad hoc proceedings, as they did in the 1990s?
Dimitri-André Sonier
Quick Reads
-
Key figures gather to discuss the future of Gloucestershire
Jonathan Morley
Quick Reads
-
UK CMA's blocks Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, a potentially significant decision for SMEs in the video gaming sector
Quick Reads
-
-
Sign of the times - the British record football transfer which very nearly didn't happen
Quick Reads
-
Listing Rules changes are in...exciting times for founders and fast-growing companies
Mark Howard
Quick Reads
-
Overhaul of London's stock market listing regime set to significantly boost capital raising opportunities for founder led UK tech businesses
Mark Howard
Quick Reads
-
Ongoing supply chain crisis looms large over upcoming allergen law change
Rory Partridge
Quick Reads
-
-
Brace yourselves: dentists could be liable for actions of self-employed staff
Quick Reads
-
Private companies and public interest – a new approach to corporate governance?
Quick Reads
-
-
