The current climate has required businesses to show adaptability and resilience in the midst of uncertainty.
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 based in the UK and internationally
- 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

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- London office
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- Luxembourg office
- Call Rebecca +44 (0)20 7438 2127
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- London office
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- Geneva office
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- London office
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- Paris office
- Call Jonathan +44 (0)1242 246378
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- Cheltenham office
- Call William +971 4 246 1927
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- Dubai office
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