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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
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Jean-Baptiste Beauvoir-Planson
Partner, Corporate, Intellectual Property
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- 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
Our thinking
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James Broadhurst writes for the Financial Times’ Your Questions column on business succession plans
James Broadhurst
In the Press
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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
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Daniel Rosenberg and Ashwin Pillay write for the Evening Standard on leading banks ramping up their UK operations
Daniel Rosenberg
In the Press
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Venture capital funds agree 'investment compact' to increase investment in UK high-growth companies
Mike Barrington
Quick Reads
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How are sustainability and ESG shaping the role of in-house counsel?
Kerry Stares
Insights
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Presale Planning: The Protection of Private Wealth in the Event of a Business Sale, Flotation or Liquidity Event
Mike Barrington
Insights
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Sarah Wigington and Caroline Carter write for Property Week on joint venture contracts
Sarah Wigington
In the Press
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Financial News quotes Nathan Lightman on the upcoming FCA review of private market valuations
Nathan Lightman
In the Press
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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
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Charles Russell Speechlys advises Nortal on its acquisition of Questers
Hamish Perry
News
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Lia Renna writes for Startups Magazine on proposed mandatory diversity policies in the venture capital industry
Lia Renna
In the Press
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Charles Russell Speechlys advises Puma Private Equity on its £3.5 million investment into TravelLocal
David Coates
News
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Charles Russell Speechlys advises Zenzero’s management team on its majority acquisition by Macquarie Capital
Mark Howard
News
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Hamish Perry and Mike Barrington write for The Evening Standard on whether a merger between the CBI and Make UK can work
Hamish Perry
In the Press
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New Governance Guidelines for family-owned businesses in the UAE
William Reichert
Quick Reads
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City AM quotes Ashwin Pillay on the latest round of ONS M&A statistics
Ashwin Pillay
In the Press
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Treasury Committee endorses mandatory venture capital diversity policies from 2025
Lia Renna
Quick Reads
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Charles Russell Speechlys advises Predator Oil & Gas Holdings plc on its successful placing of New Ordinary Shares to the London Stock Exchange
Andrew Collins
News
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Charles Russell Speechlys advises the discoverIE Group on its acquisition of Silvertel
Mark Howard
News
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Charles Russell Speechlys advises Puma Private Equity on its £5m investment into Pockit Limited
David Coates
News
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City AM quotes Tom Smitham on private equity investment into European football
Tom Smitham
In the Press
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Charles Russell Speechlys advises Thomas Sandgaard on the sale of Charlton Athletic
Keir Gordon
News
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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
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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
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Key figures gather to discuss the future of Gloucestershire
Jonathan Morley
Quick Reads
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UK CMA's blocks Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, a potentially significant decision for SMEs in the video gaming sector
Rebecca Burford
Quick Reads
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Sign of the times - the British record football transfer which very nearly didn't happen
Pei Li Kew
Quick Reads
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Listing Rules changes are in...exciting times for founders and fast-growing companies
Mark Howard
Quick Reads
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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
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Ongoing supply chain crisis looms large over upcoming allergen law change
Rory Partridge
Quick Reads
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B[re]aking up is never easy... a lesson from the Oetker business split
Pei Li Kew
Quick Reads
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Brace yourselves: dentists could be liable for actions of self-employed staff
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Private companies and public interest – a new approach to corporate governance?
David Hicks
Quick Reads
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