Corporate and Business Law
No one knows your business better than you. However, in an ever-changing world it’s hard to be the expert in all matters, all of the time. This is especially true when it comes down to the finer points of corporate and business law.
Our corporate lawyers have a proven track record in acting for a wide range of clients in an extensive variety of arrangements. The team have worked with everyone from large corporates to early-stage businesses, partnerships, charities and Community Interest Companies (CIC’s), and high net worth individuals and investors.
Corporate and business lawyers in Plymouth
We have extensive experience handling complex mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions in the UK for national and international clients. Our corporate lawyers can advise your business on strategic matters, as well as day-to-day company law and regulatory issues.
As experts in corporate transactions, the team are both practical and commercially minded. We’ll concentrate on the issues that really matter. We can help with a wide range of corporate and bommercial law issues.
Succession Planning for SMEs and Family Businesses
You’ve spent years building your business and it’s now time to turn your attention to securing your and perhaps your family’s future. We have extensive experience in all areas of business succession planning, and we have the expertise, experience, and know-how to help you structure your business with a view to allowing it to succeed to new owners, whether these are your existing business partners, children, employees or new investors.
We completely understand how confusing, emotional, and daunting the thought of succession planning can be. However, it’s important to start this thought process early on, often years before the intended exit or retirement. Succession impacts on every aspect of a business including relationships with existing business partners, employees, customers and suppliers. Planning to separate from those, while not rocking the business in the meantime can be difficult. From discussing partnership and shareholder agreements, option arrangements and formal restructuring to account for possible divergence of the trading business from property ownership, it’s crucial to get specialist advice early on.
Mergers and Aquisitions
Whether you’re planning to purchase a company, selling your business, putting together a management buyout, or disposing of businesses and assets; Nash & Co Solicitors can help you. With a wealth of experience, our mergers and acquisitions lawyers can provide advice on all forms of transactions to UK-based clients and those who operate overseas.
We know that buying or selling a business can be a complex process with a number of important decisions to be made along the way. Our team’s legal advice can help a business make the most of a merger or acquisition transaction and ensure the deal runs as smoothly as possible.
Management Buyouts (MBOs)
As highly experienced corporate lawyers, we have the knowledge and expertise needed to provide legal advice on management buyouts.
Whether you’re looking to sell your stake in a business or you’re part of a management team looking to make an acquisition, Nash & Co Solicitors can support and advise you every step of the way.
Company Law Advice
Our corporate lawyers will take time to get to know you and your business so that their specialist knowledge and experience can be put to best use. By doing this, we can provide you with a comprehensive strategy that will benefit you and your business and at the same time minimise risk.
We work with a wide range of businesses from start-ups and local and regional SMEs through to large family-run businesses and larger corporates. While the work we do varies day to day, our approach is always the same – we’re pragmatic, we’re highly experienced, and we work as a team, with you and the lawyers from other teams at Nash & Co Solicitors, ensuring that you will always get the best advice and support possible.
Company Restructuring
At a future stage in the life of a business, directors and shareholders may see a value in restructuring their business activities.
When it comes to company restructuring, good planning, understanding, and a thorough yet pragmatic approach are essential. Our expert corporate lawyers will work as a team with your tax and accounting advisers. Moreover, we’ll ensure that your objectives are achieved in the most efficient and cost-effective way.
Joint Ventures
Whatever the reason for pursuing a joint venture, our corporate lawyers ensure that the client’s commercial interests are protected and their risks are alleviated.
The perfect joint venture creates additional value beyond the two partners, leaving a long-term legacy and commercial returns that would have been difficult to achieve without the venture itself. Our corporate team will spend time with you in order to fully understand your objectives. We can then help structure the most appropriate deal for you and your joint venture partners while simultaneously cutting through any complexities involved.
Commercial Agreements
Commercial contracts are the foundation of any business. Not only do they dictate how your business will operate, but they also serve to manage relationships with suppliers and customers and protect you should anything go wrong.
Our team of experienced corporate lawyers is on hand to help you to get the right commercial agreement in place right from the start. We have experience advising a wide variety of businesses on commercial contracts, and work with companies of all sizes across the South West.
IP and Licensing Agreements
Are you interested in licensing your intellectual property rights to other companies? Do you want to allow others to use your ideas or technologies? Then it would be best if you had robust licensing agreements in place.
Our team of expert business solicitors have the skills and experience to guide you through the licensing process with ease. We’re able to help you at all stages of the agreements and contracts process and have a fully adaptable service.
Partnership Agreements
Are you starting, or have you started a business with a partner? Then a Partnership Agreement is something you should consider.
Partnership Agreements dictate the way the business is run and the relationship and responsibilities between partners. Having one in place means that you’re able to dictate the terms that best suit your business and your partnership. We’re also very aware that each and every business is unique, so an “off the shelf” package just won’t capture everything that’s important.
Get in touch
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If your inquiry is urgent then please call us on 01752 664444.