Corporate Finance

Advising the typical owner managed business, through its life cycle of Start-up to Exit, will often require the input of corporate finance services, at various important stages. We have accordingly set up a specialist corporate services team to offer bespoke services in this field, including:

• Incorporations and shareholder agreements
• Business plans and financial projections
• Raising fresh finance (both equity and debt)
• Business, goodwill and private company share valuations
• Transaction structuring
• Management buy-outs and buy-ins
• Company restructuring (including mergers and de-mergers)
• Business acquisitions and disposals
• Due diligence and forensic investigations
• Succession planning
• Shareholder disputes
• Dissolutions (and liquidations)

Instruct us to undertake your corporate finance work and you can rest assured that all of the multi facets of this complex area will be taken care of, to your best advantage. As well as complying with all legal requirements, our advice will be mindful of all tax and commercial considerations. Experience and inside knowledge are the pre-requisites of good corporate finance advice.

Examples of Corporate Finance Transactions that we have Advised on:

Engineering Company £1.5m Acquisition | deal structuring, transaction support, forecasting, due diligence, whitewash. Construction Business £600k Partner Retirement Group Re-structuring | deal structuring, tax planning, transaction support. Haulage Company £12.5m Purchase of Own Shares | deal structuring, transaction support. Timber Merchant Sale | deal advice, valuations, tax planning. Farm Tenancy £550k Sale | group re-structuring, tax planning, transaction support. Farming Company De-merger | deal structuring, tax planning, business turnaround advice.

Training Company £4.2m Trade Sale | tax planning, transaction support. Manufacturing Company £2.5m Management Buy Out | deal structuring, tax planning, valuations. Agri-Chemical Company Sale | deal structuring, share valuation, price negotiations, tax planning. Horticultural Business Re-financing | bank negotiations, forecasts. Engineering Company £250k Shareholder Dispute | transaction structuring, purchase of own shares, valuations.