Developing your business   The Business & Company Law team provides a wide spectrum of advice support and guidance through the whole range of business activity from inception to the challenges confronting businesses and companies both in their day to day activities and in all types of transactions and projects.   Areas that we cover include:   ·             Business start-up advice ·             Acquisitions and disposals ·             Corporate mergers and company reorganisation ·             Management buy-outs ·             Partnership advice ·             Shareholder agreements ·             Documentation drafting including terms and conditions ·             Preparation and negotiation of a variety of commercial agreements ·             Statutory requirements for businesses and companies   We assist growing and mature businesses and companies on an ongoing basis by forging a close relationship built around an understanding of a business its operations and its people.  We provide a service based upon an understanding of commercial realities and have the ability to react quickly and drive matters forward either by leading from the front or by working as part of a team.  We always strive to make a real contribution in helping a business to realise its aims and meet your objectives.   Within the pressured environment of a deal, we have the ability to bring calculated decisive thinking to ensure that a business a company or its shareholders get the most out of any opportunity while fully understanding the risks involved.    Dealing in all areas of business and company law from business/company formation to merger, acquisition, sale and beyond, our wealth of experience both at home and abroad has seen the team develop a solid reputation in the business/corporate marketplace.   We advise all types of business entities from sole traders to SME’s to large multi-national organisations and their owner’s shareholders employees and officers.   Typical transactions in which members of team have been involved include: £25 million sale of leading land and marine gauging business £100 milion purchase of private US Chemical Company Reorganisation of £20 million turnover environmental & land services business Restructure of a private manufacturing company involving a court approved £8.5 million reduction in share capital £4 million sale of an environmental consulting and services company £10 million sale of private metal structure manufacturing company £8 million sale of leisure and entertainment partnership Advising a pension scheme on a range of property investments through offshore companies and trusts with total assets of £147 million