Corporate
We advise boards and investors on the transactions and constitutional arrangements that reshape ownership and control.
Our corporate practice sits at the centre of the firm. We act on private company acquisitions and disposals, public takeovers, secondary buy-outs, group reorganisations, and the equity documents that sit underneath them. The work is technical, sequential, and unforgiving of imprecision — which is why clients instruct us when the structure, not merely the price, has to be right.
We draft and negotiate articles, shareholders’ agreements, investment agreements, drag and tag mechanics, leaver provisions, and board-reserved matters with the same attention we give to the sale and purchase agreement. Governance is not an afterthought to the deal; it is often the deal’s lasting product.
Public company work includes Rule 2.7 announcements, scheme documentation, Class 1 circulars, related-party clearances, and the continuous-disclosure discipline that public status demands. Private equity and growth-capital mandates cover preferred equity, warrant packages, management incentive plans, and the inter-creditor arrangements that keep a capital stack coherent under stress.
What we cover
- Private M&A (buy-side and sell-side) and auction processes
- Public takeovers, schemes of arrangement, and Class 1 transactions
- Shareholders’ agreements, articles, and investment documentation
- Joint ventures, strategic alliances, and minority protections
- Group reorganisations, hive-downs, and pre-sale structuring
- Management incentive plans and equity-based remuneration
