Corporate Law

Our team of corporate lawyers advise a wide range of clients from start-up businesses to PLCs on all aspects of corporate law.

Our Corporate Law team advises business on Finance and M&A’s, Joint ventures, Restructuring, Corporate governance and Share capital:

Finance and M&A’s

Our team are highly experienced in:

• Corporate acquisitions and disposals
• Due diligence
• Mergers
• Re-organisations
• Competition
• MBO’s
• MBI’s
• BIMBO’s

Joint ventures

Joint ventures can offer a practical solution to business requirements. Usually they involve existing businesses agreeing to join forces to develop a new business. Joint ventures can also help to share the risk of any initial investment.

Corporate governance

The Directors of a company have to understand how the law affects their duties to stakeholders, creditors, the company and its shareholders. Our corporate lawyers advise on all aspects of corporate governance including:

• Incorporations
• Articles of association
• Stakeholder agreements
• Company constitutions
• Statutory books
• Resolutions
• The appointment and removal or directors and company secretaries
• Directors’ duties
• Shareholder rights and structure
• Companies House compliance and returns

Share Capital

Selling shares is the easiest way to change share ownership. Existing company shareholders can buy and sell shares between them or a new party can buy from a current shareholder through a share sale agreement.

Demergers

Often to increase shareholder value, business activities can be separated by the stakeholders into individual companies – a demerger. The team at Newtons offer a full service support to demerging companies, including commercial, dispute resolution, employment, commercial property and private client.

We also advise businesses on:

Franchising
Agreements
Company law
Buying or selling a company