Corporate
Full advisory and practical support service on all areas of
corporate law for private sector businesses and public sector
organisations.
Corporate Law, like business itself, is not just about
processing transactions and conducting activities. At its most
successful level, it is about adding value, delivering genuine
service and providing measurable value for money.
At Weightmans, our service is based exclusively on helping our
clients to achieve their commercial and organisational goals. As a
client, you can therefore expect that service to be effective,
proactive and co-operative. We work with you as part of your team
to ensure that the value of your business and the services you
offer is optimised.
We provide a comprehensive range of legal services, with a
particular focus on corporate transactional work, including mergers
and acquisitions, management buy-outs and buy-ins, and trade sales
and disposals. We also handle company formations, re-organisations
and re-structuring, joint ventures, shareholders agreements and
investment agreements.
We offer advice on general company law compliance and corporate
governance including advice to companies and boards on the nature
and effect of the implementation of the 2006 Companies Act.
We advise on a wide range of share schemes and other employee
incentives, from EMI schemes to more bespoke individual
arrangements.
Our dedicated team of corporate transactional lawyers work
closely with other advisers where appropriate. As a major national
firm, we can bring in supporting services from our employment,
property, commercial litigation and regulatory teams, with
particular regard to due diligence. Where this happens, we ensure a
seamless service with one principal contact.
Our clients include UK and International quoted and private
companies, public sector organisations, SMEs, banks, investment
funds, management teams and entrepreneurs. Where international
jurisdictions are involved, there are inevitably important
divergences of approach and meaning which we take care to ensure
are thoroughly understood at the outset by our clients. We are also
able to call on our international network of law firms to support
clients in most key commercial centres worldwide.