Corporate solicitors

We're more than just lawyers. We take pride in understanding our clients' businesses and providing astute, commercial advice.

Services provided by our corporate solicitors

We provide a wide range of corporate and commercial services to businesses of all sizes, from small family businesses to FTSE 100 companies.

Our corporate solicitors provide a comprehensive range of corporate transactional services, including mergers and acquisitions (both public and private), management buy-outs and buy-ins, trade sales and disposals, private equity, capital markets transactions (including IPOs and reverse takeovers on the Main Market and AIM) and VCT investment. We also handle company formations, reorganisations and restructuring, joint ventures, shareholder and investment agreements and advise on general company law compliance and corporate governance. We also advise on share schemes and other employee incentives, from EMI schemes to more bespoke arrangements.

Our corporate clients are diverse and include UK and international quoted and private companies, public sector organisations, owner managed business, start-ups, banks, investment funds, management teams and entrepreneurs.

Why choose our corporate solicitors?

With Weightmans, you'll benefit from the breadth of expertise you'd expect from a major national firm. Our dedicated team of transactional lawyers works closely with other advisers as needed and brings in supporting services from our banking, employment, pensions, real estate, environmental, planning, construction, commercial litigation and regulatory teams, particularly when it comes to transactional due diligence and disclosure.

We are a strong national team with corporate lawyers based in our Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester and Newcastle offices.

Our corporate law services

Accolades

The firm really understands our business so our engagements with the team are seamless. We work with a really super team with excellent experience and different approaches.
Chambers 2025
The team at Weightmans offers pragmatic and commercially sound advice. They ensure the deal outcome meets the objectives of all parties. It's a commercially savvy and wise team.
Chambers 2025
Weightmans understands how we work and has adapted to our way of working.
Chambers 2025
Weightmans understands the potential challenges that arise and explains them in simple terms. They offer solutions that are simple and executable and have very strong knowledge and experience.
Chambers 2025
The Weightmans team took a pragmatic approach, focusing on the commercial risk and ensuring that the client was protected appropriately.
Chambers 2025
Weightmans do a great job. They look after clients and always deliver. They're a proactive firm with good communication. The whole team is strong.
Chambers 2025
Weightmans brought a pragmatic, commercial approach supported by high technical ability.
Chambers 2025
Weightmans has a well-resourced team. They give quick responses and are good with clients - I can't fault their client service.
Chambers 2025
Their support and guidance through the process was excellent, including their knowledge of our business.
Chambers 2025