Corporate Governance

In an increasingly complex and evolving legal landscape, keeping pace with legal and regulatory developments can be challenging for businesses.

Our experienced corporate lawyers advise companies, partnerships and joint ventures, as well as business owners, directors and shareholders, on a broad range of company law and corporate governance matters, including:

• Corporate advisory
• Corporate formations, joint ventures & shareholder agreements
• Family investment companies
• Partnership formations and agreements.

We place an emphasis on understanding your commercial strategy to help us form part of your team of professional advisers. Our legal advice is not provided in isolation, and our focus is always on providing advice tailored to your circumstances, with the goal of achieving your overall commercial objectives.

Our size and range of experience and expertise means we have the bench strength to bring in specialist lawyers at all levels to assist on relevant matters. We draw on support from the firm’s very strong Corporate, Commercial, Private Wealth, Real Estate and Employment teams to provide clients with a comprehensive service.

With an evolving legal landscape, it can be difficult for businesses to stay up to date with all applicable legal and regulatory changes.

Our experienced corporate lawyers regularly advise companies, partnerships, joint ventures, as well as business owners, directors, and shareholders on a wide range of company law and corporate governance matters.

This includes guidance on changes introduced by legislation, company administration and shareholder meetings, and the review of company constitutional documents such as articles of association. We also provide support on corporate governance and compliance issues, directors’ duties, conflicts of interest, and transactions or arrangements involving directors, as well as assisting with the establishment of new corporate vehicles.

To learn more, view our corporate advisory page.

Our team has considerable experience in setting up joint venture, shareholder, and investor agreements, and is well placed to advise on the key issues that arise throughout the process. This includes selecting the appropriate corporate structure, addressing preliminary matters such as funding, and advising on the management of the joint venture.

We also provide guidance on the protection of minority and majority members’ rights, the inclusion of effective deadlock provisions, and the termination of the joint venture vehicle.

For more information, please click here.

A Family Investment Company (FIC) is a bespoke private company, which can be used as a tax efficient alternative to (or work in concert with) family trusts.

A FIC is a flexible structure, allowing families to define how specific family members benefit through varying rights attaching to shares, or the number of shares in issue. The directors and shareholders of the FIC are normally family members. As with trusts, the structure of the FIC can enable parents/grandparents to retain control over assets, whilst accumulating wealth in a tax efficient environment and facilitating future succession planning.

Working alongside colleagues in the firm’s Wills, Estate & Tax Planning and Trust & Tax Management teams, we have great experience on advising on all elements of the process.

To learn more, visit our dedicated family investment companies page.

Partnerships are a longstanding method of structuring a business due to their great versatility.  Our team has considerable experience in setting up partnerships, limited partnerships (LPs) and limited liability partnerships (LLPs) and will be on-hand to advise on the best structure for your business and guide you through the process of setting up your partnership.

We are well placed to advise you on and prepare the all-important partnership agreement which will govern the relationship and responsibilities between the partners, whether that be on day one of the business or to update the terms as the partnership grows.

Click here to view our dedicated partnership formations and agreements page.