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Mergers & acquisitions: buy-side
Our dedicated team of Corporate and M&A lawyers, based in Kent but acting for clients nationally, provides practical, straightforward advice, working collaboratively to get deals completed in the most efficient, timely and cost effective way.
Our lawyers are commercial and approachable, adhering to highly professional standards to drive the deal through. Our approach focuses on saving time and money by ensuring the work is completed at the correct level, and by appropriately utilising our multi-disciplinary team.
We have extensive experience of advising on complex M&A transactions; often undertaking work with a private equity element, as well as cross border international work. We regularly support on transactions with complex corporate structures and have specific expertise in the corporate mid-market space. As such, we really understand the challenges involved in an acquisition, reporting on the ‘red flags’ in diligence, adopting a collaborative approach to negotiations, and closely project managing the transaction to completion.
We understand that each transaction requires a bespoke approach. We seek to develop an understanding of your business and commercial strategy from the outset of our relationship. We then harness our expertise to provide advice that contributes to this, and work tenaciously with you to help achieve your objectives.
Clients value our direct approach, acting as an extension of their team and integrating seamlessly with their other professional advisers. If needed, we can use our close relationships with corporate finance firms and other advisers to help you build your project team.
This approach has seen our work on M&A deals repeatedly recognised in the industry, most recently being awarded ‘Deal of the Year (£10m – £40m)’ at the South East Insider Dealmaker Awards 2025.
We have a large team, with the bench strength to bring in specialist lawyers at all levels for our clients. As part of a full service law firm, we regularly work alongside colleagues from our Real Estate, Banking & Finance, Employment, Pensions and Corporate Taxation teams, to efficiently and effectively handle all aspects of M&A transaction.
Our experienced M&A (buy-side) lawyers regularly advise on:
- Private company share purchases
- Business and asset purchases
- Private equity-backed investments
- Minority investments
- Auction processes
- Transaction planning and structuring
- Legal due diligence.
Their expertise in this sort of deal was considerable, and they foresaw all the likely issues, and addressed them well ahead of time, meaning that there were no hold ups to completing the deal or any nasty surprises.
Our approach
Our award winning team of experienced corporate and M&A lawyers, based in Kent and acting for clients nationally, provides highly commercial advice to help ambitious, mid-market businesses develop and grow. Our clients appreciate our outstanding service, speed of response, availability of lawyers and clear advice. We work with a wide range of clients, from directors of large companies, AIM or listed companies, through to family and owner managed businesses and entrepreneurs. We have particular expertise in the corporate mid-market space across London, the South East and nationally.
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 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 Real Estate, Employment and Private Wealth teams to provide clients with a comprehensive service. In addition, we can advise on competition, pensions, corporate tax and commercial/IP/IT/data matters.
We regularly advise on highly complex and cross border transactions, for both domestic and international clients. We consistently receive glowing feedback from both our clients and industry peers.
Whether you instruct us to help you sell your business, acquire a company, restructure your share capital, raise finance or advise on the most appropriate vehicle structure for your business, our corporate and M&A lawyers will drive every transaction with energy, determination, intelligence and resourcefulness to ensure you achieve the best outcome.
The team are highly skilled lawyers, operating effectively and efficiently. They are able to communicate complex scenarios and technical points to their clients in an understandable manner and ensure the client has a full understanding of the transaction. They are exceptionally responsive and work collaboratively with the clients other advisors to achieve shared objectives.
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