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Reorganisations & demergers
Corporate group reorganisations and demergers can bring many efficiencies and benefits, but are often complex undertakings which require expert guidance. Whether you are considering carrying out a reorganisation and/or demerger for tax reasons, as a precursor to an acquisition or sale of a company or business, or to increase business efficiencies, our expert lawyers can help guide you through the process.
Working closely with financial advisers and drawing on expertise from across our Tax, Banking & Finance, Real Estate, IP, Employment and Dispute Resolution colleagues, we develop a comprehensive understanding of your corporate group’s current structure and ongoing commercial aims.
In doing so, we can identify the best approach to the reorganisation and/or demerger to meet your specific needs and offer practical advice and guidance to help you execute it in the most tax efficient way, making use of all appropriate reliefs and minimising risk.
Our corporate expertise in this area includes:
- Group reorganisation
- Demergers
- Reduction of capital.
Thomson Snell & Passmore consistently provide expert legal advice in many different areas and over many years have given us confidence in our business affairs knowing that they are there to rely on. Colleagues are very good at presenting options and directing which of those they think are best, and at times, asking us to reflect on courses of action we may be considering, yet at the same time respecting our businesses way of working. I think they understand our principles and ethics very well. This year they helped us navigate a delicate business unit sale including a TUPE. They also completed a complex restructure of our organisations different companies.
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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