Corporate and Commercial

 

Governance, including directors' duties, liabilities and risk mitigation (including indemnities and insurance)

 

Company law and compliance requirements under the Companies Act 1993

 

Constitutions and shareholders' arrangements and agreements

 

Share issues and share buybacks

 

Financial assistance in connection with the acquisition of shares

 

Amalgamations

 

Takeovers Code exemptions (and general compliance with that Code)

 

Structuring transactions

 

Private mergers, asset and share acquisitions and dispositions and restructurings

 

Confidentiality agreements, terms sheets, heads of agreement and memoranda of understanding

 

Due diligence materials

 

Shareholder approvals, remedies and disputes

 

Joint venture and partnership arrangements and agreements   

 

Agency, licence, franchise, distribution and supply arrangements and agreements

 

Management and consultancy arrangements and agreements

 

Other business contracts or commercial arrangements and agreements

 

Advice to forensic or investigative accountants, or to receivers, on transactions undertaken

 

Banking and Finance

 

Borrower-side banking and finance advice (including related structuring work) in relation to bilateral, syndicated and other funding arrangements

 

Security arrangements, including security sharing and senior/junior debt priority and subordination arrangements

 

Negative pledge arrangements