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Businesses and corporate entities are often seeking opportunities to expand, diversify or expand their operations. M&A solicitors can potentially provide such an opportunity, but achieving a successful transaction requires careful legal planning and advice.
Businesses and corporate entities are often seeking opportunities to expand, diversify or expand their operations. Mergers and acquisitions can potentially provide such an opportunity, but achieving a successful transaction requires careful legal planning and advice.
At Anderson Strathern, we regularly assist with strategic deals across the UK SME market and also in complex cross-border issues, often involving advising overseas buyers. Our focus is always to get the deal done on time and with the most beneficial result for our clients.
Mergers and acquisitions are processes that can, under certain circumstances, be difficult to navigate. We understand this and, as such, are on hand to guide your business through the entire process, taking the time to gain an understanding of your business and its wider situation.
This means that we are able to take your short and long-term goals into account, ensuring that the advice we provide is carefully catered to your business.
We deal with multifaceted transactions every day, including local and international mergers and acquisitions. We’ll take the time to listen to your needs and future ambitions and use this knowledge to help guide your strategy.
We use our wealth of experience to ensure that our clients reach the best deal for their particular objectives. Whether the sale involves warranty and indemnity insurance, a cross-border element, or other complex matters, you can rely on us to guide you through the process.
Where cross-jurisdictional work is required, we benefit from having an international reach and can call on a world-leading network of law firms through our membership of the Meritas Network. This enables us to quickly clarify whether or not a solution is right for you, no matter where your potential new business interests lie.
To discuss your requirements with a member of our expert corporate law team, please get in touch today.
Contact us on 0131 270 7700, visit our offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, East Lothian, Shetland, or Orkney or fill in our enquiry form at the bottom of the page to request a call back.
Mergers and acquisitions are general terms that describe the process of consolidating companies or assets through various types of transactions. Typically, in a merger, two companies of similar size combine to form a new single entity. Whereas, with an acquisition, a larger company acquires a smaller company.
More specifically, M&A could refer to transactions such as disposals, company mergers, management buy-outs, management buy-ins, corporate restructuring, and cross border transactions.
There are a number of potential reasons why a merger or acquisition may be the right solution for a business or group of businesses. For instance, it could be done to:
Where your company wishes to merge with another, forming a brand-new company, a company merger will likely be the most appropriate course of action. Whether this is a decision born out of convenience or necessity, our team will be on hand to lend their expertise and experience.
If you are planning a business merger, it is essential to ensure that every detail is taken care of so that the best interests of all parties can be taken into consideration and each eventuality is properly accounted for.
Your business may have its sights set on an acquisition for various different reasons, whether it’s part of an ambitious growth strategy or to decrease competition.
No matter what the reasons for acquisition may be, it should go without saying that these types of corporate transactions have the potential to be extremely complicated, which is where our expert guidance and advice will prove to be invaluable.
Our corporate team has specialist expertise in handling international and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. The details and intricacies of international corporate transactions can be very different to those of local transactions, which means that a carefully tailored and methodical approach is a necessity.
While management buy-outs and buy-ins are fairly common corporate transactions, there are a number of potential pitfalls which need to be avoided. The dynamics of management buy-outs and buy-ins are very different, which also means that the importance of specifically tailored advice cannot be underestimated.
Following a merger or acquisition, there is often a need to restructure the business to modify the financial, operational and legal structures. There are a number of reasons why this may be appropriate, such as if there is a requirement to improve tax efficiency, reduce risk and liability or to provide certain investment opportunities.
Our corporate experts have specialist expertise with all types of restructures and will be able to assist your business if this is a requirement following a merger or acquisition. For more information regarding our restructuring expertise, please click here.
Whenever a merger or acquisition takes place, there are often a range of employment issues that need to be taken into consideration, such as the potential for redundancies and the need to transfer employees to another business.
Where this is the case, we will work closely with our employment law team, who can ensure that you remain in full legal compliance during a merger and acquisitions, minimising the risk of any future employment claims.
If a disagreement or dispute arises during the course of a merger or acquisition, we can enlist the support of our expert commercial litigation team, who can advise on the most appropriate course of action and the best way to resolve matters efficiently and effectively.
They can help with working to negotiate an agreement, avoiding litigation wherever possible.
Our team of dedicated corporate law specialists in Scotland have substantial experience in supporting a wide range of clients, operating in various sectors, using our wealth of combined expertise and experience to support different types of mergers and acquisitions.
Our corporate team comprises specialists who have been recognised for their skills and expertise in the independent legal directories the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners and who hold various professional memberships.
We also have various other corporate specialities, including corporate restructuring, private equity, joint ventures, venture capital and employee ownership trusts. To find out more about our corporate law expertise, please click here.
To discuss your requirements with a member of our expert corporate law team, please get in touch today.
Contact us on 0131 270 7700, visit our offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, East Lothian, Shetland, or Orkney or fill in our enquiry form at the bottom of the page to request a call back.
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