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We offer practical steps to protect your business, optimise your business structures and ultimately enable your organisation to build resilience. Our aim is always to achieve the best solution for our clients.
The business world never sits still for a minute, which means companies must be prepared to change and adapt if they wish to thrive. Business restructuring can allow companies to quickly evolve to achieve long-term success.
At Anderson Strathern, we offer practical steps to protect your business, optimise your business structures and ultimately enable your organisation to build resilience. Our aim is always to achieve the best solution for our clients.
Restructuring is an ongoing process. We strive to optimise our clients’ businesses at all times. We understand that restructuring can be a difficult time for any business, and we’re here to help guide you through the process. We’ll take time to gain an understanding of your business and its overall situation.
This enables us to take your short and long-term goals into account through the consultation process so that our advice is bespoke to your situation.
Our corporate law experts deal with restructuring issues across all sectors. We advise on every type of restructuring, from equity and financial, contingency planning, business loans to asset sales or acquisitions.
Our team have previously worked with a diverse range of clients, from local SMEs to large national corporations. We can use this experience to ensure that your business is restructured in the best way for your commercial objectives, both in the short term and the long term.
Our goal is to reach the solution that best fits your business. In distressed situations, we can guide you through a combination of:
Where needed, our renowned dispute resolution team can also assist with financial disputes that may otherwise threaten to jeopardise your commercial interests.
Our ultimate goal is to help you reach the solution that best fits your business.
To discuss your requirements with a member of our expert commercial 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 to request a call back.
Essentially, restructuring is an action taken by a company that significantly modifies its financial, operational and legal structures with the intention of reducing debt, increasing efficiency or generally improving the shape of the business moving forward.
Restructuring is often an action taken when a business is facing certain difficulties, is struggling to make a consistent profit or is entering a formal insolvency process such as administration.
There are a number of potential reasons why restructuring would be an appropriate option for many businesses. In short, restructuring has the potential to:
In scenarios where a business is struggling or needs to change the way it operates in order to achieve specific commercial goals, our corporate law solicitors can help to review your situation and advise you on the potential options at your disposal.
This will include advising on aspects such as long-term business planning, business rationalisation, debt management and acquisition and disposal of asset portfolios. No matter what is involved, we will guide you through the whole corporate restructuring process effectively and efficiently.
There are a number of potential advantages to moving assets around within a business group, such as being able to strengthen the group as a whole or allow it to operate more efficiently. Our team have specialist experience with advising on restructuring business groups, so will be on hand to provide carefully tailored advice in this particular area.
In certain situations, there may be a need to separate a company into two or more separate businesses. This is known as a demerger. There are a number of potential reasons for a demerger, such as wanting to place more focus on a core operation, raising capital or waiving off the potential for a hostile takeover.
There are various different types of demergers that may or might be the right fit for your business, depending on your circumstances. Our business restructuring solicitors can advise on the various options that you can explore and guide you through the demerger process, ensuring that you can achieve your goals while remaining in full legal compliance.
There may be certain situations where a business needs to make a capital reduction in order to create or increase its distributable reserves. Where this is the case, we have substantial experience in achieving capital reductions through both the solvency statement route and via the courts where required.
This is also sometimes referred to as company own share purchase. This is where a company buys back some or all of the shares owned by one or more shareholders. This can be complex, which is why our corporate lawyers can step in to lend their support, helping you to secure shareholder approval and ensuring all legal requirements are met for a valid transaction.
If a disagreement arises during the course of the restructuring, we can enlist the support of our expert commercial litigation team, who can advise on the best way to resolve matters efficiently and effectively.
They can advise on the most appropriate course of action, working to negotiate an agreement without litigation wherever possible.
Our team of dedicated corporate law specialists in Scotland have substantial experience in supporting a wide range of clients in a variety of sectors, putting our combined expertise to good use in supporting the process of corporate restructuring.
Our corporate team comprises of members 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 specialities in the corporate sphere, including mergers and acquisitions, 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 commercial 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 to request a call back.
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