Mergers and Acquisitions Solicitors
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Clear, commercially minded advice for SMEs
Mergers and acquisitions is a broad legal term, encompassing a range of complex transactions. Whether you are navigating a sale, purchase, merger, or restructure, we will guide you through the process, providing clear, commercially minded advice. Combining extensive experience with a focused approach, our specialist Mergers and Acquisitions Solicitors will help you achieve the best possible outcome, avoiding unnecessary costs or delays.
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How our Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyers can help
Acquisitions
We advise SME owners and entrepreneurs on the acquisition of businesses through both share and asset purchases. Having handled a wide range of acquisitions, large and small, you can trust our expert solicitors to manage the transaction professionally, provide practical legal advice, and always protect your interests.
Sales
We support SME owners through the sale of their businesses via both share and asset sales. Our specialist solicitors provide clear, commercially minded advice throughout the process, helping you maximise value, manage risk through appropriate protections, and achieve a clean exit without unnecessary delay or complication.
Mergers
Our specialist solicitors support clients through mergers by structuring and documenting the transaction and managing the legal and commercial risks involved when two businesses come together. Taking a pragmatic, commercially minded approach, we advise on the legal, financial and practical considerations of the merger, from tax to business ethos and culture fit, helping ensure the merged business can operate effectively after completion.
Joint ventures
We advise businesses on structuring and documenting joint ventures, ensuring roles, responsibilities and profit-sharing arrangements are clearly defined from the outset. Our expert lawyers draft robust joint venture agreements that manage risk and help minimise the potential for future disputes.
Reorganisations and restructures
Our expert solicitors support corporate reorganisations and restructures by advising on changes to ownership, group structures and asset arrangements, helping ensure matters are handled efficiently while minimising risk and disruption.
Management buyouts (MBOs)
We have extensive experience advising both management teams and business owners on management buyouts. Our highly skilled team guide you through the process, structuring the transaction effectively, managing risk appropriately, and helping ensure matters progress smoothly from start to completion.
Management buy-ins (MBIs)
Our specialist solicitors regularly support business owners and incoming management teams as they navigate management buy-ins, advising on structure, identifying and managing risk, and guiding the process through to completion in a controlled and efficient way.
Shareholder agreements
We advise business owners on drafting shareholders’ agreements that clearly set out rights, responsibilities, decision-making and share transfers. Our highly skilled solicitors focus on putting robust arrangements in place early, helping minimise the risk of future disputes and protect both the company and its shareholders.
Businesses we can support
Our mergers and acquisitions solicitors advise owner-managed businesses on transactions ranging from smaller business sales to complex deals worth over £5 million.
Why choose our Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyers
Focused, commercially minded advice
Mergers and acquisitions are often complex. It is easy to get bogged down in issues with little real-world impact. Our focused approach centres on what genuinely matters to you and your business, avoiding unnecessary stress, costs and delays, whilst ensuring your interests are robustly protected.
Strategic advice for growth-focussed entrepreneurs
At Scott Bailey, we regularly support growth-focussed entrepreneurs, providing strategic advice to help balance risk and opportunity. If you are a business owner on the acquisition trail, our specialist solicitors provide the legal guidance you need to stay on track as your business grows.
Direct access to experienced M&A solicitors
Mergers and acquisitions are significant transactions. You need to have complete confidence in the legal advice you are given and the decisions you make. That is why we ensure our clients always have direct access to the experienced mergers and acquisitions solicitors handling their transaction.
Whether it is a quick call to clarify a point or in-depth guidance on a more complex issue, our specialist team is here to support you throughout the process.
Broad expertise. Aligned approach.
Mergers and acquisitions often involve more than a single transaction. Property, employees, group structures, and the potential for disputes can all come into play. Our team brings together expertise across corporate, commercial property, employment, and litigation, allowing issues to be dealt with efficiently as part of a joined-up approach.
Transparent pricing. Exceptional value.
Wherever possible, we act on a fixed-fee basis, providing clarity from the outset and helping you keep legal costs under control. Our focus is on delivering practical, value-led advice that supports a smooth and efficient transaction, without unnecessary cost or complication.
Specialist sectors
Corporate and Commercial Lawyers in Hampshire
With offices in Lymington and Lyndhurst, Scott Bailey’s corporate and commercial solicitors are ideally placed to support businesses across Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, and the South Coast. Our team has a proven track record of advising a wide variety of SMEs – from financial services businesses in Southampton and dental practices in the New Forest to marine manufacturers in Portsmouth and technology companies in Bournemouth.
FAQs
What does a mergers and acquisitions lawyer do?
A mergers and acquisitions lawyer supports the legal and commercial process of buying, selling and combining businesses. This includes structuring and documenting transactions, managing due diligence and disclosures, negotiating key protections, coordinating property and employment issues where required, and ensuring lender and finance requirements are properly addressed.
What is mergers and acquisitions law?
Mergers and acquisitions law is the umbrella area covering the purchase and sale of businesses, as well as mergers where two businesses come together under a shared structure. Transactions often involve share or asset transfers alongside supporting agreements such as joint venture arrangements, shareholder agreements and corporate reorganisations.
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