Corporate
Practical legal advice to help your business grow, adapt and succeed.
Making your business work for you
Our corporate team advises on all aspects of creating, running, trading as, and disposing of a business. Working largely for developing entrepreneur and family managed unlisted public and private companies our work spans four main areas:
Mergers, Acquisitions, Buy-outs and Disposals
We specialise in selling and acquiring trading companies and businesses.
We have many years of experience representing buyers and sellers in these complex and stressful transactions
Company Law
Incorporation, structuring and re-organisation; reconstructions; finance and securities; joint venture and partnership agreements; share buy-backs and reductions in capital; share option and incentive schemes
Directors’ Duties and Responsibilities
Compliance advice; protection against liabilities
Commercial Law
Business terms and conditions; supply contracts; distribution and franchise agreements; ecommerce; trading agreements of all kinds.
We call on the expertise of our employment and commercial property teams as matters require and work closely with other advisors such as pensions, corporate finance and tax specialists.
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A commercial contract can look perfectly reasonable on first read. The headings make sense. The price is there. The deliverables are listed. Everyone is keen to move quickly. The trouble is that the real risk rarely sits in the obvious places. It hides in the “standard” clauses people skim, in vague wording that means different [...]
Share restructures are often talked about as if they are purely “tax moves”. In reality, most are business decisions first, tidying up ownership, preparing for investment, separating risk, or making succession planning simpler, with tax being one (important) part of the picture. Gisby Harrison’s approach is to keep things practical: focus on what you are [...]
In many privately owned companies, shareholders start out aligned. The business is growing, relationships are strong and everyone is focused on the same goal. At that early stage, it is common for shareholders to assume the company’s articles of association will be enough to keep things running smoothly. Over time, circumstances change. The business becomes [...]