Buy-side M&A

Whether you are buying another business as a one-off transformational acquisition or as part of aggregation strategy our lawyers provide timely, pragmatic and commercial advice on all aspects of your deal.

Our team will focus on understanding the risk areas in the transaction and your strategy, and help you manage the deal to achieve your objectives quickly and efficiently. We have considerable experience in working closely with a buyer’s in-house teams throughout the process, providing critical legal insights that help shape the deal.

We have considerable experience in advising on and managing complex and multi-jurisdictional transactions across a variety of sectors including technology and media, professional services, healthcare, real estate, construction, sport, hospitality, financial services, fashion, travel, publishing, manufacturing, transport and engineering.

Our deals typically range from £10 million to £100 million and our corporate lawyers work closely with our specialist teams across the firm in relation to tax, regulatory, real estate, commercial, IP, data protection, banking, employment and other issues when required.

We advise on:

• Aggregation strategies
• Buy and build transactions
• Private equity and institutional investments
• Management buy-outs and buy-ins
• Purchases by family offices
• Purchases by Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs)
• Strategic purchases
• Trade purchases

In addition, our capital markets team advises on acquisitions and disposals by public companies.