INSIGHT
ESG and sustainable funds25 November 2024
By Sarah Jane Chia and Tom Reynolds
Businesses today face a range of challenges as well as opportunities when looking to grow - our role is to help you navigate complexity, prepare for change and adapt to a shifting political and economic landscape. Our corporate lawyers will help you assess and make decisions on your growth strategies - recognising that this involves balancing risk and legal considerations with your commercial business objectives. Simply put – we're here to help your business operate, grow and succeed.
From acquisition activity, partnering in joint venture arrangements, raising finance in the public or private investment arena or seeking to overlay corporate governance arrangements or company secretarial services on your business – our specialists understand what you need.
Whether you are adopting a buy and build approach, engaging in a strategic acquisitions programme, seeking to establish a stronger capital base whether through entering the public market or raising investment by partnering with private equity, we can assist. We know investments and we know acquisitions. From structuring the transaction to undertaking core due diligence, to drafting and negotiating investment agreements, shareholder agreements, sale and purchase agreements, we know how to kick off, execute and deliver transactions. Our experts will advise and guide you throughout the whole transactional lifecycle, and post deal support.
We make it our business to discover everything about you - knowing what’s important, what’s current and what’s coming next – investing time and commitment into building collaborative partnerships and on-going dialogue with you. Many of our client relationships have lasted years and decades – so businesses benefit from our knowledge of company history, mutual expectations and establishing working relationships.
So whatever stage you are in your growth strategy - you can be sure you are working with a team who understand the transactional lifecycle, what your business needs and how to partner with you to execute your strategy.
In brief
Our latest report shows deal flow down 33% in 2023 but predicts a busier year ahead for 2024.
We advised digital transformation specialist, Proventeq, and its co-founders, on a multi-million pound investment from private equity house, BGF, which is set to fuel Proventeq's growth across the UK, US, Europe and the Middle East.
We advised Five Tech Ltd, a leading technology, computing and gaming retail company, on its recent acquisition of Box Limited's intellectual property and other assets.
We advised the family shareholders on the sale of the entire issued share capital of JS2 Investments Limited, parent company of Datasharp UK Limited to Focus 4 U Ltd, a member of the Focus Group.
We advised the shareholders of ID Medical Group Holdings Limited (ID Medical) on the sale of the entire issued share capital in the global ID Medical Group to Aya Healthcare, Inc (Aya), the largest healthcare talent software and staffing company in the United States.
We acted for the management team of independent food manufacturer Cakesmiths on the reinvestment in their business following the sale of the business by LDC to the French headquartered Onoré Food Group.
20 November 2024
By Sarah Souter and Sijal Dudin
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