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New Vacancy: Property Finance Solicitor
Job Title Property Finance Solicitor
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New Vacancy: Property Post-Completions Assistant
Job Title Property Post-Completions Assistant
Continue ReadingPrivate Equity
Bermans’ corporate team has extensive experience in advising investors, investee companies and management teams on PE transactions. Such transactions include initial investments, secondary buyouts, co-investments and exits.
The team’s experience in advising the various parties to private equity transactions means that it prides itself in providing commercial advice and being able to achieve its clients’ objectives. We understand the fast-paced nature of private equity and provide commercial, pragmatic advice that aligns with deal timelines and market dynamics.
Our full service offering means that we are able to utilise our specialists in real estate, employment, intellectual property and finance to address the full range of operational issues that may arise in private equity transactions. We also provide ongoing support to portfolio companies, helping them manage risk, scale operations and execute strategic initiatives.
Continue ReadingMergers and Acquisitions
Our experienced corporate team can provide buy-side or sell-side support to shareholders, investors, private limited companies and private equity firms, across a wide variety of sectors. Assisting with end-to-end support throughout a transaction, we can tailor our support to achieve our clients’ end goals.
Our Mergers and Acquisitions services include:
- Domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions
- Business and asset purchases
- Joint ventures and strategic alliances
- Management buy-outs
- Corporate reorganisations
Management Buy-Outs (MBOs)
Our corporate team provides strategic legal support for management teams and business owners navigating the complexities of management buy-outs. If you’re acquiring the company you help run, or you’re a business owner facilitating an internal transition, our experienced team will deliver clear, commercially focused advice on every stage of the transaction.
We understand the unique dynamic of MBOs, including the sensitive balance between maintaining relationships and achieving fair outcomes.
We assist with the following:
- Deal structuring and negotiation
- Equity and debt financing
- Due Diligence
- Transaction documentation
- Employee and governance matters
Disposals
Our corporate team provides comprehensive legal support for corporate disposals, whether you’re divesting a subsidiary, exiting a market or refocusing on core operations. Our experienced corporate team can work alongside you, your internal teams and financial advisors to manage risk, preserve value and ensure compliance throughout the transaction.
Our expertise includes:
- Legal structuring of disposals – advise on efficient legal structures for asset or share sales or group reorganisations
- Due diligence and risk management – conduct legal due diligence and identify issues that could impact deal value or timing
- Drafting and negotiation of key documentation
- Regulatory and compliance advisory – advising on employment, data protection and other regulatory issues
- Stakeholder and board management
Corporate Advisory
Bermans’ corporate team along with its specialist colleagues provides corporate advisory services that can assist businesses throughout the life-cycle of their business. Whether you’re a start-up, a growing enterprise or a multinational, we can advise on a broad spectrum of corporate matters.
Our corporate advisory services include:
- Company formations
- Articles and Shareholders’ Agreements
- Reorganisations
- Corporate governance and compliance
- Directors’ service agreements
- Share buybacks
- Reductions of capital
- Share issues
Business Sales
As well as share acquisitions and disposals, the corporate team also acts for business owners, purchasers and investors in the sale and purchase of businesses and assets. The team has experience in providing legal support on business and asset transactions of various sizes.
Our experience allows us to guide our clients through each stage of the process to make it as seamless as possible. We are involved in deal structuring, preparation of business and asset purchase agreements, contract assignments and novations and TUPE transfers.
We regularly work alongside tax advisors and accounts to ensure that the transaction is being structured in the most effective way possible.
Continue ReadingCorporate team at law firm Bermans advises on sale of RoBAT to Swedish hi-tech company
A Swedish hi-tech company has acquired Cheshire-based RoBAT, with corporate lawyers at north west firm Bermans advising on the deal.
RoBAT designs and manufactures high-value robotic machines for the fast and reliable testing of high-frequency signal quality on printed circuit boards.
The company serves a global market from its headquarters in Macclesfield and its operations in China and the United States. Its specialised equipment is trusted by some of the world’s largest technology companies.
RoBAT, which was founded in 2001, employs 27 staff and recorded net sales of £3m in 2024.
Laura McMorland, Charlotte Mills and Nathan Hughes, of Bermans’ Manchester office, advised the shareholders of RoBAT on the company’s sale to Mycronic’s Global Technologies division for an undisclosed sum.
Usha Sharma
Usha qualified as 
a solicitor in 2000 and joined Bermans in December 2024 as a Partner in our Commercial Property Team.
Usha graduated with a pure LLB Honours law degree in Liverpool and subsequently undertook the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in Chester. Prior to joining Bermans Usha has previously worked in a large international law firm and subsequently a large northern based firm.
Currently Usha has a focus on :
- commercial property management and non-contentious landlord and tenant law
- acquisition and disposal of freehold and leasehold business premises
- specialist healthcare transactions such as dentists and pharmacies
- portfolio management in respect of asset management matters, particularly shopping centres and other multi let properties.
A member of the Liverpool Law Society Equality Diversity & Inclusion Committee, sitting on the Cheshire and Merseyside Legal Diversity Group and leading her previous firms REACH Group (“Race Equality and Cultural Heritage”), Usha takes a keen interest improving diversity in law firms through access, recruitment and progression. She was named as a finalist in the 2023 Northern Power Women awards in the “Agent of Change” category.
Alongside her day job Usha is a keen chef and specialises in cooking Rajasthani recipes, handed down from her family.
Usha is recognised as a ‘Leading Associate’ by the Legal 500 (2025 edition) which notes Usha as a key name in Commercial Property in the Liverpool City Region.
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