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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
If you are a business owner and still see cyber threats as “just an IT issue,” it’s time for a rethink. The UK Government and the National Cyber Security Centre has recently released a Cyber Governance Code of Practice (the Code) — and it’s aimed squarely at the boardroom.
As we step into 2025, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 brings several crucial updates aimed at enhancing corporate transparency, protecting personal information, and combating economic crime. These changes are set to impact businesses across the UK significantly. Here, we explore the key updates and their implications.
The utilisation of Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) as a way of exiting a business has grown massively in recent times. This is partly due to the considerable tax benefits it can propose for a selling shareholder, but also because of the long-term advantages it can create for the business subject to the sale.
This article summarises EOTs typical structures and highlights some of its key advantages– for both the selling shareholders and the company being sold.
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