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Our corporate team has a strong reputation and experience in private equity and has always predominantly acted for management teams or owners of entrepreneurial businesses in the mid-market.

We aren’t an institutional business and whilst we work with institutions, we have a very clear strategy to act for businesses and their management teams rather than institutional funders, to avoid real or perceived commercial conflict.

It also means we will always give strong advice to management teams, owner-managers, and shareholders without being concerned with wider commercial relationships or commercial partners.

Our experience also helps us act as a strong bridge between the sometimes conflicting perceptions and expectations of management teams and the expectations of private equity houses, institutional lenders, and exiting shareholders.

With over 20 years of experience, our senior corporate team has seen the market conditions and the regulatory environment surrounding the market change dramatically.

The perception is that leveraged deals have become more complex and unwieldy with a myriad of advisors seeking to manage risk often focussing on and advising in the negative.

Therefore, it is easy to see why business owners (be they current owners or incumbent management teams) may be cautious in choosing a partner they can trust during a management buy-in or buy-out transaction.

As the market is complex and institutions become more risk-averse and regimented, you want advisors who aren’t afraid to challenge when it is appropriate to do so.

They need to be able to project manage positively and with forward momentum with the resources and bandwidth to deliver an end-to-end service, always having emotional empathy with all stakeholder.

The Types of Management Buyouts We Can Help With

We act for businesses, owner-managers, shareholders, and management teams on exit or buy-out strategies from the bid process to execution.

Whether buy side or sell side, we foster long-term relationships and are the team that is often retained by the business and their management team going forward.

We have experience in all forms of buyouts and complex transactions, including:

  • Strategic and/or corporate succession planning
  • Bid process
  • Private equity funding
  • Senior debt funding and banking
  • Asset-based lending
  • Mezzanine financing and subordinated finance structures
  • Equity structures and governance
  • Leveraged buyouts/leveraged management buyouts
  • Management buyouts
  • Secondary buyouts
  • Management exit

The corporate team’s track record provides some insight into how our team can help current management teams, external management teams, private companies, external buyers, private equity investors, and many more.

Having acted for management teams and owners on debt-funded buyouts, private equity-funded buyouts and vendor-sponsored buyouts at enterprise values of between £5m to £500m, our team have the experience behind us to provide satisfactory outcomes to many different stakeholders.

How Our Team Can Help You

We work with management teams that are experienced in relation to transactional buyout processes and those that are not, often at the strategic stage ahead of the bid process, to help ensure a successful management buyout process from start to finish.

We also work with owners and shareholders who are strategically looking at succession planning and exits as an attractive option for business continuity.

Our approach isn’t just about the legal process and “getting it over the line”.

We have a strong ability to tune in to key questions that organisations have and use this intimate knowledge of a business to facilitate positive outcomes for management teams and owners.

We also have the wider commercial experience to advise on the types of structures that are realistic, get fully engaged with teams in relation to structuring and fundraising, and choose the appropriate types of financing partners.

Always focussed on the value and relationship proposition for both owners and leadership and management teams, we also believe in providing advice that is focused on the positive, while at the same time providing practical commercial and legal protection.

For less experienced businesses and management teams, we can accelerate the educational process and have always had a reputation for making that which is often conceptually complex much more straightforward.

Whoever the stakeholders, we are always mindful of the human side of the transaction process and the emotional motivations of all the stakeholders, including both internal and external parties.

It’s one of the reasons why we continue to be retained by businesses going forward as trusted advisors and why people enjoy working with us.

Get in Touch with Our Management Buyouts Lawyers Today

Whether you are a large corporation, owner-manager or just starting your business journey, our lawyers are here to help. Our experts have years of experience in management buyouts, so no matter your issue, you can rest assured that our team will be with you every step of the way. 

To speak with one of our lawyers, call us on 0333 202 6433 or email us at [email protected].

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