Selling A Company Legal Expertise
Lawyers for Selling a Company
Beyond Corporate’s corporate team has built one of the strongest legal and advisory reputations in the north-west acting for:
- Owner-managers
- Entrepreneur
- Medium to large corporates
- Management teams
- Business disposals
For owner-managers, family businesses, and entrepreneurs, our focus is a simple one – maximising value, realising value, and retaining value.
But within that pursuit, there is, understandably and rightfully, much more to consider when meeting your potential for growth.
Opportunistic disposals and liquidity events such as putting a business up for sale, or being a prospective buyer for another business often bring with them an emotional journey and personal and management transition.
Whilst realisation and retention of value will be a core outcome for many, other factors come into play, including loyalty to colleagues and perhaps family members still working in the business.
What does it mean for them and how does it shape your relationship with them going forward? Whether you’re selling to a trade or private equity buyer will likely shape that debate.
No Matter Your Side of a Company Sale, We Can Help
Our experts can aid you throughout the sale process.
For the Entrepreneur
For the entrepreneur to understand what the position of the business for sale or incumbent buyer is going forward and your relevance following the event, there are a few questions to consider:
- Are you staying?
- Are you now part of management?
- Will you retain your passion and importantly for PE houses, how much skin will you have in the game?
- Where does the intellectual property of the business lie?
- Who has got commercial control of the business and how is that reflected in the legal detail?
- What is the financial position of all parties in the sale?
- What does ceding control look like or what should it look like?
- Do you have a strong exit strategy in place if it’s needed?
For the Corporate Seller
For the corporate seller, the most important elements to consider may be divesting non-core business assets, or selling to an ambitious management team, there are even more questions, such as:
- If the latter how do you manage conflict of interest?
- It could be a purely financial exercise to tidy up a balance sheet, and the assets may be intrinsically part of the fabric of your group – how do you split them out to provide for continuity?
- What’s the balance sheet impact?
- How do you deal with shared central infrastructure services and ongoing business needs for each business in the short term?
What We Do
Beyond Corporate’s corporate team has one of the strongest and largest independent boutique corporate offerings in the northwest.
We work nationally and regionally and act for potential buyers, entrepreneurs, business owners, family businesses, sole traders, limited companies, corporate businesses, and management teams across the full spectrum of corporate M&A activity.
We typically act on transactions with enterprise values of up to £100m.
We advise clients in relation to a range of business ownership questions, across trade transactions and private equity or private tender, such as:
- Transaction structures
- Rollover structures
- Earn-out structures
- Management buyout structures
We can help throughout the business sale process, from planning, through the bid process, drawing up non-disclosure agreements, understanding the tax implications of purchase, and ultimate closing.
We then make the business ready for its going forward position, our team is by your side through every stage of the purchase agreement.
How Our Team Can Help
We stay focussed on what is important, both financially and emotionally for all stakeholders, prioritising value creation, value realisation, and value retention.
Our commercial experience helps us support and assist in less sophisticated corporate environments where not losing sight of the straightforward is important.
But we also work in highly complex transaction structures with myriads of advisors and multiple agendas where it is perhaps even more important to keep everyone on agenda.
We shoulder responsibility and do so without drama.
Other Corporate Capabilities
Get in Touch with Our Lawyers For Selling A Company 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 selling companies 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].
