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Restructuring and reorganising is often necessary to consolidate or split the group structure of a company, prepare for an acquisition, minimise risk and expenditure, distribute assets or create tax advantages.
Without the right legal partner, restructures can negatively impact on other areas of the business and can result in your business becoming non-compliant with laws and regulations.
Reorganising & restructuring
Our corporate and finance solicitors will advise you on the advantages and risks of your plans and help you to decide on the most effective structure for your business.
By gaining a thorough understanding of your commercial objectives, our experts will implement strategic steps to confidently take your business forward and manage your restructure from start to finish.
Effective communication between all parties including your organisation’s other professional advisors creates an efficient combined skill-set to ensure that you reach your desired outcome with minimal expenditure and risk.
If your business has an in-house legal team, our solicitors will help navigate them through your restructure plan and provide advice and support wherever required.
Where assets are to be refinanced as part of the restructure, our Corporate & Finance team will initiate confident negotiations with banks and other involved corporate finance sources, to ensure favourable terms or to pre-empt negative implications proposals.
Reorganising & restructuring
Our corporate and finance solicitors have considerable experience in dealing with company restructures and reorganisations for listed companies, SMEs and owner-managed businesses across all sectors.
They regularly advise owners, directors and management teams on planning for succession, bringing in new shareholders or the need to alleviate financial difficulties.
Several of our team have been consistently recognised as ‘Recommended Lawyers’ in The Legal 500 and are noted for their “commercial approach, exceptional service and fast response times”.
Reorganising & restructuring
By combining the company with another more profitable business, or by selling certain parts of the business, capital can be raised and debts cleared as part of the business turnaround.
Insolvent and financially distressed companies are frequently bought by turn-around specialists or other interested parties looking for a quick transaction, helping to avoid insolvency and clear or manage outstanding debts.
By replacing an existing debt obligation with another, more favourable terms can be agreed such as a better interest rate, reduced monthly payments or consolidation of debts into a sole payment.
A company can reduce its shareholder equity by cancelling its shares to increase shareholder value. This will produce a more efficient capital structure, reduce liability and eliminate losses. Capital reductions apply to all shareholders.
A share buyback scheme can involve just one shareholder or many, but the result is the same in helping the business to reduce its cost of capital, consolidate ownership, and release profits to help with clearing debts.
A company can save a significant amount of money by offering shares to existing shareholders at a reduced rate.
During an acquisition, the takeover company offers its own shares, at an agreed price, in exchange for the shares in the company it is looking to acquire.
Forming a group company structure can help protect a business against commercial and financial risk. A subsidiary company can ring-fence assets or liabilities, therefore protecting others in the group. It can also help with any future sale of one or more parts of the business, allowing some of the company to be retained.
A company can have as many share classes as it likes and usually introduces others when a new party wishes to invest in the company.
Businesses can make joint venture arrangements with another like-minded company so as to pool resources for a particular task or goal.
We work closely with our Corporate & Finance, Commercial Property and Employment departments to deliver effective restructuring solutions to all of our clients. This seamless provision ensures an efficient, reliable and cost-effective service to achieve swift and positive results.
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