Corporate Finance

From starting up a business to selling or floating it, good legal advice at the right time may be critical to your success.  Our Corporate Finance services include:

• Asset finance
• Buying a company or business
• Debt finance
• Demergers and other corporate reorganisations
• Equity funding
• Family company succession
• Incorporation of businesses
• Joint ventures
• Management buy-ins (MBIs)
• Management buy-outs (MBOs)
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Partnership and LLP agreements and dissolution
• Selling a company or business
• Share buy-backs
• Shareholders’ arrangements
• Venture capital

Our Corporate Finance team provide businesses with a responsive, speedy and business-orientated legal service. Our objective is to develop and maintain a long-standing client relationship, providing continuity and enabling us to get an in-depth understanding of the organisation concerned and the legal issues which may affect its business.

Palmers Solicitors has a resourceful and experienced Corporate Finance Department and a proven track record of providing legal expertise in company sales and purchases. 2007 was a successful year for the team who were involved in the following transactions:-

• Sale of Passmore Drywall & Insulation for £13.4 million in cash to Travis Perkins plc.
• Acting for a marketing company in the acquisition of the shares in a printing and packaging company for a consideration not exceeding £3 million.
• Acting for a company in connection with a merger creating a company valued at £5.7 million.
• MBO of a security company – undisclosed sum.
• MBO of an air conditioning company – undisclosed sum.
• Share sale of Honda main dealership for £1.35 million plus net asset adjustment.
• Acquisition of site for £2 million restaurant/bar in major new leisure/concert complex in London.
• Acquisition of regional building company W A Hills (Holdings) Limited by S Walsh & Sons Limited – undisclosed sum.
• Asset purchase of a security company – undisclosed sum.
• Asset purchase of a stationary shop – price in excess of £350K.
• Asset purchase of a Engineering Company – price in excess of £250K.
• Share purchase of a Roller Blind company – undisclosed sum.
• Asset purchase of a Garden Centre – price in excess of £600K.
• Sale of shares in a Hotel Company for a consideration exceeding £6 million.
• Sale of shares in a vehicle disposal company for a consideration exceeding £4.5 million.
• Sale of shares in a leisure industry company for a consideration exceeding £4 million.
• £2 million re-structuring of a restaurant company.
• Various other business and company sales for consideration in each case not exceeding £1 million.

If you have any clients who may wish to benefit from our competitive service, please give us a call.