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    A company restructuring their business which resulted in transferring staff and making redundancies

    An international company took the decision to close down one of its wholly owned subsidiaries. We advised the company on their restructuring, which involved the transfer of two senior sales...

    The dismissal of an employee following a disciplinary

    A company had an employee with high levels of absence which they suspected were related to alcohol abuse. We obtained an occupational health report which confirmed that there were no...

    An unfair dismissal claim from an employee who was made redundant

    We advised a company who faced an unfair dismissal claim from an employee following their redundancy. The employee alleged the employer failed to follow procedures and alleged that due to...

    Personal guarantees

    We advised the directors of a company seeking to obtain a bank loan on the personal guarantees the bank required them to provide as security for the loan to the...

    Working with a bank in the preparation of a bank guarantee

    We worked for a national bank in the preparation of a guarantee given by a private company in favour of the bank in order to secure a loan made to...

    National estate agent – exercise of Enterprise Management Incentives (EMI)

    We prepared new articles of association dealing with the class rights to be designated to the class of shares offered to employees. We were subsequently involved with the exercise of those...

    Share buy-back

    We were instructed by a corporate client in a buyback of a portion of its ordinary shares which we completed within three days of instruction, which was possible due to...

    Knowledge & Resources

    A national trade association with inconsistencies between their accounts and annual returns

    We advised the insurance arm of a national trade association following an inconsistency between the filed accounts and the annual returns relating to the issued share capital of the company....

    Articles of association for a communications agency

    We worked with a communications agency based in London in preparing new articles of association for them. The company had alphabet shares and the scheme/new articles required further classes of...

    Articles of association, shareholders’ agreement and cross-option agreement

    We prepared articles of association for an owner managed business selling solar lights enabling the director/shareholders to declare differential dividends by the use of an alphabet share scheme. The cross...

    Drafting a contract for a manufacturer/supplier of goods

    We advised a leading Hertfordshire manufacturer and supplier of goods in preparing a contract with a national telecoms company for the client to supply bespoke goods to all retail outlets...

    A multinational introduction agreement to obtain finance a substantial investment

    We drafted and finalised a multinational introduction agreement required to finance a substantial oil investment worth $60m. We worked with the introducer who had established contact with a buyer wishing to procure...

    A recruitment supply agreement for a national recruitment agency

    We drafted two substantial recruitment supply agreements for a national recruitment agency to govern the arrangement they have with a client. These documents included an exclusive master vendor agreement and second tier...

    Preparing an international distribution, software and branding agreement for a global logistics company

    We prepared an international distribution, software and branding agreement to enable a global logistics company to effectively franchise its business model to a company in Africa. We drafted the cross-border...

    Distribution (reseller) agreement for an international company

    We advised a company on a business agreement for international distribution of goods. Agreement templates had been concluded by the client’s Italian parent company with an international fashion label for the manufacture and...

    Sale of a pharmaceutical business to a large unquoted PLC for a seven-figure sum

    We advised on the sale of the entire issued share capital of a national pharmaceutical business company and its subsidiary, which together operated a number of pharmacies across the country,...

    Sale of an unquoted PLC, which is also an FCA regulatedAn insurance agent selling business to private company in the same sector for a seven-figure sum

    We helped acted the principal shareholder/director of on the sale of an unquoted a PLC public company, an insurance agent regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, in the sale of...

    Management buy out for a seven-figure sum

    We advised the purchasers on the management buy out of the entire issued share capital of a market leading Hertfordshire based family run mobility products business. The matter was completed...

    Acquisition of a pharmacy business for a six-figure sum

    We advised our client on the corporate and property aspects of the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of a private company, the owner of a valuable 100 hour...
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