DYNE DREWETT SOLICITORS LIMITED.

Corporate and Commercial

Our Corporate & Commercial Team has extensive experience of acting for a wide range of businesses and individuals on a broad range of commercial issues. These include:

• Mergers, Acquisitions & Disposals (share and asset deals)
• Company formation & Business start-up advice
• Corporate governance, including under the Companies Act 2006
• Company Secretarial & registered office services
• Articles of Association and constitutional documents
• Joint ventures & strategic alliances
• Shareholders’ agreements
• Limited Liability Partnerships & Partnerships
• Private equity & venture capital
• Management buy-outs and buy-ins (MBOs/MBIs)
• Corporate reorganisations
• Lending & security
• Corporate Finance
• Employee share & motivation schemes
• Agency & Distribution arrangements
• Franchising (for franchisors and franchisees)
• E-commerce and website compliance
• Intellectual Property & brand protection

We have experience of working with businesses both large and small, in addition to advising directors and entrepreneurs on transactional and commercial matters – some examples of our experience include:

• A multi-million pound acquisition of a well-known London based recruitment company.
• Structuring a nation-wide franchise operation, including putting together complex joint venture/shareholder arrangements to help fund franchisees’ startup costs.
• Private equity/Venture Capital transactions in excess of £3m for businesses in the digital signage and property development sectors.
• Raising finance from angel investors for a healthcare company.
• Acting for a leading high-street bank on a revolving credit facility and related security arrangements, for an MBI transaction.
• Disposal of an IT logistics company.
• MBO of a digital imaging/print technology company.
• The Acquisition of pharmacy businesses, and a company in the clinical research arena.
• Establishing an LLP joint venture for a property development project worth over £11m, based in Canary Wharf.
• A partnership agreement for a photographic and print management business; supplying many of the leading car manufacturers.
• Providing legal advice concerning the establishment of an EMI share option scheme for a construction company.

We work closely with you and your other professional advisors to ensure matters proceed smoothly, quickly and cost-effectively and in so doing have built positive and lasting relationships with our clients.

With such depth of experience, Dyne Drewett is able to advise on straightforward matters (with the minimum of fuss; providing clear, timely and cost-effective advice), as well as on significant, high-value and complex transactions.

For an initial no-obligation discussion about how we may be able to help you, please feel free to contact Richard James.