Ashtons’ Corporate and Commercial Solicitors want to understand your business fully so that we can help you identify and exploit fresh opportunities.
Assisting at each stage of the business’ life cycle from its creation, through its growth, whether that be by way of investment or acquisition, through to its eventual sale, our involvement with your business goes beyond just providing safe guidance.
Developing long-term relationships with you allows us to truly understand your business, the ways that you and your businesses operate, and enables us to provide the best advice as your trusted advisers.
Our Corporate and Commercial Law Solicitors assist businesses of all sizes and have a particular focus on privately owned businesses.
Our Corporate and Commercial team is highly ranked by leading client guide, the Legal 500, for our independently recognised expertise in this practice area.
Contact our specialist Corporate and Commercial Law Solicitors in East Anglia
For practical Corporate and Commercial Law advice, as well as any other business legal advice you need to reach your goals, get in touch with our specialist Corporate and Commercial Lawyers in Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich, Norwich and Leeds.
For more information or to set up an initial consultation:
- Give us a call on 0330 404 0767; or
- Fill in our simple online enquiry form and we will be in touch shortly.
Our Corporate Solicitors’ expertise
Our Corporate and Commercial Law Solicitors have a wealth of experience in providing a wide range of Corporate Legal Services. We work closely with colleagues across our other legal disciplines, including our Commercial Property, Employment, Business Dispute Resolution and Owner-Managed Business & Family Business teams, so that all of your legal needs can be dealt with under one roof.
The Corporate Law Services we offer include:
- Mergers and Acquisitions/buying and selling companies and businesses
- Management buyouts
- Share reorganisations
- Corporate restructurings/demergers
- Share options/EMI Schemes
- Own share purchases
- Investments
- Crowd Funding/Venture Capital funding/Angel investments
- Joint Ventures
- Shareholders Agreements
- Corporate governance
Our Commercial Solicitors’ expertise
Our Corporate and Commercial Solicitors know how important a business’s relationships with its key customers, suppliers and strategic partners are. We have the experience to advise on your business’s day-to-day needs and complex commercial arrangements alike.
The Commercial Law Services we offer are:
- Commercial contracts
- Intellectual property
- Data protection/GDPR
- Technology contracts
- Cooperation agreements
- Franchising
- Terms and conditions
- Website terms of use
- Supply Agreements
- Agency and distribution arrangements
- Outsourcing
- Non-Disclosure/confidentiality agreements
Whether you are:
- A business owner looking to buy or sell your business
- Looking to buy or sell shares in a company
- Succession planning
- An investor
- Seeking investment
- An owner-managed business, a family-owned business or a privately run business
- A national organisation
- An entrepreneur
- A start-up business
- A growing or expanding business
- An established business
- A large national business.
How can we help?
During the day-to-day running of your business, regardless of the size of your operation, you will be continuously entering into contractual relations. On each occasion, it is sensible to consider how formal those relationships should be. Our Commercial and Corporate Lawyers have the experience and expertise to guide you and provide commercial solutions that are right for your business.
Our Corporate and Commercial Lawyers will:
- Work with you to understand what is important to you and what you are looking to achieve before then advising to ensure that we achieve your objectives
- Help you to manage risk and safeguard your interests
- Help you avoid future disputes.
Why choose our Corporate and Commercial Solicitors?
As a Legal 500 recognised firm, we are proud to consistently exceed our client’s expectations and produce top-quality results that fulfill their commercial goals and promote further growth and development.
Here are just a few case studies and client reviews which demonstrate our strong track record of success:
Case Studies:
- Acting for the seller of Vaiopak, an award-winning food and beverage packaging manufacturing business, in their sale to Zeus, the Irish conglomerate, as one of a series of acquisitions by Zeus worth around €15m, which were widely reported in the national press. Read more about our work on the Vaiopak Group Acquisition here.
- Advising Medical Management Systems Ltd on $4m minority investment from new US investors to fund international growth and expansion. Read more about our work with Medical Management Systems Ltd here.
Reviews:
- ‘Ashtons Legal has advised me through the disposal of one high worth business and is currently helping me build another. The depth of knowledge, friendliness, and honesty has helped me pick my way through the tough decisions often facing an entrepreneur. I have over the years used most services for personal and business reasons. Most recently Ashtons have been helping to write some international contracts in conjunction with the UKTI.’ – Ashtons Legal client
- ‘Ashtons Legal has helped us to navigate through many of the business landscapes ranging from employment to business acquisitions. Through quick and intelligent advice they have allowed us to move and scale faster than our contemporaries.‘ – Legal 500
- ‘The firm has local knowledge with an appreciation of international requirements and “big business” advice.‘ – Legal 500
Meet our Corporate & Commercial lawyers
Our senior-led team boasts many decades of combined experience and in-depth expertise across a wide range of niche sectors. Our team consists of:
- Geoff Hazlewood – Geoff is the Head of our Corporate and Commercial team. He has experience acting for a broad range of industries and sectors, including retail, engineering, recruitment, manufacturing, professional services, agriculture and finance.
- Richard Bailey – advises on large-scale corporate transactions, non-contentious intellectual property and directors’ duties.
- Damian Humphrey – Damian heads up our specialist Franchising team and is a recognised expert in this area of law.
- Nick Palmer – has wide experience in advising on business acquisitions and sales, restructuring, joint ventures and governance and succession issues. Nick has a passion for working with business owners and leads the Owner Managed Business & Family Business team.
- Mark Watson – Mark specialises in share restructurings and share options.
- Craig Fiddaman – Craig specialises in corporate transactions such as acquisitions, sales and restructurings.
- Tracy Williamson – Tracy is a member of the Franchising team and has a wealth of experience in advising franchisors on issuing franchise agreement and resales.
- David Sloman – David specialises in advising digital and technology companies.
Contact our specialist Commercial and Corporate Law Solicitors in East Anglia
For practical Corporate and Commercial Law advice, as well as any other business legal advice you need to reach your goals, get in touch with our specialist Corporate and Commercial Lawyers in Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich, Norwich and Leeds.
To set up an initial consultation:
- Give us a call on 0330 404 0767; or
- Fill in our simple online enquiry form and we will be in touch shortly.