When we can help
You are preparing to buy or sell a business or shares, restructure ownership, or work through the legal requirements of a proposed transaction.
What the work can include
- Transaction readiness and legal work plans
- Share and business sale documentation
- Agreed legal due diligence
- Term sheets, conditions and ancillary documents
- Completion planning and post-completion corporate actions
Decisions to work through
The transaction perimeter
Is the proposal for shares, business assets or a restructure? Identify what is being acquired or transferred, and what will stay outside the deal.
Conditions and risk
What must be checked, agreed or approved before the parties commit or complete? Connect due diligence findings with the proposed terms and timetable.
Completion and handover
Which documents, consents, funds and corporate actions must come together? Allocate signing, completion and follow-up responsibilities.
What you should come away with
A defined transaction process, advice on the agreed legal issues and documents that support the intended transfer or restructure.
Where to start
A scoped transaction-readiness review begins with a discussion of your objectives and the documents already in place.
To help scope the work, gather:
- The proposed deal structure and any term sheet or offer
- Relevant business and corporate documents
- The intended timetable, other advisers and known risks
How fees are approached
A readiness review may be separately fixed. Due diligence, negotiation and implementation are scoped in stages, with assumptions and dependencies made clear.
A transaction roadmap does not include full due diligence, negotiations, finance, tax or completion work unless that stage is separately engaged. Specialist issues are coordinated with the appropriate advisers.
Inclusions, revisions, delivery stages, assumptions and responsibilities are set out in the engagement before work begins.
More about our processPrepare for the conversation
Define the proposed deal, gather the right records and identify the approvals and advice needed before committing.
Preparing for a business purchase or sale