Owner/managed businesses

  • Buying shares
  • Exit strategies
  • Selling shares
  • Setting up in business
  • Shareholder Agreements
  • Shareholder Disputes
  • Valuing shares
  • Where is the Registered Office?
  • Who are the directors?
  • Who are the shareholders?

Examples of recent work

  • Advice on Buyback of shares from former shareholder and related agreements involving restrictive covenants;
  • Acting for two minority shareholders in connection with an agreement involving the purchase by them of the majority stake in the business over a period of five years;
  • Advice on sale of shares to managers of business;
  • Advice on sale of shares in business on retirement;
  • Advice on buyback of shares;
  • Advising client on the employment aspects of a prospective purchase of the assets of the competitor business.  Advising particularly in relation to TUPE issues;
  • Acting in the purchase of the shares for the business being acquired for approximately £250,000;
  • Acting for four equal shareholders in connection with the sale of the shares in substantial business with total consideration of approximately £1.5m. Earn out sale; related employment contracts;
  • Sale of shares in dispensing chemist business to co-owner;
  • Purchase of shares in dispensing chemist business;
  • Drafting SPA and ancillary documents for buying out shares of minority shareholder
  • Acting in sale of shares in retail carpet business
  • Advising on arm’s length takeover of IT business, where directors being retained in new business;
  • Advice to shareholder of impact of potential new investor and the terms of a new shareholders agreement
  • Purchase of shares from former co-shareholder
  • Sale of goodwill and other assets of a contract cleaning business
  • Advising on the purchase of the shares in radio station.
  • Acting in takeover of online webfinder business; advising on SPA, shareholder agreement and ancillary documents.

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