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Business Legal Services
Exits and Disposals
Service overview: Exits and disposals solicitors
- As a specialist in start-ups and high growth businesses, a main focus for our firm is guiding businesses from formation through to successful exit.
- Whether you’re selling your business as a trade sale, a secondary buy-out, a partial exit, to realise either investment or a return on growth, as part of business evolution or due to retirement, planning a smooth business exit and disposal strategy is essential for a successful transition or sale.
- We regularly advise clients in relation to exit and disposal strategy planning, trade sales, family succession planning, management buy-outs (MBOs), mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity transactions, IPOs, and winding up.
- Our expert corporate solicitors can help negotiate sale and purchase agreements as well as structuring deals, overseeing transactions and advising on key documentation such as heads of terms, warranties and indemnities and confidentiality agreements.
- As a full-service law firm, our corporate exits and disposal lawyers tap into combined knowledge across our teams in M&A, banking and finance, tax, intellectual property and employment law.
Experts in exits and disposals
Our team can assist you across all areas of corporate law, including:
What we do: Legal advice on disposals and exits
Strategy, timing, and process are all key to the success of a company exit or disposal. Harper James’ disposals and exits lawyers can provide the expert legal support and backing you need throughout the process.
Business exit and disposal requires a carefully considered and well-planned strategy to achieve the ultimate objectives of the key stakeholders. Whether you are at the start of your commercial journey, with intentions to build and/or acquire business entities from which you will exit in subsequent years, or if you are now ready to consider your exit route, we can assist you in determining the options which will best serve your interests.
Some of the key legal tasks we undertake for disposals include:
- Negotiating and drafting transactional documents such as sale and purchase agreements
- Deal structuring
- Drafting heads of terms and memoranda of understanding
- Negotiating and advising on warranties and indemnities, plus other provisions to protect vendors
- Advising on the value of your IP assets
- Drafting confidentiality agreements and NDAs
- Legal and financial due diligence
Who we help: Start-ups, SMEs, entrepreneurs, investors and funders
Our exit and disposals lawyers have worked with many entrepreneurs and small, medium, and large businesses to review their plans for disposal and exit. They have the skills to filter out the noise and to focus in on the commercial imperatives that make the difference in your transaction.
We can advise and represent companies and individual shareholders in relation to:
- Exit and disposal strategy planning
- Family succession
- IPOs
- Management buy-outs (MBOs)
- Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
- Private equity transactions
- Winding up
- Trade sales
Our clients often benefit from business, financial, and legal insights that they had not previously considered; all of which can be key to the successful outcome of their venture. Harper James is a full-service law firm, which means our corporate clients seeking to review or implement their plans for business divestment benefit from legal expertise in a range of inter-related areas, including company mergers and acquisitions, private equity, restructuring, taxation, banking and finance, IP, disputes, employment law, and technology solicitors. This enables our team of disposal and exit lawyers to provide strategic holistic guidance on a complete end-to-end commercial strategy, looking outside the business transaction at hand to ensure your best interests are fully protected.
Don’t forget to explore the Corporate law area in our advice centre for lots of useful information on sales and acquisitions, limiting liability, due diligence and more.
Testimonials
What our clients say
Abby and the corporate team at Harper James Solicitors provided excellent support guiding the business through what was quite a complex process at each stage.
Nigel Bacon
Chairman,
Kobus Services
The support, advice and guidance from Harper James was absolutely vital. Shubhu, Callum and the team there were always on hand to deal with any issues that we needed help with as the deal progressed. This is an exciting new stage in the development of the business.
Sam G Bose
CEO and Founder,
IntelliSense.io
For us, the support of Harper James Solicitors has been a gift. The collaboration we have had has been of tremendous importance. The service has been superb value for money.
Iraklis Bourantas
COO,
Novoville
Choosing Harper James was one of the best choices we made as a start-up. The firm has provided invaluable advice and insight throughout the early stages of our business.
Leigh Purnell
CEO,
Petalite
Abby and the corporate team at Harper James Solicitors provided excellent support guiding the business through what was quite a complex process at each stage.
Nigel Bacon
Chairman,
Kobus Services
The support, advice and guidance from Harper James was absolutely vital. Shubhu, Callum and the team there were always on hand to deal with any issues that we needed help with as the deal progressed. This is an exciting new stage in the development of the business.
Sam G Bose
CEO and Founder,
IntelliSense.io
For us, the support of Harper James Solicitors has been a gift. The collaboration we have had has been of tremendous importance. The service has been superb value for money.
Iraklis Bourantas
COO,
Novoville
Choosing Harper James was one of the best choices we made as a start-up. The firm has provided invaluable advice and insight throughout the early stages of our business.
Leigh Purnell
CEO,
Petalite
Why choose Harper James?
Harper James is a modern law firm with a difference. Our innovative remote operating model mean you can access expert City-grade legal advice from partner-level solicitors at a fraction of the cost of traditional law firms. Our solicitors have all been recruited from top too UK law firms or large international businesses. Find out more about our exits and disposals lawyers here:
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