Corporate

We use our extensive expertise to offer a full suite of legal advice to help all our clients – whether buying, selling, starting up or looking to grow their business.

Corporate

Acquiring or starting a business is exciting. Equally, it can be challenging and frightening but above all it should be rewarding.

Your new business deserves every chance to succeed and the Rooks Rider Corporate team are here to help you at every stage to ensure that you have peace of mind and all the support you need to reach your goals.

We understand the difficulties faced when acquiring or starting a business and can help you decide the best way to structure your business for the long term, bearing in mind your end goals and tax situation.

Our key areas of expertise are as follows:

Corporate

Business creation and buying and selling businesses:

Company and business formations
Structuring business assets
Partnership agreements
Joint ventures
Shareholder arrangements
Initial financing
Hiring key employees
Acquisitions and disposals of shares and assets
Mergers, demergers, take-overs
Business sales using “pre-pack” administration procedure
Accessing and presenting due diligence information
Guiding you through the sales process
Ensuring sellers get the most out of sale proceeds
Assisting buyers to integrate a new business into their on-going operations

Advising Corporate Trustees

Advice in relation to corporate sales and
investments
Minimising personal risk to trustees
Ring-fencing assets for beneficiaries
Creating a balance between the requirements of the buyer/investor and the level of liability assumed by trustees

Commercial

Standard terms and conditions
Management and operation agreements
Supply and distribution of goods and services
Agency agreements
Franchising agreements
Outsourcing agreements
Protecting and exploiting intellectual property rights
Investment, funding and security agreements
Employment and service contracts
IT contracts

In addition, having the correct contractual arrangements in place is an important tool to help prevent disputes and to show that your business is professionally run. This is also important when you are thinking about an exit and we like our clients to have this in mind from an early stage.

Exiting a business needs to be well planned and structured in the right way to ensure that your business is presented in the best possible light to a potential purchaser. It is also important that the transaction is structured in the right way to ensure efficiency from a tax perspective.